PowerChurch Software is the provider of the Empower ChMS website, software, and related services (collectively, “Services”), and is committed to protecting the privacy of the users of our Services and software. This privacy policy (the “Policy”) discloses PowerChurch Software’s information privacy practices for the Services and is intended to inform users of PowerChurch Software’s data collection and use practices.
By using PowerChurch Software’s Services, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
In order to use certain portions of the Services, you will be required to register with PowerChurch Software. When you register as a Services user or otherwise voluntarily contact PowerChurch Software, PowerChurch Software may collect certain personally identifiable information from you. This information may include your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, and other information volunteered by you, such as information provided through responses, registration, reviews, emails, messages, and other electronic submissions sent by you to PowerChurch Software as well as personally identifiable information regarding others that is input by you. You should not provide PowerChurch Software with any personally identifiable information (or submit any personally identifiable information to or through PowerChurch Software or any affiliated forums) unless you would like that information to be used by PowerChurch Software in accordance with this Policy.
PowerChurch Software may also automatically collect non-personally identifiable information from you when you access the Services, including but not limited to your Internet Protocol (“IP”) Address, the type of browser you use to access our website, the website you visited before you visited our website, and/or the website you visit when you leave our website.
PowerChurch Software will NOT share personally identifiable information belonging to or input by you with any third parties, including individuals, businesses, or government entities, without your consent. PowerChurch Software will share your personally identifiable information if required to do so by law, court order, subpoena, or other legal process or in the event you violate our terms and conditions. PowerChurch Software may use your information, including sharing such information with third-party affiliates, to provide you with the services you request, provide targeted mailings regarding products and services directly related to our Services, and improve the Services.
In addition, PowerChurch Software, or our third-party content server, may collect certain personally and non-personally identifiable information, including, for example, your IP address, to diagnose problems with our servers or software, to administer our site, to gather demographic information, and to provide information about your use of our site.
The Services, and any other affiliated forums, are not directed to children under eighteen (18) years of age. PowerChurch Software does not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children under eighteen (18) years of age. Users of the Services may collect such information at their own risk and subject to their own privacy policies.
We will not and do not sell, trade, or rent your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties unaffiliated with PowerChurch Software. We provide some of our services through contractual arrangements with affiliates, services providers, partners, and other third parties (collectively, “service partners”). We and our service partners may use your Personally Identifiable Information to operate our site and to deliver our services. For example, we may work with a service partner in order to receive payment for products and services purchased from us. We may also release your address information to a service partner to deliver products that you order, offer additional services related to our products and services, and/or provide order information to service partners that help us provide customer service.
Our service partners as well as other third-party websites that may be linked to our Services have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. PowerChurch Software is not responsible for any actions or privacy policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing personally identifiable information through linked websites.
In the event you desire for PowerChurch Software to delete your personal information it may have recorded, you may contact us at (828) 665-1818 or info@powerchurch.com. We will make best efforts to comply with such requests within 30-60 days depending on the complexity of the actions necessary to comply with the request. PowerChurch Software is not, of course, able to delete all data entirely inasmuch as retention of certain data is required by law, useful for reasons of public interest, or otherwise necessary and reasonable in view of the law and PowerChurch Software’s potential legal positions.
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards, including the use of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to encrypt all personal information.
“Cookies” are commonly used pieces of information in the form of small files that are placed on a computer hard drive to enable you to more easily communicate and interact with certain Services. PowerChurch Software may use cookies on its Services, although none of the cookies contain any personally identifiable information.
Changes to this PowerChurch Software Privacy Policy will be posted on the Services. Such changes will be effective when posted to the Services, so please check this page periodically. Your continued use of the Services and/or affiliated forums, constitutes your acceptance of any changes to the Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at (800) 486-1800 or (828) 665-1818 or info@powerchurch.com.