Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is hosted by Anointing Fire Catholic Ministries, Attapadi, Kerala, India and Anointing Fire Catholic Media, Bangalore, India on their website "afcmmedia.org" hereinafter referred to as its "Site". The terms "We", "Us" or "Our" shall refer to Anointing Fire Catholic Ministries, Attapadi, Kerala, India and Anointing Fire Catholic Media, Bangalore, India. The terms "You", "Your", "Yourself", "Parties" shall refer to any individual or entity who accepts this Agreement. If you continue to browse and use our Site, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by our Privacy Policy , together with our Terms of Use, which governs our relationship with you in relation to this Site. If you disagree with any part of our legal policies please do not use our Site.
This statement outlines our general policy and practices for protecting personal information, including the types of information we gather, how we use it, and the choices individuals may exercise regarding our use of that information.
1. Log Files:
1.0 Our Site uses standard web analytics tools which automatically gather limited information about visitors to our Site and stores this anonymous information in server log files. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, basic IP information, referring pages, operating system used and date/time stamps. This information does not identify individual users. It is used only for administration of our Site as well as for analysis of Site usage and trends.
2. Cookies:
2.0 Our Site uses cookies to identify you and your interests and to track your use of our Site. We also use cookies to control access to certain content on our Site and to process any subscription requests that you make with us. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, thereby giving yourself a chance to decide whether or not to accept it, or you can refuse all cookies by turning them off in your web browser.
2.1 We have contracted with third parties for our Site administration and evaluation. These third parties have been contracted to track and analyze anonymous usage and volume statistical information from our visitors. All data collected by such third parties on behalf of us is used solely by or on behalf of us and is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. These third parties use persistent cookies to help us improve visitor experience, manage our Site content, and track visitor behaviour.
3. Links to Other websites:
3.0 Our Site may contain links to third party websites that are not controlled by us in any way. If you click on these links, you will be automatically leaving our Site. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by us of the third party, the third party site, or the information contained therein, and we shall not be responsible or liable of your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policies applicable to those sites. Please be aware of this when you click on any such links; we are not responsible for the privacy practices and/or policies of any site other than our own.
4. Personally identifiable information:
4.0 Our Site collects personally-identifiable information on certain areas of our Site which includes and is not restricted to purchase of products, subscription sign ups, membership registrations, requests for publications, signing up for events and providing feedback. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
4.1 The personally-identifiable information collected may consist of information such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card number, bank information and any other information as required to be provided depending on the service opted by you on the Site.
4.2 In addition, we may collect certain information that you do not visibly enter, such as your IP address, browsing pattern on our Website, click stream data, HTTP protocol elements, and the status of cookies placed on your computer.
5. Use of the personally identifiable data:
5.0 We primarily use your personally-identifiable information to process your requests for the purpose as initiated or requested by you on the Site.
5.1 We may also keep any of your personally-identifiable information on our records and use it to contact you for reasons that may include and is not restricted to informing you of our events or for any other purpose as may deem appropriate and suitable to us.
5.2 We will not intentionally disclose or transfer (and shall take reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure) of your personally-identifiable information to third parties (i.e., persons or entities that are not our affiliates) without your consent, except as follows:
5.2.1. We may provide access to your personally-identifiable information to third party vendors engaged by us to provide services related to the Site; provided that such vendors will first agree to maintain strict confidentiality of such information.
5.2.2. We may also be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to legal authorities without express user consent if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules, and regulations of any applicable jurisdiction.
5.2.3. Also, in the event of a violation of the Terms of Use of or any other terms on this Site, including but not limited to a violation of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through this Site, we may disclose personal user information to affected parties and legal authorities.
6.Information shared through user forums:
6.0 This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you may disclose to appear on this Site on user forums such as feedback comments, bulletin boards and discussion forums. You should be aware that whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. We are not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users disclose in any such forums on the Site.
7. Access, change, and/or delete information provided:
7.0 You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any personally-identifiable information that you submit to our Site. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the Site.
8. Security:
8.0 We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. When users submit sensitive information via the Site(such as credit card number), their information is encrypted and is protected with encryption software.
8.1 While on a secure page, such as our Order Form page, please check for the the lock icon to be locked on the Web browsers as opposed to unlocked, or open, as will be the case for most of the time that a user is browsing the web.
8.2 Only our authorized personnel and third party vendors are provided access to personally-identifiable information, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential.
8.3 No amount of measures for securing data is completely secure. Therefore, while we strive to use reasonable and appropriate means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
9. Transborder hosting and transfer of information:
9.0 Personally-identifiable information collected on the Site may be transferred from time to time to our offices or personnel, or to third parties, located anywhere in the world, and the Site may be viewed and hosted by us or our vendors anywhere in the world, including countries that may not have laws of general applicability regulating the use and transfer of such data.
9.1 By using the Site and submitting such information on it, you voluntarily consent to such transborder transfer and hosting of information.
10. Consent; changes to privacy policy:
10.0 By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. If you do not agree with our Privacy policy, you may not use our Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time and you agree to be bound by the updated policies as and when hosted on our Site. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 28 April 2019.