Last updated: March 31, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes the policies and procedures of Formation Church, a Hawaii nonprofit corporation (the “Church”, “we”, or “us”) regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use our website accessible at https://formationhawaii.org (the “Website”) and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, subject to any choices you make through our cookie banner or preference center for non-essential Cookies.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account created for you to access any account features we may make available on the Website.
- Church (referred to as either “the Church”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this Privacy Policy) refers to Formation Church, 750 S. King Street Suite 106, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813.
- Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
- Country refers to Hawaii, United States
- Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
- Do Not Track (DNT) is a concept that has been promoted by US regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Website or from the Website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- Website refers to the website of the Church, accessible at https://formationhawaii.org.
- You means the individual accessing or using the Website, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Website, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
When you subscribe to our email newsletter or contact us through the Website, we may collect your email address and your name.
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Website.
Usage Data may include information such as your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data for security, troubleshooting, and service operation. To the extent we collect Usage Data for website analytics using non-essential Cookies or similar tracking technologies, we do so only if you affirmatively opt in through our cookie banner or preference center.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Website.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to operate the Website and store certain information. Some tracking technologies (including tags and scripts) are strictly necessary to operate the Website, and others are used for analytics, performance, and similar non-essential purposes. These technologies are used to measure and improve Website performance. The technologies we use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your Device. We use strictly necessary Cookies by default to operate the Website and provide the services you request. We use analytics, performance, and other non-essential Cookies only if you affirmatively opt in through our cookie banner or preference center. You can also manage Cookies through your browser settings; however, disabling strictly necessary Cookies may affect the functionality of the Website.
- Website Analytics and Session Data. If you opt in to analytics cookies, we and our analytics providers may collect information about your device and interactions with pages to help us understand Website usage.
- Web Beacons. Our emails to you may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. You can learn more about cookies on this article by TermsFeed.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the Website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide you with those services.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies record your cookie preferences and whether you have opted in to non-essential Cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies
Type: Session and Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. These Cookies are non-essential and are disabled by default; they are only used if you affirmatively opt in through our cookie banner or preference center.
Tracking and Performance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. These Cookies are non-essential and are disabled by default; they are only activated if you affirmatively opt in through our cookie banner or preference center. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Website, including to monitor the usage of our Website.
- To contact you: To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, regarding updates or informative communications.
- To provide you with news, and general information about the Church and its activities or events unless you have opted not to receive such information.
- To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests to Us.
- For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve the Website, the services provided by the Church, and your experience.
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website, to send newsletters or other communications you request, to help protect our Website from spam and abuse, and for processing of donations.
- For legal compliance: We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
Retention of Your Personal Data
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, including delivering newsletters and other communications you request, responding to inquiries, maintaining the security of the Website, and complying with our legal obligations. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if We are required to retain Your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. When your Personal Data is no longer needed for these purposes, We will delete it or de-identify it, unless We are legally required or permitted to retain it for a longer period.
We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time and only as long as needed to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of the Website, unless we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods; when it is no longer needed, We will delete it or de-identify it.
Some of your Personal Data and/or Usage Data may be retained by our Service Providers in accordance with their respective privacy policies. For more information, see the section below entitled “Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data.”
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Church’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Your Privacy Choices
You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your Personal Data as required by applicable law by contacting [email protected].
You may update, amend, or delete your information by contacting [email protected] to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us, as required by applicable law.
Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Website or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of your Personal Data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is completely secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data
The Service Providers we use may have access to your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about your activity on our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of the Website. For example, we may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of the Website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. Google Analytics cookies and similar analytics trackers are disabled by default and are only activated if you affirmatively opt in through our cookie banner or preference center.
If you have opted in to Google Analytics cookies, you can withdraw your consent at any time through our cookie banner or preference center, which will disable Google Analytics cookies going forward.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Email Marketing
We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. These emails may include tracking technologies (such as pixels and tracked links) that help us and our email service provider measure email opens and link clicks and associate that activity with you, your device, or your account. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us. If you opt out, we will stop sending you marketing emails and any tracking associated with future marketing emails from us will stop.
We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to you, and they may provide us with analytics about email delivery and engagement (such as opens and clicks) using tracking technologies like pixels and tracked links.
For example, we may use Mailchimp, an email marketing sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC. Mailchimp may use tracking technologies (such as pixels and tracked links) in emails to help measure opens and clicks and associate that activity with the recipient or device.
For more information on the privacy practices of Mailchimp, please visit their Privacy Policy: https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/
Payments
We may use third-party payment processors to process donations or purchases of products or services we offer.
We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. We do not receive or collect your full payment card information; however, we may receive limited payment-related information from our payment processors, such as a payment confirmation or transaction identifier. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
For example, we may use Planning Center for payment processing. Planning Center’s Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.planningcenter.com/privacy
Usage, Performance and Miscellaneous
We may use third-party Service Providers to maintain and improve the Website. For example, we may use an invisible captcha service named reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA is operated by Google. The reCAPTCHA service may collect information from you and from your Device for security purposes. The information gathered by reCAPTCHA is held in accordance with the Privacy Policy of Google: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Visitors from Other Jurisdictions
The Website is operated from the United States. If you access the Website from outside the United States, please be aware that information we collect may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States and other jurisdictions where we or our service providers operate. By using the Website, you understand that your information may be processed in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. We will honor rights requests where required by applicable law; to submit a request, contact us at [email protected].
“Do Not Track” Policy
The Website does not respond to Do Not Track (“DNT”) browser signals.
However, some third-party websites do keep track of your browsing activities. You can manage non-essential cookies and similar tracking technologies on the Website through our cookie banner or preference center (where available). If You are visiting third party websites, You can set your preferences in your web browser to inform those websites that You do not want to be tracked.
Children’s Privacy
The Website does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.
Links to Other Websites
The Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on the Website prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us at [email protected].