Cookie Policy

1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how Baseline Family Church Midvaal ("we", "us", "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on this website (the "Website"), and the choices available to you. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, to make them work more efficiently, and to provide information to the owners of the site or to third parties whose content is embedded on it. Similar technologies (such as local storage) work in a similar way and are covered by this Policy.

3. Do We Currently Use Cookies?

This Website itself does not set analytics, advertising, or tracking cookies. We do not currently use Google Analytics or any similar tool. However, some pages embed content from third-party services (described below), which may set their own cookies or use similar technologies when that content loads or is used, independently of us.

4. Cookies From Embedded Content

The following third-party services are embedded on parts of this Website and may set cookies or collect technical information (such as your IP address and browser type) under their own privacy policies, which we do not control:

• Google Fonts — loads the typefaces used across this Website. Google Fonts is configured to minimise data collection, but your device does connect to Google's servers to download font files.
• YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode) — our sermon videos are embedded using YouTube's privacy-enhanced youtube-nocookie.com domain, which limits cookie use unless you play a video or interact with the embedded player.
• Google Maps — our Contact page embeds a Google Map showing our meeting venue. Google may set cookies when the map loads.
• Google Forms — some of our event registration links take you to a Google Form hosted on Google's own site, which is subject to Google's cookie and privacy practices once you leave our Website.
• WhatsApp — buttons that open WhatsApp take you to WhatsApp's own website or app, which is subject to Meta's cookie and privacy practices.

Please refer to Google's and Meta's own cookie/privacy policies for details of what they collect and how to manage it.

5. Google Analytics (Not Currently Active)

We do not currently use Google Analytics or any other analytics tool on this Website.

6. Managing & Disabling Cookies

You can control and manage cookies through your browser settings, including blocking or deleting them. Because this varies by browser, please refer to your browser's help section:

• Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
• Safari: Settings → Privacy → Manage Website Data
• Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
• Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions

Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of embedded content, such as videos or maps, on this Website. You can also manage Google's use of data for ads and personalisation at adssettings.google.com, and review YouTube's cookie information directly on YouTube.

7. Do Not Track

Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" setting. Because there is no consistent industry standard for responding to these signals, this Website and the third-party services embedded in it may not currently respond differently when such a signal is detected.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, particularly if we introduce new tools such as Google Analytics. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page indicates when this Policy was last revised.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us: