PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: July 16, 2026

1. Our Commitment to Privacy

Gospel Life Church respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly.

This Privacy Policy explains how Gospel Life Church may collect, use, store, disclose, and protect information when you:

• Visit gospellife.io

• Submit a contact or prayer-request form

• Register for an event, ministry, class, or gathering

• Give financially through our online giving platform

• Subscribe to church communications

• Listen to or interact with sermons, podcasts, videos, or other resources

• Use Church Center, Planning Center, or another service connected to our website

• Communicate with the Church through the website

Throughout this Policy, “Gospel Life Church,” “the Church,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Gospel Life Church. “Website” refers to gospellife.io and the webpages, forms, resources, and services available through it.

By using the website or voluntarily submitting information, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

2. Scope of This Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the Gospel Life Church website and through online services that we use to support our ministries.

It does not necessarily apply to:

• Information collected entirely offline

• Personal pastoral conversations

• Confidential counseling records

• Employment records

• Volunteer background-check records

• Information governed by a separate written agreement

• Websites, applications, or services operated independently by third parties

Some Church records may be subject to separate ministry, personnel, financial, safety, pastoral-care, or record-retention policies.

3. Information We May Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use the website and which services you choose to use.

Information You Provide Directly

You may voluntarily provide information such as:

• Your name

• Email address

• Mailing address

• Telephone number

• Preferred method of communication

• Household or family information

• Date of birth or age range

• Information about children or dependents

• Emergency-contact information

• Event or ministry registration information

• Attendance or participation information

• Membership or ministry-interest information

• Volunteer interests, skills, and availability

• Prayer requests

• Questions or messages submitted to the Church

• Pastoral-care requests

• Dietary, allergy, accessibility, medical, or accommodation information

• Giving and contribution information

• Information included in documents, forms, photographs, or files that you submit

• Any other information you choose to provide

Please provide only the information reasonably necessary for the purpose of your communication or registration.

Giving and Payment Information

When you make a contribution or payment, our giving platform and payment processors may collect information such as:

• Your name and contact information

• Contribution or payment amount

• Transaction date

• Fund or ministry designation

• Recurring-gift instructions

• Billing address

• Payment-method information

• Transaction identifiers and confirmation details

Complete credit-card or bank-account information is generally handled by the applicable payment processor rather than stored directly on the public Gospel Life Church website. The Church may receive limited transaction details necessary for contribution records, receipts, accounting, reconciliation, and donor support.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the website, Wix and other technology providers may automatically collect certain technical information, such as:

• Internet Protocol address

• Browser type and version

• Device type

• Operating system

• Approximate geographic region

• Referring webpage

• Pages visited

• Links selected

• Date and time of access

• Time spent on pages

• Website performance and error information

• Cookie identifiers

• General interaction and usage data

This information helps operate, secure, maintain, and improve the website.

Information Received from Third Parties

We may receive information from services that you use in connection with the Church, including:

• Wix

• Planning Center

• Church Center

• Online giving and payment processors

• Event-registration platforms

• Email and communication services

• Podcast and audio platforms

• Video-hosting or livestreaming services

• Social-media platforms

• Website analytics providers

• Mapping and calendar services

• Background-check providers

• Other ministry-service providers

Information received from these providers depends on the service, your settings, and your interaction with that provider.

4. How We Use Information

We may use personal information to:

• Operate and maintain the website

• Respond to questions, requests, and messages

• Provide information about the Church

• Communicate gathering times, event details, and ministry updates

• Process event and ministry registrations

• Manage children’s, student, group, and volunteer ministries

• Provide check-in, attendance, and safety functions

• Contact parents, guardians, or emergency contacts

• Provide requested accessibility or dietary accommodations

• Respond to prayer and pastoral-care requests

• Connect people with pastors, elders, staff members, ministry leaders, or volunteers

• Maintain membership and congregant records

• Coordinate volunteer service

• Process contributions, payments, and registrations

• Provide contribution acknowledgments and giving statements

• Maintain accounting and financial records

• Send newsletters, announcements, and ministry communications

• Administer surveys or gather ministry feedback

• Protect children, vulnerable people, website users, and Church systems

• Detect fraud, abuse, security threats, or unauthorized access

• Understand website use and improve website content

• Maintain accurate Church records

• Fulfill legal, financial, insurance, safeguarding, and regulatory responsibilities

• Establish, exercise, or defend legal rights

• Carry out the religious, charitable, and administrative purposes of Gospel Life Church

We seek to collect and use only the information reasonably appropriate for these purposes.

