Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us!

It is The Banner Church’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites. This Privacy Policy applies to any websites that The Banner Church owns and operates to include but not limited to https://www.bannergvl.com,  https://www.immersegvl.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://www.bannergvl.com”, “https://www.immersegvl.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through our websites. We have adopted this privacy policy to explain what information may be collected on our sites, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the our websites and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with our Terms and Conditions posted on our sites, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our sites. Depending on your activities when visiting our websites, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, The Banner Church collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Banner Church’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Banner Church’s visitors use its websites. From time to time, The Banner Church may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its websites.

The Banner Church also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users. The Banner Church only discloses logged in user IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Data Collection from Children

We strive to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not knowingly collect personal information from U.S. children under 13 without the appropriate parental notice and consent. We are committed to protecting children’s privacy. If you have any questions regarding children’s privacy in regards to The Banner Church, please email privacy@bannergvl.com.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to The Banner Church’s websites choose to interact with The Banner Church in ways that require The Banner Church to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Banner Church gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for events through registration at https://www.bannergvl.com or https://www.immersegvl.com to provide certain personally-identifying information such as but not limited to your name, email, mailing address, and demographic information. This information is used internally for communication purposes along with ways to better suit your experience with us.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The Banner Church and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites

Our service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The Banner Church discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Banner Church’s behalf or to provide services available at The Banner Church’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. By using The Banner Church’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Banner Church will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Banner Church discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Banner Church believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Banner Church, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://www.bannergvl.com or https://www.immersegvl.com and have supplied your email address, The Banner Church may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Banner Church and our services. We primarily use our email, websites and social media platforms to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Banner Church takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

The Banner Church may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. The Banner Church may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Banner Church does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, The Banner Church uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Banner Church uses cookies to help The Banner Church identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.bannergvl.com, https://www.immersegvl.com, and their website access preferences. The Banner Church visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Banner Church’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Banner Church’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to The Banner Church’s use of cookies.

E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with The Banner Church – by purchasing The Banner Church’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, The Banner Church collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Banner Church. The Banner Church does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Banner Church may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Banner Church’s sole discretion. The Banner Church encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at privacy@bannergvl.com