Christ My Hope Ministries is committed to respecting the privacy rights of all parties who interact with the ministry, including donors. The following outlines our privacy policy and details the measures we have taken to safeguard and protect your privacy. The information you provide to us is understood to be in agreement with the policies detailed below.
 

What information does Christ My Hope Ministries collect?

christmyhope.com collects and stores your personal contact information only when you supply it to us. This is ordinarily for the purpose of creating an account, processing a transaction, or requesting to receive updates. We do not store your credit card information.

Our system may also gather information about the areas you visit on christmyhope.com and in our various apps as well as the IP address you used to connect. This information is used internally for two reasons: 1) to personalize your experience and 2) to prevent fraudulent activity.

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What does Christ My Hope Ministries do with your personal information?

Your information is used to process orders, accept gifts, and communicate with you. Also, by storing your personal information on a secure server, Christ My Hope Ministries is able to shorten your checkout process and allow you to check the status of your orders online.

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Does Christ My Hope Ministries share any personal information it collects with outside parties?

Christ My Hope Ministries does not trade or sell any personal information to third parties, nor send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations. However, we may share your personal data in the following circumstances: third parties providing services on our behalf. In order to carry out your requests, to make various features, services, and resources available to you through our websites and apps, and to respond to your inquiries, we may share your personal data or usage data with third parties that perform functions on our behalfs, such as companies or individuals that : host or operate our websites; analyze data; provide customer service; mail resource samples or manage payments; advertisers; or other third parties that provide marketing assistance.

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Does Christ My Hope Ministries safeguard my personal information?

Christ My Hope Ministries has implemented a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. Your personal information is stored behind a secure network and is only accessible by designated staff, and is used for the purpose for which you provided the information. When you place orders or access your personal information, we offer the use of a secure server. All sensitive information supplied by you is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and securely stored. Christ My Hope complies with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard that requires us to:

• Protect data that is stored with you

• Implement security systems and applications such as firewalls and antivirus software

• Have a firewall at all times to protect data

• Use antivirus software and have it updated regularly

• Have your own unique system and security passwords

• Encrypt transmission of cardholder data and other sensitive data across all public networks

• Restrict employee business access to data based on the needs and job description

• Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data

• Maintain an information security policy
   

Does Christ My Hope Ministries provide a way to update or remove my personal information?

Christ My Hope Ministries provides an account dashboard feature on our website that allows you to modify and/or remove personal information. All of your information within your profile is secure and accessible only by you or limited staff.
 

How does Christ My Hope use my email address?

Your email address is used to create and identify your account on Christmyhope.com Your email address is also used by Christ My Hope Ministries to correspond with you about orders you may have placed or to keep you updated with ministry news and other information. We may also use your email address to notify you about important functionality changes to the website. If you would rather not receive this information or would like to opt-out of receiving an email of this kind, simply click on the “Unsubscribe” link that appears on the bottom of any email and follows the simple instructions.

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Does Christ My Hope Ministries use cookies?

Christ My Hope Ministries uses technologies such as “cookies” (small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters that we put on your computer) and other similar tracking technologies (like web beacons, tags, and scripts) to help us better understand user behaviour, measure the effectiveness of web searches and advertisements, and customize content and advertisements. We treat information collected by cookies is anonymous information. However, to the extent that Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, we also treat these identifiers as personal information. Likewise, when anonymous information is combined with personal information, we treat the combined information as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. Even if you choose to browse without cookies, you can still access most of the features on christmyhope.com
 

How can I remove my name from Christ My Hope Ministries’ direct mail or email list?

To have your email address removed from our list of addresses that receive information about new resources, services, sales, and promotions, simply click on the "Unsubscribe" link that appears at the bottom of any email you’ve received from us and follow the simple instructions. You may remove your personal information from our direct mail list by emailing us at Contact Section. What is the privacy policy for offline donors? The same privacy terms outlined above applies to offline donors. Christ My Hope collects and stores your personal contact information only when you supply it to us. This is ordinarily for the purpose of creating an account, processing a transaction, or requesting to receive updates.
 

We do not store your credit card information. Your information is used to process orders, accept gifts, and communicate with you. Your personal information is stored behind a secure network and is only accessible by designated staff, and is used for the purpose for which you provided the information. Christ My Hope does not trade, sell, or share any personal information to third parties, nor send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations.
 

Your Consent

Christ My Hope Ministries reserves the right to change the Terms of Service, including this Privacy Policy or Cookie Policy at any time, without advanced notice. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.