Privacy Policy
This page is to inform website visitors of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information.
By visiting and using our website you agree to the collection and use of information as specified in this privacy policy. Any personal information we collect is only used to provide and improve our services. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
What we collect and store
We collect information about you during the course purchase process, as well as information relating to your course progression and quiz performance.
When you purchase from us or create a free account, we’ll ask you to provide an email address and other personal information. We’ll use this information for purposes such as sending you information about your account and/or orders.
We store information about you for as long as your account exists.
We store course progress, including completion status, quiz scores, assignments and/or essay submissions.
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Group Leaders can access order information such as your enrolled courses, course progress and username / email address.
Any additional information added in your User Profile can also be visible to the administrator(s).
What we share with others
Some personal information such as email address, name, and course information may be shared with Prepared For Ministry partner organizations. See our partner organizations on the homepage.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Payments
We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
Forum content
When visitors leave comments or post forum content on the site we collect the data shown in the forum, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
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