Credible Faith seeks to protect your privacy. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Credible Faith web site and governs data collection and usage. Your use of the Credible Faith website will be treated as if you had given consent to the data practices described in this statement; if you do not agree to such practices, do not use the Credible Faith website. Credible Faith reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this privacy policy simply by posting such change(s) on the site. Such change will be effective immediately upon posting.
Collection of Your Personal Information
Credible Faith may collect personally identifiable information, including, though not necessarily limited to, your e-mail address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. Credible Faith may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites, and it may collect other information, including, though not necessarily limited to, your email format preference (HTML vs. text). Credible Faith does not request or store sensitive information from web site visitors, such as credit card or social security numbers, though Credible Faith does use a third party payment processor that does store sensitive credit card information.
As with many other websites, Credible Faith may collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, including, but not limited to, the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Credible Faith may collect such information to better understand how Credible Faith visitors use its website. From time to time, Credible Faith may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Credible Faith may also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users (if there are such users). IP addresses of users may be used, now or in the future, to help diagnose problems with Credible Faith's server, administer the site, analyze trends, track users' movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use for improvement of the site, or for delivery of customized, personalized content.
Use of Your Personal Information
Credible Faith may collect and use your personal information to operate the Credible Faith web site and deliver services if you have requested them. Credible Faith may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Credible Faith and, if it has them, its affiliates. Credible Faith may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Credible Faith will not sell, rent or lease customer or donor lists to third parties. Credible Faith may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Credible Faith may share data with trusted partners for help in performing statistical analysis, sending you email or postal mail, providing customer support, or arranging for deliveries. All such third parties would be prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Credible Faith, and they would be required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Credible Faith does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, including race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Credible Faith may keep track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within the Credible Faith site, in order to determine what Credible Faith services are the most popular. This data may be used to deliver customized content and advertising within Credible Faith to customers whose behavior indicates that they may be or are interested in a particular subject area.
Credible Faith may disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Credible Faith or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Credible Faith; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Credible Faith, or the public.
Security
Information provided to Credible Faith on its donation page is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before it is sent. Information submitted on the donation page is submitted in encrypted form to a credit card payment processor, which stores personally identifiable information and makes information available to certain Credible Faith employee(s) through its web interface. Unfortunately, even with protections such as SSL encryption, data transmission over the internet is not always guaranteed to be 100% secure. While Credible Faith seeks to protect your information, it does not ensure or warrant the security of such information.
Use of "Cookies"
Our site may use, now or in the future, cookies to enhance your experience while using our Site. Cookies are pieces of information that some Web sites transfer to the computer that is browsing that web site and are used for record-keeping purposes at many Web sites and for providing convenience to users of the web site. Use of cookies makes web-surfing easier by performing certain functions such as saving passwords or personal preferences regarding use of a particular Web site; cookies may help a website identify and track visitors to the site, their usage of the site, and their website access preferences. Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard.
Browsers are typically set to accept cookies. However, if one would prefer not to receive cookies, he or she can alter the configuration of the browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that, now or, if not now, at some point in the future, some areas of the Credible Faith site will not function properly when you view them.
Google Analytics
The Credible Faith site may use, now or in the future, Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) would be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google would use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operator(s) and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. The use of cookies may be refused by selecting the appropriate settings on one's browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you shall be treated as if you had given consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above; if you do not agree to such processing, do not use the site.
Other Web Sites
The Credible Faith site contains links to other web sites. Note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another web site for which Credible Faith has no responsibility. It is recommended that you read privacy statements on other sites; their policies may be different than those of Credible Faith.
Contacting Credible Faith
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, your dealings with this site, or deleting or correcting your personal data, you may contact Credible Faith through the 'Contact Us' section of the website, may send an email to crediblefaith at gmail dot com, or may send mail to the following address:
Credible Faith
P.O. Box 5401
Morton, IL 61550
Endnotes:
In place of a comments section, Dr. Larson accepts and encourages letters to the editor. If you would like to write a letter to the editor, then feel free to submit your letter here.
