Legal
Privacy Policy

At 21st Century Church we collect different types of information about our users for the following main reasons:

  • To provide a useful resource in the form of an online directory of users.
  • To provide an interactive web site where email is used to communicate with the users.
  • To provide a security mechanism whereby we can restrict content to certain groups of users.
  • To enable the purchase and delivery of goods through our online shop.
  • To help us to improve the service we offer.

We have created this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy and the protection of your information

Our principles
We are absolutely committed to protecting your privacy. Our policy can be summarised in one sentence:

“we will not share your information with others without your consent.”

We will never share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone for their promotional use without your advance permission or unless ordered by a court of law. Information submitted to us is only available to employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending you emails based on your request for information, and to contracted service providers for purposes of providing services relating to our communications with you.  
We have established the following three principles:

  • We will respect your email privacy. You will only receive email from 21st Century Church in relation to areas you have expressly signed up for at our Constant Contact email Service
  • We will not share any individual user details (including your email address) to any third party without your consent.
  • 21st Century Church uses safe unsuscribe which guarantees the permanent removal of your email address from its mailing lists. Note: In each email you receive, there will be a link to unsubscribe or change areas of interest. Your privacy is important to us

Our email marketing is permission based. If you received a mailing from us, our records indicate that (a) you have expressly shared this address for the purpose of receiving information in the future ("opt-in"), or (b) you have registered or purchased or otherwise have an existing relationship with us. We respect your time and attention by controlling the frequency of our mailings.

If you believe you have received unwanted, unsolicited email sent via this system or purporting to be sent via this system, please forward a copy of that email with your comments to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   for review.

How can you stop receiving email from us?
Each email sent contains an easy, automated way for you to cease receiving email from us, or to change your expressed interests. If you wish to do this, simply follow the SafeUnsubscribe™ or Update Profile links at the end of any email.

How we protect your privacy
We use appropriate security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data used by our system.

Use of Web Beacons
When we send you emails, we may include a web beacon to allow us to determine the number of people who open our emails. When you click on a link in an email, we may record this individual response to allow us to customize our offerings to you. Web beacons collect only limited information, such as a cookie identifier, time and date of a page being viewed, and a description of the page on which the Web Beacon resides (the URL).
Web Beacons can be refused when delivered via email. If you do not wish to receive Web Beacons via email, you will need to disable HTML images or refuse HTML (select Text only) emails via your email software.

What information do we collect?
The minimum information we need to register a user is your first and last name, your post code and a password. We also ask for some further, voluntary information so we can provide a richer, more useful address book.

We collect information on our customers when you make a purchase through our shop.We will collect your name, postal and email addresses, payment information and information about your order. Payment information is then transmitted and processed securely and is NOT held on our servers.

What else you should know about privacy
Remember to close your browser when you have finished your user session. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like. You as an individual are responsible for the security of, and access to, your own computer.
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information over the Internet that this information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information in publicly accessible online forums, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your usernames and passwords and any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are using the Internet.
Our pages may contain links to other websites, and you should be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices on other websites.

Terms of Use

Please read these terms of use carefully before you use this website.  

Use of this web site constitutes your acceptance of these terms of use, which take effect immediately on your first use of the site.

21st Century Church reserves the right to change these terms of use from time to time.

You are responsible for reviewing regularly the information posted online to obtain timely notice of any changes. Your continued use of this site after any changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of this agreement as modified by the posted changes. 21st Century Church further reserves the right, at any time to make access to certain materials or services on this website conditional on you agreeing to additional terms of use.

1. Liability
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THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS WEBSITE ARE THE VIEWS OF THE CONTRIBUTORS TO IT AND ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF 21st CENTURY CHURCH.   WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE FOREGOING, NEITHER 21st CENTURY CHURCH.

(i) IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MATERIAL INCLUDED ON THIS SITE BY ANY THIRD PARTY WHICH IS DEFAMATORY, ABUSIVE, OBSCENE, ILLEGAL OR OTHERWISE IN BREACH OF ANY PERSON'S RIGHTS;

(ii) MAKES ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES THAT THE INFORMATION AND/OR MATERIAL CONTAINED ON OR ACCESSIBLE VIA THIS SITE IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR CURRENT OR THAT USE OF THE SITE IS FREE OF RISK OF VIRUSES OR OTHER DAMAGE.

UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED IN WRITING 21st CENTURY CHURCH SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR:-
(i) ANY DIRECT LOSS; OR
(ii) ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS OR LOSS OF OR CORRUPTION OF DATA OR ANY INDIRECT LOSS OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS WHATSOEVER,

IN EACH CASE, WHETHER SUCH LOSS ARISES IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, MISREPRESENTATION, BREACH OF STATUTORY DUTY OR OTHERWISE AND EVEN IF 21st CENTURY CHURCH HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS. THIS DOES NOT AFFECT YOUR STATUTORY RIGHTS AS A CONSUMER UNDER ENGLISH LAW.

Nothing in these terms of use shall exclude or limit the liability of 21st Century Church for death or personal injury due to its negligence or for its fraud.

