Church Community Builder

CCB offers a web-based church management software solution designed to help church leaders build and support a more connected, smoother running ministry. CCB collects, processes, and retains information about the church entities who purchase the software (“Clients”), including information regarding the individuals who utilize the software on behalf of our Clients (“Authorized Individuals”).

If you are an Authorized Individual, we collect the following information from you:

• Your name, email address, and other contact information when you sign up for an account, subscribe to our email bulletins, or take part in training and events;
• Payment information such as credit card information, billing address, and other required billing information when you make purchases;
• Your religious affiliation or denomination;
• Your postings when you participate in community forums or interact with us on social media;
• Your contact information and a record of any correspondence when you contact us;
• Information you provide when you complete a survey administered by us or a vendor acting on our behalf.

Certain features of the CCB software enable Authorized Individuals to input information regarding individuals within their church communities. CCB collects and processes that information at the direction of our Clients as a service provider or processor on behalf of those Clients. Please contact your church community for information regarding their information collection, use, and retention practices.

When you interact with our Websites and Services, we collect certain information automatically. This information is collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies, as well as through your web browser or device. For further information, please see the Cookies And Tracking Technologies section below or our Cookie Notice. We collect the following information from you automatically:

• Details of your visits to our Websites and information generated in the course of the use of our Websites and Services (including the timing, frequency, and pattern of service use) such as traffic data, location data, time zone, weblogs, and other communication data, the resources that you access, and how you reached our site;
• Details regarding the device you use to access our Websites and Services, including, but not limited to, your web browser, IP address, operating system, and browser type;
• Information about how you interact with our ads and newsletters, including whether you open or click links in any correspondence;
• Information that you make available to us on a social media platform (such as by clicking on a social media icon linked from our Websites or Services), including your account ID or username and other information included in your posts.

We and our third party partners, affiliates and vendors use cookies, analytics, pixels, and similar tracking technologies in order to improve our Services, your user experience, and to analyze how the Sites and Services are used to assist with our business and marketing. Information collected about you from a particular browser or device may be linked to information collected from another computer or device that we believe relates to you.

We rely on partners and vendors to collect data automatically and provide many features of our Websites and Services. For instance, we use Google Analytics to help us analyse how users interact with and use our Services, compile reports and provide other services related to activity and usage of the Services. We also rely on third party partners and vendors for fraud prevention, security and authentication purposes. For more information about third party partners, please review our list ofCookies in use. You can follow up with these partners to find out more about their use of your data and how to exercise your options regarding tracking.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can usually modify your browser setting to disable or reject cookies. If you delete your cookies or set your browser to decline cookies, some features of the Services may not be available, work, or work as designed. You may also be able to opt out of or block tracking by interacting directly with the other companies who conduct tracking through our Services.

Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. At this time, we do not alter our sites’ data collection and use practices in response to Do Not Track signals.

Some of our Services also employ ad-serving technologies that use cookies, pixels and similar tracking technologies to deliver interest-based advertising to you. We may, via our third party advertising partners, feature advertising within our Services, or advertise our Services to you on third party websites. You can learn more about ad serving companies and the options available to limit their collection and use of your information by visiting the websites for theNetwork Advertising Initiative, theDigital Advertising Alliance, and theEuropean Interactive Digital Advertising Initiative. Similarly, you can learn about your options to opt out of mobile app tracking by certain advertising networks through your device settings and by resetting the advertiser ID on your Apple or Android device. For more information about how to change these settings go to:

• Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228
• Android: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922
• Windows: http://choice.microsoft.com/en-US/opt-out

Please note that opting out of advertising networks services does not mean that you will not receive advertising while using our Sites or Services, nor will it prevent the receipt of interest-based advertising from other companies that do not participate in these programs. It will, however, exclude you from interest-based advertising conducted through participating networks, as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms. If you delete your cookies, you may also delete your opt-out preferences.

