PRIVACY POLICY
revised Nov 30, 2011
Your privacy is critically important to us. At Heritage Christian Academy we have a few fundamental principles:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
- Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:
If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact us.
“Heritage Christian Academy” is a subsidiary of “Heritage Temple Free Will Baptist Churcht (dba “Heritage Free Will Baptist Church”) and operates the websites including heritagefwbc.org and hcapatriots.org. It is Heritage Christian Academy’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Heritage Christian Academy collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Heritage Christian Academy’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Heritage Christian Academy’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Heritage Christian Academy may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Heritage Christian Academy also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users. Heritage Christian Academy only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Heritage Christian Academy’s website choose to interact with Heritage Christian Academy in ways that require Heritage Christian Academy to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Heritage Christian Academy gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask for payment/contribution amount and name(s) of individuals to be provide prior to submitting to the 3rd Party (Authorize.net). No personal information is kept on our servers during this transaction. Those who engage in transactions with Heritage Christian Academy and 3rd Parties (such as Authorize.net), are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Heritage Christian Academy collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Heritage Christian Academy. Heritage Christian Academy does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Heritage Christian Academy may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Heritage Christian Academy may monitor, via analytic software.. Heritage Christian Academy may display this information publicly or provide it to others or 3rd parties. However, Heritage Christian Academy does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Heritage Christian Academy discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Heritage Christian Academy’s behalf or to provide services available at Heritage Christian Academy’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Heritage Christian Academy’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Heritage Christian Academy will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Heritage Christian Academy discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Heritage Christian Academy believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Heritage Christian Academy, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Heritage Christian Academy website and have supplied your email address, Heritage Christian Academy may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Heritage Christian Academy and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Heritage Christian Academy takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Heritage Christian Academy uses cookies to help Heritage Christian Academy identify and track visitors, their usage of Heritage Christian Academy website, and their website access preferences. Heritage Christian Academy visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Heritage Christian Academy’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Heritage Christian Academy’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Heritage Christian Academy, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Heritage Christian Academy goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Heritage Christian Academy may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Heritage Christian Academy may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Heritage Christian Academy’s sole discretion. Heritage Christian Academy encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.