Privacy Policy
Introduction
The BBFI Mission (“we,” “us”, or “our”) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit in the state of Missouri. We value the privacy of the users and visitors of bbfimissions.com.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website bbfimissions.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
- On this Website.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
- Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provides dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Us or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
- Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 16
Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at info@bbfimissions.com.
Information we Collect about You and How we Collect It
The amount and type of information we collect depends on how you use and interact with the BBFI Mission office Website. We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
- By which you may be personally identified, such as name, address, phone number, email address, billing and payment information, and other relevant details. If you apply for missionary service through our application, we will collect additional information relevant to the application process.
- That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
- About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
We collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
Information you provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
- Information you provide by:
- Creating or registering an account.
- Using our online forms.
- Subscribing to an email list.
- Making a donation.
- Applying to become a missionary.
- When you apply for our services through our application process, we may collect detailed information necessary for the application, such as employment history, references, and other relevant details.
- Payment Information:
- If you make a donation or payment on our website, we collect payment information, including credit card details. We use secure and PCI-compliant payment processing services to ensure the confidentiality and security of your financial information.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
- Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
- Details of transactions you carry out through our Website.
- Your search queries on the Website.
You may also provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on the Website and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Information we Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, including, traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
The information we collect automatically may include personal information or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our Website [and our emails] may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies [to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
How We Use Your Information
We are committed to maintaining your trust and confidence. We will never sell or exchange your personal information with other organizations. We assure you that we will use reasonable measures to protect the identity of all who contact us through this website and to keep such information confidential.
- Providing Services:
- We use the information collected to provide and improve our services, process transactions, and manage applications for our programs. This includes verifying your eligibility for specific services.
- Communication:
- If you choose to supply your contact information in an online form, you may receive communication from us related to actions you’ve taken on our Website, services we provide, updates about the BBFI, fundraising efforts and upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive them, you may opt out of receiving certain communications at any time by sending an email to info@bbfimissions.com.
- Research and Analytics:
- We may anonymize and aggregate data for research and analytical purposes to understand trends, enhance user experience, and improve our programs.
- We utilize the tools within Google Analytics to collect data such as how often you visit the site. Google Analytics Terms of Use can be found here along with their Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing your return by disabling cookies on your browser.
- We may anonymize and aggregate data for research and analytical purposes to understand trends, enhance user experience, and improve our programs.
- Marketing and Fundraising:
- With your consent, we may use your information for marketing and fundraising events. You have the right to opt out of such communications at any time by sending an email to info@bbfimissions.com.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our customers, or others.
Data Security and Third-Party Services
The BBFI Mission Office is committed to ensuring the security of your personal information. This website utilizes security measures to protect against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of the information under its control. We use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol on our Website when collecting and transferring sensitive information. We do not retain or store any bank account or whole credit card information on BBFI servers at any time. That information is passed to the Payment Gateway fully encrypted and tokenized.
- Secure Transactions:
- We employ industry-standard encryption technologies to secure your payment information during transactions, protecting against unauthorized access.
- Access Controls:
- Access to personal information is restricted to authorized personnel who need the information to perform their duties. We regularly review and update our security measures.
- Data Retention:
- We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or as required by law.
- Payment Processors:
- We could use third-party payment processors to facilitate transactions. These services have their privacy policies, and we encourage you to review them.
- Services Providers:
- We may engage third-party service providers for various purposes, such as hosting, analytics, and marketing. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Website.
External Links
Our Website may include links to other sites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices or the content of the site and no official endorsement or recommendation by the BBFI Mission Office should be inferred or assumed.
Account Policy
We have the right to deactivate or remove any user account provided at bbfimissions.com without notice if the user has provided wrong information or violated common internet policies. That includes but is not limited to posting harassing, profane, slanderous, or derogatory statements, attempting to access information that you are not authorized to access, attempting to use the website for commercial purposes or attempting to distribute any software or other data that contains a virus, trojan horse, worm, ransomware or other damaging code or data.
The BBFI Mission Office does not claim that the website will be free of errors. We will take the necessary steps to correct any errors soon after discovery.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information.
You may send us an email at info@bbfimissions.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached or archived pages, or might have been copied and stored by other Website users.
Download License
Downloads are solely for personal, noncommercial purposes. Copies of downloads can only be stored on computers or devices owned by the person or entity who purchased the download. Additional licenses can be purchased from bbfimissions.com. We reserve the right to remove downloaded content without notice.
Trademarks and Copyrights
The use of names, slogans, logos and/or any other identifying marks on this website are deemed to be our trademarks, unless otherwise set forth. We own all rights to such trademarks or have the right to use such trademarks from a third-party source. The content contained on our Website is copyrighted material.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
Last Modified: 2/27/2024