We use the information we collect from you for the following purposes:

• To provide you with our products and services, including creating your account, processing payments and communicating with you regarding your orders;
• To provide you with the best service and improve and grow our business, including improving and optimizing our websites and mobile applications, understanding our customer base and purchasing trends, and understanding the effectiveness of our marketing;
• To respond to your comments and questions, provide customer service and send you service-related information such as confirmations, technical notices, updates, security alerts, invoices and other administrative messages;
• To detect, investigate, prevent and take action regarding security incidents and activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal, including screening orders for potential risk or fraud, and complying with legal requirements regarding the provision of products and services;
• To provide you with information or advertising relating to our products and services, including targeted advertisements and marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you, in line with the preferences you have shared with us.

• Outside Vendors:We engage the following types of vendors to perform functions on our behalf: billing and collection providers; advertising and marketing; auditing and accounting firms; professional services consultants; website hosting services; providers of analytics services; security and fraud-detection vendors; and IT vendors. These entities are not authorised to use your information for purposes other than to provide their services and do not have independent rights to your personal information. You may follow this link toview the current list of vendors(also known as processors)we use to process data.
• Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliate companies. We became part of the Pushpay Group of companies in December, 2019 and we are owned by Pushpay USA Inc. Pushpay help support some of our tools and features: you can find out more about them and their data practices here.
• Social Media Platforms:Where you choose to interact with us through social media, your interaction with these programs typically allows the social media company to collect some information about you through cookies they place on your device and other tracking mechanisms. In some cases, the social media company may recognize you through its digital cookies even when you do not interact with their application. This Policy does not apply to your use of any such third-party platforms. Please visit the social media companies’ respective privacy policies to better understand their data collection practices and controls they make available to you.
• Change of Ownership or Corporate Organization:We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction.
• Law Enforcement, Legal Process, and Emergency Situations:We also use or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or on the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or our sites; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the websites or those that use it; or (c) act to protect the personal safety of us, those that use our websites, or the public.
• With your consent: We may share your information with other third parties with your approval and consent.

We use physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we collect through the Services. While we use these precautions to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf. Some data you can delete whenever you like, some data is deleted automatically, and some data we retain for longer periods of time when we have an ongoing legitimate business need or legal obligation to retain the data. When you delete data, we follow a deletion policy to make sure that your data is safely and completely removed from our servers or retained only in anonymized form.

When we share your data, it may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country you live in – such as the United States, where our data hosting provider’s servers are located. The laws in the United States regarding personal information may be different from the laws of your jurisdiction. Any cross-border transfers of your personal data by us will comply with the safeguards required by applicable law. For further information about these international data transfer safeguards for individuals in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom, and Switzerland, please see the section titled “For EEA, UK, and Swiss Users Only” below, and its sub-section “International Data Transfers (for EEA, UK, and Swiss Users Only)”.

FOR EEA, UK, AND SWISS USERS ONLY

Legal Basis (For EEA, UK, and Swiss Users Only)
If you are a visitor from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, our legal basis for collecting and using the personal data described above will depend on the personal data concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. Where we collect personal data, we typically only process it:

• to perform a contract with you;
• when you provide consent;
• where we have legitimate interests to process the personal data and they’re not overridden by your rights; or
• in accordance with a legal obligation.

International Data Transfers (For EEA, UK, And Swiss Users Only)

For individuals in the EEA, UK, and/or Switzerland, your personal data will be transferred outside of your jurisdiction. Where your personal data is transferred outside the EEA, UK, and/or Switzerland, it will only be transferred to jurisdictions that have been identified as providing adequate protection for such personal data (like New Zealand), or under an approved data transfer mechanism such as Standard Contractual Clauses, or the EU-US, UK-US, or Swiss-US Data Privacy Frameworks.

EU-US, UK-US, and Swiss-US Data Privacy Frameworks

Church Community Builder (“CCB”) participates and complies with the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (“EU-US DPF”), the UK Extension to the EU-US DPF, and the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework (“Swiss-US DPF”), as set forth by the US Department of Commerce.

CCB has certified to the US Department of Commerce that it commits to comply with the EU-US DPF Principles with regards to the processing of personal data received from the European Union in reliance on the EU-US DPF, and from the United Kingdom in reliance on the UK Extension to the EU-US DPF. CCB has also certified to the US Department of Commerce that it commits to comply with the Swiss-US DPF Principles with regards to the processing of personal data received from Switzerland in reliance on the Swiss-US DPF (collectively, the “DPF Principles”).

