Effective Date: January 2026
Organisation: Self Employed By God (SEBG)
Contact Email: admin@selfemployedbygod.uk
At Self Employed By God, we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal data when you visit our website, use our faith-based products or services. All in accordance with the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
We may collect and process the following information:
Identity & Contact Data: Name, email address, and contact details provided when you sign up for our newsletters, email opt-ins or use our contact form and ministry questions forms to ask us a question.
Transaction Data: Details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us (e.g., Ministry OS, website templates, digital products/services, etc).
Technical Data: IP address, browser type, time zone setting, and location, collected via cookies and tracking technologies.
User Content: Feedback, reviews, or information shared during our "Ministry Content" or coaching/consultation services.
We use your data to:
Deliver digital products and services you have purchased.
Provide ministry-focused guidance and resources.
Send you faith-based updates and newsletters (where you have opted in).
Improve our website functionality and resources.
Comply with legal and financial obligations (e.g., UK tax records).
Under the UK GDPR, we rely on the following legal bases:
Consent: When you subscribe to our newsletter or fill out a contact form.
Contractual Necessity: To provide the digital products or services you have paid for.
Legitimate Interests: To improve our ministry's reach and provide relevant content to our community, provided this does not override your fundamental rights.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Mailing List Data: Kept until you unsubscribe.
Financial Records: Kept for 6 years as required by UK tax law.
We do not sell or rent your data. We may share your information with:
Service Providers: Third parties who provide IT, system administration, and payment processing services (e.g., Stripe or Square).
Professional Advisers: Including lawyers, bankers, or auditors where necessary.
Legal Authorities: If required by law or to protect our rights and safety.
Under UK data protection law, you have rights including:
Access: The right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Rectification: The right to ask us to correct information you think is inaccurate.
Erasure: The right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Object to Processing: The right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at admin@selfemployedbygod.uk.
Our website uses cookies to enhance your experience. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, but this may affect the functionality of our "Marketplace" and "Resources" sections.
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at admin@selfemployedbygod.uk. If you are unhappy with how we have used your data, please reach out to us.