Your privacy matters to us. Exousia Mountain Church is committed to handling your personal data with care, transparency, and respect. Please read this policy carefully to understand how we collect and use your information.
1. Who We Are
Exousia Mountain Church ("we", "us", or "our") is a faith community based at The Authority Center, Ablekuma Joma, Accra, Ghana, with an online presence serving members across the world. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit exousiamountain.church or interact with our services.
2. Data We Collect
We may collect the following categories of personal data:
- Prayer Requests: Name, email address, phone number (optional), and the content of your prayer request. Confidential requests are restricted to prayer leadership only.
- Membership Applications: Full name, email address, phone number, city and country, areas of interest, a brief personal testimony, and your preferred household (House of Michelle or House of Sarah).
- Giving Records: Name, email address, phone number (for mobile money), gift type, amount, currency, and transaction identifiers. Payment processing is handled by Flutterwave — we do not store card numbers or banking credentials.
- Ebook Purchases: Email address used at checkout, transaction reference, and items purchased. Processed via Flutterwave.
- Gallery Photos: Image URLs and optional captions you submit through the gallery upload feature. Photos are publicly visible.
- Devotional Subscriptions: Email address or WhatsApp number provided to receive daily devotionals.
- Google Account Data: When you sign in with Google, we receive your name and email address from Google's OAuth service. We do not receive your Google password.
- Usage Data: Standard server logs and analytics data (browser type, pages visited, time spent). This data is aggregated and not personally identifiable.
4. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. Google AdSense uses cookies and web beacons to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website and other websites on the Internet.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to visitors based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings .
For more information on how Google collects and uses data, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms page .
5. Third-Party Services
Our website integrates with the following third-party services, each governed by their own privacy policies:
Database and authentication infrastructure. Stores all user-submitted records.
Payment processing for ebook purchases and giving. PCI-DSS compliant.
Sign-in with Google. We receive only your name and email.
Advertisement delivery. Uses cookies for personalised ads.
We embed YouTube videos for sermons and worship content.
We embed TikTok videos for short-form ministry content.
Links open WhatsApp for prayer group and church communication.
Fetches Hebrew calendar feast dates. No personal data is transmitted.
6. How We Use Your Data
- To respond to and pray over your submitted prayer requests.
- To process and manage membership applications.
- To process tithes, offerings, donations, and ebook purchases.
- To deliver ebook download links and order confirmations.
- To send monthly giving pledge reminders to members who opt in.
- To send devotionals to subscribers who opt in via email or WhatsApp.
- To maintain the member directory and house assignments.
- To display the photo gallery shared by the congregation.
- To show relevant advertisements via Google AdSense.
- To improve the performance and content of our website.
7. Data Retention
We retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this policy, or as required by law. Prayer requests are retained for pastoral reference. Membership records are retained for the duration of membership. Giving records are retained for financial accountability. You may request deletion of your personal data by contacting us at the email address below.
8. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- The right to access the personal data we hold about you.
- The right to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
- The right to request deletion of your personal data.
- The right to withdraw consent at any time (e.g., unsubscribing from devotionals).
- The right to object to the processing of your data for advertising purposes.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below.
9. Children's Privacy
Our website is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal data to us, please contact us so we can remove it.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this page periodically. Continued use of the site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact us:
Exousia Mountain Church
leadership@exousiamountain.comThe Authority Center, Ablekuma Joma, Accra, Ghana