Enabling ChurchSuite support access

You are always in control of who has access to your ChurchSuite account data, creating users and assigning their permissions.

In the interests of transparency and best compliance with the UK Data Protection law and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the ChurchSuite support team has no access to your account or the data within it, unless you choose to enable support access.

Key information about this functionality: -

• Support access is disabled on your account by default
• You may enable (or disable) support access at any time - it's like an on/off switch - see below for further information. Many customers prefer to leave support access enabled to remove barriers to their users being able to request support
• Support access can only be enabled/disabled by Administrator users
• When enabled, support access only permits the authorised ChurchSuite support team secure, logged access - perhaps in response to a support request, or if an issue or bug is detected by our monitoring systems
• Support access does not affect the security of your account or the data within it, and no data is accessible by other parties - support access is just for use by the authorised ChurchSuite support team
• Where ChurchSuite support access is disabled, we may only be able to provide you with limited, generic support responses and support article links. Without support access, we may need to redirect your user's support requests back to you in the first instance
• Enabling support access is not a requirement for using the service or for receiving support from us, but enabling access to our support team will help us to deliver the highest levels of customer service promptly

The Support access status is visible in the bottom right-hand corner of every page in ChurchSuite - in this example, support access is Enabled.

When an Administrator clicks Support access, a pop-up window opens through which support access can be enabled or disabled, and an optional reason be added.

Click Save to apply the change. Once enabled, support access will remain enabled until access is disabled again by an Administrator.

A support access Changes log is maintained, detailing the date, time, user and reason for each support access status change. An email notification is sent to the designated Data Protection contact (set in your Administrator > Profile) and a log of that email is recorded in the Communication log located at the bottom of the Profile page in the Administrator section.