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Privacy Policy for GFA Church Staffing

Date: 11/26/2021

1. Overview

This Privacy Policy is provided for the benefit of customers and clients of the job board and interview Services that we make available online via this Website.

1.1 Definitions

GFA Church Staffing seeks to make its policies and governing documents consistent across its platforms and services. For this reason, GFA Church Staffing provides the definitions for terms in our Terms of Service.

1.2 Our Commitment to Privacy

At GFA Church Staffing, we respect the privacy and the confidentiality of our customers’ information, particularly our customers’ PII (also commonly referred to as personally identifiable information) (“PII”). We are committed to keeping confidential the PII you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains how GFA Church Staffing collects, uses, discloses, and protects the information it collects.

1.3 Applicability of Privacy Policy 

Our Privacy Policy applies to all individuals that provide their PII via the Services, regardless of how that information is provided to us.

1.4 Not Intended for Minors 

The Website provides employment-related services to both the candidate side and employer side of the equation. As such, an individual must be aged eighteen (18) or over to create an account through the Website. The GFA Church Staffing Website and Services are not directed toward children or minors.

2. Access to Your Data

2.1 You may request that GFA Church Staffing provide you with a copy of your account and personal information. You may also request information on how we have used that PII. We will respond to your request in a commercially reasonable time frame consistent with the applicable law.

3. How We Collect and Use Personal Information (PII)

3.1 Personally Identifiable Information or PII is any information that would, by itself, identify you or tend to identify you as a particular individual or entity. This PII may include, but not be limited to, your name, your address, credit card number, bank account information, and/or personal identification number (such as a social security number or driver’s license number). PII does not include any public information that is readily attainable through federal, state, or local public records.

3.2 When you create an account and register for any of our GFA Church Staffing Services, whether through our website or a partner portal, you may be asked to submit information including but not limited to your full name, company name (if applicable), email address, and phone number. This information is used to identify customers and to communicate information related to the services GFA Church Staffing provides. Additional information that is not considered PII may also be requested and will be collected if provided by a User.

3.3 GFA Church Staffing may collect information for purposes of processing payments. This information may be stored partially on our servers, but credit card or payment card details will be handled through the payment processor servers and will not be stored by us.

3.4 GFA Church Staffing Users should not provide any GFA Church Staffing User with any personal banking or financial information.  If any such information is requested from you, please report it immediately to privacy@GFA Church Staffing

3.5 The PII collected and/or received about you is used to provide GFA Church Staffing Services, and related employment services and support. We may use your PII to communicate with you by email, text message, phone call, or other electronic, written, or oral communication method, unless you expressly indicate to GFA Church Staffing not to use a particular method of communication.

3.6  GFA Church Staffing and our third party licensors may create anonymized, deidentified, aggregated information derived from PII to improve the Services and any related matters thereto.

3.7 When you use the GFA Church Staffing Services by replying to an invite or registering or participating in a screening or interview, you may disclose PII to potential employers and GFA Church Staffing clients when they access your information, profiles, interviews, and other Content.

3.8 [We will not share your PII with others except as described in this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service.]

3.9 GFA Church Staffing Users may be able to download your videos and other Content that you choose to make available via the Services and store your content on their computers and servers. GFA Church Staffing Users may also be able to use shared links by which they provide related parties who might not be Users access to your User Content. Once information is downloaded to servers out of GFA Church Staffing control, GFA Church Staffing no longer has any ability or obligation to attempt to manage that information. You will need to contact that company directly to have information removed from their records.

 

3.10 Third-Party Service Providers

GFA Church Staffing may employ, engage, or retain certain third parties to perform functions and/or provide Services on its behalf, such as web hosting, integrated services, or advertising. GFA Church Staffing will share PII only to the extent necessary to perform the functions and/or provide the services required. [GFA Church Staffing shall also secure contractual obligations from these Third-Party providers to maintain the privacy of the PII at the same level or protection GFA Church Staffing provides to its customers.]

3.11 Business Transfers

GFA Church Staffing reserves the right to sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all its assets, including PII, in connection with a sale of assets; a merger, acquisition, or reorganization; or filing for bankruptcy.

3.12 Legal Compliance

GFA Church Staffing may be required to disclose any information about you and/or Content created by you in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We may also disclose any information about you and/or Content created by you as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to: (1) comply with an order from a court of competent jurisdiction, regulatory agency, and/or other governmental authority; (2) respond to claims, court orders, or other legal process (including subpoenas); (3) to enforce the terms of this and other GFA Church Staffing agreements as well as to protect the property and rights of GFA Church Staffing, or other third parties; (4) to protect, in GFA Church Staffing’ sole discretion, the public or any person from harm; (5) to investigate, prevent, stop, or take other action regarding any action perceived to be fraudulent, illegal, unethical, or legally actionable in GFA Church Staffing’ sole discretion; and/or, generally, (6) to comply with the law.

3.13 In addition to collecting PII as previously described, GFA Church Staffing also collects other non-PII. Non-PII collected by GFA Church Staffing is not subject to restrictions.

3.14 When you use the Website or Services, we and our third party service providers use technologies such as cookies (i.e., small pieces of data stored on your device’s hard drive by your browser), web beacons, pixel tags, and similar technologies to automatically collect internet protocol addresses assigned to the computers and other devices you use, information about your internet service provider, device ID numbers, approximate geographic location, browser types, Website pages visited, websites you access before and after visiting the Website, and data related to how and when you use the Website (e.g., date and time stamps, clickstream data, and data about search terms and websites that direct you to the Website). We may combine this data with PII and data obtained from third parties.

The Website may use session or persistent cookies to collect and store data about your Services preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website.  These cookies may be ours or they be third party cookies from one or more of our vendors or service providers.  The GFA Church Staffing Website uses cookies when you are required to re-enter your password, to protect you against other users accessing your account, to remember your preferences, to collect aggregate information, and to improve our service provision.  Session cookies are used to complete transactions and for other purposes such as counting visits to certain webpages. Session cookies are eliminated when you exit your browser. Persistent cookies may be stored on your computer by your browser. When you log in, persistent cookies tell us if you have visited the Website before or if you are a new visitor.

Third-party cookies are installed by third-parties with the aim of collecting certain information from web users to carry out research into, for example, behavior, demographics or spending habits. They are commonly used by advertisers who want to ensure that products and services are marketed towards the right target audience.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can disable this function but disabling cookies may impact your use and enjoyment of the Website. For example, If you reject all cookies, you may not be able to use the GFA Church Staffing Services or products that require you to “sign in”.

Do Not Track Requests. Due to the automatic collection of data using cookies, we do not honor “do not track” requests.

3.15 GFA Church Staffing or its third party service providers on our behalf may delete Content or other information including email or chat messages, interviews, videos, audio, upload content or video, or records of your account without needing to inform you. We recommend that you back up on your own computer any critical or important information regularly.

4. Compliance Resolution

4.1  If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or use of your PII, you may contact us at: privacy at GFA Church Staffing. 

5. Disclaimer as to Third-Party Content

GFA Church Staffing is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any third-party Websites. GFA Church Staffing is not able to control the targeted advertising you receive when you leave the GFA Church Staffing Site or click on a third-party link. GFA Church Staffing provides third parties with ads and your computer or phone may retain data that you spent time on the GFA Church Staffing Platform. You may be able to adjust settings with some third-party providers to opt out of targeted advertising.

6. Data Security

GFA Church Staffing and its third-party licensors use commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures to help secure all PII against loss, misuse, and alteration. While we cannot guarantee it, we use industry-standard protections to help safeguard against such occurrences. If a breach of our systems occurs, we will notify you of the breach only if and as required under applicable law.

You understand that no data transmission over the internet or a mobile device can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your Personal Information, neither GFA Church Staffing nor its third-party licensors guarantee the security of PII and you provide PII at your own risk.

