At 7modalities, we recognise the importance of protecting your privacy. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is protected from misuse or unauthorised disclosure.
7modalities is a programme under the care of The Oikos Fellowship (“TOF”, “we”, “us”, “our”).
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) outlines how we process your personal data in accordance with our obligations under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (“PDPA”).
Personal Data
“Personal data” generally refers to any data, whether true or not, about an individual who is identifiable from the information to which we have or are likely to have access to.
The personal data that we may collect include the following:
• Personal details, such as full name, gender, date of birth, residential address and nationality;
• Personal contact details such as hand phone number and email address;
• Sacramental records, such as baptism, marriage, and ordination;
• Information relating to pastoral care needs; and
• Photographs, audio and video recordings
We do not collect any national identifiers (e.g. NRIC numbers, FIN, passport numbers, birth certificate numbers) from anyone.
The exact data to be collected will be dependent on the purpose and needs of each activity or event. We endeavor to only collect, use or disclose personal data about an individual that it considers reasonably necessary for the purposes underlying such collection, use or disclosure.
Collection of Personal Data
We may collect your personal data when you voluntarily provide the personal data directly to us. For example, we may collect your personal data when you:
• Contact us by sending us an enquiry through this 7modalities website;
• Communicate with us by sending us a direct message through email, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat, Facebook Messenger;
• Register for any of our programmes, events, classes, conferences/seminars, workshops or mission trips; and
• Use our social media platforms, such as posting content on our social media platforms.
We may also collect your personal data when a third party provides your personal data to us, such as our agents, business partners, contractors and regulatory authorities.
Purposes for which personal data is collected, used or disclosed
We may collect, use, disclose and/or process your personal data for the following purposes:
• Maintaining the membership register of constitutional members of the church;
• Providing pastoral care and services;
• Informing you of church services and activities, such as special services or functions, fundraising events, mission trips, community projects and outreach events;
• Processing requests for registration for events, classes, conferences/seminars, workshops, and mission trips, where applicable;
• Teaching and training in discipleship and disciple-making;
• Responding to your enquiries, requests, complaints and feedback, where appropriate;
• Connecting you to a small group as part of pastoral care;
• Assisting in the applications to overseas bible colleges;
• Contact tracing in the event of an emergency; and
• Providing you updates by way of e-newsletters and the like
Consent
By voluntarily providing your personal data to us under the 7modalities programme, you consent to TOF’s collection, use and disclosure of your personal data in accordance with this Policy.
Personal data will generally be obtained directly from the individual. In the case of children (below 18 years of age), personal data will be collected from either their parents or guardians, unless specific and/or unusual circumstances require that the collection be made directly from the child concerned. We do not collect personal data from children below the age of 13.
You may withdraw your consent to any collection, use or disclosure of your personal data by contacting our Data Protection Officer at the contact details are listed below.
In the event you withdraw your consent to TOF for the use and disclosure of your personal data, we shall cease to process your personal data within 10 business days upon receiving your written withdrawal request. Please note that once consent is withdrawn, we may not be able to fulfil our pastoral care or services to you.
Disclosure of personal data
We may, from time to time, disclose your personal data to our members or representatives for the purposes mentioned above.
TOF has a network of partner churches and partner organisations based overseas. Unless you voluntarily sign up for a mission trip or overseas event (e.g. church camps or outdoor activities, etc.), your personal data will not be transferred overseas.
TOF may also be required under the applicable law to disclose your personal data to regulators, courts/tribunals and governmental authorities of a competent jurisdiction.
We will not sell or disclose your personal data to any third parties for direct marketing purposes without your prior consent.
Third-Party Websites
Our website and Facebook page may contain links to third-party websites. Please note that our Policy does not cover personal data protection practices of such other websites and we would recommend that you read the personal data protection policy of each website you visit that collects personal information.
Protection of personal data
We will take reasonable security arrangements to ensure that your personal data is protected from unauthorised access, theft, loss, misuse and other risks. For example, we limit the access to your personal data to church leaders on a “need-to-know” basis; and we take technological measures such as the password protection of certain files containing personal data; using “blind carbon copy (bcc)” field instead of the “to” or “carbon copy (cc)” fields when sending mass emails.
We shall ensure that all members and volunteers are aware of the importance of protecting the confidentiality of personal data.
We shall ensure that care is taken when personal data is disposed of or destroyed (e.g. shredding of hardcopy documents) to prevent unauthorised parties from gaining access to that personal data.
Retention of personal data
Our website and Facebook page may contain links to third-party websites. Please note that our Policy does not cover personal data protection practices of such other websites and we would recommend that you read the personal data protection policy of each website you visit that collects personal information.
Updates to and correction of your personal data
You may make a request to us to update and correct your personal data by informing the Data Protection Officer.
Accuracy of personal data
We shall endeavour to ensure the accuracy of the information provided. However, it will be incumbent on you to ensure that your personal data is updated and correct.
Access to personal data
You may request for access to your personal data. You may be required to provide proper identification documents to confirm your identity. We are entitled to impose a reasonable charge particularly where photocopying, scanning and/or some form of electronic transfer is required.
Updates to our Policy
We may from time to time review this Policy and amend it to reflect changes in legislation or other operational requirements.
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We may from time to time review this Policy and amend it to reflect changes in legislation or other operational requirements.