Speiro Ministries (“the Ministry”) is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. The following statement explains the Ministry’s policy regarding any personal information you may supply on the Ministry Web site. This privacy policy also discloses how the Ministry collects, protects, uses, and shares information gathered about you on the Ministry’s Web site. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Ministry’s Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Ministry’s Web site, you signify your acceptance of the terms of the Ministry’s privacy policy.
Collection of Your Personal Information
You can use the Ministry Web site without divulging any personally identifiable information, including your e-mail address. This Web site does not collect personally identifiable information about you, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, or telephone number, except when you specifically provide such information on a voluntary basis, such as when registering at the Ministry Web site, or requesting material from it. When possible, the Ministry also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by the Ministry. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by the Ministry for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding how the Ministry web site is used. The Ministry uses such identifiable information collected to continually improve the content of its web site and to offer its visitors products and services that best meet their preferences, needs, or desires. In so using this information, the Ministry is able to refine their web site and enhance the benefits it offers.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through the Ministry’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by other users outside the control of the Ministry. Please be advised that the Ministry cannot interfere with or otherwise limit the use of such personal information when provided on public forums. Note: the Ministry does not read any of your private online communications.
The Ministry encourages you to review the privacy statements of web sites to which you choose to link from the Ministry so you can understand how those Web sites collect, use, and share your information. The Ministry is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on web sites outside the Ministry and the Ministry’s family of web sites.
Use of Your Personal Information
The Ministry collects and uses your personal information to operate the Ministry web site and deliver the services you have requested. The Ministry also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from the Ministry and its affiliates. The Ministry may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
In the ordinary course of its operations, the Ministry does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties. There are occasions in which the Ministry might undertake one of these activities, subject to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. The Ministry may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In addition, the Ministry may retain the services of a third party vendor to assist it as it attempts to determine whether an individual desires to be retained on the Ministry’s mailing list or whether that individual might be better served by another service or entity. Be assured that in those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is never transferred to the third party. In addition, the Ministry may share data with trusted partners to help it perform statistical analysis, send you e-mail or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information in any way or for any purpose except to provide these services to the Ministry, and they are required to at all times maintain the confidentiality of your information.
The Ministry does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
The Ministry keeps track of the web sites and pages our customers visit within the Ministry in order to determine which of the Ministry’s services are most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within the Ministry to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area and for no other purpose.
Please be advised that the Ministry web sites will only disclose your personal information without notice if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the Ministry or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Ministry; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Ministry or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Ministry web site uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can be read only by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the Ministry’s pages or register with the Ministry’s site or services, a cookie helps the Ministry recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This allows the Ministry to deliver messages and material more specific to your needs and to simplify the process of recording your personal information, such as your billing address, shipping address, and so on. When you return to the same Ministry Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved so you can easily use the Ministry’ features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the many valuable interactive features of the Ministry’s services or web sites you visit.
Security of Your Personal Information
The Ministry makes every effort to secure your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Ministry protects the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to This Statement
The Ministry will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The Ministry encourages you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how the Ministry is protecting your right to privacy and your information.
Contact Information
The Ministry welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the Ministry has not adhered to this statement, please contact the Ministry at info@speiroministries.org. We will use reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.