SSL Certification Statement
We pray your visit to our site is both informative and useful as you explore the Child Evangelism Fellowship website. CEF, and CEF of Greater Richmond, is dedicated to safeguarding the personal information you provide us. The goal of this privacy statement is to disclose our data protection practices in relation to personal information collected at CEF of Greater Richmond’s Internet web site located at CEFRichmond.org.
Please note that this website may now or in the future contain links to other sites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such sites. In the context of this privacy statement, “personal information” does not include name, title, business address, email address or telephone number of a person who may interact with our website. Safeguarding your personal information is an absolute requirement of conducting the ministry — it helps foster confidence, goodwill, and stronger relationships with you and all of our supporters.
Encryption
At CEFRichmond.org we use the highest level of SSL encryption currently available to the user community. This ensures the safety and security of your credit card transactions. SSL (“Secure Sockets Layer”) basically means that our servers and your browser create and agree on an encryption key that will be used only for that particular session. Once established, this key encrypts all communication between our server and your browser.
Personal information
CEF of Greater Richmond (CEFRichmond.org) will ensure your personal information is protected by security safeguards that are appropriate to the sensitivity level of the information.
Cookies
As with most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
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.
Consent
At the point of your making a donation and/or requesting information from us we will obtain your consent for the collection, use or disclosure of personally identifiable information, except under the following circumstances:
- CEF, CEF of Greater Richmond (CEFRichmond.org) may release personal information when at our sole discretion we believe it is appropriate to comply with law, or protect the rights, property, or safety of CEF employees or others;
- CEF of Greater Richmond may share personal information with CEF USA who will also comply with this policy with respect to the information that is shared, and;
- CEF of Greater Richmond may employ other companies or individuals who may have access to personal information needed to perform functions on our behalf, but who will not use this information for other purposes.
Limiting Collection
The personal information we collect will be limited to what is necessary for the business purposes of the ministry unless you have otherwise consented, or when required by law. We will not collect personal information indiscriminately.
Our web servers collect and track IP addresses and resolves them to a domain name, but we do not collect personally identifiable information unless we explicitly ask you to provide it. Some pages in our web sites ask you to provide personal information to order a product or service, or to take advantage of other opportunities (e.g., download a white paper). When this information is requested, you will be asked to complete a form and return it to us.
The type of information we ask you to provide will vary according to the product or service that you request. The choice to share this information is always yours, but if you choose to withhold it, you may not be able to access certain resources. In addition, we sometimes collect non-identifiable information from visits to our Web sites to help us provide better customer service. For example, we make it possible for users to define usage preferences (“remember settings”) to speed requests such as search queries in future visits.
If you make a payment for our products or services on our websites, the financial details you are asked to submit will be provided directly to our payment provider NCS Services, Inc. via a secured connection. The provided financial details (e.g. your credit-card number) will be processed by NCS Services, as our processor on our behalf, with the sole purpose of completing the payment transaction. These financial details will only be passed on to financial institutions involved with the chosen transaction (e.g. your bank or credit-card company).
Occasionally, we give our subscribers an option to receive updates and product information. If you would prefer not to receive such notifications, you can opt-out by selecting the appropriate box on your computer’s user preferences.
Accuracy
Each person who submits personal information is required to verify the accuracy of all information provided to us at the time of submission. You may also contact us to change this information at the address indicated below.
Individual Access
We will endeavor to correct or amend any personal information if its accuracy and completeness is challenged and found deficient.
Handling Subscriber Inquiries and Suggestions
If you require any further information or if you have any questions or concerns about our privacy or security policies and procedures, please contact us at: CEF of Greater Richmond, P.O. Box 249, Sandston, VA 23150