At Southern Mission (the “Church”), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy applies to information we collect:
• On the Website, or any of our other affiliated websites.
• In e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and the Church.
• Offline or through any other means, including on any other website we operate, telephone, mail, and including our affiliates and subsidiaries, or any third party.
By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. If you do not agree with it, your choice is not to use our Website. If you are under 18, you may use the Website and Application only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.
Information We May Collect
The information we collect on or through our Website and Application may include:
• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website and Application. This includes information provided at the time of registering on our Website or Application, registering to participate in a Ministry activity, requesting any of our subscriptions, posting material, and making a financial transaction, and may include when you enter a contest or report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence with us, including e-mail addresses.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our Website or Application and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order on our Website.
• Your search queries on the Website or Application.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given or you have chosen a password for access to certain parts of our Website or Application, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. And, we urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like Pray Together, comments sections or message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website or Application. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Type of Information We May Collect
Details of your visits to our Website or Application, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information.The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages, opened an e-mail, and for other related website statistics like recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity.
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us for customer service.
