Effective Date: October 6, 2026
Bible Baptist Church of Crossville, Tennessee ("Bible Baptist Church," "BBC," "we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly.
This Privacy Policy explains how we may collect, use, protect, and share information when you visit bbcofcrossville.com (the "Website"), communicate with us through the Website, participate in church activities, or use services made available through the Website.
Depending upon how you use the Website, we may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including:
Name
Mailing address
Email address
Telephone number
Household or family information
Prayer requests
Contact form submissions
Guest or visitor information
Ministry or volunteer interests
Event registrations
Giving and donation information
Other information you choose to provide to Bible Baptist Church
We only seek to collect information reasonably necessary for church, ministry, communication, administrative, or legal purposes.
When you visit the Website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our Website, hosting provider, security services, analytics services, or other technology providers.
This information may include:
Internet Protocol (IP) address
Browser type
Device type
Operating system
Pages visited
Approximate geographic information derived from an IP address
Referring website
Date and time of visits
General Website usage information
We may use this information to maintain Website security, diagnose technical problems, understand how visitors use the Website, and improve the Website.
Bible Baptist Church may use information collected through the Website to:
Respond to questions and requests
Communicate with members, guests, and visitors
Provide information about church services, ministries, and events
Process event registrations and ministry sign-ups
Receive and respond to prayer requests
Maintain church and ministry records
Manage volunteer and ministry participation
Process and document charitable contributions
Provide contribution statements when appropriate
Improve our Website and online ministries
Protect the security and integrity of our Website and systems
Comply with applicable legal, financial, and administrative requirements
We do not sell personal information collected through the Website.
The Website may allow individuals to make tithes, offerings, donations, or other contributions through a third-party giving or payment-processing provider.
When you make an online contribution, information necessary to process the transaction may be collected directly by that provider.
Bible Baptist Church may receive information concerning the contribution, including your name, contact information, contribution amount, date, fund or designation, and transaction details necessary for church accounting and contribution records.
Bible Baptist Church does not ordinarily receive or store complete credit card numbers or complete bank account information when payments are processed through an independent payment provider.
Payment processors and giving providers maintain their own privacy policies and security practices. We encourage users to review those policies when using their services.
Information submitted through a prayer request form may be shared with pastors, church leaders, prayer teams, or church members when appropriate for the purpose of prayer and ministry.
Because prayer requests may contain personal information about you or another individual, please use discretion when submitting a request.
If a prayer request is intended to be confidential, please clearly indicate that when submitting it. We will make reasonable efforts to honor requests for confidentiality.
Bible Baptist Church may maintain information concerning members, regular attendees, visitors, families, volunteers, and ministry participants.
Certain information may be made available through a church directory, church application, member portal, or similar ministry service.
Access to nonpublic church information may be restricted to authorized members, leaders, staff, volunteers, or other approved users.
We encourage individuals to notify the church if their contact information changes or if they have concerns about information displayed in a church directory or member system.
If you provide contact information to Bible Baptist Church, we may use it to communicate with you concerning church services, events, ministry activities, prayer needs, announcements, giving information, or other legitimate church matters.
Depending upon the services used by the church, communications may be delivered by email, text message, telephone, Website notification, or mobile/app notification.
Where required or appropriate, individuals may unsubscribe or opt out of certain communications.
Administrative, transactional, safety, or other necessary communications may not always be subject to the same opt-out options.
The Website and third-party services used by the Website may use cookies or similar technologies.
Cookies are small files stored on a device that can help a website remember preferences, maintain sessions, improve security, measure Website usage, or provide certain features.
Your browser may allow you to block or delete cookies. Disabling cookies may affect the operation of some Website features.
Bible Baptist Church may use Website analytics tools to better understand how visitors use the Website.
Analytics information may include general information concerning Website traffic, pages viewed, devices used, referral sources, and visitor activity.
We use this information primarily to improve our Website, communications, and ministry effectiveness.
The Website may use or link to third-party services, including services for:
Online giving and payment processing
Video and livestreaming
Social media
Maps and directions
Email communications
Church management
Website analytics
Forms and registrations
Website hosting and security
Third-party services operate under their own terms and privacy policies.
Bible Baptist Church does not control the privacy practices of independent third-party providers and is not responsible for their websites, services, or privacy practices.
We encourage users to review the privacy policies of services they choose to use.
Bible Baptist Church cares about the privacy and safety of children.
The Website is intended for a general audience and is not designed to knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 without appropriate involvement or permission from a parent or legal guardian.
Children under 13 should not submit personal information through the Website without the involvement of a parent or guardian.
Information concerning children that is provided by parents or guardians may be maintained when reasonably necessary for church ministries, event registration, children's programs, safety, attendance, or other legitimate church purposes.
Bible Baptist Church may photograph, livestream, video record, or audio record public worship services, concerts, special events, and other church activities.
Individuals attending public services or events may occasionally appear in photographs or recordings used for church ministry, Website, livestream, social media, historical, or promotional purposes.
We make reasonable efforts to respect privacy concerns, particularly those involving children.
Anyone with a concern about a particular photograph or recording published by Bible Baptist Church may contact the church.
Bible Baptist Church takes reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information under our control.
These measures may include restricted administrative access, password protection, secure hosting, Website security software, encrypted connections, reputable third-party providers, and other appropriate safeguards.
However, no website, internet transmission, database, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Bible Baptist Church does not sell personal information.
We may share information when reasonably necessary with:
Pastors, church leaders, staff, or authorized volunteers
Ministry leaders when necessary for ministry purposes
Service providers that help us operate the Website or church ministries
Payment processors and giving providers
Technology, hosting, security, and communications providers
Professional advisers when reasonably necessary
Governmental or legal authorities when required by applicable law
We seek to limit such sharing to legitimate church, ministry, administrative, security, or legal purposes.
Bible Baptist Church may retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including church administration, ministry records, contribution records, accounting, historical records, security, and legal compliance.
Different types of information may be retained for different periods.
If you believe personal information maintained by Bible Baptist Church is incorrect or needs to be updated, you may contact the church.
We will make reasonable efforts to review appropriate requests and correct inaccurate information when practical.
Certain information may need to be retained for financial, contribution, legal, historical, security, or administrative purposes.
Bible Baptist Church may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our Website, ministries, technology, or legal requirements change.
When material changes are made, the effective date at the top of this policy may be updated.
We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
Questions or concerns concerning this Privacy Policy or the handling of information through the Website may be directed to:
Bible Baptist Church
1335 Highway 70 East
Crossville, Tennessee 38555
Website: bbcofcrossville.com