Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation
1803 East Willow Grove Avenue
Glenside, PA 19038
Last Updated June, 2024
Welcome to the Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) of Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation, and its related, affiliated or subsidiary companies (“CCEF”). The purpose of this Policy is to inform you how we collect, use, and share your information when you provide such information or use CCEF’s website available at www.ccef.org (the “Site”), as well as other related CCEF’s webpages, applications and products, services or content accessible through the Site (collectively the “Services”).
When we refer to “you” or “your” in this Policy we mean any individual who interacts or uses our Services. By using the Services, you represent that you understand and agree to this Policy, and consent to the collection, use, and sharing of information as described in this Policy. If you do not consent to our practices, you can choose not to use the Services.
Privacy Policy Changes. We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time without notice. All changes are effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of the Services after changes are posted constitutes your acknowledgement of the modified privacy policy and agreement to abide and be bound by that privacy policy. For reference, the effective date of this Policy is posted at the top of this page. Therefore, it is important that you periodically check this page for changes made to this Policy.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Information You Voluntarily Provide
CCEF collects information about you when you interact with our Services including information that you voluntarily provide when you use the Services; register and create an account for any of the Services; add or update your account information; register for CCEF’s School of Biblical Counseling, CCEF’s consultations and/or counseling services, CCEF’s National Conference and/or any other CCEF event; complete the Speaker Request Form, Copyright Permission Request Form, as well as any other application, survey, questionnaire, or form of information request from CCEF; purchase our content, products and/or services; share your experience with CCEF on any of our social media accounts; sign up to CCEF’s community to receive our weekly E-News and/or our ministry updates; subscribe to CCEF’s Journal of Biblical Counseling; make any donations to CCEF; submit a Contact Intake Form, or otherwise contact us via the Site, email, mail or phone call; log into the Site or use the Services from one or more of your devices or otherwise interact with the Services. Information that we collect may depend on how you interact with CCEF and use the Services. A description of the types of information we may collect is described in detail below.
Information We Collect When You Use the Services
Automated technologies or interactions. As you navigate around the Site and/or use the Services, certain information can be collected using various technologies to help us personalize your CCEF’s experience. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, time zone setting and location, language preferences, device type and ID, and other technical information from the devices you use to access our Services.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies. We and our service providers use cookies, pixels, and other tracking technology to recognize your browser or device and to capture and remember certain information about your activities on our Services with the purpose of delivering customized and personalized services.
Information You Provide to A Third Party
We may receive information about you from third parties. We may associate this information with the other information we have collected about you as described in this Policy. The collection, use, and disclosure of information received from third parties may be governed by the third parties’ privacy policies. Please carefully review these third-party privacy policies before submitting your information to a third-party application or otherwise interacting with it to understand how your information may be collected, used, and disclosed by these third parties. We have no control over, and cannot and do not assume responsibility for the data collection and privacy practices employed by any of these third parties or their services.
USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Our primary purpose for collecting your information is to provide you with the services you request. We may also use your information for the following purposes:
INFORMATION WE SHARE
Service Providers
We may use third-party service providers to perform certain business services and may disclose your information to such service providers as needed for them to perform these business services. Service providers are only allowed to use, disclose, or retain this information to provide these services. Business services provided include, but are not limited to, hosting services; account authentication and user verification services; billing and accounting services; payment processors services; marketing, promotional and email services; customer and technical support services; quality assurance testing, and back-office support for the Services.
We use the Google reCAPTCHA tool to protect our Site from various types of abusive processing attempts. In order for this tool to work, reCAPTCHA analyzes various information that it collects from each visitor, which may include the IP address, mouse movements, length of stay, and other information gathered by Google. By using reCAPTCHA, this data is sent to Google and used to determine whether the visitor is a natural person or an abusive automated program (e.g. bot). You can find more information about reCAPTCHA at https://www.google.com/recaptcha. All information captured by the Google reCAPTCHA tool is subject to Google’s Terms and Privacy Policy.
Internal Third Parties
We may share your information with our affiliated entities, successors, predecessors, assigns, licensees, or business partners, and others who may use the information for the purposes described above.
Business Transactions
We may do business with third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then your information may be transferred to the new owners who may use your information in the same way as set out in this Policy.
Legal Process
Subject to applicable law, we may disclose information about you i) if we are required to do so by law, regulation or legal process, such as a subpoena; ii) in response to requests by government entities, such as law enforcement authorities; iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical, financial, or other harm, injury, or loss; or iv) for the purposes of cooperation with law enforcement agencies’ and/or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual unlawful activity.
COMMUNICATIONS AND OPT-OUT
While we value our communications with you, if you do not want CCEF or its representatives to contact you for marketing purposes, you may opt-out of this preference at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions included in the email. This opt-out will not apply to operational or informational emails related to your account or other administrative purposes. You may continue to receive promotional email messages for a short period while we process your request.
CHILDREN
The Services are intended for users aged eighteen (18) and older. If you are under the age of eighteen (18), you are not authorized to provide us with any personally identifying information, nor access or use our Services in any manner whatsoever. By using the Services, you represent that you are eighteen (18) years of age or older.
USE OF THE SERVICES
By accessing and using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that we control and operate the Services from our offices in the United States of America and that the Services are intended for use by users located in the United States of America. Unless expressly stated to the contrary, we make no representation that the Services are appropriate or will be available for use in other locations.
NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
Your California Privacy Rights. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents who have provided personally identifiable information to us or our third-party advertisers and marketing partners, if any, to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personally identifiable information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. Requests should be submitted via email to customerservice@ccef.org and should include CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS in the subject line. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the requirements of Section 1798.83 and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year.
Your ‘Do Not Track’ Browser Setting. Some web browsers incorporate a Do Not Track (“DNT”) feature that signals to the websites that you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. At this time, our Site does not respond to DNT signals. CCEF may allow certain third-party advertising partners to place tracking technology, such as cookies and pixels on our Services. This technology allows us and/or third-parties to collect personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across different websites.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Policy, please contact us at:
Email address: customerservice@ccef.org