Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 26, 2026

Mountain Brook Baptist Church (“MBBC,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) describes the processing of Personal Information (defined below) that is provided, collected, or disclosed while providing our products or services to you (“Services”) and on the websites, applications, and online platforms that link to this Notice (collectively, “Site”). It also describes rights you may have under applicable laws. Please read this Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your Personal Information and how we will treat it. To access this Notice in an alternative downloadable format, please click here.

Personal Information We Collect

We collect several categories of Personal Information from and about users of our Site and Services. “Personal Information” means information that uniquely identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you. The categories of Personal Information we collect may include:

• Contact Information – If you register for an account or provide information on or through our Site or Services, we may collect your contact information including your name, mailing address, email address, and phone number.
• Usage Information – When you use our Site, we may automatically record information, including your Internet Protocol address (IP Address), geolocation of your device, browser type, referring URLs (e.g., the website you visited before coming to our Site), domain names associated with your internet service provider, and any other information regarding your interaction with our Site.
• Communication Information – We may collect Personal Information contained within your communications with us via email, forms on our Site, social media, telephone, or otherwise, and in certain cases we may use third-party service providers to do so.
• Financial Information – If you give or otherwise use our Services, we may collect financial information. MBBC uses Realm, a secure online giving and church management platform discussed in more detail below, to process donations.

How We Collect Personal Information

• Directly From You – We collect Personal Information that you provide to us directly, for example, if you choose to contact us, submit a form, request information from us, sign up to receive communications, interact with us on social media, or otherwise utilize our Site or Services.
• From Third Parties – We may collect Personal Information from third parties, including but not limited to business partners, social networks, data analytics providers, mobile device providers, and Internet or mobile service providers.
• Through Online Tracking Technologies – We use cookies and similar technologies to collect Personal Information automatically as you navigate our Site. For additional information regarding our use of these technologies, see the Cookies and Tracking Technologies section below.

How We Use Personal Information

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we use Personal Information:

• To provide our Services, such as administering programs and services, maintaining relationships, providing pastoral care and support, managing registrations and accounts, processing donations, personalizing the Site and services, and undertaking or providing similar services.
• To optimize, improve, and maintain our Services, including operating the Site and administrative systems, understanding how users interact with the Site and our Services, gauging user interest in certain Services or Site functionality, and troubleshooting problems.
• For communicating with you, such as providing information about events or ministry updates, sending administrative notices, responding to your questions and comments, or notifying you of changes to our Site or Services.
• For legal, security, or safety reasons, such as protecting our and our users’ safety, property, or rights; complying with legal requirements; enforcing our terms, conditions, and policies; detecting, preventing, and responding to security incidents; and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, including purposes described when you provide the information or give your consent.

How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose aggregated information about users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose your Personal Information with your consent or in the following circumstances:

• Employees and Other Personnel – We may share Personal Information with our employees and personnel (such as contractors) who have a need to know the information for our business purposes.
• Service Providers – We disclose your Personal Information with the service providers that we use to support our Services, including but not limited to, data analytics providers, website hosting providers, payment processors, and other technology providers. This includes Realm, a secure online giving and church management platform, which we use to process donations and manage member information. When you utilize Realm, your personal and payment information is securely transmitted and stored by Realm. Please see Realm’s Privacy Policy for more information on how Realm processes your information.
• Legal Obligation or Safety Reasons – We may disclose Personal Information to a third party when we have a good faith belief that such disclosure of Personal Information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy or comply with any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of any agreement you have with us, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, (d) support auditing and compliance functions, or (e) protect the rights, property, or safety of MBBC, its employees and members, or the public against harm.
• Other – We may disclose Personal Information to third parties when explicitly requested by or consented to by you, or for the purposes for which you disclosed the Personal Information to us as indicated at the time and point of the disclosure (or as was obvious at the time and point of disclosure).

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We and our service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to collect usage and browser information about how you use our Site. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies (such as your browser’s local storage) that permit us to verify system and server integrity and generate statistics around the popularity of certain content. We process the information collected through such technologies, which may include or be combined with Personal Information, to help operate certain features of our Site, to enhance your experience through personalization, and to help us better understand the features of our Site that you and other users are most interested in. This includes the following related to Site:

• Delivery and Appearance – We use third-party providers to deliver certain content and capabilities on our Site. For example, we use Adobe Fonts and Google Fonts to serve fonts on our Site, which are governed by Adobe’s Privacy Policy and Google’s Privacy Policy. We also embed videos from YouTube and we stream live content on our Watch Live page using Resi and social media channels, such as Facebook. If you choose to watch, these providers may collect information about your device and viewing activity in accordance with their own privacy policies. For more information, see Google’s Privacy Policy, Meta’s Privacy Policy, and Resi’s Privacy Policy.
• Analytics – We use analytics services, that use cookies and other technologies that collect your Personal Information, to assist us with analyzing our Site traffic and site usage to optimize, maintain, and secure our Site and inform subsequent business decisions. We use Google Analytics, which sets cookies that count visits and the pages viewed. We do not use Google Analytics to collect your name or contact information. To learn more about how Google uses data, visit Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s page on “How Google uses data from sites or apps that use our services.” You may download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for each web browser you use, but this does not prevent the use of other analytics tools. To learn more about Google Analytics cookies, visit Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites.

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We retain your information for as long as needed to: (i) provide Services; (ii) fulfill the purposes outlined in this Notice; and (iii) comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce any agreements.

Criteria we will use to determine how long to retain Personal Information include the nature and length of our relationship with you; our legal rights, obligations, and retention requirements; and if we have an ongoing business purpose for retaining your Personal Information, such as communicating with you about ongoing or prospective Services you requested.

Links to Third-Party Websites

We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from our Site, including the information or content contained within them. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions before disclosing Personal Information to third parties, since any Personal Information disclosed will be handled in accordance with the applicable third party’s privacy policy.

In some cases, we offer links to social media platforms (like Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly known as Twitter), and LinkedIn) that enable you to easily connect with us or share information on social media. Any content you post via these social media pages is subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policies for those platforms.

International Use Prohibited

If you are visiting our Site from outside of the United States, please note that our Site is hosted in the United States and is designed for U.S. residents only, specifically residents of the State of Alabama. Please do not use our Site or Services from outside the United States.

How We Protect Personal Information

We have implemented commercially reasonable measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Despite these efforts to store Personal Information in a secure environment, we cannot guarantee the security of Personal Information during its transmission or its storage on our systems.

Children’s Privacy

Our site and services are intended for parents, guardians, and other adults, not for children to use independently. We may collect information about children from parents or guardians and through providing our childcare and church programs. We do not knowingly collect or solicit any Personal Information from children, as defined under applicable law, without verified written parental consent, and we have no actual knowledge of selling such Personal Information of minors under 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child, we will promptly take steps to delete that information. If you have questions about your child’s information or believe we might have any information from a child, please contact us using the form below.

Changes to this Notice

Please note that we may modify or update this Notice from time to time, so please review it periodically. If we make material changes to how we treat Personal Information, we will notify you according to applicable law. Unless otherwise indicated, any changes to this Notice will apply immediately upon posting to our Site. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Site and this Notice to check for any changes.