The DPF Principles are: Notice, Choice, Accountability for Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation, Access, and Recourse, Enforcement, and Liability when processing such personal data. If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Policy and the DPF Principles, the DPF Principles shall govern.

For more information about the DPF, and to view CCB’s certification, please visit:  https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/

CCB’s compliance with the DPF Principles is subject to the regulatory and enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

CCB is responsible for the processing of EEA, UK, and/or Swiss personal data it receives in the US which it then subsequently transfers to a third party acting as its agent. If such third party agent processes your personal data in a manner inconsistent with the DPF Principles, then CCB will remain responsible for such third party, unless we can prove we are not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.

In certain situations, CCB may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

If you have any questions or complaints about our DPF certification, please contact us using the details set out in the How to Contact Us section below.

In compliance with the DPF Principles, we commit to resolve DPF-related complaints within forty-five (45) days of receipt.

CCB has further committed to refer unresolved DPF complaints to JAMS, an alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint from us, or if we have not addressed your complaint to your satisfaction, please visit http://www.jamsadr.com/file-an-eu-us-privacy-shield-claim for more information or to file a complaint. The services of JAMS are provided at no cost to you.

If neither CCB nor our designated independent recourse mechanism, JAMS, is able to resolve your DPF-related complaint, then an individual may, under certain conditions, be able to invoke binding arbitration for the resolution of your complaint. To find out more about the DPF’s binding arbitration scheme, please see https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/article/How-to-Submit-a-Complaint-Relating-to-a-Participating-Organization-s-Compliance-with-the-DPF-Principles-dpf.

You have certain rights relating to your personal information. If you wish to unsubscribe to our marketing communications, you can do so at any time – just click on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing e-mails we send you, or send your request to privacy@churchcommunitybuilder.com.

You also have the right to:

• know what personal information we hold about you, and be able to check to make sure it is correct and up-to-date;
• request a copy of your personal information; and
• in certain circumstances, ask us to delete the information we hold about you.

You can exercise these rights at any time by sending an email to privacy@churchcommunitybuilder.com or by contacting us using the contact details provided under the “How To Contact Us” section below.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Our Websites and Services are intended for Authorized Individuals age 16 and older. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected information from anyone younger than the age of 16, we will delete that information. If you believe that we have collected personal information from children, please contact us at the email address listed below.

If you are a California resident, the following information also applies to you and supplements the information contained in the Policy.

Persons with disabilities may obtain this Policy in alternative format upon request by contacting us atprivacy@churchcommunitybuilder.comor by calling +1 (866) 242-1199.

Residents of the State of California have the right to request information regarding third parties to whom companies have disclosed certain categories of personal information during the preceding year for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides California residents with rights to receive certain disclosures regarding the collection, use, and sharing of “personal information,” as well as rights to access and control personal information. The CCPA defines “personal information” to mean “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.” Certain information we collect may be exempt from the CCPA because it is considered publicly available information (i.e., it is made available by a government entity) or covered by a federal privacy law, such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

To the extent that we collect personal information that is subject to the CCPA, that information, our practices, and our rights are described below.

Right To Information Regarding The Categories Of Personal Information Collected, Sold, And Disclosed

The following is a description of our data collection practices, including the personal information we collect, the sources of that information, the purposes for which we collect information, and whether we disclose that information to external parties. We may use any and all of the information for any of the purposes described in this Policy, unless limitations are listed. The categories we use to describe the information are those enumerated in the CCPA.

