Policies & Handbooks

Website Security Practices

Describes the security measures Yates Baptist Church uses to protect yateschurch.org, including HTTPS/TLS encryption, daily backups, automated malware detection, WordPress hardening, reCAPTCHA v3, and an incident response protocol. Covers website security, HTTPS, WordPress, data protection, reCAPTCHA, incident response, and vulnerability reporting.

Legal Disclosure / Imprint

Provides legal transparency about the operator of yateschurch.org, including Yates Baptist Church’s address, EIN (56-0650135), 501(c)(3) status, hosting provider, and contact information for legal inquiries. Covers legal imprint, site operator, nonprofit status, tax-exempt, EIN, hosting, and legal disclosure.

Web Accessibility Statement

States Yates Baptist Church’s commitment to WCAG 2.2 Level AA accessibility for yateschurch.org, describing measures taken including alt text, keyboard support, color contrast, and heading structure. Provides a process for reporting accessibility barriers and requesting alternative formats. Covers web accessibility, WCAG, screen reader, keyboard navigation, color contrast, and barrier reporting.

Terms of Use

Governs use of yateschurch.org, establishing acceptable use standards, intellectual property rights, limitations of liability, and third-party service integrations including Google reCAPTCHA, Square, and Realm. Governed by the laws of North Carolina with disputes handled in Durham County. Covers terms of use, acceptable use, intellectual property, liability, governing law, and third-party services.

Cookie Policy

Explains how Yates Baptist Church uses cookies on yateschurch.org, including necessary, functional, and analytics cookies, with no advertising or marketing cookies. Visitors can manage preferences via the site’s consent banner or by emailing info@yateschurch.org. Covers cookies, consent, analytics, privacy, browser preferences, and Global Privacy Control.

Copyright & DMCA Policy

Governs copyright ownership of Yates Baptist Church website content and provides the DMCA takedown procedure for reporting alleged copyright infringement, including a copy-and-paste email template. Counter-notification procedures are also included. Covers copyright, DMCA takedown, intellectual property, infringement notice, designated agent, and permissions.

Redis Cache Health & Performance Transparency

Provides transparency about the Redis object cache used on yateschurch.org to improve page load speed and stability, including live web vitals metrics and links to independent PageSpeed Insights reports. Covers website performance, Redis cache, LCP, INP, CLS, Core Web Vitals, and PageSpeed.

Prayer Requests & Confidentiality Policy

Establishes how prayer requests submitted to Yates Baptist Church are handled, including confidentiality levels, consent options, and who may view each request. Includes crisis and safety resources for mental health emergencies and mandated reporting obligations. Covers prayer requests, confidentiality, consent, crisis resources, 988, mandatory reporting, and pastoral care.

Privacy Practices

Explains what personal information Yates Baptist Church collects through its website, forms, and ministry platforms, how it is used, and how it is protected. Covers reCAPTCHA v3, third-party processors including Realm and Vanco, data retention, and member rights to access or delete their data. Covers privacy, data collection, reCAPTCHA, online giving, Realm, records retention, and GDPR rights.

Photo & Media Policy

Governs the capture and use of photographs and video at Yates Baptist Church events, ministry activities, and worship services for church publications and social media. Explains youth media consent, removal request procedures, and Safe Sanctuary safeguards. Covers photography, media consent, removal requests, minors, livestream, social media, and Safe Sanctuary.

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