Church of Christ TV Privacy Policy

Version 05/01/2005

At Church of Christ TV, our mission is to provide interactive multimedia services to our users. We recognize that privacy is important to you; therefore, we design and operate our ministry with the protection of your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we collect when you use Church of Christ TV's services, as well as the steps we take to safeguard your privacy.

The following principles apply to the personally identifying information we request and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" in this context is information that individually identifies you, such as your name, physical address or email address. You can find more details about the data we collect on particular services by clicking the links on the side of this page.

Information collection

• Church of Christ TV search, the Church of Christ TV Toolbar, Church of Christ TV News and some other services do not collect any personally identifying information.
• Church of Christ TV collects limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available whenever you visit our website. This log information includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and improve our services.
• Some of our services require you to register for an account. Church of Christ TV asks you for some personal information in order to create an account (typically your name, email address and a password for your account) and we will use that information to provide the service. For certain services, such as shopping, video editing, linking, video and audio web broadcasting, our advertising programs, we may request credit card or other payment information which are maintained in encrypted form on secure servers.
• When we require personally identifying information, we will inform you about the types of information we collect and how we use it. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with us.

Cookies

• Upon your first visit to Church of Christ TV, cookies may be sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how people interact with us. Church of Christ TV does this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some Church of Christ TV features or services may not function properly without cookies.

Information sharing

• Church of Christ TV does not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies or individuals, unless we have your consent. We may share such information in any of the following limited circumstances:
  • We have your consent.
  • We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for the sole purpose of processing personally identifying information on our behalf. When this is done, it is subject to agreements that oblige those parties to process such information only on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
  • We conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Church of Christ TV, its users or the public.
• If you have an account, we may share the information submitted under your account among all of our services in order to provide you with a seamless experience and to improve the quality of our services. We will not disclose your account information to other people or non-affiliated companies, except in the limited circumstances described in this Policy or with your consent.
• We may store and process personal information collected on our site in the United States or any other country in which Church of Christ TV or its agents maintain facilities. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information among these facilities, including those located outside your country.
• In the event of a transfer of ownership of Church of Christ TV, such as acquisition by or merger with another company, we will provide notice before any personally identifying information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• We may share aggregated information with others. Examples of this include the number of users who searched for "National Youth Conference All Conference Chorus DVD" or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement.

Information security

• We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
• We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.

Updating your information

• We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personally identifying information for many of our services. For more information, please see the help pages for each service.

Links

• Please be advised that sites displayed as search results or linked to by Church of Christ TV's services are developed by individuals, organizations, or companies over whom Church of Christ TV exercises no control. These other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information.
• Church of Christ TV may present links in a format that enables us to understand whether they have been followed. We use this information to understand and improve the quality of Church of Christ TV's search technology. For instance, this data helps us determine how often users are satisfied with the first result of a query and how often they proceed to later results.

Changes to this Policy

Please note Church of Christ TV’s Privacy Policy will change occasionally. While we anticipate that most changes will be minor,there may be changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us any time at privacy@coctv.org