5. Ministry and Pastoral Information

Some information submitted to the Church may be particularly personal or sensitive, including:

• Prayer requests

• Religious beliefs or ministry participation

• Pastoral-care concerns

• Family circumstances

• Financial needs

• Medical or accessibility information

• Information concerning children

• Information about personal hardship or crisis

We seek to handle such information with care and limit access to people who reasonably need it to provide ministry, support, administration, or protection.

However, submitting information through a general website form does not create an absolute guarantee of confidentiality, a professional counseling relationship, or a legally privileged relationship.

Information may need to be shared when reasonably necessary to:

• Respond to the request

• Coordinate pastoral care

• Protect a child or vulnerable person

• Address a credible threat of harm

• Comply with mandatory-reporting responsibilities

• Meet legal requirements

• Protect the rights or safety of the individual, the Church, or another person

Please do not use a general website form for emergencies or for information requiring immediate or highly confidential attention.

6. Prayer Requests

Prayer requests may be reviewed by appropriate pastors, elders, staff members, ministry leaders, or prayer-team members.

When submitting a prayer request, you should avoid including confidential information about another person without that person’s knowledge or permission.

You may indicate that a request is:

• For pastors or elders only

• For a designated ministry leader

• Appropriate for a prayer team

• Appropriate for broader public sharing

We will make reasonable efforts to honor such instructions, but we cannot guarantee that information transmitted electronically will remain completely confidential or secure.

7. Children’s Information

Our website is intended for a general audience and is not designed for children under 13 to independently submit personal information.

Parents and legal guardians should submit registrations, contact details, permission forms, medical information, prayer requests, and other information concerning children.

When registering a child or providing information about a minor, you represent that you are:

• The child’s parent or legal guardian

• Authorized by the parent or legal guardian

• Otherwise legally permitted to provide the information

We may collect information about children when reasonably necessary to administer children’s or student ministries, including:

• Name and age

• Date of birth

• Grade level

• Parent or guardian information

• Emergency contacts

• Allergy or medical information

• Accessibility needs

• Authorized pickup information

• Attendance and check-in information

• Ministry participation

• Photographic or media permissions

• Safety-related information

We use this information for ministry administration, communication, check-in, safety, emergency response, and other legitimate Church purposes.

We do not knowingly use the website to solicit personal information directly from children under 13 without appropriate parental involvement. A parent or guardian who believes a child has independently submitted personal information should contact us so that we can review and, when appropriate, remove it.

8. Photographs, Video, Livestreams, and Recordings

Church worship gatherings, events, classes, and ministry activities may be photographed, livestreamed, recorded, or otherwise documented.

Photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings may be used for:

• Sermons and podcasts

• Livestreams

• Church-history records

• Website content

• Social-media posts

• Ministry updates

• Printed publications

• Promotional or informational materials

We seek to use photographs and recordings respectfully and in a manner consistent with our ministry purposes and applicable Church policies.

Special care should be exercised when using identifiable images of children or when an event is not reasonably understood to be public. Parental or guardian permission may be requested when appropriate.

Anyone with a concern about an identifiable photograph or recording posted by the Church may contact us. We will review reasonable requests to remove or limit future use of the material, although removal from every previously distributed or third-party location may not always be possible.

9. How We May Share Information

We may share information with the following categories of recipients when reasonably necessary.

Church Leadership, Staff, and Volunteers

Information may be shared with:

• Pastors

• Elders

• Employees

• Ministry leaders

• Authorized volunteers

• Prayer-team members

• Financial or administrative personnel

• Safety and children’s ministry personnel

Access should be limited according to the person’s ministry role and reasonable need for the information.

Service Providers

We may provide information to organizations that perform services on our behalf, including:

• Website-hosting providers

• Church-management platforms

• Payment processors

• Giving platforms

• Email and messaging services

• Registration and check-in providers

• Cloud-storage providers

• Information-technology providers

• Security and fraud-prevention providers

• Accountants, auditors, insurers, or professional advisers

• Background-check providers

• Mail, printing, or delivery services

These providers may process information under their own terms, privacy notices, contracts, and security practices.