• Personal Identifiers:
  • • We collect your name, billing address, email address, and telephone number when you create an account, complete a transaction, or otherwise communicate with us. We collect your email address when you subscribe to our email list.
    • We collect your social media handle and basic account information when you interact with our Services through social media.
    • We collect a unique numerical identifier, assigned to you by a first-party cookie, automatically when you use our Services in order to identify you, provide the Services, keep you logged in to the Services, prevent fraud, and provide you with targeted information and offers.
    • We collect your payment information when you complete a transaction. You have the option to store this information to your account or set up a recurring transaction. We use this information to streamline and facilitate payments and transactions.
    • We do not collect your Social Security number, Driver’s License number, or Passport number.
    • We collect your IP address automatically when you use our Websites and Services. We may use this information to identify you, gauge online activity on our website, measure the effectiveness of online services, applications, and tools, and serve targeted advertisements based on your online activities.
    • We collect your Device ID automatically when you use our Websites and Services. We use this information to monitor your use and the effectiveness of our Services, to identify you, and to provide you with targeted information and offers.
• Protected Classifications:We collect your religious affiliation in order to provide services to you.
• Commercial Information:When you engage in transactions with us, we create records of goods or services purchased or considered, as well as your purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
• Biometric Information:We do not collect information about your physiological, biological, and behavioural characteristics.
• Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information:We collect information about your browsing history, search history, information regarding your interaction with websites, and applications or advertisements automatically when you utilize our Websites or Services.
• Geolocation Data:As described above, we collect your IP address automatically when you use our Services. We may be able to determine your general location based on your IP address. If you allow your device to provide us with this information, we use it to make improvements to our products and services, and to provide recommendations and deliver relevant advertising.
• Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information:If you contact us via phone, we may record the call. We will notify you if a call is being recorded at the beginning of the call. We do not collect thermal, olfactory, or other similar information.
• Education information:We do not collect any information about the institutions you have attended or the level of education you have attained.
• Inferences drawn to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences or characteristics:We analyze your actual or likely preferences through a series of computer processes and add our observations to your internal profile. We use this information to gauge and develop our marketing activities, measure the appeal and effectiveness of our services, applications, and tools, and to provide you with targeted information, advertisements, and offers.

We may share any of the above-listed information with service providers, which are external parties that we engage for business purposes and are restricted from using personal information for any purpose that is not related to our engagement. The categories of service providers with whom we share information and the services they provide are described in this Policy.

We may also disclose information to other external parties who are not listed here when required by law or to protect our company or other persons, as described in this policy.

Right To Access Information

You have the right to request access to personal information collected about you and information regarding the source of that information, the purposes for which we collect it, and the third parties and service providers with whom we share it. To protect your personal information, we will verify your identity before we act on your request.

Right To Request Deletion Of Information

You have the right to request in certain circumstances that we delete any personal information that we have collected directly from you. To protect your personal information, we will verify your identity before we act on your request.

Right to Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA.

Right to Opt-Out of Sales

We do not sell personal information, so we do not have an opt-out.

Right to be Notified of Financial Incentives

You have the right to be notified of any financial incentives offers and their material terms, and the right to opt-out of such incentives at any time. We do not offer any such incentives at this time.

You can exercise these rights at any time by sending an email to privacy@churchcommunitybuilder.com or by contacting us using the contact details provided under “How To Contact Us” section below.

Under the CCPA, you may exercise these rights yourself or you may designate an authorized agent to make these requests on your behalf. We may request that your authorized agent have written permission from you to make requests on your behalf and may need to verify your authorized agent’s identity.

CCB has appointed an internal data protection officer for you to contact if you have any questions or concerns about how we handle your personal information or our privacy policies and practices. CCB’s data protection officer’s name and contact information are as follows:

Aaron Senneff
10807 New Allegiance Drive, Ste 300
Colorado Springs, CO 80921
dpo@churchcommunitybuilder.com
+1 (866) 242-1199

CCB reserves the right to periodically update this privacy policy. The “Last Updated” legend at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Notice will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on our Website.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding CCB’s Privacy Policy or data collection and processing practices, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights described in this Policy, your request can be directed to:

Church Community Builder
Attention: Operations
10807 New Allegiance Drive, Suite 300
Colorado Springs, CO 80921
U.S.A.
privacy@churchcommunitybuilder.com

The following as been updated and added as of July 25, 2022:

VeraSafe has been appointed as CCB’s representative in the European Union for data protection matters, pursuant to Article 27 of the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union. VeraSafe can be contacted in addition to CCB’s Privacy Officer, only on matters related to the processing of personal data. To make such an inquiry, please contact VeraSafe using this contact form or via telephone at: +420 228 881 031. Alternatively, VeraSafe can be contacted at: VeraSafe Ireland Ltd. Unit 3D North Point House North Point Business Park New Mallow Road Cork T23AT2P Ireland

VeraSafe has also been appointed as CCB’s representative in the United Kingdom for data protection matters, pursuant to Article 27 of the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation. If you are located within the United Kingdom, VeraSafe can be contacted in addition to or instead of CCB’s Privacy Officer, only on matters related to the processing of personal data. To make such an inquiry, please contact VeraSafe using this contact form: https://verasafe.com/public-resources/contact-data-protection-representative or via telephone at: +44 (20) 4532 2003. Alternatively, VeraSafe can be contacted at: VeraSafe United Kingdom Ltd. 37 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TL United Kingdom.

