Harbor Light Fellowship’s Privacy Policy

Introduction

At Harbor Light Fellowship, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. In this privacy policy, the words “we,” “our,” and “us” refer to Harbor Light Fellowship.

We will occasionally update this privacy statement. We encourage you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us when you contact us by mail, telephone, or other electronic means, or visit any of our family of websites, including harborlightfellowship.com; diosesluz.com, and any other website owned and operated by us (collectively our “website”). This policy also describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Please read this policy carefully. By accessing or using this website, you agree to this privacy policy. If you do not agree with it, your choice is not to use our website.

What Information Do We Collect about You on Our Website, and How Do We Collect It?

We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including:

  • Personally Identifiable Information. This is information by which you may be personally identified, which includes information that you willingly provide via forms on the website, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, financial information, or any other information that is defined as personal or personally identifiable information under an applicable law.
  • Nonpersonally Identifiable Information. This includes information we collect automatically as you navigate through the website, which may include traffic data; location data; logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the website; IP addresses; and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

Information Collected through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by way of, for example, estimating our audience size and usage patterns.

All information collected and shared by Google Analytics regarding your visits to this website is governed by Google’s Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this website by disabling cookies on your browser.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies).A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website.
  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as browser cookies are.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use Google reCAPTCHA on our website to check whether the data entered on our website (such as signing in to your account or on a contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program.

This service works by collecting hardware and software information (e.g., IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website, or mouse movements made by the user).

This data is sent to Google for analysis.

Pages that use Google reCAPTCHA are clearly marked with a reCAPTCHA icon toward the bottom of the form. Google reCAPTCHA is subject to Google APIs Terms of Use and Google Terms of Use.

By accessing or using pages with this feature, you agree to these policies. If you do not agree to them, your choice is to not use these pages.

Additional Third-Party Services

We include some third-party services on our website in order to provide content to you. Use of these services is subject to their terms of service and related policies.

These third-party services may collect and use information as specified in such policies. Below is a list of additional third-party services that may be used on our website along with links to their terms of service and/or privacy policy.

Amazon CloudFront (content distribution)

What Information Do We Collect Off-Line?

When you contact us by mail, telephone, or other means in order to support us through donations; access our products, programs, or services; or otherwise communicate with us, we collect:

  • Information by which you may be contacted, including mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number;
  • Financial information provided in connection with your donations and purchases;
  • Information pertaining to you as a volunteer or employee, if applicable;
  • Details of your donations and purchase transactions and other records of your involvement with us.

How Do We Use Your Information?

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information, to

  • Carry forward and manage our ministry activities;
  • Contact you via mail, telephone, e-mail, or other available communication channels for the purpose of processing, facilitating, or confirming your donations and purchases;
  • Provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us and notices about your account;
  • Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, in any other way we may describe when you provide it, and for any other purposes with your consent;
  • Meet any legal or regulatory requirements.

Disclosure of Your Information/Use of Service Providers

We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We are committed to protecting your personal information. We will only disclose the personal information that we collect or which you provide, in the following limited situations:

  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
  • For any other purpose with your consent or disclosed by us when you provide the information;
  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request;
  • To enforce or apply our terms of use, as permitted by law;
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Harbor Light Fellowship, as permitted by law.

Privacy Rights Pertaining to the European Union

If you are visiting this site from the European Union, you have certain privacy rights as described below.

Consent

Where our use of your personal data is based upon your consent, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time by contacting us using the “Contact Us” form.

Data Retention and Access to Records

We only retain your personal data for as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which we have initially collected it or for which you have submitted it or as required by law. Electronic records for Harbor Light Fellowship are maintained in the United States. If you wish to access, amend, or delete any personal information we hold about you or if you have questions about the collection, use, disclosure, or storage of personal information by us, please contact us using the “Contact Us” form.

Are Children Allowed to Provide Information Online?

In general, no one under age 16, whether from the European Union or another country, may provide any personal information on the website. If you are under 16, do not provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, or user name you may use. Visitors from the European Union: If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 who is also from the European Union, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have such information on a European Union subject who is under age 16, please contact us using the “Contact Us” form.

Other

Harbor Light Fellowship’s Terms, Conditions, and Privacy agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of New Jersey without giving effect to any principles or conflicts of law.

If any provision of this agreement shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

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