Privacy Policy - Good Call Ministries

The Good Call Ministries, Inc. takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

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WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVERS
1. General. This policy covers how The Good Call Ministries treats personal information that The Good Call Ministries collects and receives, including information related to your past use of The Good Call Ministries products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
2. Companies Not Controlled. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that The Good Call Ministries does not own or control, or to people that The Good Call Ministries does not employ or manage.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
1. General
  1. Collection. The Good Call Ministries collects personal information when you register with The Good Call Ministries, when you use The Good Call Ministries products or services, when you visit The Good Call Ministries pages or the pages of certain The Good Call Ministries partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. The Good Call Ministries may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
  2. Information Sought. When you register we ask for information such as your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some financial products and services we may also ask for your address, Social Security number, and information about your assets. Once you register with The Good Call Ministries and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
  3. Financial Services. The Good Call Ministries collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.
  4. IP Address and Cookies. The Good Call Ministries automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, The Good Call Ministries cookie information, and the page you request.
  5. Use. The Good Call Ministries uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
2. Children
  1. Children Under 13. When a child under age 13 attempts to register with The Good Call Ministries, we ask that he or she have a parent or guardian create a The Good Call Ministries family account to obtain parental permission.
  2. Marketing to Children Under 13. The Good Call Ministries will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent’s permission.
  3. Minimal Information Requested. The Good Call Ministries does not ask a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.
3. Information Sharing and Disclosure
  1. Sharing of Personal Information. The Good Call Ministries does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
    1. We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with The Good Call Ministries under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help The Good Call Ministries communicate with you about offers from The Good Call Ministries and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
    2. We have a parent’s permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing The Good Call Ministries to collect and use their child’s information without consenting to The Good Call Ministries sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes;
    3. We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
    4. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of The Good Call Ministries’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law; and
    5. We transfer information about you if The Good Call Ministries is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, The Good Call Ministries will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  2. Ad Targeting. The Good Call Ministries displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria—for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
    1. The Good Call Ministries does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
    2. The Good Call Ministries advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
COOKIES
1. Rights Reserved. The Good Call Ministries may set and access The Good Call Ministries cookies on your computer.
2. This Policy Not Applicable to Other Companies. The Good Call Ministries lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to The Good Call Ministries’s cookies.
3. Web Beacons. The Good Call Ministries uses Web beacons to access The Good Call Ministries cookies inside and outside our network of Web sites and in connection with The Good Call Ministries products and services.
YOUR ABILITY TO EDIT AND DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION AND PREFERENCES
1. General
  1. Editing. You can edit your The Good Call Ministries Account Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time.
  2. New Categories. New categories of marketing communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
  3. The Good Call Ministries Marketing and Newsletters. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the The Good Call Ministries service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the The Good Call Ministries Newsletter, that are considered part of your The Good Call Ministries account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
  4. Account Removal. You can delete your The Good Call Ministries account by visiting our Account Deletion page. Please click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.
2. Children
  1. Parental Control. Parents can review, edit, and delete information relating to their child’s The Good Call Ministries account using tools offered by The Good Call Ministries Family Accounts.
  2. Account Deletion. If a parent chooses not to allow us to further collect or use a child’s information, parents enrolled in The Good Call Ministries Family Accounts can delete their child’s account by signing into that child’s account and then visiting our Account Deletion page. Please visit our Web site click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
1. Limited Access to Information. We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
2. Federal Compliance. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
3. Protection. Your The Good Call Ministries Account Information is password-protected.
4. SSL-Encryption. In certain areas The Good Call Ministries uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
1. Updates to the Policy. The Good Call Ministries may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary e-mail address specified in your The Good Call Ministries account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
1. Feedback. If you have questions or suggestions, please complete a feedback form or you can contact us at:
  
  The Good Call Ministries, Inc.
  Customer Care—Privacy Policy Issues
  3905 State St. #7277
  Santa Barbara, CA 93105-3138
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
- California Civil Code §1798.83 permits our visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding their disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to caprivacyrights@goodcallministries.org or write us:
  
  The Good Call Ministries, Inc.
  Privacy Rights
  3905 State St. #7277
  Santa Barbara, CA 93105-3138