At TKFC, we want everyone who interacts with and supports us to understand how any personal information they provide to us will be used and looked after. Our privacy policy will confirm exactly what information we collect from you and what we do with it.
This Privacy Policy confirms how we collect, use, and store your personal information, in accordance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Please read this policy carefully. By providing us with your personal information, you consent to TFKC processing it in accordance with what we describe here.
There may be reasons for us to update our Privacy policy, as such any changes will be captured in this page and the relevant/current policy will be dated accordingly. so please do check back from time to time. This version was last updated on 17th May 2018.
If you have any questions about anything, please email us at info@tkfc.org or via our Get In Touch page.
Telephone: +44 (0)1708 805800
Email: info@tkfc.org for Data Protection queries
Post: The King’s Family Centre, High Street Aveley, Aveley, South Ockendon Essex RM15 4AX
Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays – CLOSED
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Fridays – 10:00am – 3:00pm
“Personal information” means any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified by it. This includes a person’s contact details, date of birth and their IP address.
In other words, personal information is anything which can be used to identify you (either by itself or when combined with other information).
“Processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
In other words, processing refers to all stages of collecting, storing and using your personal information.
“TKFC” stands for The Kings Family Centre. We are a Bible believing Pentecostal church where the Gospel of Jesus is preached with power, clarity and simplicity to every age group in His Lordship over every area of life irrespective of circumstance.
We have our outreach ministry TKF CARE, through which we support the care of orphans and widows particularly in less privileged areas of the world. TKF CARE is a child-centred non- governmental relief and development organisation that is committed to ensuring the complete well-being of displaced children that they may attain a life that is whole and declared through years of posterity.
TKFC is a UK Registered Charity (charity number 1096098). TKFC operates in Essex, Thurrock, Nigeria and South Africa. TKFC’s UK’s address is :The King’s Family Centre, High Street Aveley, Aveley. South Ockendon. Essex. RM15 4AX
This policy refers to the personal information processed by TKFC UK, and TKF CARE, including all information processed by the official TKFC website.
We collect information purely for the purpose of helping our work towards our mission. Specifically, TFKC processes personal information in order to:
However, please note that we only process personal information when you have either:
We will contact you in the manner that you have elected for us to do so such as by post, telephone, email or SMS. You can change how you hear from us at any time simply by updating your preferences via the link at the bottom of our emails or by emailing us at info@tkfc.org. If you would prefer us not to analyse your information or combine it with publicly available information, no problem, please just let us know by emailing us at info@tkfc.org.
We process any personal information you actively provide to us, including from donation and payment transactions, enquiries and surveys and forms. Website usage information is collected using cookies.
Personal information we process includes:
We collect information in the following ways:
We will always keep your details safe and will not sell or swap your information with any other organisation. We may share your information with trusted partners, agents or service providers to help us with our work or to help us better understand our supporters. These partners will only use your information under our instruction and will not use it for their own purposes.
We always have contracts in place with our suppliers, which require them to comply with UK’s law on data protection and to have systems and processes to protect the security of your information.
We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if we believe that such action is lawful and necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of TFKC and our stakeholders and for other lawful purposes.
Examples of organisations we may share your data with include:
We have physical, technical and human controls in place to keep your information secure. We ensure that extra controls are in place for financial, sensitive and special categories of information, meeting regulatory and legal requirements for managing these types of information. The transmission of information over the internet is never completely secure and TKFC cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. We advise against sending personal information using unsecure Wi-Fi (e.g. free public Wi-Fi).
Once we receive your data, we make every effort to ensure its security both on our systems and while in transit between our systems and any partners working on our behalf. Access to your personal information is restricted to those who require it to do our work and all staff with access to your personal data are trained in how to keep it safe. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other websites, even if you access them using links from our websites and we recommend that you check the policy of each site you visit.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as it is lawful and necessary to do so. This is so that we can provide the services, products or information you have requested, administer your relationship with us, ensure we don’t communicate with you if you’ve asked us not to and comply with the law.
We will review and assess our approach to data protection every two years. You can initiate your right to erasure at any time, whereby we would erase the personal information we hold about you.
Under data protection law, you have the following rights regarding our processing your personal information. For more information on your full rights, please visit see the Information Commissioner’s Office website, currently at this address: www.ico.org.uk.
You can also lodge a complaint about the way we manage your data with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). More information is available on the ICO website, currently at this address: www.ico.org.uk.
For more information or to exercise your rights, please email us at info@tkfc.org.
If you would like to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you, please send a description of the information you would like as well as proof of your identity to:
The King’s Family Centre,
High Street Aveley, Aveley
South Ockendon,
Essex RM15 4AX
United Kingdom
Once your identity is confirmed, we will send you a copy of your personal information, in line with what we are legally required to disclose, within one month. We accept no liability for the security of your personal information, as contained in your request, until it has been received by us.
It is easy for you to change or withdraw your communication preferences with us at any time.
You can update your preferences through the link at the bottom of our emails or by emailing info@tkfc.org at any time to request changes to how we contact you and what for, or to tell us not to contact you at all. We will always respect your wishes, though please note there may be some information we have to keep or reasons we must contact you that are required by law.
In the event that you change or withdraw consent for your information to be shared publicly, we will not share anything else publicly but will be unable to retract anything already shared outside of TKFC’s own website.
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We use cookies to make our website work including:
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We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc.
This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
We use: Google Analytics
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
If you are under 18, please get your parent or guardian’s permission before you send us any information about yourself, this includes photos and messages.
Also, if you do use our sites to find out about fundraising, campaigning or supporting the work of TKFC or TKFCare, please let an adult know.
