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Privacy policy

When you trust us with your name, your gift or a prayer, we treat it with care. This page explains what we collect, why, who sees it and how long we keep it. We never sell your information.

Last updated 11 November 2026

1. Who we are

Joint Gospel is a Christian charity founded in London in 1993 by Dr Daniel Wealthyland Sr. We run worship events, youth programmes, the weekly Growth Questions Service (GQS) and mission work. We are a registered charity in England and Wales (no. 801010).

For the purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, Joint Gospel is the data controller of the personal information described here. That means we decide how and why it is used, and we are responsible for it.

This policy covers jointgospel.org, jointgospel.com and the ways people connect with us through it: our forms, donations, events, GQS, email and social media.

2. What we collect

We only ask for what we need. Depending on how you connect with us, that can include:

  • Contact details: your name, email address and, if you choose to give it, your phone number.
  • Volunteer details: the team you would like to serve on and any availability you share.
  • Partnership enquiries: your name, organisation, email and what kind of partnership interests you.
  • Prayer requests: your first name (optional), your request and whether you would like someone to follow up.
  • Donation details: the amount, how often you give and the cause you chose. For Gift Aid, your full name, home address and confirmation that you are a UK taxpayer.
  • Event details: ticket bookings made through Eventbrite, and photos or video taken at our public events.
  • Messages: anything you send us by email, phone or social media.
  • Technical information: when your browser loads our pages, our hosting and font providers receive your IP address and browser details as part of normal internet traffic. We do not use analytics or advertising trackers. See our Cookies Policy.

We do not see or store your card or bank details. Payments are handled entirely by our secure payment provider.

3. How we use it and why

Data protection law requires a lawful reason, called a lawful basis, for each use of your information. Here is ours:

What we doLawful basis
Send our email updates (event tickets, GQS series)Your consent. Every email has an unsubscribe link.
Answer your messages and partnership enquiriesOur legitimate interests in responding to people who contact us.
Organise volunteers and run safe eventsLegitimate interests, and legal obligation where safeguarding or health and safety law applies.
Pray for you and, if you ask, follow upYour explicit consent. See section 4.
Process donations and send receiptsContract, to process the gift you asked us to take.
Claim Gift Aid and keep HMRC recordsLegal obligation.
Share event photos and film on our website and social mediaLegitimate interests in sharing the life of the charity. See section 6.
Keep our website secure and workingLegitimate interests.

Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have weighed them against your rights. We do not use your information in ways you would not reasonably expect.

4. Prayer requests and faith

Information that shows your religious beliefs or your health is a special category of personal data, and it gets extra protection in law. A prayer request often contains both.

  • We only use a prayer request to pray for you and, if you ticked the box, to follow up with you.
  • Only our small prayer team reads requests. We never publish them or share them outside that team.
  • You don't have to give your name.
  • We rely on your explicit consent when you send a request. We also rely on the exemption for not-for-profit religious bodies, which covers our dealings with the people who connect with us regularly.
  • We delete prayer requests within 6 months unless you ask us to keep praying.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by emailing info@jointgospel.org.

5. Donations and Gift Aid

When you give through our website, you make the payment on a secure page run by our payment provider. They process your card or bank details under their own privacy policy and the payment card industry's security standards (PCI DSS). We receive your name, email, the amount, the date and, for regular gifts, the schedule.

If you make a Gift Aid declaration, we must keep your name, home address and declaration so we can show HMRC that each claim is valid. HMRC requires us to keep these records for 6 years after the end of the accounting period they relate to, even if you stop giving.

6. Events, photos and filming

Our events are joyful and public, and we love to share them. Events such as Try Christ, Saga Experience and UK Stop may be photographed, filmed or live-streamed. We use the results on this website, on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook, and in reports to partners.

  • Signs at the venue say when filming is taking place.
  • If you'd rather not be filmed, tell a steward on the night and we'll do our best to keep you out of shot.
  • If you appear in an image we have published and want it removed, email us and we will take it down from our own channels.
  • Tickets are booked through Eventbrite, which processes your booking under its own privacy policy and shares your booking details with us.
  • GQS runs on Zoom. If you join with your camera or microphone on, other attendees can see and hear you. We don't record GQS without telling attendees first.

7. Children and young people

Many of our events welcome young people, and we take safeguarding seriously.

  • Our website forms are for adults. If you are under 13, please ask a parent or carer to contact us for you.
  • For activities aimed at under-18s, we ask a parent or carer for consent, including for photos where a young person can be clearly identified.
  • If a safeguarding concern arises, we may share information with the relevant authorities when the law requires it or when someone is at risk.

8. Who we share it with

We never sell, rent or trade your information. We only share it with trusted service providers who help us run the charity. They act on our instructions and must keep it safe:

  • Website hosting and delivery: Cloudzyro and its network partner Cloudflare.
  • Email: Google Workspace, which runs our info@jointgospel.org mailbox.
  • Payments: our secure payment provider, for donations.
  • Event tickets: Eventbrite.
  • Online meetings: Zoom, for GQS.
  • Fonts: Google Fonts delivers the typefaces our pages use.
  • HMRC: for Gift Aid claims.

We may also share information when the law requires it, to protect someone's safety, or with professional advisers such as our accountants. We do not pass details to event partners or sponsors unless you ask us to.

When you follow a link to YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or Facebook, those platforms' own privacy policies apply.

9. International transfers

Some of our providers, such as Google, Zoom, Eventbrite and Cloudflare, may process data outside the UK, including in the United States. When that happens, we make sure appropriate safeguards are in place. These include UK adequacy regulations (such as the UK–US Data Bridge) and the UK's International Data Transfer Addendum to standard contractual clauses.

10. How long we keep it

InformationHow long
Email listUntil you unsubscribe
General messages and enquiriesUp to 2 years after our last contact
Volunteer recordsUp to 2 years after you last served
Prayer requestsUp to 6 months, unless you ask us to keep praying
Donation and Gift Aid records6 years after the end of the accounting period, as HMRC requires
Event photos and filmKept as part of the charity's history, unless you ask us to remove an image
Safeguarding recordsAs long as safeguarding guidance and the law require

11. Keeping it safe

Our website is served only over encrypted HTTPS connections. Access to personal information is limited to the people who need it, and our accounts are protected by strong passwords and two-step verification. No system is perfectly secure. If a breach could put you at risk, we will tell you and, where required, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) within 72 hours.

12. Your rights

Under UK data protection law you have the right to:

  • Access the information we hold about you and get a copy of it.
  • Correct anything that is wrong or incomplete.
  • Delete your information, where we have no legal reason to keep it.
  • Restrict how we use it while a concern is being looked into.
  • Object to our use of it based on legitimate interests, and to direct marketing at any time.
  • Withdraw consent for email updates or prayer follow-up at any time.
  • Data portability: receive information you gave us in a common digital format.

To use any of these rights, email info@jointgospel.org. It's free, and we will reply within one month.

13. Contact and complaints

Questions about this policy or your information:

Joint Gospel
Email: info@jointgospel.org
Phone: 0333 011 2125
London, United Kingdom

If you're unhappy with how we have handled your information, please talk to us first so we can put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or 0303 123 1113.

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top shows when it last changed. If the changes are significant, we will tell people on our email list.

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