Website privacy notice.

Kept by Christ Church is the responsible party for the personal information described in this notice. The Information Officer is Armant Goldswain. The temporary privacy email address is armantgold@gmail.com, and the electronic contact address is https://keptbychrist.co.za/contact.

This notice covers the public website, its contact and newsletter forms, and sermon videos opened from the website. It does not replace a separate notice where a ministry, event, membership, pastoral-care, safeguarding, employment, giving, or child-related process collects different or sensitive information.

• Email the Information Officer
• Contact Kept by Christ Church

We use contact-form information to answer your request and keep an appropriate record of the conversation. We use newsletter information only to manage your requested subscription and send church news or teaching. We also process limited technical information to deliver, secure, diagnose, and improve the website and to comply with legal obligations.

Newsletter processing and electronic direct marketing rely on your express consent. Contact handling and website security rely on your request, our legitimate operational interests, and, where applicable, legal obligations. We do not sell personal information or use it for unrelated marketing.

Vercel hosts and delivers the website. Resend provides SMTP delivery for general enquiries. The enquiry is delivered to the church’s designated recipient inbox. EmailOctopus stores and manages newsletter subscriber details. These providers act as operators or independent service providers for the limited purposes described here.

Some providers or their subprocessors may process information outside South Africa. We use provider terms and safeguards intended to support an adequate level of protection and limit processing to the contracted service, in line with POPIA section 72. Information may also be disclosed where law requires it, or where reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, or the security of the service.

Temporary editorial photography on this website does not depict Kept by Christ Church, its gatherings, or its people.

If the church later publishes identifiable photographs, video, testimonies, prayer needs, or personal stories, it will use an appropriate lawful basis and obtain specific permission where required. A person may contact the Information Officer about an image or request that future consent-based use stop.

We use proportionate technical and organisational safeguards, including encrypted connections, server-only credentials, input validation, restricted access, provider access controls, and form abuse limits. No internet service can promise absolute security.

If a security compromise creates a POPIA notification duty, we will notify the Information Regulator and affected people as soon as reasonably possible, subject to lawful delay and the information available.

The public forms are not designed to collect information from children or to receive detailed religious, health, pastoral, safeguarding, or other special personal information. A parent, guardian, or competent person should assist where a child needs to contact the church.

Do not use the ordinary website forms for an emergency, a safeguarding disclosure, or highly sensitive pastoral details. If someone is in immediate danger or a crime may have occurred, contact the appropriate emergency service or civil authority.

We will update this notice when the website’s data practices, providers, contact details, or legal obligations materially change. The effective date at the top shows the current published version.