Privacy Policy
At GUIDEPOSTS, your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains what information GUIDEPOSTS ("GUIDEPOSTS" or "we," "us", or "our") collects on this website [http://www.guidepostsmag.com] (the "Website"), how we use your information, and the choices you have about the way your information is collected and used. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Your use of this Website, whether you are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the Website) or you are a "Member" (which means that you have registered with the Website) indicates to us that you have read and accepted our privacy practices, as outlined in this Privacy Policy. The term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member.
In addition, please review our Terms of Use that governs your use of this Website. Should you have any questions or concerns about the information we collect at OurPrayer or at www.guideposts.com please feel free to contact us directly at OurPrayer, 39 Seminary Hill Road, Carmel, NY, 10512 or you can contact GUIDEPOSTS by email at AtYourService@guideposts.org or call Guideposts Customer Service at (800) 932-2145 on Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. CST.
This Privacy Policy only covers information collected on this Website, and does not cover any information collected at other websites operated by GUIDEPOSTS or offline by OurPrayer or GUIDEPOSTS (unless specifically stated).
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU DO WE COLLECT?
Personally identifiable information ("PII") is information that identifies you or could reasonably be used to identify you personally (such as your real name, address, phone number, or e-mail address). Generally, you may browse our Website without providing any PII. However, we may ask you to provide PII at various times and places on this Website. We may request PII from you and display some PII (including Users pictures and first names ) to other Users, which allows Users to identify each other and expand their network of friends. In some cases, if you choose not to provide us with requested information, you may not be able to access all areas of this Website or participate in all of its features. We may combine the information we collect with information available from other sources, including information received from promotional partners or other third parties.
[We do not share any PII that you provide on the Website to any third party for marketing purposes [unless you specifically opt-in to receive such communications.]
Note to Parents/Children's Privacy
This Website is not directed to children and we do not collect or maintain information at our Website from those individuals we know are under the age of 13. Any visitors to the Website under the age of 13 should not disclose or provide any PII. If we discover any PII from a child under the age of 13, we will delete this PII from our records. If we elect to begin collecting PII from children under the age of 13, we will do so in compliance with applicable privacy laws, including the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA").
OTHER INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Discussion Boards, Journals, Message Boards, Public Forums, Prayer Rooms, Chat Rooms, and all other spaces on the Website at which third-parties may post content (collectively, “User Spaces”) are intended for the exclusive use of our Members, Volunteers, and Website monitors. However, you should use discretion in posting PII in User Spaces. While we encourage you to use of the User Spaces to communicate and interact with other Members, we also advise you to use discretion in posting any information that is PII (e.g., name, address, employment) in order to ensure your privacy. We cannot ensure the security of any such information given the open access of the Website to Visitors and other members of the public. The administrators of GUIDEPOSTS reserve the right to remove any content found in the User Spaces that we determine, in our sole discretion, does not comply with the Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use. But, we are not responsible for the actions of or content posted by the Website's Users.
If you choose to provide an e-mail address on any User Spaces for other Users to contact you, we encourage the use of an "anonymous" address that does not contain your name or a domain name that could reveal your identity or other PII. GUIDEPOSTS takes no responsibility for the PII that you post on the Website's User Spaces.
Log Data: When you visit this Website, our web servers automatically collect anonymous information that describes how our visitors use and navigate our Website, which includes the number and frequency of visitors to each web page and the length of their stays, as well as the anonymous information automatically sent to us by your web browser, such as browser type, referrer data that identifies the web page visited prior and subsequent to your visit to our Website, and IP addresses. We also may determine what technology is available through your browser in order to serve you the most appropriate version of a web page. For example, we may determine that you have installed a version of Flash, and we will then send you the appropriate Flash version of the web page rather than an HTML page.
IP Addresses: An IP (internet protocol) address is a unique number that is assigned to your computer or network when you are on the Internet. It is usually associated with the place from which you enter the Internet, like your Internet Service Provider, your company or your university. When visitors request pages from our Website, our servers log the visitor's IP address. We may collect IP addresses for a variety of internal purposes, such as system administration, to report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to audit the number of visits to different pages on our Website.
Cookies: Cookies are information files that our Website may place on your computer to provide extended functionality. We may use cookies for a number of purposes, such as tracking usage patterns on the Website, measuring the effectiveness of advertising, controlling the display of ads, limiting multiple responses and recording registrations. Advertisers or other third parties that are serving content on some of our pages may set and access their own cookies on your computer. We don't have control over cookies placed by third parties. Such third parties' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, which may differ from this one. Such third parties do not have access to our cookies.
You can, of course, disable cookies on your computer by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your browser. However, it is possible that some parts of our Website will not operate correctly if you disable cookies. You should consult with your browser's provider/manufacturer if you have any questions regarding disabling cookies.
Web Beacons: While you are on our Website, or while you are otherwise viewing our content, you may encounter Web beacons, which may come from OurPrayer or from third parties, such as advertisers or content providers. A Web beacon, which is sometimes also called a Web bug or "clear gif," is a small graphic image in a Web page, a Web-based document or an e-mail message, which generally allows the party that set the Web beacon to monitor certain information about the viewer of the Web page, Web-based document or e-mail message, and may allow access to certain cookies. Web beacons are usually invisible to the user, because they are very small (generally 1-by-1 pixel). However, in general, any electronic image viewed as part of a Web page, including an advertisement, can act as a Web beacon. Web beacons typically collect the URL of the page the Web beacon comes from, the type of browser requesting the Web beacon, the IP address of the computer that the Web beacon is sent to and the time the Web beacon was viewed. We do not have control over Web beacons used by third parties and do not have access to whatever information they may collect. OurPrayer may use Web beacons to count visitors to our Web pages and we may include Web beacons in HTML-formatted e-mail newsletters in order to count how many of our electronic newsletters (or particular articles, links, etc.) were actually opened. We aggregate all information we collect through Web beacons and we do not use Web beacons to track any individuals' use of the Website. Web beacons can also be linked to PII.
HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We use the PII you provide about yourself to deliver the information or content you have requested, to contact you about our programs, products, features or services or for other purposes disclosed at the time of collection. We may request PII from Users and display some PII (including Users' pictures and first names ) to other Users, which allows Users to identify each other and expand their network of friends. For instance, we may provide you with your request for a prayer, send an email newsletter to you or send information about new services to you. If, at any point, you do not wish to receive information about our programs, products, features or services, you may update your preferences by returning to the registration area of the Website or Websites for which you registered. Alternatively, you can remove yourself from the mailing list for newsletters and promotional materials by [clicking on the opt-out link provided at the bottom of many of the commercial electronic mail messages we send to you or by sending an e-mail message to OurPrayer directly at customerservice@ourprayer.org or GUIDEPOSTS at: AtYourService@guideposts.org or by calling GUIDEPOSTS Customer Service at (800) 586-2572 on Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. CST].
From time to time, we or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstakes or contest on the Website. Users may be asked to provide PII including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain advertising or promotional partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
Notice to California Residents / Your California Privacy Rights: California residents are entitled once a year to request and obtain certain information regarding our disclosure, if any, of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately prior calendar year (e.g. requests made in 2007 will receive information about 2006 sharing activities). As set forth in this Privacy Policy, we comply with this law by offering our visitors the ability to tell us not to share your personally identifiable information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to customerservice@ourprayer.org or write to us at: OurPrayer, 39 Seminary Hill Road, Carmel, NY, 10512.
ADDITIONAL USES OF INFORMATION
We use non-identifying information collected on our Website in the aggregate to better understand your use of the Website and to enhance your enjoyment and experience. For example, we may use the information to improve the design and content of our Website or to analyze the programs and services we offer. We may also share non-identifying aggregate information with third parties. For example, we may tell potential or future advertisers how many individuals visit certain areas of our Website, or how many men or women receive our newsletter, to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Website. However, other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your PII with outside parties unless you give us permission to do so.
We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. For instance, we may use third parties to host message boards or other user forums, to develop software applications and databases or to send communications on our behalf. Our Volunteers, employees, agents and contractors who perform functions on our behalf and who have access to PII are required to protect the information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.
We may provide access to your PII when legally required to do so, such as in response to a legal subpoena, to cooperate with police investigations or other legal proceedings, to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Website, to limit our legal liability and protect our rights or the rights, property or safety of visitors of this Website or the public. In those instances, the information is provided only for that purpose.
OurPrayer may also sell, transfer or otherwise disclose user information, including PII, if OurPrayer merges with or is sold to or otherwise acquired by another company, such as through a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of all or substantially all assets, or other fundamental corporate change.
HOW TO ACCESS OR CORRECT INFORMATION OR MODIFY YOUR CHOICES
If you are a Member of our Website and have provided PII to GUIDEPOSTS, you may visit the registration area of the Website where you will have the opportunity to access certain of your PII, to correct errors in such information, and to update your preferences regarding what information you want to receive from us. You will be required to enter your user name and password before you will have access to your information. We will process your changes as quickly as we can. You should be aware, however, that it is not always possible to completely remove or modify information in our databases. In addition, please be aware that if you opt out from receiving marketing and promotional material we may still contact you regarding your use of our Website or changes to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, or other policy or terms that affect you or your use of our Website.
AD SERVING
From time to time, we or our advertisers may use a third-party advertising servers to deliver ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to our Website and other websites in order to deliver advertisements about goods and services they believe will be of interest to you. We share website usage information about visitors to our Website with these companies for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements and for market research analysis on our Website and other web sites. For these purposes, we or our third-party advertising server may note some of the pages you visit on our Website through the use of Web beacons.
THIRD PARTY CONTENT
While on our Website, you may encounter links to other websites or online materials. Those other websites and any online advertising servers delivering ads to our Website may set their own cookies, collect data, and/or have their own privacy policies that differ from this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy only covers information collected by GUIDEPOSTS, and we encourage you to review the privacy policy of any other website you visit.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any PII you may disclose publicly in User Spaces. When you voluntarily disclose PII on User Spaces, that information can be collected and used by other people to send unsolicited messages and marketing materials to you. OurPrayer assumes no responsibility for any action or policies of any third parties who collect any information that Users disclose in User Spaces or other public areas of our Website.
DATA SECURITY
We take physical, electronic and managerial steps to maintain the security and accuracy of PII we collect, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers, as well as electronic security systems and password protections that guard against unauthorized access. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.
MERGER, SALE, OR BANKRUPTCY
In the event that the Website is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors’ rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.
CONSENT TO TRANSFER
This Website is operated in the United States. If you are located in the European Union or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us is either being collected in the United States or will be transferred to the United States. By using our Website, participating in any of our services and/or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer.
ACCEPTANCE
By using this Website, you accept the policies set forth in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy, like the online medium itself, is subject to change, so Users are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will also notify Members by e-mail if we make changes to this Privacy Policy in a way that alters the types of information that we collect or the way that we use that information. We may change, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time, and any changes will become effective immediately upon being posted unless we tell you otherwise.
I HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREE TO ALL OF THE FOREGOING.
This Privacy Policy was last update on June 21, 2007
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