Privacy Policy

Introduction

Pray and Fast for the Climate is a service begun as part of the Faith for the Climate network. It exists to help Christians pray for action on climate change and for climate justice. It does so by maintaining a library of prayer resources, by creating monthly prayer points and by sending subscribers a monthly email that links to the prayer points and other resources for prayer and action.

Pray and Fast for the Climate values everyone who engages with us, and we do all we can to protect your privacy and to make sure the personal data you provide us is kept safe.

Christian Concern for One World (CCOW), registered charity 1008146 and one of the agencies that is part of the Faith for the Climate Network offers personnel support to Pray and Fast for the Climate and is the “data controller” for the purposes of data protection legislation. This policy explains how we collect data, how we use and store information and what it means for you. Please read it carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By using our website or providing us with your personal information you agree to your personal information being used and stored in the manner set out in this policy.

We welcome any feedback and questions: email us on info@prayandfastfortheclimate.org.uk, ring CCOW on 01235 851763, or write us at Pray and Fast for the Climate, c/o CCOW, The Rectory, Church End, Blewbury OX11 9QH.

What information do we collect?

When you interact with Pray and Fast for the Climate, we collect information about your personal details directly from you. For example when you sign up for our emails, request printed resources or enter into correspondence, we collect the information you provide. This may include:

  • your name
  • your email address
  • the town where you live (for emails) or your postal address (for print materials)
  • communications (such as emails or letters)

If you interact with us on Twitter, we may collect your Tweets.

When you visit our website, we also collect data such as IP addresses, details of pages visited and files downloaded. For more details on what we collect, see our cookies policy.

Organisations that are part of Faith for the Climate and people who have used Pray and Fast resources have also contributed stories and photographs to our website.

In terms of sensitive data, while Pray and Fast for the Climate provides resources for Christian prayer, we do not assume that those who subscribe to our lists are necessarily Christian, and therefore do not regard data about subscribing to our lists or viewing our materials as providing evidence of religious belief.

If you send us information about what you are doing or request resources, however, you may provide us with information on your denominational or church affiliation as part of that. We will only show that information publicly with your consent, and will not keep a record of it beyond our correspondence or its presence in anything you ask to publicise.

How do we use this information?

If you sign up to receive our emails,

we will use the personal data we collect to:

  • Send you a monthly email with links to our prayer points and further resources

Basis for Processing Your Data

Consent : If you are a new supporter coming on board for the first time, we will process your personal data on the basis of the consent you provided us with. You are free to unsubscribe from our email at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link or to change your preferences at any time by contacting us by telephone, post or email, as shown in the ‘Preferences’ section below

If you are a member of a partner agency or sending us material as a contributor:

All material sent to us is subject to approval by Pray and Fast for the Climate’s editors before being used. By sending in material, you are automatically agreeing to Pray and Fast for the Climate editing it; we will, however, ask your consent before using any edited material unless the editing is minimal (eg cropping a photo for use on Twitter). This agreement is lifelong and royalty free.

By submitting material you agree that Pray and Fast for the Climate has the right to share the material with any third party involved in the submission and receipt of the material as well as any third parties which Pray and Fast for the Climate uses to act on their behalf (eg, to publish it via Twitter or on an email composed on Mail Chimp)

Material must not violate any copyright laws, the rights of any third party or any other laws. Photographs and videos must have been taken with the knowledge of the subjects, or where the subjects are under 18, with the permission of their parent or guardian. All identifiable subjects must have given permission for the material to be used by Pray and Fast for the Climate

Under certain laws and regulations Pray and Fast for the Climate might be asked to disclose information to government agencies or employees. By submitting material you authorise Pray and Fast for the Climate to do this without having to give you prior notice.

Pray and Fast for the Climate will use any material in accordance with our own data protection policy and the General Data Protection Regulation.

We may get in touch with you to discuss the materials you have submitted or ask about further materials.

Preferences

You can change your preferences on what you receive from us or how we contact you, by mail, phone or email, at any time.

You can do so by:
Ringing: 01235 851763
Emailing us on: info@prayandfastfortheclimate.org.uk

Writing to us at Pray and Fast for the Climate, c/o CCOW, The Rectory, Church End, Blewbury OX11 9QH.

You can opt out of our newsletter emails by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the emails.

How long do we keep information?

Pray and Fast for the Climate will endeavour to keep your personal data up-to-date, ensuring its accuracy and will not keep it for longer than it is required.

Security

We make every effort to put appropriate technical controls in place to protect any personal data you provide. For example, we ensure that our website is protected and routinely monitored and that data is stored securely.

We ensure that access to personal data is restricted only to those who are tasked with composing the newsletter and monitoring the email account.

