Privacy Policy – The Christian Contingent

Privacy Policy of TheChristianContingent.com

Updated as of April 1, 2024.

The Chrisitan Contingent operates the “TheChristianContingent.com” website, which provides the informational SERVICE.

We cherish our donor’s decision to share their resources with The Christian Contingent and as such, we would never rent, lend, sell, or publish donor lists.

This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Site or Service, the TheChristianContingent.com website.

The Christian Contingent (“we,” “us,” “our”) works hard to build and maintain a relationship of trust with the user of our Sites or Services (“you”). This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) governs our collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information (as defined below) in connection with your use of our website(s) and mobile/device application(s) on which this Privacy Policy is linked (collectively, “Sites”), and any services, transactions, or other engagements you might have with us (collectively, “Services”).

If you choose to use our Sites or Services, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing and improving the Sites or Services. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at https://www.thechristiancontingent.com/ , unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at Contact@TheChristianContingent.com .

At The Christian Contingent we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information collected and recorded by TheChristianContingent.com and how we use it.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to understand and address your needs and to provide you with better service. Specifically, we use your information to help you complete a transaction, to communicate back to you in response to your gifts and communications, and to update you on Ministry happenings. If you chose to open an account with The Christian Contingent, we will use this information to: create customer accounts, allow customers to create online accounts and profiles, provide goods or services, keep customers informed about the status of their purchases and services, respond to questions and address customers concerns, and deliver updates, upgrades, and product improvement information.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Personal information may be collected in these categories: Identifiers, Protected classification characteristics under California or Federal law, Commercial Information, Internet or other electronic network activity, Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, Education information. For company communications, such as providing users with information that may be of interest such as newsletters, announcements, reminders, and service bulletins, additional information will be collected such as: Geolocation Information (your address), Professional or employment-related information, inferences drawn from other personal information. We also collect/process Personal Information as defined in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e) for the purposes stated in this policy.

Credit card numbers are used only for donation or payment processing and are not retained for other purposes. We use comments you offer to provide you with information requested and to improve services and ministry to you and others. We carefully consider each recommendation offered for improving communications and ministry.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect about you, how we use or disclose such information, how to exercise any rights you may have with respect to your Personal Information (including any rights to opt-out of certain uses of your information), and the safeguards we have in place to reduce the risk of unauthorized access and use.

Please carefully read this Privacy Policy, which is part of our Terms of Use before using our Sites and/or Services. If you do not agree with our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy, you must refrain from using our Sites/Services. By accessing or using our Sites or Services, you agree to our use of your information consistent with our Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy.

Profiling

We do not use Personal Information for automated profiling of consumers with legal or similarly significant effects upon the consumer.

Purchaser Information Collected

We Collect the following types of information.

Contact Information: name, organization, complete address, telephone number(s), email address.
Billing and Payment Information.
Shipping Information: name, organization, complete address.
Ministry Awareness Information: how you heard about the message and ministries of The Christian Contingent and your involvement, if any.
Information You Wish To Share: questions, comments, suggestions, referrals, testimonials.
Your Requests For Updates: Upon your approval, we will send periodic communications soliciting your prayer requests and updating you on upcoming events, online devotionals, available resources, newsletters, and fund-raising appeals.

Note: We are PCI DSS compliant and do not collect and store credit card information.

Personal Information Collected

Within the last twelve months, we have collected information that personally identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with you (“Personal Information”), including:

Personal Information Category	Examples	Do we collect this information?
A. Identifiers	A real name, alias, date of birth, mailing address, billing address, phone number, IP address, email address, account name, device ID, or other similar identifiers.	YES
B. Personal Information listed in Cal. Civ Code 1798.80(e)	Name, signature, address, telephone number, education level, and credit/debit card number, brand, expiration date. Blaze does not collect personal information in this category beyond the personal information it collects in other categories identified herein.	YES
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law	Age, gender, marital status.	YES
D. Commercial Information	Transaction history, videos watched, Sites or Services login history, payment information.	YES
E. Biometric Information	Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, exercise data.	NO
F. Internet or other electronic network activity	Browsing/search history, browser type, in-app notifications and settings.	YES
G. Geolocation Information	Physical location or movements.	NO
H. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information (“sensory information”)	Call recordings, video or audio testimonials or stories.	YES
I. Professional or employment-related information	Employer, job title.	YES
J. Education information meaning non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).	Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.	NO
K. Inferences drawn from other Personal Information	Profile relating to your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes (e.g., topical interests, consumer response models, propensity to purchase models) such as generation, income level, or education level.	YES

The specific Personal Information we collect about you may vary based on how you use the Sites and/or Services and your relationship with us.

