This privacy Notice ("Notice") will help you understand how City of God parish ("the Church", “CoD”, "We", "Us", and "Our") collects, uses, stores, protects and generally processes the personal data you provide to us when you visit and use our website. We understand that you have other things scheduled, so we have simplified this notice to be concise and straightforward for easy reading.

We reserve the right to change this policy anytime, and you will be promptly updated. If you want to ensure that you are up to date with the latest changes, we advise you to visit this page frequently.

Who We Are

The City of David (CoD) parish is a religious establishment under the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), a Pentecostal megachurch and denomination in Lagos, Nigeria.

Children’s data

While we do not seek the personal data of children, that is, persons under the age of eighteen (18), we understand that our members may register their children in our database. However, the processing of their personal data will be done based on the consent of parents or legal guardians.

Cookies

Cookies are tools used to collect information automatically from you when you visit a Website. We use cookies, and information about their usage is specified in our Cookie Notice.

What User Data We Collect

When you visit the website, based on the category you fall under, we may collect the following data:

Members of the church
• Full name
• Date of birth
• Address
• Phone number
• Email address
• Relationship status
• Name of spouse
• Names of children
• Photograph

All Website Visitors
• Your IP address.
• The domain name of the Internet service provider (ISP)
• Web pages visited, duration and frequency of visit
• Date and time of visit
• The Internet protocol address used to connect your device to the Internet for identification purposes.
• Data profile regarding your online behaviour on our website.

Why We Collect Your Data

We are collecting your data for several reasons:

• To identify you;

• Notify you about our programmes and events and any changes to our;

• Profile and categorise our members in a manner that best suits the expectations of the member;

• In order for us to process your instructions or requests;

The Lawful Bases Upon Which We Process Your Personal Data

We are required to process your data under at least one of 6 lawful bases available under data protection laws. The specific bases upon which we process your personal data are;

a. Legitimate interest: Processing your data is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, provided your rights and interests do not outweigh those interests.
b. Consent: You have given explicit consent for us to process your data for a specific purpose.
c. Legal obligation: If the processing of your data is necessary where there is a statutory obligation on us.

Safeguarding and Securing the Data

CoD is committed to securing and keeping your data confidential. We have done all in our power to prevent data theft, unauthorised access, and disclosure by implementing the latest technologies and software, which help us safeguard all the information we collect online. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls, and information access authorisation controls.

Data Subject Rights

some point, you might wish to exercise your rights as a data subject. You can achieve this by doing the following: When filling out the forms on the website, check if there is a box you can leave unchecked if you don't want to disclose your personal information.

If you have already agreed to share your information with us, feel free to contact us via [...] If you desire to change any information already given, we will gladly change this for you.

Your rights as a data subject are;
• access personal data we hold about you by requesting for a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
• rectify such information where you believe it to be inaccurate;
• restrict the processing of your data in certain circumstances;
• object to the processing of your data where we intend to process such data for marketing purposes;
• where feasible, receive all personal data you have provided to us —in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format—and transmit the information to another data controller;
• request the erasure of your data (also known as the right to be forgotten); • withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data; and
• complain with a relevant authority where you have reason to believe that we have violated the term(s) of this Privacy Notice. (You may complain or seek redress from us within 30 days from the time you first detected the alleged violation.)

If you suspect any violation of your right, you can send your complaint to the Data Protection supervisory authority in Nigeria, the Nigerian Data Protection Bureau (NDPB), at info@ndpb.gov.ng

Marketing

We will not lease, sell or distribute your personal information to any third parties for marketing purposes. In addition, your personal data will be deleted from our mailing list once you unsubscribe from our newsletters.

Third parties we share your data with

• We may disclose your data to law enforcement and government agencies pursuant to a subpoena, or court order, when we need to do so to comply with law or credit/debit card rules; or when we believe, in our sole discretion, that the disclosure of personal information is necessary to prevent physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity or to investigate violations of our User Agreement.
• We may disclose your data if we believe it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, order, subpoena, audit, or to protect the safety of any person, to address fraud, security or technical issues.

However, if you wish to prevent your device’s operating system from sharing your Personal Data with CoD or with the third parties mentioned for profiling purposes, you can do so by setting up your device appropriately – namely, by changing the privacy settings on your device to disable/restrict any advertising tracking features.

For more information on this, please see the following links:
iOS Devices: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074;
Android Devices: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en

Retention of your data

We shall only keep your personal data which we collect from you, for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this Notice. However, we will also retain personal data based on relevant provisions of applicable laws to resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Contact Us

If you wish to gain more clarity on how we manage your personal data or have any questions relating to this Notice, or your rights under this Notice, kindly reach out to us at code-membership@cityofdavidng.org, and we will respond as soon as possible.