• as they work with member data.
• as they invite members and volunteer leaders to be a part of the online community.
• as they communicate across the Internet.

• as they update their information (helping their church know when changes occur in their lives).
• as they share information with staff, group leaders, and the community.
• as they view and print their own contribution information.

• by knowing we use a state-of-the-art Cloud Hosting Provider.
• by knowing we use high-quality 256-bit SSL encryption to secure transmission of data.
• by knowing we monitor inbound/outbound traffic daily to evaluate security risks.
• by knowing your data is replicated in real-time to a separate, highly available data center hosted by our Cloud Hosting Provider, and your data is backed up nightly to a separate region of our Cloud Hosting Provider.

Your data is one of the most important aspects of the Church Community Builder Solution and we treat it as such. Having great security, resilience, and responsiveness in a solution is important, which is why we here at Church Community Builder have taken every effort to find the best way in which to host your data. The following details provide information about the capabilities provided by the Cloud Hosting Provider’s data centers where the Church Community Builder software is maintained and your live data is stored.

• Access to data centers is limited to only authorized individuals, and only for the time which they need facility access.
• Continuous monitoring for unauthorized facility access is performed via video surveillance, intrusion detection, and access log monitoring systems.
• Audits of over 2600 requirements are performed by external auditors throughout the year to validate compliance with numerous regulatory programs.
• Fully redundant power systems are built to ensure the availability of systems even in the event of a critical power failure.
• Water leakage detection systems are implemented to prevent system damage and outages.
• Climate control systems are in place to maintain acceptable temperatures for the servers, helping prevent system outages.
• Multiple data centers within the same region with high speed, highly available connectivity between them, allowing for data and system availability, even through a full data center outage.
• Highly available internet connectivity with scalable throughput.

We recognize you are entrusting your data to Church Community Builder, and that it’s critical for your staff, volunteer ministry leaders, and members to have access to this data in a safe and secure manner.

Church Community Builder uses high-grade 256-bit certificates and modern TLS to encrypt access to our application, regardless of whether it’s user logins, accessing user data, or processing financial transaction data. These enterprise-level certificates maintained through Digicert, provide assurance that your data is protected between our servers and your computer.

On the user end, we require that all individual logins require at least one numeric and one alpha character and that their password must be at least six characters long to further ensure the security of the data. After five unsuccessful attempts at log in, a user’s account is automatically locked for a 60-minute period. Additionally, we also automatically log users out of sessions after six hours of inactivity to prevent unauthorized access.

Church Community Builder was designed to give you control over how each person is able to access your data. This control can be done via standard user permissions such as a Limited Access User which cannot see any people in your database, a Basic User with the ability to see other listed individuals or a Small Group Leader with access to individuals and data in their groups. If these permissions don’t quite meet your needs, customized administrative users can be granted granular control with over 100 different areas of the application in which permissions can be configured.

Data Security

Security and reliability depend on great systems. Church Community Builder’s solution has been designed from the ground up to implement industry best practices ranging from least privilege to network segmentation. As part of this, security patches for operating systems and installed applications are updated regularly, and systems are also hardened by disabling non-essential services/ports and enabling secure configurations on the operating systems and installed applications.

In addition to building secure systems, we also implement some pretty cool tools to protect against threats to our systems and your data. One of these is a web application firewall (WAF). This tool is built to inspect connections coming into our systems and analyze it for malicious behavior. Depending on the type of threat, the WAF may then present the user a captcha, or if it’s too risky, it’ll simply block the traffic.

