Effective date: August 28, 2026
AG Church, Gandhi Nagar West, Vellore ("we", "us", "our", "the Church") operates this website, agchurchvellore.com, as a ministry resource for our congregation and the wider community. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect through this website, how we use it, and who you can contact with questions.
1. Information We Collect
We only collect personal information that you choose to give us, through one of the forms on this website:
- Contact form — your name, email address, phone number, subject, and message.
- Prayer request form — your name, email address, phone number, and your request. You may optionally mark a request as confidential, which we handle with additional care.
- New member / welcome form (on the "I'm New" page, and inside our website chatbot) — your name, phone number, email address, home address, and optionally the names of your family members.
- Newsletter sign-up — your email address only.
- Chatbot — if you tell our chatbot your name, it is remembered only inside your own browser for that visit and is never sent to us. Using our chatbot's "get directions" option may ask your browser for your location, which is used only to build a map link and is never sent to us.
You don't need to create an account or log in to use this website, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children without a parent or guardian's involvement.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information you submit only to respond to your message or prayer request, welcome you as a new member and share relevant information such as service times, and send occasional newsletter updates if you signed up for them. We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to anyone.
3. How Your Information Is Stored
Submissions through our Contact, Prayer Request, and New Member forms are sent directly by email to our church office — they are not stored in a database on our website. Prayer requests marked "confidential" are shared only with pastoral staff.
4. Third-Party Services
Our website uses a small number of trusted third-party services to operate:
- Google reCAPTCHA — protects our forms from spam and abuse.
- Google Analytics — helps us understand how visitors use our website, using anonymized usage statistics.
- Google Fonts and Google Maps — used to display our website's typography and our location.
- YouTube — used to embed our sermons and livestreams.
These services may set their own cookies or collect standard technical information, such as your IP address and browser type, as described in their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review Google's Privacy Policy.
5. Cookies
Our website itself does not set cookies to track you. The third-party services listed above may set their own cookies as part of their normal operation (for example, Google Analytics). Our chatbot stores a few small pieces of information — your first name, if you share it, and your recent chat messages — only inside your own browser; this is never transmitted to us or to anyone else.
6. Your Choices
You're welcome to browse this website without submitting any of our forms. If you've previously submitted a form and would like us to delete the information you shared, please contact us using the details below.
7. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with a new effective date.
8. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact us:
Email: mrprvnm@gmail.com
Phone: +91 88928 08839