 

7. Modifications to this Privacy Policy

7.1 GFA Church Staffing reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this Privacy Policy, at any time.

7.2 GFA Church Staffing shall provide notice of such changes by posting the revised policies to the GFA Church Staffing Website and by either providing you a message the next time you login into your account or by sending you an email to the email address you provided when creating your Account.

 

8. CCPA

a. California consumers have the following rights with respect to their data:

                 1. Right to Request Access or Disclosure

                 2. Right To Request Deletion

                 3. Right to Non-Discrimination

                 4. Right to Opt-Out of the Sale

You may exercise these rights by contacting us at: Privacy at GFA Church Staffing.

b. We have collected the following categories of personal data in the prior 12 months:

IP, Name, Email, Phone, Address, Occupation, Specialty, information provided by the User in any uploaded document.

c.  We have sold the following categories of data in the prior 12 months:

We do not sell personal data to outside third parties. Businesses do contract with GFA Church Staffing to access, information placed or uploaded to the site by the candidate directly.

d. We have disclosed the following categories of data for business purposes in the prior 12 months:

                                 We have disclosed non-identifying information for statistical analysis only.

e. We collect your data from the following sources:

                                 Your direct placement of data onto the site only.

f.  We collect your data for the following business or commercial purposes:

To match candidates looking for employment with employers looking to hire such candidates and facilitate the interview and hiring process.

g. We have disclosed or sold personal data to the following categories of third parties:

We have not sold any personal data to outside third parties. Companies have contracted with us to access information provided by the candidate themselves for the purpose of obtaining employment.

h. We have not sold data of a child under the age of 16.

Terms of Use

We serve sound, biblical, conservative churches
and pastoral staff candidates
who agree with the following statements. 

  1. We believe in the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible in the original manuscripts; the direct six-day creation of the world and its inhabitants; the fall of man into sin; the Triune God in three Persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; the incarnation and virgin birth of Jesus Christ; His sinless life and substitutionary atoning death on the cross; His bodily resurrection and ascension; salvation by grace through faith; the necessity of the new birth; the imminent, pre-millennial return of Jesus Christ for His own; the future millennial reign of Jesus Christ on the earth; the eternal destiny of the saved in heaven and the eternal judgment of the unsaved in hell and the lake of fire.

  2. We believe in personal holiness and ecclesiastical separation from apostasy and compromise.

  3. We believe in conservative, reverent worship and church music.

  4. We believe in post-conversion baptism by immersion.

  5. We believe that the sign gifts have ceased.

  6. We believe that God created mankind in two genders, male and female. We believe that marriage is the sacred union of one man and one woman. We believe in the sanctity of every human life, born or unborn. 

  7. We believe that only biblically qualified men may serve in the office of pastor. 

GFA Church Staffing operates within the theological and historical positions of Gospel Fellowship Association. These positions are articulated in greater depth in GFA's organizational documents. We reserve the right to serve only those whom we believe to be essentially like-minded. 

Expectations and Understanding

Candidates should expect that churches will do thorough vetting, including financial and legal background checks. This also includes checking with references provided by the candidate and potentially others. Details can be worked out between the candidate and the church. It is highly unethical for a candidate to seek a new ministry if there are unresolved allegations of immorality, impropriety, indiscretion or financial misdealing.  We would not knowingly allow such a candidate to use the GFA Church Staffing service.   Churches should expect serious candidates to seek to know their churches as thoroughly as possible. Churches should be forthright with candidates as the relationship develops toward possible employment about the church’s financial and special circumstances. Pastoral search committees should take great care to protect the confidentiality of men seeking ministry positions. We ask that both churches and candidates keep one another posted about the interest they have in each other so that long seasons of uncertainty do not hinder the freedom to continue to search for other possible ministries or candidates. 

Disclaimer

Both churches and candidates should use the GFA Church Staffing service with knowledge that GFA is not able to provide the thorough checks needed at the employment level and that GFA incurs no liability for issues that could arise. Please inform us at GFA if there is a serious concern with a candidate or church.