Privacy Policy

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Our core mission is to come alongside public servants and public servant leaders to offer support, principle-centered leadership development; and, a safe place of refuge, strength and encouragement, without religious biases, judgment or political agendas as we serve as an authentic voice, source and resource for our faith in public arenas. 

CIPS is a Christ-centered non-profit organization organized and located in Texas. The success of our organization requires that we earn your trust, by doing our utmost to preserve your privacy and the security of your personal information; and, by clearly informing you of how we use your information.

This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected on our website.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

CIPS collects personal information when you create an account, create a subscription, make a donation, make a purchase, or use site links to otherwise communicate with us. This information includes, for example, your first and last names, postal address, telephone number, email address, and other demographic information. For online transactions, we also request your credit card number, expiration date, and may request your Card Security Code [CSC, CVV2, or CCID] number. We never store your credit card information, which constitutes your credit card number, expiration date, and security code. If you request for your credit card information to be saved, CIPS keeps a representation of the card that is only meaningful to the payment processor in order to ensure the security and efficiency of any future transaction that you request. Any credit card information that we request is done for the purpose of effectively fulfilling your request. 

 NETWORK AND USAGE INFORMATION

Our systems automatically collect the IP address of the computer you use to visit our website, and track the number of site visitors and the number of visits to each page and resource on the website. This information cannot be used to identify a specific person.

We may also collect information about how you interact with our pages. This may include information such as dates and time you visit, the page you view, referring / exit URLS, your browser type, and the domain name of your internet service provider. In some cases, we may collect this information through cookies and similar technologies. To learn more about these technologies, please see the “Cookies and Similar Technologies” section below.

HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We use personal information primarily to serve your specific needs and fulfill your specific requests, at your personal direction. We may also share your personal information with external service providers who help us better serve you, under strict contractual terms that preserve your privacy and prevent any misuse of your personal information. Examples of such service providers include, but are not limited to, credit card processors. In addition to the uses mentioned or described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may add personal information to our database.

We may also use personal information to send you communications regarding our fundraising efforts, and other promotional and marketing material. You have the right to opt-out of these communications if you so choose. To opt-out of email communications, please click the opt-out link located at the bottom of each email. 

We use network information to help us understand how people use our website, to administer the site, and to get trend-level information about site visitors and how they reached our site.

Other reasons for which we may use your information include:

1. operating and providing websites;
2. improving our services;
3. security purposes;
4. sending information that you request from us, including responding to inquiries or requests for information about or from us;
5. other business purposes, including, without limitation, verifying your payment details, investigating complaints and advertising;
6. complying with or as permitted by any our policies and any applicable legal requirements; and
7. engaging in other activities discussed under this Privacy Policy or by us in our discretion.

HOW WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION  WE COLLECT

We may share personal information with our affiliated entities or third parties, such as trusted service providers, to help provide the services, deliver our services, process payments, perform statistical analysis, protect against potential fraud, or perform any other functions consistent with the operation of the organization.

YOUR INFORMATION IS NEVER SOLD, RENTED OR LEASED

Any personal information you enter into our website and any information you provide via phone, email, or social media, is kept confidential. We will not sell, rent, lease, or exchange your information with any other organization, except for those service providers who help us serve you under contract, as described in the preceding section of this policy, or if legally required to do so, such as by law, regulation, court order, subpoena, search warrant, or in response to privacy processes, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of CIPS or its personnel.

COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

At our discretion, we may send a small file, commonly called a “cookie,” to your computer. Our web servers use cookies to recognize you when you visit our site, and potentially to identify which areas or site features you have used. We may use cookies to personalize your online experience at our website. Cookies cannot damage your computer, nor can they read data from your hard drive. 

A “web beacon”, also known as an Internet tag, pixel tag, or clear GIF, links web pages to web servers and cookies and may be used to transmit information collected through cookies back to a web server. The information that we and our third party service providers may track with cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies may include the type of browser (such as Google Chrome or Internet Explorer) and internet-connected devices being used to access services, your IP address, your home domain or Internet service provider, your referrer URL, which specific pages you access, how long you view each page, the time and date, and the total number of visitors.

You have the option, through changing your browser settings, of refusing all cookies, or of being notified when a website attempts to send a cookie to your browser. If you choose not to accept cookies, your online experience may be restricted, and some site features may not operate as designed.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, together with other analytics services, in order to better understand your use of our website and how we can improve them. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit a website, what pages you visit when you do so, and what other websites you used prior to coming to such website. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit a website, rather than your name or other directly identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with your personal information. Although Google Analytics plants a persistent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit a website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google Analytics uses its cookie(s) and the information Google Analytics collects to track your online activities over time and across different websites. 

SECURE CREDIT CARD PROCESSING

CIPS uses Secure Sockets Layer [SSL] technology to securely encrypt data sent during credit card transactions. Credit card numbers entered into our website are not retained on our online systems, but are passed to our credit card processor. You can be confident that your online transactions are secured to the highest standards set by the credit card processing industry.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only keep your personal information for so long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is permitted or required by law.

QUESTIONS

If you have any further questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at info@christiansinpublicservice.org.