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Website Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Date: 05/02/2024

Version: 1.0

 

Introduction

Valley Parkway Church of Christ and its affiliates (hereinafter, "Valley Parkway" or "we," "us," or "our") constructed this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") because we believe that your privacy is paramount. We are committed to protecting the personal information you share with us through valleyparkway.org or any other website or application controlled or operated by us (referred to as "Website") and connected services we provide for website or other formats (referred to as "Services"). As a note from the congregation, the Valley Parkway is a not for profit organization, and therefore, provides by enlarge free services, products, and benefits through the website, which is frequently what will be referred to as “Services”. This privacy policy outlines how Valley Parkway and its subsidiaries directly or indirectly collect, use, and safeguard your data, as well as how you can manage your personal information ("Personal Information"). Our Privacy Policy is subject to, and incorporated by reference to, our Terms and Conditions.

 

Valley Parkway is a controller or responsible party for the practices described in this Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Information we process while performing Services provided to our clients and customers. Valley Parkway is not responsible for user data security practices that differ from the policies covered in this Privacy Policy.

 

By visiting the Website or using our Services provided by Valley Parkway, you acknowledge and agree that you have read this privacy policy and agree to the collection, use, and other processing of your information in accordance with the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to all of the terms, conditions, and practices set forth herein, do not access the Website or any of our Services.

 

Data Collection

The nonpublic Person Information we collect directly or indirectly will vary based on the Services utilized. We may collect any of the following types of Personal Information:

  • Information provided through a form, application, or any other communications with us, including but not limited to first name, last name, email address, phone number, street address, or company information.

  • Information we collect about you or collected from a third party source pertaining to your transactions with us, our affiliates, and others.

  • Information collected during a verification process when you register for Services, including but not limited to, username, password, secret questions, and secret answers for resetting passwords.

  • Information obtain automatically from your browser, mobile device, or other devices, including but not limited to, Internet Protocol (IP) address, type of device, operating systems, browser type, geographic location, pages you visit, information you request, and the date and time of your access.

 

Use of Your Data

Valley Parkway uses the list of Personal Information in the Data Collection section above only as permitted by the law, including the following purposes:

  • To complete transactions and provide the Services authorized by users.

  • General business uses, including but not limited to, diagnosing problems on the Website, sending information to your user account, providing access to your user account, notifying you of new products, features, or services being released, verifying your identity, determining and confirming your transaction limits, to perform collections, troubleshooting problems, analyzing Services, the Website, or other products, enforcing our Terms and Conditions for our Services, to protect our rights and property, and to customize, measure, and improve our Services.

  • For other business purposes such as data analysis, trend identification, reviewing the effectiveness of our Services, and enhancing, customizing, and improving the features provided to our customers.

  • To comply with and enforce legal requirements where applicable as well as to prevent, detect, investigate potential prohibited behavior and criminal activity.

  • To personalize our marketing communications and improve our marketing activities.

If customers discontinue Services, we may continue to store and protect your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and as required by the law.

 

Data Sharing

We will never sell your Personal Information. In the circumstances below, we may disclose or share your Personal Information:

  • Affiliated Companies - We may disclose Personal Information with companies that are affiliated with us (for example, companies that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with us). We may also disclose Personal Information that is collected between websites that we, or our affiliates, control.

  • Organizations that Provide Services - We may disclose your Personal Information with companies that perform services for us, such as credit, product development, and data processing vendors. The information shared with these companies typically includes Personal Information to process transactions on your behalf, conduct our operations, follow your instructions as you authorize, or protect the security of our records. We may also disclose your Personal Information with third parties described below in the Cookies Section.

  • Potential Buyers - In the event that we go through a business transition, such as a merger, another company acquires us or our affiliates, or we sell a portion of our assets, your Personal Information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. Any successor entity shall be bound by terms and conditions reasonably similar to this Privacy Notice.

  • Other Parties - We may disclose your Personal Information with other parties to comply with a legal obligation; to protect the legal rights of (or otherwise participate in a legal process pertaining to) our company, our employees, our agents, our clients, and our affiliates; to protect the safety and security of our visitors, or to protect against fraud; or otherwise with your consent or as allowed by applicable law.

  • We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

We reserve the right to disclose any Personal Information about you or your use of this website without your prior permission if we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (i) protect and defend our rights, property or safety or that or those of our affiliates, other users of this website, or the public; (ii) enforce the Terms and Conditions or other terms for this website; or (iii) respond to claims that any content violates any law or the rights of third parties.

 

Data Security

We prioritize the security of your data. We aim to protect your Personal Information through our systems of organizational a technical security measures. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

 

Cookie Policy

Effective Date: 01-November-2024 | Last Updated: 01-November-2024

What are cookies?

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

How do we use cookies?

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

 

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

Types of Cookies we use

Necessary

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

Cookie

Duration

Description

ssr-caching

Less than a minute

The ssr-caching cookie is set by WIX and indicates how a site was rendered.

hs

session

Wix platform sets this cookie for security purposes.

svSession

1 year 1 month 4 days

Wix platform sets this cookie to identify unique visitors and track a visitor’s session on a site.

XSRF-TOKEN

session

Wix set this cookie for security purposes.

bSession

1 hour

Wix set this cookie in context with load balancing to improve user experience.

Analytics

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

Cookie

Duration

Description

_ga

1 year 1 month 4 days

Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors.

_gid

1 day

Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.

_hjSessionUser_*

1 year

Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site.

_hjSession_*

1 hour

Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site.

_fbp

3 months

Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website.

_gat_gtag_UA_*

1 minute

Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID.

_ga_*

1 year 1 month 4 days

Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.

Uncategorized

Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.

Cookie

Duration

Description

debug

never

No description available.

Manage Cookie Preferences

Cookie Settings

You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.

 

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.

If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.

 

Your Privacy Rights

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you are entitled to certain rights over your data. These include the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the use of your personal information. For inquiries or requests regarding your data, please contact us at contact@valleyparkway.org.

 

Changes to This Policy

Valley Parkway is continuously making improvements to our Services. As our Services change, updates could me made or amended to this Privacy Policy. If we modify this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy online. The revised Privacy Policy will be effective immediately at the time of posting, unless a later effective date is expressly stated therein. We will also revise the “Last updated” date stated below.

 

It is your responsibility to periodically review this Privacy Policy. Users are bound by any changes to this Privacy Policy by using our Services after such changes have been first posted. If you do not agree to the new posted Privacy Policy, your only remedy is to discontinue use of the website.

 

Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email at contact@valleyparkway.org.

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