PRIVACY POLICY
Thank you for choosing to be a part of our vision-family at Sammy Joseph Ministries a.k.a HarvestWays Int’l Church (“company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are committed to safeguarding your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or require clarifications regarding our practices and policies with respect to your personal information, please contact us at admin@harvestways.org.
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1. NECESSARY PREAMBLES
Summary: You have entrusted our brand name with great faith, and we will protect that trust that you have placed in us.
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When you visit our website www.harvestways.org, mobile application, and use our other services, you are entrusting us with your personal information. We do not take that lightly. Our website incorporates privacy controls which affect how we process your personal data. By using the privacy controls, you can specify whether you would like to receive direct marketing communications and limit the collection, sharing and publication of your personal data. We encourage you to carefully read through this privacy policy, and if there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Site or Apps and our services. This privacy policy applies to all information collected through our website (such as www.harvestways.org), mobile application, Apps, and/or related services, sales, marketing or events (we refer to them collectively in this privacy policy as the “Sites”). We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of www.harvestways.org website and services, we may/may not ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
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Please read this privacy policy carefully. It will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us!
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2. DO WE COLLECT DATA AT YOUR VISIT TO OUR WEBSITE?
Summary: Yes, we do collect data upon your stopping by to visit with us here at HarvestWays.Org. Enumerated below, are some of the types of data that we collect:
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We have set out the general categories of personal data that we process: these are mainly personal data that we have obtained directly from you. Or those collected through our cookies. We may process data enabling us to get in touch with you. This is called ‘Contact Data’. The contact data may include your name, email address, telephone number, postal address and/or social media account identifiers. The source of the contact data is directly from you. If you log into our website using a social media account, we will obtain elements of the contact data from the relevant social media account provider.
Name and Account Data. We may process your website user account data, usually referred to as ‘Account Data’. These may include your account identifier, name, email address, business name, account creation and modification dates, website settings and marketing preferences. The primary source of the account data is you, although some elements of the account data may be generated by www.harvestways.org website. If you log into our website using a social media account, we will obtain elements of the account data from the relevant social media account provider.
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Transaction Data. We will process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and/or services, that you enter into with us and/or through www.harvestways.org Transaction data include your name, your contact details, your payment card details (or other payment details) and the transaction details. Others include passwords, password hints, and other similar security details.
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Communication Data. We will process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or that we send to you. The communication data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms. All the information you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
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Usage Data. We will process data about your use of our website and services. The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is contained in our analytics tracking system. We may process/identify general category of data. This data may include list specific items of data.
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3. PURPOSES OF PROCESSING AND LEGAL BASES
Summary: We process your data in order to be able to deliver unto you a perfect service.
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The purposes for which we may process personal data and the legal bases of the processing are disclosed herewith:
Operations. We process your personal data for the purposes of operating our website, the processing and fulfilment of orders, providing our services, supplying our goods, generating invoices, bills and other payment-related documentation. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website, services and business OR the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
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Publications. We process account data for the purposes of publishing such data on our website and elsewhere through our services in accordance with your express instructions. The legal basis for this processing is consent OR our legitimate interests, namely the publication of content in the ordinary course of our operations OR the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
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Relationships and Communications & Direct Marketing. We process contact data, account data, transaction data and/or communication data for the purposes of managing our relationships, communicating with you (excluding communicating for the purposes of direct marketing) by email, SMS, post, and/or telephone, providing support services and complaint handling. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely: communications with our website visitors, service users, individual customers and customer personnel, the maintenance of relationships, and the proper administration of our website, services and business. Sammy Joseph ministries will never contact you for direct-marketing purposes because we are mainly a faith, non-profit corporate entity. However, we may from send you monthly ministry updates or timely administration information via any of the mediums you have shared with us.
Also, for contractual reasons in order to fulfill and manage your orders, we may use your information held by us for payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Sites or Apps.
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Research and Analysis. We may process your data collected for the purposes of researching and analyzing the use of our website and services, as well as researching and analyzing other interactions with our ministry. The legal basis for this processing is consent OR our legitimate interests, namely monitoring, supporting, improving and securing our website, services and business generally.
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Record-keeping. We will process your personal data for the purposes of creating and maintaining our databases, back-up copies of our databases and our business records generally. Legally, it is in our legitimate interest to ensure that we have access to all the information we need to properly and efficiently run our business in accordance with this policy.
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Security. We may process your personal data for the purposes of security and the prevention of fraud and other criminal activities. The legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection of our website, services and business, and the protection of others.
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Legal claims, Compliance & Protection of Vital Interests. We will process and use your personal data where necessary, for the establishment, exercise or the defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure that we may be involved in and that concerns you. It is in our legitimate interests to protect and assert ours and your legal rights – and others’. We will also process your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
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4. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
Summary: We will only share information with your consent, to comply with laws that protect your rights, and/or fulfill our business obligations.
