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Policies
Church Policies
These are the policies the church follows in its wider life together. Each one is a PDF you’re welcome to download and read.
Safeguarding Policy
Our commitment to the care and protection of children, young people and adults at risk: how we welcome them into church life, choose and support those who work with them, and respond to any concerns.
Download the Safeguarding Policy (PDF, 120 KB, about 4 minutes to read)Data Protection Policy
How the church looks after the personal information it holds about members, regular attenders, volunteers and others, and the rights everyone has over their own information.
Download the Data Protection Policy (PDF, 555 KB, about 37 minutes to read)Data Retention Schedule
How long we keep personal information from each part of church life, such as Footprints, Youth Club and church membership, and when it's reviewed.
Download the Data Retention Schedule (PDF, 43 KB, about 2 minutes to read)Website Privacy Policy
Who we are
This policy covers the website you’re using now, run by Bures Baptist Church, High Street, Bures, Suffolk, CO8 5JG. If you have any questions about how we handle your information, please get in touch via our Contact page.
What we collect, and why
If you use our contact form, we collect your name, email address and message so we can reply to you. That’s the only information this website asks you for.
Your submission is emailed to a member of church staff so they can respond, and kept in our records for as long as is reasonably needed to do that. You can ask us to delete it at any time - see “Your rights” below.
Keeping the contact form spam-free
The contact form uses Google reCAPTCHA to help us tell real enquiries apart from automated spam, running invisibly in the background rather than asking you to solve a puzzle. This means some technical information about your visit (such as your device and browser) is shared with Google - see Google’s Privacy Policy for how they handle it.
Cookies and tracking
This website doesn’t use cookies, analytics, or any other tracking to monitor your visit.
Your rights
You can ask us what information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, at any time - just get in touch via our Contact page.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time as the website changes. The current version is always the one published here.