Privacy Policy
Protecting your data is important to us. We handle personal data responsibly and comply with applicable data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Responsible Body
The responsible body within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation, is:
ICF Zurich
Zürichstrasse 131
CH-8600 Dübendorf
Switzerland
To contact us in writing via email, please use our contact form.
Scope
The data protection principles set out in this Privacy Policy apply to the handling of data by the legal entities ICF Movement, ICF Zurich, ICF Services, ICF Media, ICF Activities, ICF Foundation, as well as other future companies operating under the brand ICF – International Christian Fellowship – or companies in which one of these organizations is involved.
Insofar as this Privacy Policy refers to “ICF”, “ICF Movement”, “ICF Church”, “we”, or “us”, this means – depending on the context – ICF Zurich or another organization within the ICF Movement.
Content
- Your Rights as a Data Subject
- Purposes of Data Processing
- Transfer of Data within the ICF Movement
- Data Protection at Events
- Deletion and Blocking of Data
- Collection of general information when visiting our website
- Newsletter
- Pardot Marketing Automation System
- Contact form
- Google Analytics
- Facebook Pixel
- Plugins & Tools
- Payment Providers
- Security and Encryption
- Disclaimer for Websites, Links, and Downloads
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
- Questions for the Data Protection Officer
Your Rights as a Data Subject
You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided for our Data Protection Officer:
- Information about your data stored by us and its processing
- Correction of incorrect personal data
- Deletion of your data stored by us
- Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations
- Objection to the processing of your data by us
- Data portability, provided you have consented to the data processing or have entered into a contract with us
If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.
You can contact your local supervisory authority at any time with a complaint. Your competent supervisory authority depends on the state of your residence, your work, or the alleged violation.
A list of supervisory authorities for the non-public sector can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
Purposes of Data Processing by the Responsible Body and Third Parties
Personal data is only collected on this website to the extent technically necessary. In no case will the collected data be sold or passed on to third parties for other unauthorized reasons.
We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned. We only share your personal data with third parties if:
- you have given your express consent
- processing is necessary to fulfill a contract with you
- processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation
- the transfer of data within the ICF Movement is necessary or useful
- processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data
Third-party service providers may process information, fulfill and deliver orders, process donations and credit card payments, and support us on our behalf. To the extent that such data is shared, agreements limit the use of your data to the purpose for which it is provided and ensure that it is stored securely and in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Transfer of Data within the ICF Movement
The ICF Movement consists of a network of local, independent churches listed at www.icf.church, operating under the protected name ICF – International Christian Fellowship – and with the registered ICF logo.
To maintain relationships and provide services through local ICF churches, it may be necessary for us to store, process, and make your personal data available to other companies and ICF churches within the ICF Movement or companies in which an ICF Movement company is involved, in order to better respond to your requests or improve our products or services.
By providing your data on this website, you agree to the selective transfer of data to other ICF churches. Data is not generally shared with all ICF churches, but only when we believe that sharing your data could be of benefit to you. We will neither sell your personal data to third parties nor otherwise pass it on without authorization.
Data Protection at Events
At ICF events, it’s possible that you may be filmed or photographed. By attending an event of the ICF Church, you expressly agree that you may be recorded or photographed and that such recordings or photos may be used for broadcasting on TV, on the internet, or in other media.
If you do not want to be recorded, please contact the event team on site or the person responsible.
Deletion or blocking of data
We follow the principles of data avoidance and data minimisation. We therefore store your personal data only for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here, or as required by the retention periods stipulated by the legislator.
Once the respective purpose no longer applies or these periods have expired, the relevant data is routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with legal requirements.
Collection of general information when visiting our website
When you access our website, general information is automatically collected by means of a cookie. This information, known as server log files, includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, and similar data. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about you personally.
This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the website content you request and is inevitably generated when using the internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:
- Ensuring a smooth connection setup for the website
- Ensuring smooth use of our website
- Evaluating system security and stability
- other administrative purposes
The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest in collecting data for the purposes mentioned above. We do not use this data to draw conclusions about you personally. The recipients of the data are only the responsible body and, where applicable, processors.
Anonymous information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us to optimize our website and the underlying technology.
Pardot Marketing Automation System
We use the Pardot Marketing Automation System, or Pardot MAS for short, from Pardot LLC, 950 E. Paces Ferry Rd. Suite 3300 Atlanta, GA 30326, USA, on our websites. Pardot is software for recording and evaluating the use of a website by website visitors.
Insofar as Pardot LLC processes personal data, the processing takes place exclusively on our behalf and according to our instructions. We have ensured Pardot LLC’s compliance with data protection guidelines through an individual agreement with Pardot LLC.
When you visit our website, Pardot MAS records your click path and uses it to create an individual usage profile using a pseudonym. Cookies are used for this purpose, which enable your browser to be recognized. If you consent to the use of cookies when you first use our website by confirming the cookie banner or by continuing to use our website, you also agree to the use of cookies from Pardot.
