Privacy Policy
Bridge to Life Ministries places a high priority on protecting your privacy. This privacy policy was created in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of our website users. This policy explains what types of information is collected by the Bridge to Life Ministry’s website, www.bridgetolife.org, and how this information is used.
Intellectual Property
The Site and its original content, features and functionality are owned by Bridge to Life Ministries and are protected by international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.
Governing Law
This Agreement (and any further rules, polices, or guidelines incorporated by reference) shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Michigan, United States, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.
What Personally Identifiable Information is Collected
Individuals that sign up to receive Bridge to Life e-communications voluntarily provide us with contact information (such as name and e-mail address). We may use this information for specific, limited purposes. You may always “opt out,” either now or at any time in the future, if you do not wish to receive our messages.
IP addresses
Bridge to Life Ministries uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer www.bridgetolife.org, and for statistical metrics used to track website visitor traffic.
Cookies
www.bridgetolife.org uses “cookie” messages to automatically help provide better services. They remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you’ve done and told us before. The “cookie” is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our website. Cookies let us take you to the information and features you’re particularly interested in. They also let us track your usage of www.bridgetolife.org, so we know which parts of our sites are most popular. You can reject cookies or cancel them by instructing your Web browser accordingly.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
How Your Information May Be Used
We use your personal information to provide you with personalized service; to send e-mail alerts to you; to answer your requests; to process your shopping cart; etc. You may choose to opt out at any time, which will cease all communications from us. We may also use your information to track visitor of our website. This lets us see which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our users’ needs. It also lets us provide aggregate data about our traffic (not identifying you personally, but showing how many visitors used which features, for example) to outside parties
Email Privacy
Bridge to Life Ministries does not provide, sell, or rent email addresses to anyone outside the organization.
External Links
www.bridgetolife.org includes links to external websites. These links do not fall under the www.bridgetolife.org domain, and Bridge to Life Ministries is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, 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.
Third party relationships
Depending on the configuration and features enabled in the version of the Bridge to Life Ministry’s website, certain Personal Information and Non-Personal Information could be shared with some or all of the following third parties:
- WordPress.org: Website database.
- Constant Contact by Constant Contact: Newsletter system
- Blubrry PowerPress by Blubrry: Podcast player and database.
- Contact Form 7 by Takayuki Miyoshi: Contact forms.
- Event Tickets by Modern Tribe, Inc.
- PayPal by PayPal: Donation and shopping e-commerce system tool.
- Stripe by Stripe: Donation and shopping e-commerce system tool.
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.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Modifications
We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this privacy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of our website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.
Revised 12/08/2019