Who we are
Our website address is: https://christianonlinebiblestudy.com.
Christian Online Bible Study
P. O. Box 491328
Lawrenceville, GA 30049
General Privacy Policy Overview:
In the course of normal operation, Christian Online Bible Study may actively or passively collect certain information about website visitors. This information might include the origin of visitors’ connection, visitors’ actions while viewing the website, any data entered by the visitor onto any form or forum hosted by Christian Online Bible Study, including visitors’ email addresses, IP addresses or other information. We do NOT guarantee protection of this data from hackers or others who may happen to intercept such information through illicit means.
The website owner may use user information in routine operation of the site, and may contact visitors by email, depending upon whether you have requested contact via a comment on this site or via email contact. Visitors’ personally identifiable information may be available to outside third parties whose software is used to integrate functions of this site, such as our course management platform and any affiliate programs in which we participate (See Advertising Policy and Affiliate Compensation pages for information about those programs.) Otherwise, except in cases where it is legally required that such information be disclosed or if this website should ever be sold to or acquired by a third party, we don’t sell our visitor’s personally identifiable information to any third party.
On some pages, visitors enter information and select options which allow the display of their personal information. If a visitor selects a display option, such information, by nature of the Internet, is visible worldwide to anyone visiting that page. Visitors accept all responsibility whatsoever for the display of their personal information on forums, message boards, or other portions of this website where personally identifiable information is entered. Visitors should be clear that if you enter your information in a message board, comment section, or elsewhere within this website and courseware, then your name is displayed along with any information shared in your message or comment.
Under our privacy policy, by using this site and entering your own information, you agree the owner, heirs, or any other party involved in the operations of the Christian Online Bible Study’ website are held harmless in all matters regarding the display of information you have provided when using the courseware platform and tools in this website., Furthermore, you agree not to sue any of the above named parties for any outcome whatsoever stemming from your use of this website. Furthermore, users agree not to post any personally identifiable information regarding any other party and users doing so accept all liability whatsoever for their actions.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we retain the data the user enters into the comments form. The visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string are also collected to help with spam detection and blocking.
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.
When you leave a comment and enter your name and email address, that information is visible to Administrators of this website. Administrators may email you directly if you’ve asked a question that would benefit from a personalized email response. Your email address and the information you enter into the comment form(s) will be retained indefinitely, unless you request your information be removed. If you request your information to be removed, your comment will also be deleted.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Other visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the web, so it is your responsibility to make sure you do not upload embedded information.
Contact forms
If you contact us via email, the email is often downloaded and read on a personal computing device. The information you send via email is not secure. Your information is used to respond to requests you may send via email. In addition to your email address and information you enter into the contact form, your IP address is logged and it will be able to be associated with any other information you enter into the contact form. The IP address is used to block users who abuse contact or comment forms on this website.
Cookies
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 from your last use or longer, unless you delete the cookie from your computer system.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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 from your last use. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist. 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.
This website participates in several affiliate and commission-based programs. The providers we link to often set their own cookies to track your visit if you click on one of their links. Those companies’ cookies are active for varied intervals of time in which we may receive commissions if you purchase a product from their website. To determine their individual cookies policies, visit the site(s) of the companies with which we partner. The primary companies we have an affiliate relationship with are Google Adsense, Amazon, Facebook, Rakuten, and Christian Book Distributors. Please visit their privacy policies to see the specific details about the cookies they set to track your visits to affiliates’ websites.
Embedded content from other websites
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. You should visit the website of the entity that produced the embedded content to determine their privacy policy. We have no control over the privacy operations of third party entities.
Analytics
We don’t directly share visitor information with other parties, but information you enter on our website that is displayed publicly, like in a comment, is visible to any other visitor to the website.
You should be aware that your IP address is used to track your visit to our website. Visits are tracked by Google analytics, by our security Firewall provider, and by our webhost. The information provided to us by these tools other than the IP address is not personally identifiable, but includes demographic information such as country of origin, time of day visited, links you followed when coming to or departing from our site, etc. Your IP address, while provided to us through these tracking tools, does not enable us to determine your individual personally identifiable information.
How long we retain your data
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. You can request we delete your comment at any time by providing your name, email address, and approximate date of your comment and we will delete your comment.
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 own personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Visitor data is also tracked by Google Analytics. We do not sell information about our visitors.
Our contact information:
Our mailing address is listed at the beginning of this privacy policy statement. You can also contact us via email at: SandyKC at this site’s domain.
Additional information
How we protect your data
Data protection on this website is provided through standard protection protocols of our hosting provider, which is Hostgator. Additionally, we have security protection programs on this website in an attempt to prevent hackers from accessing any information.
If you send us an email, that information is usually downloaded to a personal computing device to be read. If someone intercepts your email, hacks into the personal computer, or steals the device and obtains access, your information could be read by an unintended third party.
Our data protection measures include using typical consumer market protections through WordPress security plugins and Virus protection software on our computers.
What data breach procedures we have in place
If our computers are breached, we will work to recover any data that may be lost and will work with our security and hosting providers to determine what data may have been compromised. Since a data breach may result in the loss of all information we have on hand, we will contact users identified by email addresses regarding data breaches to the greatest extent that we are able to do so from recovered or identified data.
What third parties we receive data from
Through our affiliate relationships, we may be aware of purchases you have made through our affiliate links with them. See our Advertisement Policy to see which advertisers with which we have partnered.
We receive non-personally identifiable information about our visitors through Google Analytics.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Other than automatic hacker and spam blocking tools we use, we don’t have any integrated, automated decision making built into our systems at this time. We do have options for you to sign up for notifications of when a course launches. If you sign up for those notifications, the email address you enter will be used to notify you at the time that the course launches.