Privacy Policy
Last Update: August 2017
Church Web Fund understands the importance of maintaining your privacy so we strive to provide our services with your protection in mind. This Privacy Policy applies to your use of Church Web Fund’s website (the “Website”) and describes our practices regarding the collection, maintenance, use and sharing of information from the Website. This Privacy Policy is maintained to conform with applicable privacy-related laws and may change from time to time. Any changes will be available for your review on the Website. Your continued use of the Website after any such changes have been made will signify your agreement with any revisions to the Privacy Policy.
Information We Gather
We do not automatically collect your name, physical address, email address, or telephone number when you use our Website, unless you submit that information to us. If you do submit information or create an account online, you will be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information which may include your name, company, email address, and telephone number. We will always let you know whether such information is required or optional. Church Web Fund Web Pages will transmit limited non-personally identifiable information that your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log in information may include your IP Address, browser type, the domain name of the website from which you linked to our Website, search queries entered by you on our Website, and the date and time of your queries. Any search query information collected by us is maintained by Gdirect together with the queries of all of our end users for the purposes of generating statistics regarding the use of our Website. It is never used in a manner that matches specific search query information with the identity of any particular end user.
In order to take advantage of certain features on the Website you may be required to create an online account with Church Web Fund. During the account creation process, you will be required to provide certain personal information such as your e-mail address. We may also request other information such as your zip code, age range and gender. We will store all of this information. If you have an online account with us, you have the ability to review and update your personal information online by logging into your account.
Cookies and Web Beacons
When you visit a Church Web Fund Search Page, a cookie that uniquely identifies your browser may be sent to your computer. A “cookie” is a small file containing your preferences that is sent to your browser and sent back by your browser each time your browser accesses our servers. We use cookies to improve the quality of our Website and to better understand how people interact with our Website. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some aspects of the Church Web Fund Website may not function properly without cookies. From time to time, we may utilize a third party company to help us develop and measure the effectiveness of our website. To do this, we would allow this company to include Web beacons and cookies on the Church Web Fund Web Pages. The type of information collected via such Web beacons and cookies includes search terms, search parameters, click-throughs by users, and other similar information. By supplementing our records, this information helps improve the quality of our Website.
How We Use the Information We Gather
Most of the limited, non-personally identifiable information collected is used to operate, develop, and improve our products and websites or to determine the total number of end-users who are using our Website, prepare utilization reports for our partners or affiliates (collectively, “Partners”), diagnose and fix compatibility problems or other problems with our Website, and perform statistical analyses to improve our website. If you create an online account, we will use the information you provided to Church Web Fund.