In this policy, ‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’ refers to Bible Society, a registered charity in England and Wales (232759). This also includes Christian Research, Open the Book and our trading company Bible Society Resources Limited (registered company number 5450490).
Our address is: Stonehill Green, Westlea, Swindon, SN5 7DG.
We respect your privacy and want to communicate with you in a way that suits you, in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UKGDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (including legislation made under the 2018 Act). Your privacy is important to us and this policy explains how we use your personal information and keep it secure.
Personal information covers any data that enables us to identify you as an individual. This could include your name, address, telephone number, or email address.
We use your personal information to send your email communications that you have requested.
You can change the way we communicate with you, at any time, in the following ways:
When you supply personal information to us, we only use this information for the purpose for which it was given and ensure that it is kept securely.
We may carry out analysis of the personal information we collect about you and add publicly available information to create a profile of your interests, preferences and level of potential donations so we can contact you in the most appropriate way and with the most relevant information.
We use different reasons for using your information:
Consent – sometimes we use your information to send you communications, such as emails, because you have given us clear consent to do so
Contract – we may process your personal data when we need to do this to fulfil a contract with you, e.g. if you have purchased something from our shop
Legal Obligation – sometimes we will need to store your information because we have a legal reason to do this, e.g. if you have gift aided donations to us, HMRC require us to keep the information for up to 7 years
Legitimate Interest – we will process your information when it is in our legitimate interest to do this and when these interests do not override your rights. Those legitimate interests include providing you with postal information e.g. fundraising appeals, BAM membership, supporter magazine etc.
In accordance with our Data Retention Policy, we retain your information for as long as reasonably necessary to maintain and expand our relationship with you, to comply with our legal and contractual obligations, to protect ourselves from potential disputes, to have proof and evidence concerning our relationship should any legal issues arise and to maintain a historical record of our activities and those involved in them.
Please note that except as required by law or by specific agreement with you, we make no commitment to retain your information for any particular period, and we are free to delete it securely or restrict access to it for any reason and at any time, with or without notice to you.
If you have any questions about our Data Retention Policy, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected]
We never share your details with third parties for marketing purposes.
On some of our websites we use ‘Session Cookies’ which allow the website to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They are used for a variety of purposes such as remembering what a user has put in their shopping basket as they browse around a site (e.g. Bible Society Online Shop). These session cookies expire after a browser session is closed, so are never stored long term.
We collect information about the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of all our website visitors, using Google Analytics, in order to see how our website is used and monitor site traffic so as continuously improve and develop the design and content of our site. This information is not personally identifiable information – it is anonymised.
From time to time we use Facebook to promote our websites and if you are a Facebook user you can click here to see how Facebook uses cookies for this purpose.
We use third-party remarketing services, including the Facebook pixel, to help tailor advertising that we think may be of interest to users, based on their previous activity on our website. The adverts may appear on Facebook, or across the internet on third party sites, including those within Facebook’s Audience Network.
Cookies are placed by third-party vendors, including Facebook, on web browsers to track user behaviour and serve ads related to such behaviour. No identifiable information is collected through the use of Facebook’s, or any other, third party remarketing service. Any data collected will be used in accordance with our privacy policy and Facebook’s privacy policy.
You can opt out of Facebook’s use of cookies by visiting Facebook’s ad preference settings.
Find out more about opting out of Internet-based advertising.
To find out more information about cookies in general go to www.aboutcookies.org
If you are under 18, please get your parent/guardian’s consent before giving any personal information on our website.
If you use social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube you may see adverts from us. Please get your parent/guardian’s permission before giving personal information in response to these posts.
You can get it touch with us in the following ways:
To notify us of a change to your name or email details, please either complete our online form, email [email protected], write to us at the address below, or telephone us on 01793 418222. Please keep us informed of changes so we can stay in touch.
If you have any concerns regarding this privacy policy or the way we are processing your personal information, please contact:
The Data Protection Officer, at the address below, or email [email protected]
Bible Society, Stonehill Green, Westlea, Swindon SN5 7DG
Last revision: 02 February 2021