Thank you for choosing to be part of the Pequea Church community (“company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We at Pequea Brethren in Christ Church are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. When you visit our website, applications linked to our site, use our services, sign up for events, or participate in giving to Pequea, you trust us with your personal information. We do not give, sell, rent or loan any identifiable information regarding visitors to any third party. By using our website, www.pequeachurch.com, you agree to the Privacy Policy of Pequea Church.
In this policy, we describe how we collect, store, use, and/or share your personal information when you use our services, including when you:
Pequea Church reviews its Privacy Policy periodically and reserves the right, at its discretion, to modify or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. This Privacy Policy applies to all websites produced and maintained by Pequea Church.
Pequea Church recognizes the privacy concerns of users of our website and the importance of protecting the privacy of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) collected from users. As a general policy, no personally identifiable information, such as a visitor’s name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, or credit card information is automatically collected on our website. Such information is collected only when knowingly and voluntarily submitted by the individual. Pequea Church uses such information only for the purpose for which it was submitted unless we disclose other uses in this policy or at the time of collection. If you do provide us with Personal Identifiable Information on the Pequea Church website, through methods like, completing a web form, sending us an email or interacting with a linked app through our website, we will use the information to help us provide the service or information you have requested through your message.
The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Sites or Apps, the choices you make and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect can include the following:
We maintain reasonable and appropriate safeguards to ensure the security, integrity, and privacy of such information in our possession. Pequea Church does not sell, trade, or rent personally identifiable information to third parties. We reserve the right to monitor traffic patterns and website usage.
We do not collect any information from third parties. We do use third party applications such as social media, giving apps and database platforms. The third party application may request an email address, username, password, geographic location for registration purposes. For our database and giving applications, they may collect postal addresses or financial information based on your interactions with them. But, as stated above, the information gathered is only what the individual submits, and will not be sold, collected, or traded, but only used for the intended purpose of the transaction with the application.
You can give online with confidence. We have partnered with Elexio Financial Processing Services, a Merchant Account Provider under Vantiv through our PushPay giving application. For 40 years, Vantiv’s team of committed professionals has made them one of the most trusted and respected organizations in the financial payment processing industry.
The Vantiv Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the electronic check and credit card processing networks. For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Vantiv Privacy Notice.
We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations. We only share and disclose your information in the following situations:
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to gather information when you interact with our Services. Some online tracking technologies help us maintain the security of our Services and your account, prevent crashes, fix bugs, save your preferences, and assist with basic site functions.
We also permit third parties and service providers to use online tracking technologies on our Services for analytics and advertising, including to help manage and display advertisements, to tailor advertisements to your interests, or to send abandoned shopping cart reminders (depending on your communication preferences). The third parties and service providers use their technology to provide advertising about products and services tailored to your interests which may appear either on our Services or on other websites.
Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice.
Yes, we use Google Maps for the purpose of providing better service. This website,mobile application, or Facebook application uses Google Maps APIs. You may find the Google Maps APIs Terms of Service here.
By using our Maps API Implementation, you agree to be bound by Google’s Terms of Service. You agree to allow us to obtain or cache your location. You may revoke your consent at anytime. We use information about location in conjunction with data from other data providers.
If you choose to register or log in to our websites using a social media account, we may have access to certain information about you.
Our Sites offer you the ability to register and login using your third-party social media account details. Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The profile information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider concerned, but will often include your name, email address, friends list, profile picture as well as other information you choose to make public.
We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are described in this privacy policy or that are otherwise made clear to you on the sites or apps. Please note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your third-party social media provider. We recommend that you review their privacy policy to understand how they collect, use, and share your personal information, and how you can set your privacy preferences on their sites and apps.
We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy, as long as you have an account with us, or unless otherwise required by law. We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us.
We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures. We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Sites or Apps is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.
You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send. You will then be removed from the communication and marketing lists. However, we may still communicate with you. For example, to send you service-related messages that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.
If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.
Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws. We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date at the top of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
We seek to help you understand the information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take time to read through this policy to understand what is in it. If there are any terms in this private policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue the use of our sites or linked apps and services. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at:
Pequea Church
40 Church Rd.
Lancaster PA 17603
Phone: 717.872.5679
Email: contact@pequeachurch.com