Personal Information
Your privacy on the Internet is extremely important to us. Because you give us personal information, we believe you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding what we do with that information. This privacy statement discloses the information we gather, how we use it, and how you can correct or change it.
Here's What We Do with Your Internet Provider (IP) Address
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart and to gather broad demographic information.
Here's Why We Place a Cookie on Your Hard Drive
billwinston.org uses a feature of your Internet Web browser that is called a "cookie." A "cookie" is a file that your Web browser places on your computer's hard drive. When you initially log on to www.billwinston.org, we create a "cookie" for your computer and then use it to track your clicks as you go through the Web site. Approximately 95% of eCommerce websites use "cookies" to help make their shopping cart work.
Our website uses cookies:
- To keep track of items you put into your shopping cart
- To tell us whether you've visited www.billwinston.org previously
To help determine whether you came to www.billwinston.org from a particular Internet link or banner advertisement.
To remember who you are. This allows us to auto fill-in forms with information that you have previously entered.
There is no personal information stored within the cookie itself and the data included in the cookie is useful only to www.billwinston.org. We do not and cannot use cookies to retrieve personal information about you from your computer. Cookies cannot be used by www.billwinston.org to retrieve any personal information about you unless you have previously purchased from or contacted www.billwinston.org using one of our online forms.
The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of our website's most popular features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
This Is Who Gets Your Information
Information about our customers are an important part of our
business, but we are not in the business of selling it to others.
We
use your information to notify you of missions work, speaking engagements, new
products for Dr. Bill Winston and Dr. Veronica Winston or conference materials.
Protection of www.billwinston.org and Others
We release account and other personal information when we believe that it is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce or apply our Terms of Use/Conditions or protect the rights, property, or safety of www.billwinston.org, our users, or Living Word Christian Center.
Our registration form asks you to provide us with information about yourself which will allow us to help you in the following ways.
- Process your orders accurately and quickly
Protect your privacy
Allow us to contact you with your requested information
When You Place an Order, This Is What We Do With the Information
- Verify and charge your credit card
Ship the order you requested
Contact you with customer service related questions
Send you product catalogs and information as they become available
Notify you with requested information
We'll Protect You When You're On Our Site
www.billwinston.org may contain optional links to partners and third party Internet sites and services that may collect data from you or your computer. Please be aware that if you choose to leave our site via a link, www.billwinston.org assumes no responsibility for the privacy practices or the content of other web sites.
You Can Use Your Credit Cards Safely
www.billwinston.org uses a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. All user contact information is contained behind secured networks and is accessible only by a limited number of trusted employees who have special access rights to production systems. Passwords are encrypted in www.billwinston.org’s secure database, which is also located behind secured networks. All sensitive/credit information supplied by users is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
How to Remove Your Name from Our Newsletter/Mailing List
billwinston.org gives members the following options for removing their e-mail address from our database so you will not receive future communications:
- Send an email message to: webmaster@bwm.org.
Click on the unsubscribe link on any subscription mail you receive (and follow the directions located on the bottom of each email).
Send a letter to the following postal address:
Bill Winston Ministries
Attn: Marketing and Communications
P.O. Box 947
Oak Park, IL 60303
Call the following telephone number: (708) 697-5100.
All Other Questions
If you have additional questions about this privacy statement, the practices of www.billwinston.org, or your dealings with this website, please email us at webmaster@bwm.org or write us at:
Bill Winston Ministries
Attn: Marketing and Communications
P.O. Box 947
Oak Park, IL 60303