Introduction
The upRising – a church without walls (the “Church”) Website [https://www.uprisingaustin.org] (the “Website”), and related websites are owned and operated by the Church. The Church understands that you care how information about you is collected, used, and shared. The Church is committed to protecting your privacy through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes the types of information the Church may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Website and our best practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This policy applies to information we collect:

• On this Website.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
• When you interact with our partners’ or affiliates’ applications and websites, if those applications include links to this policy.

This policy does not apply to information that:

• The Church collects offline or through any other means; or
• That you provide to or is collected by any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

The Church encourages you to read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website or Mobile Applications. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under age 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website, or on or though any of the features on the Website. Likewise, if you are under age 18 do not make any donations or purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive features of the Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us.

Information That You Provide to the Church

Information the Church Collects About You and How it is Collected

The Church collects several types of information from and about users of the Website, including information:

• That you provide to us, which may include personally identifiable information, such as your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, household relationships, social media accounts and other similar demographic information or any identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”).
• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as the small groups you participate in, your membership in upRising, and upRising  events in which you participate – including those events in which you serve as a volunteer.
• About your internet connection, the equipment that you use to access the Website and usage details, such as device operating system, hardware version, device settings, file and software names and types, battery and signal strength, device identifiers, name of your mobile operator or internet service provider, browser type, language and time zone, mobile phone number and IP address.

The Church collects this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to the Church, including by sending email(s), completing online requests, forms, or surveys.
• Automatically as you navigate through the Website.

The Church may combine the information you submit on the Website with information received from other upRising Church sources to provide certain services to you, offer you a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. Examples of the above include, but are not limited to, providing online giving services (through the Church or third-party contractors – which information may or may not be stored by the Church), presenting you with spiritual development opportunities, adding new features, and analyzing the performance of our Website. For certain services, we may allow you to opt out of combining such information.

Information the Church Collects Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

The information the Church collects on or through the Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website, which includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, registering to receive information regarding a small group or upRising service or group, posting material or requesting additional or further services. We may also ask you for information when you make a contribution or donation or report a problem with this Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
• Your response to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes and to improve the services and experiences of our participants.
• Small groups you participate in, volunteer teams on which you work, your membership and your registration for upRising events.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (“posted”) on public areas on the Website to other users of the Website or to third parties (“User Contributions”) such as by sending e-mails, posting messages to chat groups, or otherwise completing online forms or surveys. Any information provided in such communications may be collected as personal information. Your User Contributions are posted or transmitted to others at your own risk. Although you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile on the Website, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, the Church cannot and does not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Website Cookies and Tokens

The technologies the Church uses for automatic data collection may include one or more cookies (or similar tools such as tokens or web beacons) to your computer or mobile device, so that the Church may uniquely identify you, your device, or your browser. (A cookie is simply a tiny text file containing a string of characters placed on the hard drive of your computer). Accepting our cookies allows you to keep your user preferences from session to session. Although most browsers accept cookies by default, you can set your browser to refuse all cookies, or to tell you when you are being sent a cookie. Some of the Website features and services may not function properly if you have cookies disabled.
When you access and navigate the Website, the Church may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns including:

• Details of your visits to the Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer, mobile device, and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, browser type, the device’s unique identifier, mobile network information, and the device’s telephone number.

The information the Church collects automatically may include personal information, or the Church may maintain, associate, or combine it with personal information the Church collects in other ways or from third parties to provide you with a better experience, to improve the quality of the Website and deliver a better and more tailored experience for you, including by enabling the Church to:

• Help you find and connect with upRising Austin.
• Help you find groups that are tailored for your interests or life stage.
• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Collect information to determine the aggregate number of unique devices using the Website.
• Track total usage, analyze data, and communicate with you more effectively.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to the Website.

Within the Website, you can make financial donations to upRising Austin. Because the Church uses third-party services and vendors to process payment information, the Church does not store full credit card numbers or other verification numbers on the Church’s servers at any time.

Third-Party Sites

Some content or applications on the Website are serviced by third-parties, content providers, and application providers. These other sites may place their own cookies or other tracking technologies to collect information about you. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content.

The Church does not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content from a third-party vendor, we encourage you to reach each social media site’s respective privacy policy for more information or contact the responsible provider directly. You should familiarize yourself with their unique privacy policies, should you choose to visit or interact with their sites.