Please be aware! If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Sensitive Personal Information

We do not collect Sensitive Personal Information about you. “Sensitive Personal Information” includes Personal Information that reveals government identifiers, complete account credentials with security codes or other ways to access the account, precise geolocation, racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership, biometric information, genetic data, communication contents if we are not the intended recipient, identifying biometric information, and information about a person’s health, sex life, or sexual orientation.

Retention of Records and Information

The information collected by The Christian Contingent is retained in accordance with the following schedule, after which it is destroyed or deleted from the system, unless other arrangements are requested by the donor.

RECORD/INFORMATION TYPE RETENTION PERIOD

RECORD/INFORMATION TYPE	RETENTION PERIOD
Contact Information	While there is an ongoing need to retain it
Billing/Payment Information	4 months after last transaction
Shipping Information	While there is an ongoing need to retain it
Email/Correspondence Information	While there is an ongoing need to retain it
Contribution Records	7 years
Documents evidencing terms, conditions, or restrictions on gifts.	7 years after funds are expended

Note: We are PCI DSS compliant and do not collect and store credit card information.

We retain all categories of your Personal Information for as long as is necessary to achieve purposes of collection and use described above, which is generally as long as we have a relationship with you. We also retain your Personal Information for a period of time after our relationship with you has ended where there is an ongoing business need to retain it. This includes, without limitation, retention to comply with our legal, regulatory, tax, and/or accounting obligations, and to maintain our anti-fraud and security programs.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

No Sharing of Personal Information

The Christian Contingent will not sell, rent, lease, or share with other ministries, organizations, or individuals a donor’s personal information. We assure you that the identity of all users will be kept confidential. Use of personal information will be limited to the internal, aforestated purposes of The Christian Contingent.

Names of donors of memorial or honor gifts may be released to the honoree, next of kin, or individual designated by the donor or his/her legally authorized representative, upon written request of the donor or representative.

A donor’s giving record may be released to his/her legally authorized representative upon verifiable, written request of the donor or his/her legally authorized representative.

Log Data Files

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. Like many other Web sites, TheChristianContingent.com makes use of log data files. These files merely log visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting service’s analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), type of device you use, your operating system, date/time stamp, referring/exit pages (pages that you visit), and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. If this information is reasonably capable of being associated with you, we treat it as Personal Information under the category Internet and Network Information. If this information is not reasonably capable of being individually associated with you, we treat it as Usage Data.

If at any point you would like to have your information removed from or modified in our Data files, contact us at Compliance@TheChristianContingent.com and submit a request that the information be modified or removed. If you would like to know what personal data is kept, submit a request and you will be notified of the information on file that is personal to you.

Communication Recordings

We and our Service Providers (defined below) may record calls and retain the content of text messages or other written/electronic communications between you and us. By communicating with us, you consent to our and our Service Providers (defined below) recording and retention of communications.

Voluntary Disclosure Directly from the User

We may ask you to provide us with Personal Information when you communicate with us (online or offline), register to use the Sites, purchase Services, and at other times. You are not required to provide us your Personal Information; however, if you choose not to provide the requested information, you may not be able to use some or all of the features of the Sites or Services or we may not be able to fulfill your requested interaction.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that is commonly used as an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Our website uses these “cookies” to store information about visitors’ preferences, to authenticate and record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser. This practice improves our Service and makes your visits easier and more enjoyable. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. Many web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Instructions for how to manage cookies in popular browsers are generally available online. However, if you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Cookies remain on a user’s system for varying periods of time. Some only remain during a viewing session; others may remain for a year or longer.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

To facilitate our Service;
To provide the Service on our behalf;
To perform Service-related services; or
To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

We may establish a relationship with other businesses to provide services to us, which may include corporate affiliates (“Service Providers”), and we may disclose your Personal Information to Service Providers for business purposes including for:

Provision of the Sites and Services;
To assist us in analyzing how our service is used;
To facilitate our Service;
To provide a Service on our behalf;
Business analytics;
IT and network administration such as mobile application development, data storage and management, website hosting, and data security;
Sweepstakes and event design and administration;
Payment processing;
Professional services such as legal and accounting;
Obtaining legal records;
Collection of accounts; and
Day-to-day business operations such as courier services, facilities management, and document destruction.

We only provide our Service Providers with the Personal Information necessary for them to perform these services on our behalf. Each Service Provider is expected to use reasonable security measures appropriate to the nature of the information involved to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Service Providers are prohibited from using Personal Information other than as specified by us.

We may share your Personal Information with one or more Service Providers. In the past twelve months we have shared identifiers; Personal Information listed in Cal. Civ Code 1798.80(e); protected classification characteristics; commercial information; sensory information; professional and employment-related information, Internet and other electronic network information; and inferences drawn from the foregoing categories of Personal Information.