We use external companies to collect or process personal data on our behalf for certain purposes; for example, MailChimp, which is an email provider. MailChimp is a company which is based in the United States, and which therefore involves transferring your data to the US. These companies have provided us with assurances that they are secure and compliant with GDPR.

If you would like further information about our security policies, please contact us on info@prayandfastfortheclimate.org.uk, 01235 851763 or at Pray and Fast for the Climate, c/o CCOW, The Rectory, Church End, Blewbury OX11 9QH.

Sharing your information

While Faith for the Climate is a coalition, we do not share or swap your information with any members of the coalition or any other charities – other than CCOW, which is acting as our data controller – unless you give us express consent to do so for a particular purpose. CCOW will not treat the material as its own personal data and will not use it for any other purpose than to act on behalf of Pray and Fast for the Climate.

We do use external companies to collect or process personal data on our behalf for certain purposes; for example, MailChimp, which is an email provider. These companies have provided assurances that they are secure and compliant with GDPR. You can read MailChimp’s privacy policy here.

Legal duty

We may need to pass on information if required by law or by a regulatory body.

Your Rights

Pray and Fast for the Climate actively supports the principle of “fair and transparent” processing of your personal information. We support your rights in relation to your personal information under the General Data Protection Regulation, including the:

  • right to be informed (chiefly via this policy)

  • right of access

  • right to rectification

  • right to erasure

  • right to restrict processing

  • right to data portability

  • right to object

  • rights related to automated decision-making including profiling

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us on

Changes to this Policy

This policy was last updated in May 2018. We may amend this policy from time to time to take account of changes to our processes or changes to data protection or other legislation. If we make any significant changes to this policy we will show this clearly on our website. By continuing to use our website you will be deemed to have accepted these changes.

Pray and Fast Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices. eu.

Why cookies?

Websites can use cookies for a variety of reasons including to provide necessary functionality, to analyse site performance, to remember users’ preferences, and/or to provide users with targeted advertising.

What type of cookies are there?

These different functions require different cookies.

  • Necessary cookies, for example, are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features .
  • Performance cookies, such as those associated with some analytics software, help to show how a site is used (what pages were visited, for example).
  • Functionality cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video: YouTube, for example, places cookies associated with embedded videos.
  • Advertising cookies are used to provide targeted advertising based on people’s browsing history.

Which cookies do we use?

We use cookies that are related to security processes. These include:

_cfduid

The “__cfduid” cookie is set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic, for example, when different parties are sharing an IP address. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-CloudFlare-cfduid-cookie-do-

wfwaf-authcookie-(hash)

This cookie is used by the Wordfence firewall to perform a capability check of the current user before WordPress has been loaded.

It is only set for users that are able to log into WordPress.

The cookie allows the Wordfence firewall to detect logged in users and allow them increased access. It also allows Wordfence to detect non-logged in users and restrict their access to secure areas. The cookie also lets the firewall know what level of access a visitor has to help the firewall make smart decisions about who to allow and who to block.

wf_loginalerted_(hash)

This cookie is used to notify the Wordfence admin when an administrator logs in from a new device or location. It is only set for administrators.

The cookie helps site owners know whether there has been an admin login from a new device or location.

wfCBLBypass

Wordfence offers a feature for a site visitor to bypass country blocking by accessing a hidden URL. This cookie helps track who should be allowed to bypass country blocking.

When a hidden URL defined by the site admin is visited, this cookie is set to verify the user can access the site from a country restricted through country blocking. This will be set for anyone who knows the URL that allows bypass of standard country blocking. This cookie is not set for anyone who does not know the hidden URL to bypass country blocking.

This cookie gives site owners a way to allow certain users from blocked countries, even though their country has been blocked.

Our analytics, however, are provided by programmes that do not set cookies. (One does, however, log identifiable IP addresses – see below) . We do not use advertising cookies. Nor at present do we use any Third-party functions (YouTube, Twitter, etc) that embed functionality cookies.

How can I block or delete cookies?

If you don’t want your browser to accept cookies, you can usually switch some or all cookies off by adjusting your browser settings. Doing so may affect the functionality of the sites you visit. Visit the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu on your browser to change settings: the following links give information about settings for specific browsers:

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari

You can also use your browser settings to delete cookies.

IP Addresses

One of the analytics programmes associated with our site’s hosting collects IP addresses. An IP address is a number assigned to your computer by a web server when you’re on the web. We only use the information we find out from tracking IP addresses in the aggregate, such as how many users entered a specific area of our site, and not to track a specific IP address to identify an individual user.

Changes

We may change this policy in future if we add new features to the site or if tools that we already use on the site change their use of cookies. The updated policy will appear on our website.