Another type of threat that service providers face is a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. These types of attacks may be performed in many ways, but ultimately result in an impact to the availability of a service. To combat this, we have implemented a tool to provide us DDOS protection. You can be confident that even when something attempts to cause a DDOS to Church Community Builder’s services, access to your data will still be functional.

Church Community Builder’s critical services are hosted behind load balancers to enhance availability and throughput. One of the amazing characteristics of Church Community Builder’s software is its ability to scale automatically. As load increases on our software, systems are built to detect the need and power up additional resources to ensure that access to your data is still responsive. Don’t worry, each new resource that is powered up is secured in the same way as our other systems. When these systems automatically power down, there’s never any impact to your data.

When using Church Community Builder’s Payment portal, you can be confident that your payment information is secure. We engage with a third-party assessor annually to validate that our systems are implemented securely and comply with the PCI Data Security Standard. Components of this program include third-party penetration tests, vulnerability scanning, patching, security incident management, daily log review, alerts for critical events, and much more.

For more information on our commitment to you around PCI compliance, please feel free to check out our PCI Compliance article.

Church Community Builder utilizes multiple methods to ensure that your church’s data will be available to you when you need it. First, and most important, Church Community Builder replicates your data in realtime between resilient, secure environments in different data centers owned by our Cloud Hosting Provider. This ensures that if there is a disastrous outage at the primary data center hosting our services, even your most recent updates to data will still have been captured. Second, Church Community Builder also retains daily backups for weeks, and weekly backups for months, in a separate region provided by our Cloud Hosting Provider. In the event of a critical impact to an entire region for our Cloud Hosting Provider, your data will still be recoverable.

Church Community Builder does not own or have any rights to any data that the customer submits as a result of using the service. Church Community Builder will not monitor, edit, or disclose any information regarding the customer or customer’s database without the customer’s express written permission except as may be required by law.

Church Community Builder was built from the ground up to utilize the power of the Internet. Gone are the days when it was OK to have an assistant enter all of the church member data and create reports to get that information back out. Churches in today’s world need the ability to empower volunteer leaders to communicate instantly and dynamically and to build community. The traditional church management software cannot provide this; Church Community Builder can.

One of the additional benefits to utilizing Church Community Builder’s is a built-in Disaster Recovery plan, which would protect your data regardless of hardware issues, office fires, flooding, or other scenarios that might take place at your local church or data center. Any internet access, from any location, will give you access to your Church Community Builder software.

Your church does not have to maintain the physical equipment or logical systems that ensure security, resilience, and responsiveness that exist when hosting a solution from your church office. Nor does the church have to put additional strain on their IT departments or volunteers to install and maintain applications or infrastructure.

By using a hosted software, updates are automatically loaded to your application as they come available, ensuring that you have the latest version. No more manual upgrades or updates to infrastructure or software.

Church Community Builder provides a platform that churches use to connect and communicate with their community members, record member service history, facilitate online giving, and perform a range of administrative functions.  If your church uses our software, staff and leaders at your church are interacting with our software behind the scenes to help keep things running smoothly. You may also be interacting with our software when using groups, events, forms, Child Check-In, or volunteer schedules. No matter what level of involvement you have with your church, at Church Community Builder we are committed to making sure your personal data is safe and secure.

Churches use our software, in part, to help keep track of their people. That means that a church may use our systems to maintain names, addresses, contact information, family connections, or other types of information about their people. That might include some information about your attendance, volunteer history, or giving history with the church. If you have questions on what types of data your church is storing, reach out to your church’s office staff.

The data we hold is the church’s data. We do not own it. Rather, we consider ourselves stewards of the data. We don’t share your data or your church’s data with anyone beyond what is necessary to provide our service. We’re not in the business of selling data.

We are considered a “Processor” under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and a “Service Provider” under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). That legally obligates us to only share this data as necessary to provide our services, and to keep your data safe and secure using appropriate technical and organizational measures.

Depending on where you live, you may have legal rights on how your church uses your personal data. Those rights might include things like:

• The right to know what data is held on you
• The right to have that data be accurate
• The right to object to the processing of that data
• The right to have that data deleted

You can read more about our practices in our Security Overview and our data practices in our Privacy Policy. If you have any questions that your church isn’t able to answer for you, please feel free to reach out to privacy@churchcommunitybuilder.com.