You may also be asked to provide Personal Information directly to a Service Provider. For example, we may connect you with a third-party financial institution or financial calculator provider and request that you provide Personal Information directly to them.

Third-Party Selling

NEVER

Third-Party Sharing

Only as necessary and is outlined under Service Providers.

Donor Privacy Policy

The Christian Contingent considers the donations we receive to be precious gifts. We believe that they are sent from loving people who have sacrificed to make their gifts possible and have been prompted by the Lord to give toward accomplishing His purposes and plan through this Ministry. In accordance with ECFA standards, contributions are solicited with the understanding that the Ministry will never rent, lend, sell, or publish donor lists. We are committed to respecting the privacy of our givers and have developed this privacy policy to guide Ministry practices and to assure our givers that information they provide through making a donation will not be shared with any third party.

Awareness

The Christian Contingent provides our Donor Privacy Policy to you, the donor, to make you aware of the policy and to inform you of information we collect, the ways in which that information is used, our records and information retention practices, and your opportunity to remove your name from our mailing list at any time, should you choose to do so.

Information Collected

We collect the following types of donor and purchaser information.

Contact Information: name, organization, complete address, telephone number(s), email address.
Billing and Payment Information.
Shipping Information: name, organization, complete address.
Ministry Awareness Information: how you heard about the message and ministries of The Christian Contingent and your involvement, if any.
Information You Wish to Share: questions, comments, suggestions, referrals, testimonials.
Your Requests for Updates: Upon your approval, we will send periodic communications soliciting your prayer requests and updating you on upcoming events, online devotionals, available resources, newsletters, and fund-raising appeals.

Note: We are PCI DSS compliant and do not collect and store credit card information.

Consumer Privacy Rights

Laws in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia provide consumer-residents with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. The Christian Contingent provides the rights as described below to consumers residing ANYWHERE.

Right to Know

You have the right to request twice per 12-month period that we disclose to you certain information about our collection, use, disclosure, and sale of your Personal Information over the past 12 months, including: (i) the categories or specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you; (ii) the categories of sources from which your Personal Information was collected; (iii) the business or commercial purpose(s) for which we collected your Personal Information; (iv) the categories of third parties with whom we shared your Personal Information; (v) the categories of third parties to whom we sold your Personal Information; and (vi) our business or commercial purposes for selling Personal Information.

Note: We do not sell any personal information!!!

We are not permitted to provide access to specific pieces of Personal Information if the Personal Information is sensitive or creates a high risk of potential harm from disclosure to an unauthorized person such as financial information, social security numbers, and driver’s license numbers. We will not provide specific pieces of Personal Information unless you expressly and properly request them.

Right to Deletion

To delete all of your online account information from our database, sign into the “My Account” section of our site and remove your shipping addresses, billing addresses & payment information. Please note that we may maintain information about an individual sales transaction in order to service that transaction and for record keeping.

You have the right to request that we delete any Personal Information we have collected about you. Please understand that we are not required to honor a deletion request if a legal exemption applies such as if we need the information to complete a requested or reasonably anticipated transaction, prevent security incidents or fraud, or comply with legal obligations.

Right to Correct

To modify your e-mail subscriptions, please let us know by modifying your preferences in the “My Account” section. Please note that due to email production schedules you may receive any emails already in production.

You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate Personal Information we maintain about you. After you request to correct inaccurate Personal Information, we will provide instructions for you to provide us with optional documentation to support your request and we will consider it.

We may decline to correct your Personal Information if we determine based on the totality of the circumstances that your Personal Information is more likely than not accurate. We may also decline to correct your Personal Information if we determine that your request is fraudulent or abusive. If your request to correct your Personal Information is denied, you may request that we note in our records and notify any Service Providers and third parties to whom we disclosed your allegedly inaccurate Personal Information that its accuracy has been disputed.

We may decide to delete your allegedly inaccurate Personal Information instead of correcting it.

Right to Opt-Out of the Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

You have the right to request that we do not sell or share your Personal Information to others. The Christian Contingent does not and will not sell or share your personal information except as outlined in this privacy policy.

We will recognize browser-based opt-out signals required by law including, without limitation, Global Privacy Control. If we receive an opt-out signal and are able to identify the consumer to whom the signal relates, we will treat the signal as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of all Personal Information we have on file for the consumer and disable related third-party cookies. If we receive an opt-out signal and are not able to identify the consumer to whom the signal relates, we will treat the signal as a request to opt out limited to the Personal Information we collect from the consumer during the online session during which the signal is present and to disable related third-party cookies.

Right to Appeal

You have the right to appeal our decision to deny, in full or in part, your exercise of consumer rights by submitting a request to appeal at Appeal@TheChristianContingent.com . If we deny your appeal, we will provide you with a written explanation of the reasons for our decision. If you are not satisfied with our explanation for the denial of your appeal, you may contact your state Attorney General to submit a complaint about the appeal results.

Non-Discrimination Notice

We will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their privacy rights under law or this Privacy Policy.

Non-Waiver Notice

We will not agree to or contract to limit or waive any consumer’s privacy rights under law or this Privacy Policy.

Submitting a Consumer Rights Request

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Virginia, or Anywhere, you may submit your request(s) by:

Sending an email to Compliance@TheChristianContingent.com, or calling us at (681) 895-2907.

If you email us, please include at least your name, mailing address, email address, and a description of your request.

After you submit your request, we may contact you to obtain additional information necessary to verify your identity. For example, we may require you to verify certain information in our files or submit a signed declaration under penalty of perjury verifying your identity. We will not process Right to Know, Deletion, or Correction requests without verifying your identity, so please respond promptly. If you do not timely respond to our requests for information, we may deny your request.

We will process verified Right to Know, Right to Correct, and Right to Deletion requests within 45 days of receipt, subject to any applicable exemptions and extensions permitted by law up to 90 days. If you request access to specific Personal Information and that information creates a high risk of potential harm from disclosure to an unauthorized person, we will withhold that information and replace it with a category identifier. For example, if we withhold a social security number, we will inform you that we have a social security number on file. If you have an online account with us, we will provide the response to your request via the online account, otherwise, we will give you the option to choose between mail and electronic delivery. We will retain a copy of your deletion request for at least two years as required by law.

We will process requests to opt-out of the sale or sharing of Personal Information within 15 business days of receipt. This is not necessary as The Christian Contingent does not sell or share any Personal Information except as outlined in this privacy policy.

We will process verified Right to Appeal requests within the timeframes established by your state’s privacy law, but generally within 45 days of receipt.

Authorized Agent

If you are an authorized agent submitting a request on behalf of a consumer (other than a request to opt-out of the sale or sharing of Personal Information), you must provide a copy of a lawful power of attorney or a written signed authorization from the consumer along with proof of your identity. You may provide this documentation via email to Compliance@TheChristianContingent.com after submitting the request. We may contact you and the consumer on whose behalf you claim to act to verify your identity, the consumer’s identity, and your authorization to act on the consumer’s behalf.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect such Personal Information from unauthorized access, disclosure, and use. But remember that even with these safeguards, no data transmission over the Internet or other network, as well as any method of electronic storage, can be guaranteed 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect information transmitted on or through our Sites or Services, we cannot guarantee its absolute security, and you use our Sites and Services at your own risk.

Other Websites & App Stores

Please be aware that third-party websites accessible through the Sites or recommended through our Services may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. If you access our applications through an app store such as the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, or Roku Channel Store, your interactions with those stores and the manufacturer of the device you are using will be governed by their respective privacy policies. We are not responsible for any actions, content of websites, or privacy policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information.

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.

Children’s Information and Privacy

We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Our Services do not address and are not intended for anyone under the age of 18. The Christian Contingent does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. In the case we discover that anyone under the age of 18 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our database. If a parent or guardian (or anyone) believes that The Christian Contingent has in its database the personally-identifiable information of anyone under the age of 18, please contact us immediately at Compliance@TheChristianContingent.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated on: April 1, 2024 and we may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page frequently for any changes, revisions or amendments. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately upon posting. You will be deemed to have been made aware of and have accepted the changes by your continued use of our Sites or Services. If we determine that a change to this Privacy Policy will result in using your Personal Information acquired before the change being used in a materially new way, we will provide you notice before using your Personal Information in the new way.

Conflict Between this Policy and Laws and Regulations

When federal, state, or local laws and regulations require a higher level of protection for your Personal Information, they take precedence over this Privacy Policy. The specific requirements of this Privacy Policy apply unless disallowed by applicable laws or regulations.

Other Third-Party Disclosures

We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We may disclose Personal Information and any other information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties if, in our discretion, we believe it is necessary or appropriate to respond to legal requests (including court orders, investigative demands, and subpoenas), to protect the safety, property, or rights of ourselves, consumers, or any other third party, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with law.

In the past twelve months, we have disclosed the following categories of Personal Information to the following categories of third parties:

Government officials: Identifiers
Law enforcement and courts: Identifiers
Parties to litigation: Identifiers

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Sites, Services, or this Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at Compliance@TheChristianContingent.com.