This Privacy Policy governs
the information collection and
disclosure
practices for the web sites operated
by LoveWorld Multimedia Ministry
and all of its wholly-owned subsidiaries,
including but not necessarily
limited to Christ Embassy Digital
Media,
Christ Embassy Online Store,
Rhapsody of Realities Online,
Christ Embassy
WebTV, Christ Embassy Online,
and Christ Embassy Healing School
(collectively,
the "Company", or "we" or "us").
The Company's web sites include,
but are not necessarily limited
to, all of the following web sites,
each of which is operated (either
directly or through one or more
wholly-owned subsidiaries) by the
Company: www.christembassy.org,
www.christembassyonlinestore.org,
www.christembassydigitalmedia.com,
www.rhapsodyofrealities.org, www.christembassywebtv.org,
and www.healingschool.org, (each
a "Web Site" and collectively
the "Web Sites").
1. Changes to this Policy
We reserve the right to modify
this Privacy Policy at any time,
so please review it regularly.
If we make changes to this Privacy
Policy, we will post the revised
Privacy Policy on the Web Sites
and other places we deem appropriate.
All such changes shall be binding
on you 30 days after they are
initially posted on the Web Sites
unless you are a new user, in
which case they are binding on
you immediately.
2. Information Collection
a. General. In general, you can
browse the Web Sites without
telling us who you are or revealing
any personal information about
yourself. However, if you wish
to purchase or download any of
the products or use any of the
services offered by the Web Sites,
you may be required to disclose
certain information to us. You
always have the option to not
provide information by choosing
not to purchase or download a
particular product or use a particular
service or feature. The Company
is the sole owner of the information
collected on the Web Site.
b.
Registration. In order to purchase
or download products or use the
services offered by this Web Site,
you must first create an account
with us. You may have to establish
a separate account if you use the
services or purchase or download
products from more than one Web
Site. During the account set-up
process, you are required to give
certain contact information, including
your name, email address, and in
some cases your approximate age.
We use this information to contact
you about the products services
on our site in which you have expressed
interest, and, the case of your
approximate age, to determine whether
you are old enough to use the Web
Sites. You may have the option
to provide additional demographic
information (such as income level,
location, and gender) to us; we
encourage you to submit this information
so we can provide you a more personalized
experience on our site. Where possible,
we indicate which fields are required
and which fields are optional.
c.
Orders. If you purchase or
download a product or service from
us, we request certain personally
identifiable information from you
on our order form. You must provide
contact information (such as name,
email, and address) and, where
applicable, financial information
(such as credit card number, expiration
date). We use this information
for billing purposes and to fulfill
your orders. If we have trouble
processing an order, we will use
this information to contact you.
d.
Surveys or Contests. From time-to-time
we may provide you the opportunity
to participate in contests or surveys
on the Web Sites. If you participate,
we will request certain personally
identifiable information from you.
Participation in these surveys
or contests is completely voluntary
and you therefore have a choice
whether or not to disclose this
information. The requested information
typically includes contact information
(such as name and email address),
and demographic information (such
as zip code). We use this information
to notify contest winners and to
award prizes. We may use a third
party service provider to conduct
these surveys or contests.
e.
Log Files. As is true of most
web sites, we gather certain information
automatically and store it in log
files. This information includes
internet protocol (IP) addresses,
browser type, internet service
provider (ISP), referring/exit
pages, operating system, date/time
stamp, and clickstream data. We
use this information, which does
not identify individual users,
to analyze trends, to administer
the site, to track users' movements
around the site and to gather demographic
information about our user base
as a whole. We do not link this
automatically-collected data to
personally identifiable information.
f.
Cookies. A cookie is a small
text file that is stored on a
user's computer for record-keeping
purposes.
We use cookies on this site.
We do not link the information
we
store in cookies to any personally
identifiable information you
submit while on our site, unless
you have
elected to have the Web Site "remember" you,
in which case the cookie will be
linked to your user name. We may
use both session ID cookies and/or
persistent cookies. We use session
ID cookies to make it easier for
you to navigate our site. A session
ID cookie expires when you close
your browser. A persistent cookie
remains on your hard drive for
an extended period of time. You
can remove persistent cookies by
following directions provided in
your Internet browser's "help" file.
We set a persistent cookie to
store your password, so you don't
have
to enter it more than once. Persistent
cookies also enable us to track
and target the interests of our
users to enhance the experience
on our site. If you reject cookies,
you may still use our site, but
your ability to use some areas
of our site, such as contests
or surveys, will be limited.
This
Privacy Policy covers the use
of cookies by this Web Site only
and
does not cover the use of cookies
by any advertisers or third parties.
g.
Correspondence. If you send
us personal correspondence, such
as emails or letters, or if other
users or third parties send us
correspondence about your activities
or postings on the Web Sites, we
may collect such information into
a file specific to you.
h.
Co-Branded Pages. In some
cases, third party web sites
may have
a "look and feel" similar
to one of the Web Sites, and these
third party web sites may even
be bordered ("framed")
by content from the Web Sites,
but any information collected by
such web sites is collected by
the third party operator of that
site. These sites are usually identified
by a "Powered by" or
similar logo identifying the
third party operator of the linked
site.
Information collection on those
sites is governed by the privacy
policy posted on those sites.
In some cases, the third party
operator
may share the information with
us, in which case our use of
that information will be governed
by
this Privacy Policy.
i.
Supplementation of Information. In order to provide certain services
to you, we may on occasion supplement
the personal information you submitted
to us with information from third
party sources.
3. Use of Information
a. Generally. We use your personal
information to fulfill orders
and to facilitate the services
you purchase or request from
us. We use your personal information
in the file we maintain about
you, and other information we
obtain from your current and
past activities on the Web Sites
to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot
problems; collect fees owed;
measure consumer interest in
our products and services, inform
you about online and offline
offers, products, services, and
updates; customize your experience;
detect and protect us against
error, fraud and other criminal
activity; enforce our Terms and
Conditions of Use; and as otherwise
described to you at the time
of collection. We may compare
and review your personal information
for errors, omissions and for
accuracy.
b.
Communications from Us.
i. Special Offers
and Updates. We will occasionally send you
information on special deals
or promotions. Out of respect
for your privacy, you have
the option not to receive
these types
of communications. Please see
the "Choice and Opt-out" section.
ii.
Newsletters. If you wish
to subscribe to our newsletters,
we
will use your name and email
address to send the newsletter
to you.
Out of respect for your privacy,
you have the option to unsubscribe
from receiving some or all of
the newsletters. Please see the "Choice
and Opt-out" section.
iii.
Service-related Announcements. We will send you strictly service-related
announcements on rare occasions
when it is necessary to do so.
For instance, if our service is
temporarily suspended for maintenance,
we might send you an email. Generally,
you may not opt-out of these communications,
which are not promotional in nature.
If you do not wish to receive them,
you have the option to deactivate
your account.
iv.
Customer Service. Based upon
the personally identifiable information
you provide us, we will send you
a welcoming email to verify your
username and password. We will
also communicate with you in response
to your inquiries, to provide the
services you request, and to manage
your account.
c.
Profile. We store information
that we collect through your
stated preferences, cookies,
log files,
clear gifs, and/or third party
sources to create a "profile" of
your preferences. We tie your
personally identifiable information,
and your
activity history, to information
in the profile, in order to provide
tailored promotions and marketing
offers and to improve the content
of the site for you. We do not
share your profile with other
third parties, other than in
aggregate,
de-identified form.
4. Disclosure of Information
a. Generally. As a matter of policy,
we do not sell or rent any of
your personal information to
third parties for their marketing
purposes without first providing
you with an opportunity to opt-out.
However, the following describes
some of the ways that we may
disclose your personal information
in the normal course of providing
our services.
b.