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To do so, please use the contact details provided at the end of this Privacy Policy. In addition, you can deactivate the creation of pseudonymized usage profiles at any time by configuring your internet browser so that cookies from the domain “pardot.com” are not accepted. However, this may lead to restrictions in the functions and user-friendliness of our offer.
Contact form
If you contact us by email or contact form regarding questions of any kind, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting you. A valid email address is required for this. This serves to assign the request and the subsequent response. Providing further data is optional.
The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions. After your request has been handled, personal data will be automatically deleted, provided there are no legal retention obligations.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google. Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files stored on your computer that allow an analysis of your use of the website.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the internet, other related services are to be provided. Processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator or, if necessary, on your consent.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website, including your IP address, to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the available browser plugin to deactivate Google Analytics.
Facebook Pixel
We use the Facebook Pixel from Facebook, a social media network of Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland, on this website.
The code implemented on this page can evaluate the behavior of visitors who have reached this website from a Facebook advertisement. This can be used to improve Facebook advertisements. This data is collected and stored by Facebook. The collected data is not visible to us, but can only be used within the framework of advertisement placements. Cookies are also set through the use of the Facebook Pixel code.
By using the Facebook Pixel, Facebook is notified of the visit to this website so that visitors can see suitable ads on Facebook. If you have a Facebook account and are logged in, the visit to this website will be assigned to your Facebook user account.
You can find more information about using the Facebook Pixel for advertising campaigns at https://www.facebook.com/business/learn/facebook-ads-pixel. You can change your settings for advertisements in Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen, provided you are logged in to Facebook. At http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/ you can manage your preferences regarding usage-based online advertising.
More information about Facebook’s data policy can be found at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
Plugins & Tools
Google Maps
This website may use Google Maps API to visually display geographic information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes, and uses data about the use of map functions by visitors. You can find more information about data processing by Google in the Google privacy notices. There you can also change your personal privacy settings in the privacy center.
YouTube
On some of our web pages, we embed YouTube videos. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with a YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube’s servers is established. YouTube is informed which pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.
If a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior. Anyone who has deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program will not have to expect such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you want to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in the browser.
Further information on data protection at YouTube can be found in the provider’s privacy policy at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
Vimeo
Our website may use plugins from the video portal Vimeo. The provider is Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.
When you visit one of our pages equipped with a Vimeo plugin, a connection to Vimeo’s servers is established. The Vimeo server is informed which of our pages you have visited. Vimeo also obtains your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged into Vimeo or do not have an account with Vimeo. The information collected by Vimeo is transmitted to the Vimeo server in the USA.
If you are logged into your Vimeo account, you enable Vimeo to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account. Further information on the handling of user data can be found in Vimeo’s privacy policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.
Zapier
To integrate different databases and tools, we use Zapier, a service of Zapier Inc., 548 Market St #62411, San Francisco, California 94104, USA. Customer data, with the exception of payment data, may be transmitted. Further information on data protection at Zapier can be found at https://zapier.com/privacy/.
Payment Providers
PayPal
On our website, we offer payment via PayPal, among other things. The provider of this payment service is PayPal Europe S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22–24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg.
If you choose payment via PayPal, the payment data you enter will be transmitted to PayPal. The transmission of your data to PayPal is based on your consent and for processing to fulfill a contract. You have the option to revoke your consent to data processing at any time. A revocation does not affect the effectiveness of past data processing operations.
Stripe
When paying by credit card, payment processing is carried out via Stripe, the payment service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd, Block 4, Harcourt Centre, Harcourt Road, Dublin 2, Ireland. Further information on Stripe’s privacy policy can be found at https://stripe.com/de/privacy#translation.
Security
ICF takes technical and organizational security measures to protect all personal data as well as possible, in cooperation with our hosting providers, against accidental or unlawful deletion, modification, or loss, as well as against unauthorized disclosure or unauthorized access. However, ICF assumes no liability for damages that may arise in this context, for example through data loss.
SSL or TLS Encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.
If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Disclaimer for Websites, Links, and Downloads
Website Disclaimer
ICF is in no case liable for any direct or indirect damages and consequential damages arising from the use of software, information, and material from ICF’s websites.
ICF assumes no guarantee that information, software, documents, or other details accessible via ICF’s websites are free of viruses or other harmful components.
ICF is not liable for the timeliness, correctness, completeness, and quality of the information provided.
Links to Other Websites
Our websites contain links to other websites. ICF is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of these other websites. In particular, ICF has not checked these linked websites, which are not on its servers or within its sphere of influence, and assumes no liability for their content, products, services, software, or other offers offered there, nor for viruses caught via these linked websites.
Downloads
All documents or files provided for download on our website are provided at your own risk.
Changes to our Data Protection Provisions
We reserve the right to adapt this Privacy Policy so that it always meets current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the Privacy Policy, for example when introducing new services. The new Privacy Policy will then apply to your next visit.
Questions for the Data Protection Officer
Your trust is important to us. Therefore, we would like to be available to answer your questions regarding the processing of your personal data at any time. If you have questions that this Privacy Policy could not answer, or if you would like more in-depth information on any point, please contact us via email at: