Privacy Policy
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the FaithStories.org Terms of Use. Your use of the FaithStories.org Sites and any personal information you provide on the FaithStories.org Sites remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Notice and our Terms of Use. Please note that any video, image, or other content posted at the direction of Users onto the FaithStories.org Sites becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Notice.
You can watch videos, contact us and read the daily scriptures without having an account on faithstories.org. In order to upload a video, post comments, flag a video - you must have an account on faithstories.org. When you register for a faithstories.org account, you will have to answer some personal questions, like your e-mail address and a password. This will protect your account from being used without your consent.
We reserve the right to record information about your usage, such as what videos you view and how often you come onto our website. Any personal information you voluntarily disclose on our website is publicly available and can be viewed and used by others. We do not use your e-mail address or other personal information to send marketing or advertising messages without your consent. We may send you an e-mail using your e-mail address to send you information about any changes regarding faithstories.org that you should be aware of or any customer service issues that come up.
Information that is publicly available:
When you create an account on faithstories.org, some information that you provide will be made available to other users. This information could be when you opened the account, when you last were on the site, your age, or how many videos you have uploaded. Your account name is displayed to other viewers whenever you upload a video or send messages on faithstories.org. Other users can send you messages and comments using your display name. If you choose to add certain features on your profiles page, certain information will be made available to other users, such as your favorite videos page and what videos you have uploaded. Any video you upload on faithstories.org can be redistributed through our site, and made available to the general public. You may decline to submit personal information to our website and still be able to view videos. However, Faithstories.org cannot provide you with any services. You may update your personal account information at any time by going to your account profile page.
Information that FaithStories.org collects:
You provide certain personally identifiable information (such as your name and email address) to FaithStories.org when choosing to participate in various activities on the FaithStories.org Sites such as uploading videos, posting messages in our forums or in the video comments section, entering contests or sweepstakes, taking advantage of promotions, responding to surveys, or subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists. When you visit the FaithStories.org Sites, we may send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. FaithStories.org uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the FaithStories.org Sites may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled. When you use the FaithStories.org Sites, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include 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. When you use the FaithStories.org Sites, 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.
When FaithStories.org Discloses Information:
We provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our privacy policy, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) with other, third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We do share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the FaithStories.org Sites. We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright Law) or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant. FaithStories.org also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that FaithStories.org believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our web site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of FaithStories.org, our Users or others.
Data Security:
If FaithStories.org learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. FaithStories.org may post a notice on the FaithStories.org Sites if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive a free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice) you should notify us using this contact form.
Protecting Your Children:
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, FaithStories.org does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on the FaithStories.org Sites from persons under 13 years of age without the verified consent and permission of a parent or legal guardian. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the FaithStories.org Sites at any time or in any manner without parental consent and supervision. If FaithStories.org learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on the FaithStories.org Sites without verified parental consent, then FaithStories.org will take immediate and appropriate steps to delete this information. At all times, FaithStories.org strives to protect children and provide a family-friendly site.
In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy
In the event that FaithStories.org is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors’ rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.
Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites:
FaithStories.org allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the FaithStories.org Sites. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the FaithStories.org Sites. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see. FaithStories.org does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks FaithStories.org to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, men ages 18-34) or audience segment (for example, men ages 18-24 who have viewed certain channels of content) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the FaithStories.org Sites, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. FaithStories.org’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
Changes and updates to this Privacy Notice:
This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the “effective date’s” above. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received the personal information you provided. Your continued use of the FaithStories.org Sites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.
For revisions to this Privacy Notice that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of the personal information you have already provided to us, we will attempt to obtain your consent before implementing such revisions with respect to such information.
