It is the policy of Santa Cruz Firestarters Church (hereinafter “Church”) to protect your personal privacy. Because your use of the Church website (www.santacruzfirestarters.com) (hereinafter “Site”) indicates your acceptance of the Church Privacy Policy, please review this Privacy Policy carefully. Church may change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting revisions to the Church Site.  This Privacy Policy shall be applicable to any person or entity that directly or indirectly uses the Site or the Services (“Users”).

 

Terms defined in the Church Terms of Use shall have the same meaning in this Privacy Policy.

 

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

 

Church receives, collects and stores any information you enter on our website, provide us by email or SMS services, or provide us in any other way. It uses collected information to provide or improve Services for Users, and as more particularly set forth below, it may use collected information to contact Users for a variety of reasons, including, without limitation, obtaining information from Users regarding their use of the Site and Services and ways Church can improve them, and to send information to them regarding Church, its Services, or its Partners, such as promotions and events.  This information is used in ways Church determines appropriate in its sole discretion, and it reserves the right to do so.  Church will not sell or rent personally identifiable information to anyone, and it will not disclose any collected information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.

 

In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

 

When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

 

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

1. To provide and operate the Services;

2. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

3. To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 

Church is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.  

 

FINANCIAL TRANSACTION INFORMATION

 

Church requests information from a User on the Site if the User performs a financial transaction with Church. In this case, a User must provide information including, but not limited to, name, address, and financial information, along with credit card information or bank account information.

 

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by Church adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

 

COOKIES

 

Church employs the use of Cookies to collect information about Users and their use of the Site. “Cookies” are small computer files that Church transfers to your computer that allow Church to know how often you visit the Site and the activities you conduct while on the Site. Third parties, such as advertisers, may also use Cookies when you select their advertisements or links from the Site. However, Church has no access to or control over these Cookies.

 

INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

 

Church will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. Church may send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:

 

We have your consent to share the information; we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested; we need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Church to provide a product or service to you (unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary or appropriate in our discretion to assist us); we respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or we find that your actions on our Site violate the Church Terms of Service or any of our usage guidelines for specific Services.

 

Church may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

 

LINKS

 

This Site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Church is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.  We encourage our Users to be aware when they leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information.  This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this Site.

 

ACCESSING AND CHANGING YOUR INFORMATION

 

You can view and update your personal information at any time by emailing a request to Pastor Keith Lindstrom at keith@santacruzfirestarters.com. 

 

OPT-OUT

 

Church needs to be able to communicate at times with all Users, and therefore it reserves the right to contact Users. Users who no longer wish to receive the Church newsletter or promotional materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by following the instructions in the e-mails.

 

SECURITY

 

Your registration or account information is password-protected for your privacy and security. The security of Church account relies on your protection of your Church password.  Any disclosure of your password to a third party may result in access to your registration or account information or execution of transactions.  Church uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions of financial and certain other information. Financial information is stored in encrypted form on computers that are not publicly accessible via the Internet. Church will never request your user name or password via any email message or over the telephone.  If you receive such an email or call, please forward the entire message or information about any call immediately to keith@santacruzfirestarters.com.  Never provide your Church username or password to anyone via email or phone.

 

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

 

Church may amend this policy from time to time. If it makes any substantial changes in the way it uses your personal information, Church will notify you by posting an announcement on the Site.

 

ACCEPTANCE OF THIS POLICY

 

By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy and terms of service. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

 

CONTACTING THE PRIVACY ADMINISTRATOR

 

If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, you may contact pastor Keith Lindstrom at keith@santacruzfirestarters.com.