Legal and Safety Reasons

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

• Comply with applicable law

• Respond to a subpoena, court order, or lawful governmental request

• Fulfill mandatory-reporting responsibilities

• Prevent or investigate fraud or unlawful activity

• Address a safety or security concern

• Protect a child or vulnerable person

• Respond to an emergency

• Protect the rights, property, ministry, or safety of Gospel Life Church or another person

• Enforce our website Terms and Conditions

Organizational Changes

If the Church reorganizes, combines ministries, transfers a program, changes service providers, or undergoes another organizational transition, relevant records may be transferred as reasonably necessary to continue the applicable ministry or service.

10. Sale of Personal Information

Gospel Life Church does not sell or rent personal information for monetary compensation.

We do not provide donor, member, attendee, or prayer-request lists to outside organizations for their independent commercial marketing.

Certain third-party website tools, embedded content, cookies, or analytics services may collect information directly from your browser under their own privacy practices. Depending on the laws of a particular jurisdiction, some of these technology-provider activities may be legally described as “sharing,” even when the Church does not receive money for the information.

11. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small files placed on a browser or device to help websites operate and remember information.

Our website and its service providers may use cookies, pixels, local storage, scripts, and similar technologies for purposes such as:

• Operating essential website functions

• Maintaining website security

• Remembering preferences

• Supporting forms and registrations

• Measuring website traffic

• Understanding how visitors use the website

• Improving performance

• Displaying embedded audio, video, maps, calendars, or social-media content

Cookies may include:

Essential Cookies

These cookies help the website operate and may be necessary for security, navigation, forms, and basic functions.

Functional Cookies

These cookies may remember preferences or support enhanced website features.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies may help us understand website traffic, page usage, performance, and visitor interactions.

Third-Party Cookies

Embedded services, such as videos, maps, podcast players, social-media tools, or registration platforms, may place their own cookies or collect information when you interact with them.

Where available, you may use the website’s cookie-consent controls to accept, reject, or manage nonessential cookies. You may also change cookie settings through your browser. Blocking certain cookies may affect website functionality.

12. Analytics

We may use website analytics to understand general patterns such as:

• Number of website visits

• Frequently visited pages

• General referral sources

• Device and browser types

• Approximate geographic regions

• Website performance

• How visitors move through the website

We use this information to maintain and improve the website and to understand which resources are helpful.

Analytics information may be aggregated or associated with browser, device, cookie, or network identifiers.

13. Third-Party Services and Embedded Content

Our website may link to or contain content from third-party services, including:

• Wix

• Planning Center

• Church Center

• Google

• YouTube

• Podcast-hosting platforms

• Social-media services

• Maps

• Calendars

• Giving or payment processors

• Email-subscription services

• Event-registration tools

When you select a link, play embedded media, view a map, submit a third-party form, or use another embedded service, the provider may collect information directly from you.

Those providers maintain their own privacy policies and practices. Gospel Life Church does not control every aspect of how third-party providers collect, use, retain, or disclose information.

You should review the privacy notice of a third-party service before providing sensitive personal information.

14. Planning Center and Church Center

Gospel Life Church may use Planning Center and Church Center for functions such as:

• Congregant records

• Giving

• Event registrations

• Group participation

• Volunteer scheduling

• Worship-service planning

• Children’s check-in

• Attendance

• Church communications

• Online directories

• Ministry forms

When the Church enters or collects information through these systems, Gospel Life Church determines the ministry purposes for which the information is used. Planning Center processes information through its platform according to its own privacy notice, terms, and agreements with churches.

Information visible through Church Center may depend on:

• Your account settings

• Household settings

• Directory preferences

• Group participation

• Permissions configured by the Church

• Information you choose to make visible

You should review your account and directory settings and contact the Church when information needs to be corrected or restricted.

15. Online Giving Security

Online gifts and payments are processed through third-party giving and payment services.

The Church does not control every aspect of those providers’ security systems. Users should protect their login information, use secure devices and networks, and promptly report suspected unauthorized activity.

If you believe an online contribution was unauthorized, duplicated, or entered incorrectly, contact the Church and your financial institution promptly.

16. Email, Text Messages, and Other Communications

When you provide an email address or telephone number, we may use it to send:

• Responses to your questions

• Registration confirmations

• Contribution receipts

• Ministry information

• Event reminders

• Volunteer communications

• Pastoral follow-up

• Church announcements

• Newsletters

• Safety or schedule updates

You may unsubscribe from nonessential promotional or newsletter emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the message or by contacting us.

