Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Bass Coast Baptist Church handles personal information submitted through this website.

We aim to keep our information practices simple. We do not use this website for advertising, behavioural tracking, or the sale of personal information.

The main way we collect personal information through this website is when you choose to submit our contact form. Depending on what you provide, this may include:

your name;
your email address;
your phone number, if you choose to provide it;
the subject and content of your message; and
information you choose to include in a prayer request.

If you submit a prayer request, please only include personal or sensitive information that you are comfortable sharing with the pastor or authorised church leadership.

Information submitted through the contact form is used only for the purpose for which you contacted us, such as responding to a question, providing information about the church, following up a request, or responding appropriately to a prayer request.

Your message may be viewed by the pastor or another authorised member of church leadership where this is reasonably necessary to respond to you.

We do not sell personal information or use contact-form information for advertising or unrelated marketing.

Contact-form submissions are stored on a private server used by the church and are not intentionally stored in third-party cloud document or marketing services.

Access is limited to those who need it for the purposes described in this policy. We take reasonable steps to protect submitted information from unauthorised access, misuse or disclosure.

Information is kept only for as long as it is reasonably needed for the purpose for which it was provided, or for legitimate administrative purposes, and may then be deleted.

We do not display third-party advertising and we do not use advertising or behavioural tracking cookies on our website.

Our website software, hosting or security systems may use strictly necessary technical cookies where required for basic website operation, security, login sessions or similar functions. These are not used to build advertising profiles or track visitors for marketing purposes.

Like most websites, our hosting and security systems may automatically record basic technical information in server logs, such as an IP address, browser information, requested pages, and the time of a request. This information is used for website operation, troubleshooting and security rather than advertising or visitor profiling.

We do not sell or rent personal information. Information submitted through the website is not shared outside the church except where this is necessary to operate or secure the website, required by law, or where you have asked or authorised us to do so.

If you would like to ask what personal information we hold about you, request a correction, or ask us to delete information you have submitted, please contact us using the contact form, telephone number or postal address shown on this page.

We will respond to reasonable requests as soon as practicable.

If you have a question or concern about how information you submitted has been handled, please contact Bass Coast Baptist Church. We will seek to address your concern promptly and respectfully.