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BIBLE.ORG PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USE
 
Greetings from bible.org and welcome to our web home. Bible.org is committed to respecting and protecting your personal privacy. We make it a priority to maintain industry standard safeguards to protect information you provide to us. We want you to feel safe in your online experience while visiting our website and provide this statement which applies to Bible.org’s products, services and websites worldwide (collectively, Bible.org’s “services”).
  • Bible.org collects personal information when you register for a Bible.org service or otherwise voluntarily provide such information. We may combine personal information collected from you with information from other Bible.org services or third parties to provide a better user experience, including customizing content for you.
  • Bible.org uses cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience and to learn about how you use Bible.org services in order to improve the quality of our services.
  • Bible.org’s servers (like Google and other web providers) automatically record information when you visit our website or use some of our products, including the URL, IP address, browser type and language, and the date and time of your request.
Uses
  • We may use personal information to provide the services you’ve requested, including services that display customized content and advertising.
  • We may also use personal information for auditing, research and analysis to operate and improve Bible.org technologies and services.
  • We do not sell, lease, or rent your personally identifiable information such as your name, address, and/or email address. We will only release information that is appropriate to comply with law, or protect the rights, property, or safety of bible.org, our users. We may share aggregated non-personal information with third parties outside of Bible.org.
  • When we use third parties to assist us in processing your personal information, we require that they comply with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
  • We may also share information with third parties in limited circumstances, including law enforcement, when complying with legal process, preventing fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and services.
Your choices
  • We offer you choices when we ask for personal information, whenever reasonably possible. You can find more information about your choices in the privacy notices or FAQs for specific services.
  • For some users you may need to provide fictional personal information or you may decline to provide personal information to us and/or refuse cookies in your browser, although some of our features or services may not function properly as a result. However we do need an active email to keep the large amount of spammers and registration robots under control.
  • We make good faith efforts to provide you access to your personal information upon request and to let you correct such data if it is inaccurate and delete it, when reasonably possible.
Security
Protecting your privacy is extremely important to us, therefore online credit card transactions will be processed by a secured 3rd party. Our Website's e-commerce system processes everything about your order except your sensitive credit card information. This step in the order process is performed by a trusted 3rd party company (Authorize.net) who uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. SSL encryption is an advanced technology recognized as the online industry security standard. This technology is used by all major e-commerce organizations including banks and credit card companies. We have set it up this way so that your credit card information is not maintained by bible.org’s website and therefore can never be stolen from bible.org’s website.

 
Message Boards
Please remember that information posted to message boards, user groups, forums, chat rooms, or the like on the bible.org family of websites becomes public information. Bible.org is not responsible for any unacceptable language or topics discussed, but we have put in place guidelines and moderators who take great effort to ensure that these areas are monitored and that the appropriate Christian behavior is observed. note: forum PM's are not private as they can be monitored for quality of service and abuse detection.

 
Changing Your Information and Mailing Preferences
Your information is used to send items you ordered to you. Occasionally we will also send you information we believe will be of interest and useful to you including ministry updates and offers to support the ministry. You will always be able to remove yourself quickly and easily should you prefer to no longer receive these updates. If you would like to change our information about you or your mailing preferences (physical or email), simply contact us at the below address.

 
Changes to this Statement
Bible.org reserves the right to make changes to this privacy statement at any time and requests that you review this statement periodically for updates.

 
Contact Us
Please direct all questions, concerns or comments regarding this privacy policy to bible.org via email or write us at our offices. You can find our address here. This Website may provide links to external Websites maintained by individuals or organizations external to bible.org. Once you access information that links you to another Website, you are subject to the privacy policy of the Website containing the information you have linked to.

 
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
Bible.org has made great effort to offer trustworthy Bible study resources for research, teaching, training and personal maturity. We offer one of the largest collections of Christian resources on the web, for free as a component of our ministry. To get the most out of your visit and your relationship with us please read the additional information below. To find out more about our organization, please visit About Us. Thanks again for visiting bible.org.

 
Copyright
Bible.org's mission is to make trustworthy resources available for use in teaching and training others as long as it is offered for free. Please review the complete Copyright and Trademark policy for bible.org and the NET Bible.

 
Posting and Submission Policy
When materials you submit are accepted to be posted on the bible.org website(s) including articles, books, illustrations, audio and video resources, you are agreeing that these will remain available to bible.org and will be available for posting on the bible.org website(s), at our discretion, forever.
 
All remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, comments, or other information that you send and submit to bible.org through our sites (other than information we promise to protect under our Privacy Policy), and that we accept for posting, becomes and remains our property, even if this agreement is later terminated. That means that we don't have to treat any such accepted submissions as confidential. You can't sue us for using ideas you submit. If we use them, or anything like them, we don't have to pay you or anyone else for them. We can use them for any purpose we deem appropriate to our bible.org mission, without compensating you or anyone else for them.
 
This means that you (and not bible.org) have full responsibility for the message, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality, and copyright.

 
Limitation of Liability
Bible.org and its websites are made widely available in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the website is with you. Should the website or resources provided by bible.org (including but not limited to software and electronic downloads) prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. In no event, unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, will bible.org be liable to you for damages, including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use any resources provided by bible.org or its websites (including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or a third party), even if such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Since there is no warranty we may provide a support number or a forum that will be monitored for users to assist other users. See http://forum.bible.org/viewforum.php?f=15.

And Also...
The above hopefully makes the lawyers happy, now lets discuss our relationship from a Christian point of view. You can expect us to operate at the highest level of integrity and as one would expect a servant of Christ to act. If you have a problem, please let us know and we will attempt to the best of our ability to address it.

Acceptance of This Policy
Use of the bible.org website(s) will constitute the user’s acceptance of this privacy policy. If you have any questions about these policies, please feel free to contact us.
 
Thank you and please enjoy.
updated da  10/5/09 

 

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