| The Bright Media Foundation
(BMF) is committed to maintaining your trust and confidence.
Our online privacy policy is intended to protect and
secure the personally identifiable information (any
information by which you can be identified) that you
provide to our ministry online.
Information We Collect
How the Information
is Used
No Sharing of Personal
Information
Security
Cookies
Children's Online
Privacy
Links to Outside Sites
Removing Your Name
from Our Mailing List
Changes in our Privacy
Policy
Contacting Us
Information We Collect
There are three different ways in which we collect information
from visitors on our Web site:
1. From online requests for information
(i.e. e-mail newsletters, contact forms, etc.)
2. From online requests for materials
from our organization (i.e.requesting a free offer,
or letting us know about your new life to Christ.)
3. From online donations
The information
we collect online includes name, address, city, state,
ZIP/postal code, telephone number, e-mail address, and,
in the case of online donations or online shopping,
credit card number and expiration date. In order to
continuously improve our service to you and tailor our
future communications to you, we may also ask you to
provide us with information regarding your demographics,
comments, interests, and contact preferences.
How the Information is Used
BMF uses your information to understand your needs and
provide you with better online service. We may use your
information to complete a transaction, issue you an
income tax receipt for a donation, or to personalize
our Web site for you. If you so desire, we may also
use this information to update you on ministry projects
and activities. Credit card numbers are used only for
donation or payment processing and are not retained
for any other purposes. We also provide you the opportunity
to remove your name from our postal mailing list, if
you desire to do so. Please review the corresponding
section of this privacy policy below.
In addition, BMF will not send you e-mail that you have
not agreed to receive. We may periodically send you
e-mail announcing news and event information. If you
choose to supply your postal address in an online form,
you may receive mailings from us as well.
No Sharing of
Personal Information
BMF never sells, rents, leases or exchanges your personal
information with other organizations. BMF assures you
that the identity of all who contact us through this
Web site will be kept confidential. BMF may, on rare
occasions, send mailings on behalf of other organizations
or ministries when their interests align with BMF. Use
of your personal information will be limited to further
the ministry activities of BMF and partner ministries.
Security
BMF is committed to ensuring the security of
your personal information. To prevent unauthorized access,
maintain data accuracy, and ensure the proper use of
information, we have established and implemented appropriate
physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard
and secure the information we collect online. BMF currently
uses Internet Encryption Software, Secure Socket Layer
(SSL) Protocol when collecting or transferring sensitive
data such as credit card information. Any information
you enter is encrypted at your browser, sent over the
public Internet in encrypted form, and then de-encrypted
at our server. Once we receive your credit card information,
it is accessible only to a small number of trusted employees
who have been specially trained in processing this information.
Cookies
From time to time, we may send a "cookie"
to your computer. A cookie is a small piece of data
that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored
on your computer's hard drive. A cookie can't read data
off your hard drive or read cookie files created by
other sites. Cookies do not damage your system. We use
cookies to recognize you when you return to our sites,
or to identify which areas of our network of Web sites
you have visited (i.e. e-commerce sites, etc.). We may
use this information to better personalize the content
you see on our sites. Many Web sites place cookies on
your hard drive. You can choose whether to accept cookies
by changing the settings of your browser. Your browser
can refuse all cookies, or how you when a cookie is
being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies,
your experience at our site and other Web sites may
be diminished and some features may not work as intended.
Children's Online Privacy
We are concerned about the privacy of young children
and do not knowingly collect any personal information
from a child under 13. We encourage you to become involved
with your child's access to the Internet and to our
site in order to ensure that his or her privacy is well
protected. To read more about online safety and how
to become more involved with your child's online experience,
visit the Federal Trade Commission. You may also benefit
from the information and resources available on ProtectKids.com.
Links to Outside Sites
Bright Media sites link to documents located on Web
sites maintained by other organizations or individuals.
Once you access a link to another Web site, please be
aware that BMF is not responsible for the privacy practices
or the content of such Web sites.
Removing Your Name from Our Mailing
List
We give you the opportunity to remove your name from
our postal mailing list so that you do not receive any
future communications from our ministry. If you desire
to remove or modify your contact information, choose
Contact Us. If you would
like to subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your subscriptions
to BMF e-mail newsletters, please follow the specific
instructions pertaining to that publication.
Changes in our Privacy Policy
The nature of privacy is changing rapidly, but we will
do our best to modify our policy and online practices
to mirror the standards set by the web community at
large, federal and state law, and ethics as defined
in God's Holy Word. We will post notice of substantial
changes to our privacy policy.
Contacting Us
If you have comments or questions about our
online privacy policy, please Contact
Us. If you have spiritual questions, would like
more information about BMF, or are experiencing technical
trouble, please just let us know.
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