Introduction
LifeHouse Church (“Church”) uses cookies on www.lifehouse.com.au, www.lifehouse.global and www.flourishconference.com.au (“Church Website”). By using the Church website, you permit us to collect and use your information from activity on devices you use in accordance with this Cookies Policy and the Privacy Policy for the Church website.

Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties
we may partner with may use cookies on the Church website, your choices regarding
cookies and further information about cookies.

What Are Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A
cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Church website or a third-party
to recognise you and make your next visit easier and the Church website more useful to
you.

Cookies can be “session” cookies (which last only for the duration of your web or
application session and expire when you close your browser or exit the application) or
“persistent” (used to remember you when you return to use the Church website and, as
such, will last longer).

How the Church Uses Cookies
When you use and access the Church website, we may place a number of cookie files
in your web browser.
We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions, to store your
preferences, to enable marketing delivery and to help evaluate and compile aggregated
statistics about user activity.
We use both session and persistent cookies on the Church website and we use different
types of cookies to run the Church website:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These enable you to navigate and use all the
  features in the Church website. We may also use these cookies to
  authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without
  these cookies you cannot use the Church website.
• Functionality Cookies: These enable us to remember you have visited the
  Church website before, preferences you may have indicated and information
  you have provided to us in order to provide enhanced functionality and
  personal features.
• Performance and Analytical Cookies: This information is used to make
  sure the Church Website can cope with the volume of users, to help us
  correct errors, and to measure use across the Church website. These cookies
  help us see if you have visited the Church website before, so we can identify
  the number of unique users we receive. They also help us understand how
  long you spend on the Church website and from where you are accessing
  them.
• Retargeting or Advertising Cookies: in addition to our own cookies, we
  may also use various third-parties cookies, for example, Google Analytics, to
  analyse statistical information from users of the Church Website. We might be
  able to associate such information with other information which we collect
  from you once we receive it from a third party. These cookies collect
  information about the pages you visit and also other information about other
  websites you visit. This information is only collected by reference to the
  cookie identifier that you are using.
• We also collect information using web beacons, also known as ‘pixels’. Web
  beacons are electronic images that can be used in the Church website or
  emails. We use web beacons to deliver cookies, track the number of visits to
  the Church website, understand usage and know whether an email has been
  opened and acted upon.

Third-Party Cookies
We can use third-party service providers to provide site metrics and other analytics
services.

This Cookies Policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, third-party
cookies, web beacons, or other tracking technologies, which are covered by such third
parties” cookies and privacy policies.

Examples of our third-party service providers used by the Church website include:

• Elvanto, MailChimp, Fluro, WooCommerce, WordPress, Blubrry and Google
  Analytics, Yoast SEO and iTunes.

Your Choices Regarding Cookies
Most web and mobile device browsers are set to automatically accept cookies by
default. However, you can change your browser settings to prevent automatic
acceptance of cookies, or to notify you each time a cookie is set. If you’d like to delete
cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help
pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse
to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features on the Church website,
you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display
properly.