Encourage to Faith Ministries, Inc. Privacy Notice

Effective Date: March 1, 2022

Introduction

Welcome and thank you for visiting a website operated by Encourage to Faith Ministries, Inc. (“Encourage to Faith”)(“Site”). We at Encourage to Faith take the privacy of all visitors to our websites very seriously. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) informs you how we handle privacy matters and process your Personal Information. For the purpose of this Notice, “Personal Information” means any Personal Information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. We obtain Personal Information relating to you from various sources described below. “Services” means mentorship, encouragement, and teaching to foster growth in faith.

Scope

This Notice applies to the Encourage to Faith website, https://encouragetofaith.org/ (“Site”), and all Personal Information that is shared when you visit the Site or interact with our Services. By using the Site, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Notice. 

Information We Collect

Through our Site and our Services, we may receive information that, alone or in combination with other information, could be used to identify an individual. We may receive information (including Personal Information) in the following ways:

Information That You Provide to Us

When you request information from Encourage to Faith or interact with Services, we may receive the following Personal Information from you:

  • Name
  • Title
  • Company Name
  • Postal address
  • Telephone number
  • Email address

Information Automatically Collected

Like many businesses, we and/or our service providers may automatically collect and/or store certain information when you visit or interact with the Site. This information may be stored and/or accessed from your personal computer, laptop, tablet, mobile phone or other device whenever you visit or interact with our Site. Usage Information may include:

  • Your IP address, IDFA, Android/Google Advertising ID, IMEI, or another unique identifier;
  • Your device functionality (including browser, browser language, operating system, hardware, mobile network information);
  • Referring and exit web pages and URLs; 
  • The areas within the Site that you visit and your activities there, including remembering you and your preferences;
  • Your device location or other geolocation information, including the zip code, state or country from which you accessed the Services;
  • Your device characteristics; and
  • Certain other device data, including the time of day you visit our Site or other information used to provide analytics or other usage information.

Information Collected by Third Parties

The Site may include functionality that allows certain kinds of interactions between the Site and your account on a third-party website or application. The use of this functionality may involve the third-party site providing information to us. For example, we might obtain information about the traffic and usage of the Site from third parties. We might also provide links to facilitate sending a communication from the Site, or we may use third parties to facilitate emails or postings to social media (like a “Share” or “Forward” button). These third parties also use cookies and other tracking technologies to capture information about your interactions with the Site. We do not have control over the information that is collected, used, and shared by these third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of these third parties to understand their privacy practices.

Communications

When you send email or other communications to Encourage to Faith, we may keep those communications to process your questions, respond to your requests and improve our Site. We may use your email address to communicate with you about our Services.

How We Use Information Collected

We may use your Personal Information for the following business purposes:

  1. To operate, maintain, enhance and provide features of the Services, to provide the Services and information that you request, to respond to comments and questions, and otherwise to provide support to users.
  2. To understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our users, to improve the Services, and to develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
  3. To a potential or actual acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
  4. To contact you for administrative and informational purposes. This may include providing customer service or sending communications, including changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
  5. For marketing purposes, such as developing and providing promotional and advertising materials that may be useful, relevant, valuable or otherwise of interest.
  6. For our business purposes, such as audits, security, compliance with our internal policies, license agreements with content providers, applicable laws and regulations, fraud and financial crime monitoring and prevention.
  7. To enforce our Terms of Use or other legal rights.

Use of Cookies

We use “cookies” (small text files sent by your computer each time you visit our Site) and other tracking technologies to personalize your experience, analyze user trends, and improve the Services. These tracking technologies allow us to collect information such as your device type, browser type, interactions with our Site, geographic location, your web request, the date and time of your web request, your Internet Protocol address, the domain name of your Internet service provider and other data. If you can be identified from this information, for example by combination with other pieces of information, then we will treat this information as Personal Information. 

You can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but it is possible that doing so may cause limited functionality of the Site. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer or device, and you may need to log in every time you visit.

We may use cookies or similar technologies to record log data. Many browsers default to accepting cookies. You may be able to change this setting in your browser and you can also clear your cookies. If you do, you may lose some functionality of our site. Check your browser’s help function to learn more about your cookie setting options. 

We may use the following types of cookies:

  • Advertising and analytics 
  • Essential cookies 
  • Functionality cookies 
  • Social Media cookies
  • Advertising cookies 

We might also use a pixel tag which is a small graphic file that allows us and third parties to monitor the use of the Site and provide us with information based on your interaction with the Site. These tags may collect the IP address from the device which you loaded the page, the browser type. Pixel tags are also used by our third parties to collect information when you visit our site, the links and other actions you take on our Site, and we may use this information in combination with cookies to display targeted advertisements.

Other data technologies may be used that collect comparable information for security and fraud detection purposes.

If you have any questions about cookies or to generally find out more about cookies, visit this site. 

Social Media Sharing

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

We use a Twitter (X) Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

How We Share Your Personal Information

We may share your Personal Information as follows:

  • To our affiliates and subsidiaries for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice.
  • To our third-party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other Services.
  • If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

We may also share Personal Information about you with other third parties with your permission. We may use and disclose aggregate information that does not identify or otherwise relate to an individual for any purpose, unless we are prohibited from doing so under applicable law.

Security

Encourage to Faith has developed or engaged technical and organization measures designed to protect Personal Information against unauthorized access or misuse. However, the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be fully secure and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us. We do not accept liability for unintentional disclosure. 

International Transfers of Data

This Site is operated in the United States and intended for users in the United States. If you are located in another jurisdiction, please know that your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. By using this Site and providing us with information, you consent to this transfer, processing and storage of your information in the United States. It is important to note that the privacy laws in the United States may not be as comprehensive as those in other countries such as those in the European Union (“EU”). Our service providers use appropriate safeguards to transfer your Personal Information to the United States.

Children’s Privacy

Our Services and Site are not directed at children under 16 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect or receive Personal Information from them. If we learn that we have received Personal Information from a child who is under 16, we will delete the data. If you believe that we have received Personal Information from a child under the age of 16, you may contact us at kevin@encouragetofaith.org. 

Do Not Track Signals

Our Site currently does not respond to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals and operates as described in this Notice, whether or not a DNT signal is received.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We may change this Privacy Notice at any time. We will post all changes to this Privacy Notice on this page and will indicate at the top of the page the modified notice’s effective date. We therefore encourage you to refer to this page on an ongoing basis so that you are aware of our current privacy notice. If required by the applicable law, we will notify you if the changes. By continuing to use the Site and/or the Services or providing us with information following such a replacement Notice being uploaded, you agree that you will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by the Privacy Notice as changed.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Notice, please contact us at:

Encourage to Faith
PO Box 325
Nobleton, FL 34661
kevin@encouragetofaith.org
(678) 215-5043