1. WHO WE ARE
We are the Baptist Missionary Society (“BMS”, “we”, “us”), also known as BMS World Mission, a charitable company registered at Companies House under company number 10849689 and registered with the Charity Commission under charity number 1174364. Our contact details are: 129 Broadway, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 8XD, mail@bmsworldmission.org, 01235 517700.
For the purposes of data protection law, we are the ‘controller’ of the personal data we collect and hold about you and we are therefore responsible for it.
Our Data Protection Officer is the officer of BMS who is responsible for all matters relating to the protection of personal data, and can be contacted at dataprotection@bmsworldmission.org
We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) with registration number Z8899170.
2. INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
By using our website and completing and returning forms from BMS publications, we may collect the following information about you in the following ways:
2.1 Information which you give us
We collect information about you when you fill in forms on our website or in our publications and when you communicate with us. This includes (but is not limited to) the information you provide us with when you make a donation, sign up to become a Church Partner, sign up to become a BMS 24:7 Partner, sign up to receive information about serving with BMS, sign up to support a mission project, pledge to leave a gift in your Will to BMS, order resources whether free of charge or not, request a BMS speaker, sign up to stay informed, sign up to receive our weekly email, provide feedback or contact us. When you interact with us on places like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, we might gather the information you make available.
This can include your full name, address, email address, phone number, financial and credit card information, employer details for processing a payroll gift, taxpayer status for claiming Gift Aid, which church you are attending and date of birth.
Under data protection law, certain categories of personal information are recognised as sensitive, including health information and information regarding religious beliefs (‘sensitive personal data’). Sometimes we might provide you with the option to consent to sharing the name of your church with us to be able to interact with you on a more personal level or in the course of a role you have in your church. Where you provide us with sensitive personal data, such as where you worship, we will process this using one of the following permitted criteria: with your explicit consent, where you manifestly make this information publicly available, or where you have regular contact with us in connection to your religion or place of worship. If you decide to share with us this sensitive personal data about yourself, we will keep it secure and only for as long as it is necessary.
2.2 Information we collect about you
By visiting and interacting with our site we also collect certain information about you automatically, through Cookies (see section 2.3), specifically Google Analytics. This includes technical information such as your IP address, browser type, time zone setting as well as information about your visit including date and time of your visit, clickstream to, through and from the website, how much time you spend on each webpage, how you interact with the website. Using this data helps us find out if our website is working well and helps us to improve it.
When you make donations using online giving platforms we match the donation to our own database, and record the date, amount and type of donation. When we receive a Will that includes BMS as a beneficiary, we will keep this Will on file as long as needed.
Based on your consent, we collect information from third parties such as event organising platforms (for example Eventbrite) or sites like Just Giving when you fundraise for BMS, or UK Baptist Unions with whom we have a data sharing agreement. Please take a look at their privacy policies to see how they use your data.
2.3 Cookies
Like most other websites, our website uses cookies.
Cookies are small files which websites store on your computer and which contain various types of information about your visit to a website. They are not viruses or malicious software but they are generally aimed at providing you with a good experience when browsing a site by, for example, remembering your preferences so that you do not need to reset them every time you visit the website.
Cookies can record information about how you browse the internet. They can therefore be used by websites to advertise goods and services which, based on your browsing history, are similar to goods and services which you have previously searched online. This is why some users reject or delete cookies.
Cookies normally expire after a length of time which can vary from a few minutes to more than a year. Some cookies are ‘session cookies’ which are deleted when you close your internet browser or after a period of inactivity. Others are ‘persistent cookies’ which remain on your computer until their expiration date.
We do not store cookies on your computer without your consent, unless they have the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of communications or they are strictly necessary for providing an online service.
You may restrict or block cookies which are set by any website through your browser settings. Your browser settings also allow you to clear your browsing history and delete cookies. Information about how you can do this can be found on this link https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies. Mobile devices may have their own settings and you need to refer to the manual of the device.
Please note that restricting or disabling cookies may impact the functioning of parts of our website.
Our website uses the following cookies:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by visitors which amount to a request for services, such as logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work.
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Business Critical Cookies
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. We use the Google Analytics service for this purpose.
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Third Party Cookies
These cookies are used by tools or functions supplied by third parties that are embedded on your website. Our site uses Twitter and Facebook to share content and when you use one of the share buttons a cookie is set. We also use Vimeo for our video content. Vimeo sets its own Google Analytics cookies when a visitor views one of our videos.
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SESS (Session*): Created by our servers to manage your session on our website.
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