Privacy Policy

Ottawa Korean Community Church is committed to protecting your information by ensuring that we remain lawful. Below is the Privacy Policy for our website okcc.ca. Please take some time to read through this Policy as it outlines how we will use your personal information.

Last Update: Feb 2024

Introduction

Welcome to okcc.ca. Ottawa Korean Community Church is committed to protecting your information by ensuring that we remain lawful. Below is the Privacy Policy for okcc.ca. Please take some time to read through this Policy as it outlines how we will use your personal information.

Privacy Policy Consent

This website and all of its content is owned by Ottawa Korean Community Church. The term “you” refers to the user or viewer of okcc.ca. This Privacy Policy exists to inform you of how we collect, use, process and distribute your information. It is important for you to know that we will not use or share your information in any way that is not specified within this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to change or modify this privacy policy in any way, at any time. Please read this Privacy Policy in order to understand how your information may be obtained and used. Any content that is provided to us by you or is obtained by us from this website is governed by this Privacy Policy. By using okcc.ca, whether you have read this Privacy Policy or not, you are fully consenting to this Privacy Policy.

Information we may collect

Our goal in collecting information from you is to ultimately make your experience better as you use okcc.ca. Here are the pieces of information that we may collect when you use this website.

  1. A name and an email address that will enable us to send emails to you – provision of an email address on this site equates to consent.
  2. A name, email address, or phone number so we can follow-up with you.
  3. A name, email address, and phone number if you complete our contact form with a question.

Any information that you voluntarily provide equates to information that you are giving us the consent to use.

How Personal Information is Collected

  1. Signing up okcc.ca
  2. Applying to work with okcc.ca
  3. Contacting us using email, phone or any other means

Anonymous Data Collection and Use

In order to ensure that our website delivers a high quality experience, we may use your IP address to help diagnose problems on our end and to manage the Website by identifying which areas of the Website are being used the most, and to fine-tune our content for your best interest. Your IP address is the number assigned to computers connected to the Internet. This is essentially “traffic data” which cannot personally identify you, but is helpful to us for marketing purposes and for improving our services. Traffic data collection only follows your activities as you are using this website, it does not follow your activities on any other websites in any way.

Cookies

We may utilize the “cookies” feature of major browsers, and you may choose to disable cookies through your own web browser’s settings. However, disabling this function may diminish your experience on our website and some features may not work as intended.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

What happens with the Information We Collect

  1. It may be used to contact you
    • For follow-up purposes
    • For troubleshooting purposes
    • Informational updates
  2. Viewing by others
    • Whenever you voluntarily provide Personal Information through the use of okcc.ca, you have consented to that information and its content, being seen, collected and used by others. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized or improper use of the information that you voluntarily share (i.e., sharing a comment on a blog post, posting in a Facebook group that we manage, sharing details on a group coaching call, etc.).

Storage and Handling of Personal Information

Personal Information obtained by okcc.ca is stored internally or through a data management system. We value your safety, so your Personal Information will only be accessed by people who are responsible for gathering, managing or storing it, or who have a legitimate need to access it. (i.e., privacy officer or team member).

It is important to note that we may transfer information internationally. If you are using our website in the European Union, please understand that your Personal Information may be transferred outside of the European Union. By using our website and providing us with your Personal Information, you are consenting to these transfers exactly as stated within this Privacy Policy.

How You Can Access, Update or Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to:

  1. Request information regarding how your information is used and request a copy of what information we use.
  2. Restrict processing if you think the information is inaccurate, unlawful, or no longer necessary.
  3. Be forgotten from our systems, meaning we will erase your personal information from our databases. (You have the “right to be forgotten”).
  4. Change your preference regarding whether you consent to our use of your information.
  5. Lodge a complaint if it is felt that any of your information has been unlawfully used.
  6. Receive Personal Data portability and transference to another controller without our hindrance.
  7. Object to our use of your information.
  8. Not be subject to an automated decision based solely on automatic processing, including profiling, which legally or significantly affects you.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please reach out to us at contact@okcc.ca and we would be happy to connect with you.