We will only share and disclose information in the following situations:
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a.) Compliance with the Laws. We may disclose your personal information where we are mandated legally to do so in order to comply with the laws of the land, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement demands).
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b.) Vital interests and Legal Rights. We may disclose your information where we believe that it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidenced in the litigation in which we are involved.
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c.) Legal Claims. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings, or in an administrative, or out-of-court procedure.
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d.) Business Transfers. In the event of a business sale, merger negotiations, sale of company assets, or the acquisition of all or a part of business enterprise to another company, we may share or transfer your information held by us to such.
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5.) International transfers of your personal data. The circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to countries outside the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area (EEA) are as follows:
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1.) The hosting facilities for our website are situated in the United States. The competent data protection authorities there have made an "adequacy decision" with respect to the data protection government’s laws over there. Transfers of personal data, therefore, will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the competent data protection authorities, a copy of which you can obtain from www.wix.com/about/privacy
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2.) By your visit to our website, you acknowledge that your personal data submitted for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. In this regard, we cannot prevent the use (or the misuse) of such personal data by others.
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5. RETAINING AND DELETING PERSONAL DATA.
Summary: We will retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by the law in that regard.
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This section sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data. Personal data that we process for any purpose(s) shall be kept for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention time-frame is required of us (such as in taxation and accounting purposes, or for other legal requirements).
No purpose of our policy will require us keeping your personal information/data for longer than the period of time in which users hold an account with us.
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6. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
Summary: You may review, change, or terminate your account with us at any time.
We will uphold and respect your rights under the Data Protection Acts. You may ask us to restrict processing your personal data at any time. We will not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Sites or Apps, you represent to us that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Site or Apps. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will de-activate the account and take reasonable actions to delete such data from our holding. If you become aware of any data we have collected from anyone under the age of 18, please contact us promptly at admin@harvestways.org. Thank you!
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If you live in the UK, you can learn more about the rights of data subjects by visiting https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/ If resident of the European Economic Area, and you believe that we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/dataprotectionbodies/authorities/index.en.htm
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7. USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Summary: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.
About Cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information.
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Our Cookie Policy
Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies may not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
Standard Uses for Cookies. We use cookies for the following purposes:
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a.) authentication and status - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website, and to help us determine if you are logged into our website;
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b.) shopping cart - we use cookies to maintain the state of your shopping cart as you navigate our website;
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c.) personalization - we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize our website for you;
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d.) security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;
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e.) advertising - we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you;
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f.) analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services;
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g.) cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.
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Cookies used by our service providers. Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
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Managing cookies. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
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Chrome - https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647;
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Firefox - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences;
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Opera - https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/
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Internet Explorer - https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies;
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Safari - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac; and
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Edge - https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy.
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Blocking Cookies. Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
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8. DO WE USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS & MAPS
Summary: Yes, we do use Google Analytics technologies and maps for the purpose of providing the user with better service.
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Our website, mobile application, or Facebook application uses Google Maps APIs. You may find the Google Maps APIs Terms of service at this link: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/Google Analytics gathers information about the use of our website by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. You can find out more about Google's use of information by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners and you can review Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy
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9. PROMOTIONS
Sammy Joseph Ministries a.k.a HarvestWays Int’l Church may run promotions on our website that require submission of personal information with which we shall be able to identify participants. We may use the information collected on the whole to inform upon our research and forecasts.
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10. DISCLAIMER OF RELIABILITY:
Sammy Joseph Ministries a.k.a HarvestWays Int’l Church cannot make any representations or warranties regarding the condition of the functionality of this website, its suitability for delivery of the privacy policy, general use, or that the website will run uninterrupted services or even error free.
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11. DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES:
By visiting and using our website, you assume any risk that may be associated with the use of the site. Computer’s, laptop’s, cell-phones' software or data being damaged by any virus that could be transmitted through Sammy Joseph Ministries a.k.a Harvestways Int’l Church shall not be chargeable upon us. We will not be liable to damages of any kind resulting from your misuse of information contained in our website.
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12. COPYRIGHTS AND TRADEMARKS:
Copyright 2020 Sammy Joseph Ministries. All Rights Reserved.
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All material on this website is copyrighted by Sammy Joseph Ministries, except for some materials that are copyrighted by others and which have been used by permission. Copyrighted material may not be copied, reproduced or otherwise used for capital-generating purposes without the written permission of the copyright holder. We also hold trademark rights which cannot be used by another, and may not be used contrary to trademark law. If you wish to use materials in a way otherwise than prohibited herein, please send an email to: admin@harvestways.org or contact us via telephone (+44) 7758-195466.
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13. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?
Summary: Yes, we will update from time to time as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws and be able to continue delivering a great service.
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We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will publish the updated version onto this website. If we however make a notifiable change to this privacy policy, we will notify you by sending you an email. You should frequently check this page to ensure that you current with us. We encourage you to review this privacy police frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
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14. HOW DO YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?
If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at admin@harvestways.org