How the Church Uses Your Information

The Church uses information that is collected about you or that you provide to the Church, including personal information:

• To present our Website content to you.
• To support your participation in upRising Austin.
• To keep you informed about events, related resources, and spiritual development opportunities.
• To provide you with an optimal user experience on the Website.
• To provide you with notices about your participation in certain groups or committees at upRising Austin.
• To provide you with information or services that you request from the Church.
• To notify you about changes to the Website or any service offered to members and participants.
• To allow you to participate in the interactive features of the Website.
• To provide you with a method of making certain donations to upRising Austin, its missions, ministries, and recommended charities and partners.
• To allow pastors, staff, and volunteers to contact you related to your participation and involvement with upRising Austin.

The Church may also use your information to contact you about other upRising Austin or partner ministry services that may be of interest to you.

Disclosure of Your Information

upRising – a church without walls values you and we want to protect the information you give us which allows us to communicate with you. To that end we do not share data (including mobile opt in data) with third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.

Choices About How the Church Uses and Discloses Your Information

The Church strives to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to the Church. The Church has created mechanisms to provide you with the following controls over your information:

• You may decline to submit personal information to the Website for any of the Church’s services, in which case the Church may not be able to provide those services to you or provide those services to you as efficiently as possible. As a visitor to the Website, you can engage in many activities without providing any personal information.
• You may opt-out of receiving future communications from the Church by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any e-mail communication you receive from the Church or by contacting the Church.
• You may also set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.

Your general contact information (for example, name, address, and phone number) and other optional information you may choose to provide (for example, email address, photo, etc.) may be shared with upRising Austin staff and volunteers for internal purposes. Some of your information (such as small group information, meeting times, committee assignments, etc.) may also be viewable on a limited and restricted basis on the Website, but you may opt out of sharing information or limit the optional information you share by modifying your profile settings on the Website.

How is Your Information Protected?

The Church uses appropriate and commercially reasonable security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, use, disclosure, or destruction of your data including internal reviews of our data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where personal data is stored by the Church. Unless explicit permission is obtained from you, the Church will limit access to personal information only to those of the Church’s staff, contractors, and agents who need to know that information to operate, develop, improve, or deliver services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Any payment transactions are encrypted as provided by the Church’s third-party vendors and processors.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where the Church has given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password safe and confidential. The Church asks you not to share your password with anyone. The Church urges you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any Website user.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although the Church does its best to protect your personal information, the Church cannot and does not guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to the Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. The Church is not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Accessing And Correcting Your Information

The Church reviews its data collection, storage, and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store, and process the personal information needed to provide or improve the Church’s services. The Church takes reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information processed is accurate, complete, and current, but the Church depends on the users to update or correct personal information whenever necessary.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users.

You may also send the Church an email to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. When you use any of the Church’s services, the Church makes a good faith effort to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate purposes related to Perimeter Church’s business. The Church asks individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected, or removed before the Church can process such requests, and the Church may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup storage), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case, where the Church provides information access and correction, the Church performs this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort or expense. The procedure to correct or remove your data will vary depending on the requested change. In some cases, the Church cannot delete your personal information except by deleting your user account on the Website.

State Privacy Rights

Individual state consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding the Church’s use of their personal information. upRising – a church without walls is a Texas-based non-profit entity. Residents of other states may have state-specific privacy rights and you are encouraged to check with your specific state governing body regarding privacy rights in your state.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the European Union

The GDPR was enacted on April 14, 2016 and went into effect on May 25, 2018. Under the GDPR, all European citizens have specific data protection rights as identified by https://www.eugdpr.org/. The Church has reviewed the relevant regulations and the Church is in compliance with them.

Changes to this Website Privacy Policy

The Church will post any changes made to this policy on this page on the Website. If we make material changes as to how the Church treats user personal information, the Church will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your user account or through a notice on the home page for the Website. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page of the Privacy Policy portion of the Website. You are responsible for ensuring the Church has an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting the Website, and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Enforcement

The Church will periodically review its compliance with this Privacy Policy. When the Church receives a formal written complaint regarding privacy issues, it is the Church’s policy to respond regarding these concerns. The Church will cooperate with appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any issues that cannot be resolved between the Church and the individual.

Please contact us to submit a written complaint or report a compliance issue.

Questions

To ask questions about this Privacy Policy or the Church’s privacy practices, please contact the Church at:

upRising Austin
8601 South 1st Street
Austin, TX 78748
Telephone: 512.291.8601