Crossroads Church is committed to protecting individual privacy and securing the personal information made available to us when you visit. This privacy policy describes what information is made available to Crossroads Church and how that information is used and retained and provides information on:
- Information we receive (when you provide it, visit our application, receive email…)
- How this information is used
- Sharing of this information
- Data deletion requests
- Third-party tools and sites
- Children’s Privacy
- Security
- Cookie Policy
- Privacy Policy Updates
If you have any question or suggestion for its improvement, please let us know at [email protected]
Information you give us
You do not have to provide Crossroads Church with any personal information or create a user account to access information on our application. However, for some services we may need personal information from you such as:
- Name
- Physical address
- Email address
- Phone number
This information is collected through forms used for prayer requests, information requests, or other interactions initiated by the user.
How information is used
If you choose to provide us with information we may use that information to contact you, respond to your message or provide information or services you requested.
An optional account login is available to enable personalized push notifications (via Firebase Cloud Messaging). The app is fully functional without logging in. If you choose to log in, your name and email address may be stored securely to facilitate messaging.
We use data you provide and automatically generated data for statistical analysis to assess what information is of interest to users and system performance. This allows us to make general improvements to our site. We may also use your information in order to detect, prevent and respond to security issues and harmful activities on our application.
The app may request your location to enable navigation or directions using embedded Google or Apple Maps. This data is used locally on your device and is not stored or transmitted by us.
Sharing of this information
Information you choose to share with Crossroads church shall not be treated as public information.
Crossroads Church uses a third-party analytics provider (such as Google Analytics) to analyze data from cookies. The third-party analytics provider does not receive personally identifiable information through these cookies. We have also limited the provider’s ability to see your full IP address.
We do not use or share your information for commercial purposes and except as described above, we do not exchange or otherwise disclose this information.
Data Deletion Requests
You may request that we delete your personal information or submitted form data at any time. To request deletion of some or all of your data, visit the following link and submit your request. https://crossroadscanton.com/delete-my-information
Third-party websites
Our application may link to other websites created and maintained by other private and/or public organizations and individuals. When you follow a link to an external site you are leaving our application and are subject to external site’s privacy and security policies. Crossroads Church does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness or completeness of information contained on an external site.
Embedded Content and External Links
- YouTube videos are embedded using standard YouTube tools. These may set cookies or collect data as governed by Google’s Privacy Policy.
- The app may link to external platforms such as our donation provider, which are governed by their own privacy policies.
Children’s Privacy
Our app is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected data from a child under 13, we will promptly delete that information. Parents or guardians who believe their child has submitted personal information may contact us to request removal.
Security
Crossroads Church takes reasonable precautions to protect our site and information. Crossroads Church also uses commonly used practices and technical controls to protect the information in our possession or control. These practices and controls include, but are not limited to, encrypting the transfer of personal information over the internet, using firewalls and intrusion detection systems and maintaining strict technical controls and procedures to ensure data integrity.
We periodically review our processes and systems to verify compliance with industry best practices and to ensure the highest level of security for our application.
Cookie Policy and other similar tracking technologies (GDPR and non GDPR)
When you visit Crossroads we may send cookies or other similar tracking technologies to your computer or to any other device you use. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track user’s preferences and to know how he uses our services.
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
For further information visit allaboutcookies.org
Cookies are used for user identification and proper assignment of historical user data collected during previous visits.
Both temporary cookie files (session cookies) and persistent cookies are used. Users may delete or remove cookies for the browser at any time or block cookies from being installed on its device. However this may affect the operation of our services or even result in its blocking.
As described above, we use your personal information and data to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.
- We may use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Strictly necessary cookies: These types of cookies enable you to access and browse websites and use their features. Without these cookies, services like billing or shopping baskets cannot work properly.
- Performance cookies: these cookies collect information and data about how you use our application. The data collected can be used to optimize our application. These cookies are used to know where our visitors and users are coming from. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you personally.
- Functionality cookies: these cookies allow our application to remember your choices. They can be used to memorize your location, or your preferences such as language settings or font size.
How to manage cookies?
You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above application tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However our application might not work properly without the use of cookies.
Here are some of the main explanation on how to delete cookies on your browser: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 (Chrome); https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox); https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera); https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer); https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
Updates to this privacy policy
Crossroads Church will revise or update this policy from time to time, if we make significant changes to how we handle personal information we will post changes to the policy on our site and change the date at the end.
Updated on: 06/11/2025