Suppliers & Developers. Where you purchase or download
a product or service on one of
our Web Sites, we may disclose
your name and email address to
our partner who is our supplier
of that product or service. For
example, if you download a particular
software application, we may
disclose your name and email
address to
the developer of that software
application. This disclosure
is to enable the developer or
supplier
to provide support to you, and
in certain cases to allow you
to benefit from certain levels
of
support that are only available
to registered users. We have
no control over what these third
parties
do with the information that
we disclose to them.
c.
Aggregate Information (non-personally
identifiable). We share aggregated,
non-personally identifiable information
about our user base with our partners
and advertisers. This information
does not identify individual users.
d.
Agents and Service Providers.
We may use third parties to provide,
on our behalf, some portions of
the products and services available
on the Web Sites. For instance,
we use a credit card processing
company to bill you for services,
and we may use third party service
providers to provide certain fulfillment
services for some of our products
or services. We use our best efforts,
to the extent commercially reasonable,
to ensure that these companies
do not retain, share, store or
use personally identifiable information
that we disclose to them for such
purposes for any other purposes.
e.
Your Use of the Web Site. If
you participate in a bulletin board
or other public forum offered by
the Web Sites, your User ID will
be displayed on any content that
you post and will therefore be
available to the public. Therefore,
if you associate your name with
your User ID, your name will be
available to the public. Any other
information about yourself that
you include in such posts will
be publicly available.
f.
Legal Requests. We reserve
the right to disclose your personally
identifiable information as required
by law and when we believe that
disclosure is necessary to protect
our rights and/or to comply with
a judicial proceeding, court order,
or legal process served on our
Web Sites.
g.
Disclaimer. We cannot ensure
that all of your private communications
and other personal information
will never be disclosed in ways
not otherwise described in this
Privacy Policy. By way of example
(without limiting the foregoing),
we may be forced to disclose personal
information to the government or
third parties under certain circumstances,
third parties may unlawfully intercept
or access transmissions or private
communications, or users may abuse
or misuse your personal information
that they collect from the Web
Sites.
5. Choice / Opt-Out
We provide you the opportunity
to 'opt-out' of having your personally
identifiable information used
for certain purposes, when we
ask for this information. For
example, if you register with
us but do not wish to receive
any additional marketing material
from us, you can indicate your
preference on our registration
form. If you no longer wish to
receive our newsletters and promotional
communications, you may opt-out
of receiving them by following
the instructions included in
each newsletter or communication
or by emailing us at digitalmedia@loveworldmail.org. You may also update your preferences
at any time by accessing our
member information area. You
will be notified before your
personal information is collected
by any third party that is not
our agent/service provider, so
you can make an informed choice
as to whether or not to share
your information with that party.
6. Links to Other Sites
This privacy statement applies
only to information collected
by these Web Sites. The Web Sites
contain links to other sites
that are not owned or controlled
by us. Please be aware that we
are not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware
of when you leave our site and
to read the privacy statements
of each and every web site that
collects personally identifiable
information.
7. Access to Personal Information
If your personally identifiable
information changes, or if
you no longer desire some
or all
of our services, you may correct,
update, delete or deactivate
it by making the change on
our account information pages
or
by emailing us at digitalmedia@loveworldmail.org
or by contacting us by telephone
or postal mail Christ Embassy
Int’l Office, 363 Springfield
Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2
6AW, (44) 124 549 0234. Please
note that, if you have established
an account with more than one
of our Web Sites, you may have
to make these changes on each
Web Site.
8. Security
The security of your personal information
is important to us. When you
enter sensitive information (such
as credit card number and/or
social security number) on our
registration or order forms,
we encrypt that information using
128bit secure socket layer technology
(SSL). We follow generally accepted
industry standards to protect
the personal information submitted
to us from unauthorized access,
disclosure, alteration, or destruction,
both during transmission and
once we receive it.
9. Business Transition
In the event we go through a business
transition, such as a merger,
acquisition by another company,
or sale of all or a portion of
our assets, your personally identifiable
information will likely be among
the assets transferred.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions
regarding our privacy policy,
please contact us at digitalmedia@loveworldmail.org.