This website contains links to third party sites. These third party sites are beyond the control of 21st Century Church and 21st Century Church does not accept any responsibility for their content or for any transactions between you and such sites.  Your use of these third party sites, and any resultant transactions, may be subject to separate terms and conditions.

2. Copyright and Trade Marks
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All information (including but without limitation to any data, text, files, graphics, links, music, photographs, software, audio, video, messages) ("CONTENT"), whether publicly or privately posted, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such CONTENT originated. Accordingly, the user, not 21st Century Church, is entirely responsible and liable for all activities conducted through the website.

Where you are invited to submit any CONTENT to this site you are required by such submission to grant 21st Century Church a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to any such work worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content. If you do not wish to grant such rights to 21st Century Church, it is suggested that you do not submit your contribution to this site. By submitting your contribution to this site, you also warrant that such contribution is;
a. your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to 21st Century Church for all the purposes specified above;
b. is not defamatory; and
c. does not infringe any law.

In addition, you also:
a. Indemnify 21st Century Church against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by either 21st Century Church as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and;
b. Agree to waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on the website and the other purposes specified above.

If there is any conflict between the terms of use and/or specific terms appearing elsewhere on this site relating to specific material then the latter shall prevail.

All rights are reserved and reproduction of part or all of the contents of this site is prohibited other than in accordance with the following permissions:

a. permission is granted to download the materials contained on this website to a single personal computer and to print a hard copy of such materials solely for personal, non-commercial use.
b. permission is granted for you to copy extracts of texts from news articles that appear on this website (excluding without limitation photographs, illustrations, teaching materials, and audio and video materials) for non-commercial supply to individual third parties for their personal, non-commercial use, but only if:

(i) you acknowledge our website as the source of the extract and include a prominent reference to this website’s URL. If the supply by you of the extract is via the internet, such acknowledgment must include a hypertext link to this website with the copy of the extracted material; and
(ii) you inform the third party that the conditions set out in this Section 2 apply to him/her and that he/she must comply with them; and
(iii) you reproduce the extracted material in complete and unmodified form and, if the supply by you of the extract is via the internet, that you do not frame the extract within your own website.

For the purpose of these terms, non-commercial supply or use shall mean that neither you nor any third party may charge for viewing any materials that have been downloaded or copied from this website, and that neither you nor any third party can use any materials from this website to attract others to buy goods or services.

Any other use of materials on this website, including storage and recording (other than on a purely transitory basis to permit you to view them), reproduction, modification, distribution, re-transmission, diversion or republication, without the prior written permission of 21st Century Church, is strictly prohibited.  This means, for example, that you must not use on any other website any materials displayed on this website from time to time.


3. Disclaimer of warranties
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You expressly understand and agree that:

(a) Your use of the service is at your sole risk. The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. 21st Century Church expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

(b) 21st Century Church makes no warranty that
(i) the service will meet your requirements;
(ii) the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free;
(iii) the results that may be obtained from the use of the service will be accurate or reliable;
(iv) the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by you through the service will meet your expectations; and
(v) any errors in the software will be corrected.

(c) any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the service is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of any such material.

4. Data Protection
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The information and data ("personal data") which is provided by you in connection with this website will be held on the computers and manual records of, and will be used by, 21st Century Church

How personal data is stored and used by 21st Century Church is detailed in the Privacy Policy

You are able to modify or remove any or all of your personal information through the use of this web site.  If you are unable to do so for any reason, please write to 21st Century Church at the address below stating your full name and address and providing any other relevant information.


5. Forums, Social Networks and Message Boards
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The views expressed on the message board are those of the individual user and not those of 21st Century Church. 21st Century Church asks you not to post messages or e-mails which are abusive, obscene, defamatory or the content of which is otherwise undesirable, illegal or in breach of any person's rights, and they reserve the right, in their full discretion, to remove any messages or e-mails at any time and without notice to you.

6. Genera
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These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Disputes arising here from shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

If these Terms and Conditions are not accepted in full, you do not have permission to access the contents of this website and therefore should cease using this website immediately.

If any of these terms of use should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms of use are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction which that term of use is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from this clause and the remaining terms of use shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.


7. Addresses for service
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21st Century Church, Administrative Offices, Pantymeillion Buildings, Furnace, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, SA15 4YB

Children Protection Statement

21st Century Church strongly opposes any kind of child abuse. 21st Century Church is committed to the safety, protection and wellbeing of all children and young people from all forms of abuse and neglect, and actively seeks to prevent its occurrence. We make every effort to provide an environment of safety and support for all children and young people.

21st Century Church has a comprehensive children and young people protection policy in place which encompasses training and education of staff, volunteers, church members and parents on dealing with all forms of child abuse, and risk minimisation strategies to prevent abuse from occurring within the ministries of the church.

The policy provides guidelines to volunteers, leaders and staff on how to promote care, safety and protection of children and young people at 21st Century Church, and clear directions on how to respond and deal with a situation of child abuse and neglect in an effective and consistent manner.

We also work closely with government agencies with regard to Working with Children Checks, child protection best practice training and when abuse against a child or young person is disclosed or suspected.

Policy Review: 21st Century Church Child Protection policy is regularly reviewed  and updated in line with any legislation changes regarding child protection and intervention issues.