Privacy Policy

EDIFYING TEXT MESSAGES (ETM)

Edifyingtextmessages.org recognizes that its subscribers, visitors, users and others who use our website value their privacy. This Privacy Policy details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on the Sites. The Ministry provides this Privacy Policy to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using the Site.

The Information The Ministry Collects

When you visit edifyingtextmessages.org, you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Website use information collected by us as you interact with our Website. You may provide us with information by such things as uploading videos, posting comments in the video comments section, responding to surveys or subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists.
When you register with edifyingtextmessages.org, you provide us with certain personal information, including but not limited to your name, your email address, your telephone number, your gender and any other personal or preference information that you may provide to us.
When you enter edifyingtextmessages.org, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is generally gathered for subscribers. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using “cookies.” A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to edifyingtextmessages.org. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.
Log File Information: When you use the Site, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include, but are not limited to, information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser language, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
Clear GIFs Information: When you use the Site, we may employ “clear GIFs” (a.k.a. Web Beacons) which are used to track the online usage patterns of our Users anonymously (i.e., in a non-personally-identifiable manner). In addition, we may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
You post User Content (as defined in the Terms of Use) on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.
Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on edifyingtextmessages.org is a violation of the Terms of Use and should be reported immediately.
If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site or our sharing service for videos, photos and similar items, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend’s email address. If it is the invitation service, we will send your friend an email or instant message in your name inviting him or her to visit the site, and may send up to two reminders to them. If it is the sharing service, edifyingtextmessages.org will add any email addresses that you share materials with to our database and those individuals may begin receiving edifyingtextmessages.org emails. edifyingtextmessages.org stores this information to send invitations and reminders, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, to allow you to see invitations you have sent and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us to request that we remove this information from our database.

The Way Company Uses Information

When you subscribe to edifyingtextmessages.org, you send us your personal information, which includes your name, mobile number, email address and current location. Your personal information remains undisclosed to the public.
Personal information you provide to us are used to send you our weekly edifying messages via sms and email. We will not use your personal information for any commercial purposes or release it to any third party.
You can only recieve our weekly messages if you are subscribed to our service. We will not send any messages unless your are susbcribed.
edifyingtextmessages.org may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service.
If you are a subscribed User, we may use your email address or other personally identifiable information without further consent to send messages to you as part of a general or specific program or feature for which you may or may not have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may also use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of Site changes, changes to the Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, other Company or Site policies and/or for customer service purposes).
We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, click stream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Site and to create new features, promotions, functionality and services by storing, tracking and analyzing User preferences and trends.
We use cookies, clear gifs and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions and status.

Your Choices
You may, of course, decline to be a Subscriber and submit personally identifiable information through the Site, in which case The Ministry may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your individual profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
Please contact us with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, your consent or your opt-in or opt-out choices by sending an email to questions@edifyingtextmessages.org

Changes and updates to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically and at the Organization’s sole discretion with such changes becoming effective upon the applicable revision and thereafter. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your ongoing and continuing agreement to this Privacy Policy and any future revisions.