Privacy Policy: How we collect and use your personal information

This privacy policy establishes the ways in which we collect and use your personal information on this website.

Registration
Any visitor to this website may read and comment on articles which have been submitted, but in order to submit an article for use on this website, you must first register as a member. During the membership registration process, you are required to give us contact information (such as your name and email address).

You also have the option to provide us with certain additional information (such as a biography, your website address, etc.); this information will be used to provide further information about you to our visitors when you submit an article. We strongly encourage you to submit this information so our users can have a more complete understanding of your life and ministry.

When your application for membership has been approved, we will send you an email notification to that effect.

Surveys or Contests
From time to time, we may provide you the opportunity to participate in surveys on our site. If you participate, we may request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and email address), and demographic information (such as zip code).

We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys; that company will be prohibited from using our users' personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.

Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site or an article, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Mission:Equip stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.

Your friend may contact to request that we remove this information from our database.

Uses of Information
We use your personal information to communicate with you from time to time regarding our site, to post the results of surveys to our site, to identify you as the referrer of information through our tell-a-friend system, to identify you as the author of any articles you might submit, and to provide further information about you to our users as they read articles you submit.

Member Communications
Occasionally, we may send email communications to members about various housekeeping matters concerning our site.

Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.

Newsletters, Special Offers and Updates
From time to time, we may send you newsletters as well as information on various products, services, special deals, or promotions of interest to the wider missions community. You can sign up for these emails on our membership registration page.

You may opt-out of these communications. Please see "Choice and Opt-out."

Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to notify you of our activation of your member account. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users. We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

Personally Identifiable Information
We do not share personally identifiable information with third parties, except in the following types of instance.

Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.

Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to "opt-out" of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, when you register to be a member, you can opt to not be part of our mailing list.

If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by sending email to our . You may also contact us by phone to opt-out at 888.811.4618 or via postal mail at Mission:Equip, LLC, 651 Sunset Drive, Naperville, IL 60540.

Log Files
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

We use persistent cookies to allow you to remain logged in to our site. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file.

Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Mission:Equip. Please be aware that we, Mission:Equip, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.

Discussion Forums and Chat Rooms
If you use a discussion forum or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Change of Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct or update it by making the change on your member account page or by contacting us by email, telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.

Business Transitions
In the event Mission:Equip goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us via one of the following methods:

Send Us Email

Call Us
888.811.4618

Send Us A Fax
888.811.4620

Send Us Postal Mail
Mission Equip
651 Sunset Drive
Naperville, IL 60540