In this policy, ‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’ refers to Christian Research.
Christian Research is part of Bible Society (registered charity 232759), which also includes Open the Book and trading company Bible Society Resources Limited (registered company number 5450490).
We are a survey company and collect data from surveys. We are committed to protecting your privacy and any information we collect about you will be treated with respect and confidentiality according to the rules of the Market Research Society and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We are registered under no Z6334172 and our data controller is The British & Foreign Bible Society at the address below.
Your privacy is important to us and this policy explains how we use your personal information and keep it secure.
Our address is: c/o Bible Society, Stonehill Green, Westlea, Swindon, SN5 7DG.
Personal information covers any data that enables us to identify you as an individual. This could include, name, address, telephone number or email address.
We, as part of Bible Society Group, use your contact details to keep you informed of the diverse ways we are working to offer the bible to the world and to give an outlet to the Christian voice. In all circumstances identities of individual respondents and their answers will be treated as confidential.
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 take all reasonable technical and organisational precautions to ensure the security of your data which is not transferred outside the European Economic Area.
You can change the way we communicate with you, at any time, by emailing us at [email protected]
We process your information on the basis of consent to send you communications, such as emails, because you have given us clear consent to do so.
We only keep your information for as long as we need to. We will have a lawful reason to keep your data and when we no longer need it, we will delete it. We will update this section soon, with examples of how long we will keep certain information.
We do not share your details with third parties, unless it is necessary to do so. Some of the ways it may be necessary to share your information include:
In cases like these, we will have a data agreement in place to ensure that these companies will not use your information for their own use, but only to fulfil the function on behalf of Christian Research.
Your information will not be passed to third parties for marketing purposes.
We use ‘Session Cookies’, which allow websites 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 the site. These session cookies expire after a browser session is closed, so are never stored long term. If linking to another website, the cookie gets deleted. We never use cookies for marketing purposes.
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.
To find out more information about cookies in general go to www.aboutcookies.org
You can get in touch with us in the following ways:
To notify us of a change to your name, address or email details, please either email [email protected], write to us at the address below, or telephone us on 01793 418388. 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: 17 May 2018