Privacy Policy

1. Who is responsible

This website is operated by Living Stream Ministry and the church in Taipei for the 2027 International Chinese-speaking Blending Conference. We are the controller of your personal data.

Contact: register@icsc2027.org

2. Why we collect data

• Conference registration and roster management
• Hospitality, lodging and transportation arrangements
• Church visitation schedules
• Reconciling donation remittances
• Contacting registration coordinators
• Support replies and follow-up
• Publishing testimonies (with your consent)
• Contacting local churches and registration coordinators, and informing planning of scale and hospitality, when preparing future International Chinese-speaking Blending Conferences

3. What we collect

• Registration coordinator account data: name, email, church and locality, country, and a phone number if you choose to give one.
• Attendee rosters uploaded by registration coordinators: name, gender, age, family code, country, phone and email (if any), church, whether they join the pre- or post-conference visitation, lodging arrangement (hospitality by the conference or self-arranged hotel), whether airport transport is needed, arrival and departure airport, terminal, flight, date and time, and remarks. The conference serving team may also add short tags for on-site help (for example wheelchair or needs translation); only the help needed is recorded, never medical records.
• Remittance records: amount, date, payer name, reference notes and any proof-of-payment image you upload.
• Packet pickup records: pickup time and method, and for proxy pickups the receiver’s name, role, phone number and signature, kept for the same period as registration data.
• Support data: questions and attachments you send through the chat, message form or email, and our replies; when you use Online Support without signing in, the name, country / region, church and email you enter before asking.
• Testimonies: your name, email, church, text, and any images or video link you submit.
• Technical data: connection information needed to keep the site secure and prevent abuse, and cookies needed to keep you signed in; if usage statistics are enabled, they are anonymous.

4. Registration coordinators’ responsibility

Before uploading attendee data, registration coordinators must tell attendees what this policy says and obtain their consent. For minors, please obtain consent from a parent or legal guardian.

5. How long we keep it

• General data: used until the conference work is completed.
• Registration and roster data: once the conference-related work is complete, the Conference will archive the data in encrypted form and keep it until the preparation of the next International Chinese-speaking Blending Conference is complete, solely to contact local churches and registration coordinators and to inform planning of scale and hospitality, with access limited to serving ones designated by the Conference. You may ask at any time for your data to be deleted, and it will also be removed from the archive.
• Support conversations and messages: Online Support conversations are kept for 180 days with identifying personal data removed, so the service team can answer follow-up questions and improve the service; contact details you enter before asking are kept for the same period. Messages in My registration are kept like registration data.
• Email delivery log: delivery results (not message content) are kept for 180 days to resolve delivery problems.
• Support messages and emails: kept for 1 year after they are closed; open ones until resolved, with attachments removed automatically after a set period.
• Security records: kept only as long as needed to keep the site secure.
• Testimonies: once approved they stay published until the author asks for removal.

6. Where it goes and who sees it

• Data is stored with contracted cloud service providers, which may be located outside Taiwan; email and Online Support’s automatic replies are also handled by contracted providers. We only use providers with appropriate security measures, and only as needed to provide the service.
• When you use Online Support, identifying personal data is removed before processing.
• Data is shared only with the conference serving ones who need it (for example the hospitality, transportation and visitation teams), and only for the purposes above.
• We never sell your data and never use it for marketing or advertising.

7. Your rights

Under Article 3 of Taiwan’s Personal Data Protection Act, you may ask us to:

• Look up or review your data
• Provide a copy
• Add to or correct it
• Stop collecting, processing or using it
• Delete it

8. How to use your rights

Email register@icsc2027.org with your name and church and we will reply as soon as we can. Registration coordinators can also edit their roster directly in their account.

9. If you choose not to provide data

Without the information needed for registration, hospitality and transportation, we may not be able to complete your registration or arrange hospitality. Optional fields do not affect your rights.

10. Security

• The whole site uses encrypted connections.
• Access is limited by role; only the serving ones who need it can see the data.
• Uploaded files are not publicly accessible.
• We use industry-standard measures to protect accounts and data and keep reviewing them.

11. Cookies

The site uses only essential cookies and browser storage to keep you signed in and to run Online Support; they are cleared when you sign out. If anonymous usage statistics are enabled, you can block cookies in your browser settings.

12. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will post it on this page and update the date. For significant changes we will also notify registration coordinators.