Privacy Policy

Greetings from www.activatedministries.org and welcome to our site! We (Activated Ministries) extend the following information to assure you, our guest, that we are concerned about and respect your privacy while visiting our Web site. At www.activatedministries.org we have gone to great lengths to ensure that all personal information and credit card data is treated with the highest standards of safety and confidentiality.

Shopping Security

Orders placed on our site are encrypted using industry standard technologies such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Secure Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP-S). When implemented on both the browser and server, SSL ensures that your credit card data will not be read as it is traveling over the Internet and that it will arrive unaltered at our server. You can be assured that placing your order through our Web site is as safe as placing your order by phone or by mail.

Please note, however, that e-mail is not encrypted and is not considered a secure means of transmitting credit card data. E-mail is a great communication tool, but is not recommended for use when placing an order with www.activatedministries.org. If you still have questions or concerns about ordering electronically, please call our Order Department at 1-877-862-3228 to place your order by phone. Our Order Department operates from Monday through Friday, 10 am-4 pm, PST. Or you can direct your questions by e-mail to sales@activatedministries.org.

Collection of Information

www.activatedministries.org does not collect personal information without your knowledge while you are visiting our web site. The information we collect is only the information necessary to facilitate our response to your specific request such as your name and contact information. If you use our online store, www.activatedministries.org will collect the information necessary to complete this transaction which may include your contact information, credit card number and other transaction information. www.activatedministries.org also requires you to submit a user name and password of your choice for future access to your information. Your user name and password is to remain confidential and you should not share this information with anyone.

Online Privacy & Information Sharing

We are committed to ensuring your privacy on-line. Because of this, we will not sell or exchange your on-line information with third parties. The on-line information we collect is the minimum needed in order to process your order and provide you with the quickest and most convenient shopping experience possible.

We use outside shipping companies (UPS & The US Postal Service) to ship orders, and a credit card processing company (Authorize.net) to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

We have an affiliate program with christian sites, if you clicked through to our site from one of our affiliates sites and you place an order, we may share the following information about you with our affiliate; your name, phone number email address, and order information. It's against our affiliate policy for the affiliate share this information and or to send unsolicited commercial email (commonly know as SPAM), please call 1-877-862-3228 or email sales@activatedministries.org if you have any concerns about this information sharing.

Registration

In order to process your orders using this website, you must first complete the registration form. During registration you are required to give your contact information, which include name, e-mail, telephone number and physical address. This information is used to contact you about the services on our site such as sending automated order status updates.

Orders

Most of the information collected in the registration process will be used to process orders. In the order process, a user must provide additional financial information such as credit card number, expiration date. This information is used for billing purposes and to fulfill customer’s orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user. We do not share your financial information with any third parties. The only exception is when processing your credit card information with the merchant bank for authorization and approval. This process is protected by SSL and a hash verification.

Cookies

With respect to cookies, we use cookies to customize Web page content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site, however you will be unable to use our shopping cart to purchase items online. This is because cookies are used by the shopping cart to retain information necessary to process your order. If you disable cookies, we will not be able to accept your order online. We do not share any cookie information with any third party sites. Cookies are used strictly for the purpose of enhancing your personal experience with our site and do not store any personal information.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We do not distribute or share IP information with any third parties.

Emails Newsletters and Updates

If you choose to receive newsletters, emails of site updates or product offers, www.activatedministries.org will send you such information. These are sent only to customers who grant www.activatedministries.org permission to send such information. www.activatedministries.org does not share your information with third parties and does not solicit outside parties to send special offers on our behalf. If you wish to receive these emails you must specify so when creating an account or by editing your account settings. All email newsletters and offers sent via e-mail have a "remove link" if you wish to no longer receive special offers and news.

Notification of Changes

If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.