Last Updated: November 9, 2024
Welcome to Social Faith Circle (“we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at https://socialfaithcircle.com (the “Site”) and use our services. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.
1. Acceptance of This Privacy Policy
By accessing or using our Site and services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
2. Information We Collect
Personal Information
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register for an account, subscribe to a membership plan, participate in community forums, or communicate with us. This information may include:
Information You Provide To Us. The Website provides various places for users to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the Website, communicating with us via contact forms, responding to surveys, search queries on our search feature, providing comments or other feedback, and providing information when ordering a product or service via the Website.
We use information you provide to us to deliver the requested product and/or service, to improve our overall performance, and to provide you with offers, promotions, and information.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technology. As you navigate through our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies including Google Analytics to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This will generally include information about your location, your traffic pattern through our website, and any communications between your computer and our Website. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.
- Name
- Email address
- Postal address
- Telephone number
- Payment information
Automatically Collected Information
When you access the Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage, including:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- Referral source
- Pages visited and time spent on each page
- Cookies and similar tracking technologies
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To provide, operate, and maintain our services
- To process your transactions and manage your membership
- To communicate with you, including responding to inquiries and sending administrative information
- To personalize your experience on our Site
- To monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve user experience
- To enforce our Terms and Conditions
- To comply with legal obligations and protect our rights
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your information in the following circumstances:
- Service Providers: With third-party vendors and service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing and data analysis.
- Legal Requirements: If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
- Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.
- Protection of Rights: To protect and defend our rights and property, and to prevent fraud and illegal activities.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and use personal information about you. Cookies are small data files stored on your device that help us improve our Site and your experience. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
Social Faith Circle reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.
Third Party Use Of Cookies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
6. Third-Party Services
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
7. Data Security
We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of Our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we take reasonable actions to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to the website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website.
8. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
9. Your Rights and Choices
Access and Correction
You have the right to access and correct your personal information at any time. You can update your account information by logging into your account settings.
Opt-Out
You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in those communications or by contacting us directly at socialfaithcircle@gmail.com.
Do Not Track Signals
Our Site does not respond to Do Not Track signals. You can set your browser to refuse certain types of cookies.
10. Children’s Privacy
Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a minor without parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information. If You are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of the Website, or provide any information about Yourself to Us, including Your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name You may use.
11. Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received online, mail, and telephone. This also applies when you register for our website, sign up through any of our forms using your email address or make a purchase on this site. For further information see the email policies below.
12. Email Policies
We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Disclosure of Your Information.
We will maintain the information you send via e-mail in accordance with applicable federal law.
In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from our organization will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from us.
Our emails provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners by reading the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of any e-mail they receive from us at anytime.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the e-mail.
13. International Data Transfers
If you are accessing our Site from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information to the United States.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. All changes are effective immediately when posted and apply to all access to and use of the Site thereafter. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
15. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
- Email: socialfaithcircle@gmail.com
- Address: Social Faith Circle, PO BOX 104, South Holland, IL, 60473