Even after unsubscribing from general communications, you may continue to receive necessary messages concerning:

• A transaction

• An event for which you registered

• A ministry in which you participate

• A volunteer responsibility

• Your contribution records

• Safety or emergency information

• A direct response to your request

Text-message and mobile-data charges imposed by your service provider may apply.

17. Data Security

We seek to use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information we maintain.

These safeguards may include:

• Limiting access according to ministry roles

• Using password-protected systems

• Using reputable service providers

• Maintaining account permissions

• Using available encryption and security features

• Reviewing access when ministry roles change

• Training appropriate leaders and volunteers

• Maintaining backups and security procedures

However, no website, email system, database, internet transmission, or electronic-storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You provide information electronically at your own risk and should avoid submitting unnecessary sensitive information through ordinary contact forms or email.

18. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy.

Retention periods may depend on:

• The nature of the information

• The ministry or service involved

• The length of your relationship with the Church

• Financial and contribution-record requirements

• Insurance requirements

• Child-safety and safeguarding considerations

• Dispute-resolution needs

• Legal obligations

• Historical or ecclesiastical recordkeeping

• The settings and retention practices of service providers

Some information may be retained after a deletion request when reasonably necessary for legal, financial, safety, historical, or administrative purposes.

When information is no longer reasonably needed, we may delete it, anonymize it, securely destroy it, or retain it in an archived form with limited access.

19. Your Choices and Requests

You may contact us to request that we:

• Confirm whether we maintain personal information about you

• Provide access to certain information

• Correct inaccurate information

• Update your contact preferences

• Remove you from optional communication lists

• Review a request to delete information

• Review directory or group visibility settings

• Address a concern about how information has been used

• Review an identifiable photograph or recording

• Provide information about applicable privacy choices

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request.

Certain requests may be denied or limited when the information must reasonably be retained for:

• Financial or contribution records

• Legal compliance

• Child protection

• Safety or security

• Fraud prevention

• Insurance requirements

• Church discipline or ecclesiastical responsibilities

• Establishing or defending legal rights

• Completing a requested transaction

• Maintaining accurate historical records

We may also be unable to delete information controlled independently by a third-party provider. In that situation, you may need to contact the provider directly.

20. Privacy Rights in Other Jurisdictions

Depending on where you live, applicable law may provide additional rights concerning access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, consent, or objection to certain processing.

Gospel Life Church may not be legally subject to every privacy law in every jurisdiction. Nevertheless, we will consider reasonable privacy requests and respond as required by applicable law.

Anyone submitting a jurisdiction-specific privacy request should identify the state or country in which they reside and describe the request clearly.

21. Do Not Track and Browser Privacy Signals

Some browsers allow users to transmit “Do Not Track” or other privacy-preference signals.

Because there is not a single universally applied standard for all such signals, the website and its third-party providers may not respond uniformly to them.

You may manage cookies through the website’s available consent controls, your browser settings, and the privacy controls offered by individual third-party providers.

22. Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to websites operated by other churches, ministries, authors, publishers, businesses, organizations, or service providers.

We are not responsible for the privacy, content, security, accuracy, or accessibility practices of external websites.

A link does not necessarily mean that Gospel Life Church endorses every statement, product, practice, or policy of the linked organization.

23. International Visitors

Gospel Life Church is located in Missouri, United States.

If you visit the website from another country, your information may be processed or stored in the United States or in other countries where our service providers operate.

Privacy and data-protection laws in those locations may differ from the laws in your country.

24. Data Breaches and Security Incidents

If we become aware of a security incident involving personal information, we may investigate the incident, take reasonable corrective measures, work with relevant service providers, and provide notice when required by applicable law.

Not every technical event or attempted attack constitutes a reportable personal-information breach.

25. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in:

• Website features

• Ministry practices

• Technology

• Service providers

• Legal responsibilities

• Information-handling procedures

The “Last updated” date at the top of this page indicates when the Policy was most recently revised.

Material changes may be communicated through the website or another reasonable method when appropriate.

Continued use of the website after an updated Policy is posted means that the updated Policy will apply to information collected after its effective date, subject to applicable law.

26. Relationship to Other Policies

This Privacy Policy should be read together with our:

• Terms and Conditions

• Accessibility Statement

• Children’s and student-ministry policies

• Event-specific forms and releases

• Giving policies

• Employment and volunteer policies

• Other applicable Church policies

When a separate form or ministry-specific notice provides additional privacy information, that more specific notice will apply to the relevant activity.