Privacy at The Loft

The Loft is run by volunteers who'd rather talk with you than collect data about you. We keep the minimum we need to run the centre well, and nothing is ever sold or used for advertising.

If you just visit

You can come to classes and dinner without giving us any details. We may keep a simple note of visits to help us run the evening — nothing is required of you at the door.

If you become a member

When you sign up we ask for your name and email, and optionally your birthday and any dietary needs (so the kitchen can look after you). We also keep your visits and your class-pass balance. Signing in works by email link or Google — we never store a password.

Online purchases through our shop keep their own order records; this app keeps a copy of your pass so reception can mark off your visits.

If you serve at The Loft

A manager can build the roster by talking to it instead of tapping it out: they say who is on for the week, and a Google AI service turns that into a draft the manager reads and approves. Nothing it suggests is saved until they press Apply.

What goes to Google is the manager's own words, the week's roster — what is on, when, in which room, and any short note on a service — and a list of the people who could be rostered. For each of those people it is the name the app shows, any other name they go by, and which trainings they have done. Nothing else: no phone number, no email address, no note from anyone's pastoral record, and nothing at all about guests or members who don't serve. That list is the devotees, plus anyone who has helped on a service before.

Because the manager is speaking freely, whatever else they say travels with it — so they are asked to keep it to the roster, and to leave the reason someone can't make Friday out of it.

Your rights

Under the NZ Privacy Act you can see what we hold about you, correct it, or ask us to remove it entirely. Members can do all three from their own account page; anyone can simply ask a person at the centre. If you ask to be removed, a real person will have a word with you first — then it's permanent, apart from the donation record described above, which the tax rules make us keep.

Questions

Talk to anyone at the centre — they'll find the right person. Nothing about privacy here needs a form.