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PRIVACY POLICY
Prayer.org (hereinafter “Prayer.org”)
values the privacy of our visitors/customers and takes every
known precaution to safe guard the information we collect
from unauthorized use. The following is a detailed
explanation of the privacy policy for “Prayer.org”.
Please note that this policy does not apply to those
third-party sites that you may visit by selecting a
hypertext link on one of our pages. You will need to
consult those web sites’ privacy policies in order to
determine how your privacy is protected.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
“Prayer.org Digital” believes it
is important for you to know what types of information we
collect when you use our site or sign up for one of our
related services. We gather information about you when you
visit our pages or the pages of certain Prayer.org
Digital partners and when you register for any of our
services. We automatically record the name of the domain
(for example,"abccompany.com" if you use a private Internet
access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you are connecting
from a university's domain); the IP address (a number that
is automatically assigned to your computer when you are
using the Internet) from which you access our website; the
type of browser and operating system used to access our
site; the date and time you access our site; the Internet
address of the website from which you linked directly to our
site; and the pages you visit. Additionally, we collect
information in the form of a cookie.
A cookie is a text file that is placed on
your computer by a Web page server. Cookies are uniquely
assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the
domain that issued the cookie to you. Our cookies record
your personal information, such as billing address, shipping
address, and other personal preferences that you have
submitted to our site at an earlier time. When you register
for any of our services we ask you for your email address,
name, address and phone number. Each time you sign
into Prayer.org after registering for a particular
service, you will no longer be an anonymous visitor.
WHY DO WE COLLECT THIS INFORMATION?
We use this information in order to serve
the needs of our customers. We use the information we
collect to personalize the advertising and content you see
on our pages. We also use your information to process your
requests for products and/or services, to improve our
customer service, to contact you, to conduct internal
investigations, and to supply anonymous statistics for
internal and external clients. One of the primary functions
of using cookies is to save you time when visiting our site.
For example, if you customize Prayer.org‘s pages, or
register for any of our services, a cookie enables us to
summon up your specific information on subsequent visits.
When you return to our web site, the information you
previously submitted can be recalled, so you can more
conveniently use the features/services you customized.
CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13, COPPA
COMPLIANCE
Prayer.org
is a general audience web site intended to be used by people
of all ages. No data is collected from children. Personal
information is defined under the Children’s Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 as 1) a first and last name; 2) a
home or other physical address including street name and
name of a city or town; 3) an e-mail address; 4) a telephone
number; 5) a Social Security number; 6) any other identifier
that the FTC determines permits the physical or online
contacting of a specific individual; or 7) information
concerning the child or the parents of that child that the
web site collects online from the child and combines with an
identifier. When a child registers for any of our child
services we collect the following information: None.
When a
child under the age of 13 attempts to register with
Prayer.org,
we ask that he or she have a parent or guardian create a
special account at Prayer.org in order for us to obtain
parental consent. Verifiable parental consent is defined
under the Act as any reasonable effort (taking into
consideration available technology), including a request for
authorization for future collection, use, and disclosure
described in the notice, to ensure that a parent of a child
receives notice of the operator’s personal information
collection, use, and disclosure practices, and authorizes
the collection, use, and disclosure, as applicable, of
personal information and the subsequent use of that
information before that information is collected from that
child.
HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION PROTECTED?
We use the latest in encryption
technology, including 128 bit SSL encryption to ensure that
any sensitive information that is sent by you to us via the
Internet is protected from unauthorized interception. We
employ the latest in firewall protection to prevent
unauthorized access into our information storage areas. We
maintain a rigorous hiring process to screen out potential
employees with criminal backgrounds. All employees that we
do hire have to sign a confidentiality agreement that
forbids them from disclosing any information to which the
employee has access, to other individuals or entities. We
also have back up servers and power supplies to guard
against power outages and other natural occurrences that
could pose a threat to the integrity of your personal
information. Passwords are required in order for you to
gain access to your account. Once an account has been
terminated, measures are taken to remove those users from
the system who no longer need access to our system. When an
employee is terminated or is no longer with the company, we
change the access codes that the employee used to access any
customer accounts. Account login sessions are terminated
after three failed login attempts; all terminated login
sessions are logged for follow-up. Passwords must contain
at least six characters, one of which is nonalphanumeric.
Passwords are case sensitive and must be updated every 90
days. Unused customer accounts, those that have shown no
activity for 6 months are purged from our system.
WHO HAS ACCESS TO MY INFORMATION?
We do not rent, sell, or share personal
information about you with other people or nonaffiliated
companies except to provide products or services you have
requested, when we have your permission, or under the
following circumstances.
Only those employees that are responsible
for handling your account have access to your information.
Additionally, employees in our technical department may have
access to your information in order to conduct routine
checks on the integrity of our system and in order to
perform necessary maintenance work. Should you choose to
receive additional information regarding one of our services
or products, we may pass your email address to one of our
partners who offers similar products or services that you
might be interested in.
We may provide your name and contact
information to one of our trusted partners who work on
behalf of Prayer.org under strictly enforced
confidentiality agreements. These partners may use your
information to contact you about offers from us or one of
our advertising partners. However, these partners do not
have any independent right to share, rent, or sell your
information with anyone else. Furthermore, judicial
requests by a duly authorized court will require us to
divulge certain information regarding your account should
that situation arise. We may also share your information if
we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent,
or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected
fraud, situations involving potential threats to the
physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of
use, or as otherwise required by law. Finally, should our
company ever be bought or sold, your account information
would then become the property of the new owner/entity.
CAN I CORRECT OR REMOVE INFORMATION
FROM YOUR SITE?
You always have the option to view your
account to make sure the information we have collected from
you is indeed correct. You also have the option of removing
any information from your account that you wish to keep
private. However, please note that removing certain
information such as your email address, contact information,
and the like may greatly hinder our ability to effectively
provide the service or products you have requested. We
recommend, that you contact us first to discuss which
information you may remove without interrupting the quality
of service we intend to provide for you.
CAN I OPT OUT OF HAVING CERTAIN
INFORMATION COLLECTED?
You have the option of disabling your
computer’s ability to accept or transmit cookies. This will
prevent us from gathering certain non-personally
identifiable information from you. You also have the option
of removing yourself from any email distribution list that
you may have signed up for.
NOTICE OF CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY
POLICY
We reserve the right to change this
privacy policy at any time. However, if any changes do
occur, we will publish the changes to our web site and post
a notice on the home page that a new privacy policy has been
implemented. We will also take reasonable steps to contact
you personally to let you know of the new changes. Should
the company be bought or sold to someone else, we will take
reasonable steps to notify you personally. You will then be
given the option to keep your account open or to terminate.
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