Privacy Policy

Your personal information—private and safe

At Bethel Family Baptist Church, we believe it is important to respect the privacy of our constituents, our business contacts and others who provide us with personally identifiable information. Personally Identifiable Information is defined as information that can be used to identify an individual such as name, address, telephone number and any other information connected personally with an individual.

Our policy was created to affirm our commitment to maintaining the privacy of our constituents and to inform you of the practices we follow in protecting your Personally Identifiable Information.

 

Why Do We Collect Information?

At Bethel Family Baptist Church, we have lots of opportunity to collect your Personally Identifiable Information. Some of these might include when you:

  1. Sign up to receive information about a particular ministry;
  2. Receive counseling, prayer or other ministry services;
  3. Request or purchase a product at the bookstore, via the web, or through the telephone;
  4. Log onto our website;
  5. Make a donation to Bethel Family Baptist Church; and
  6. For a variety of other reasons not listed here.
  7. If you give us your Personally Identifiable Information for any reason, we consider your information to be strictly confidential.

 

Do We Obtain Your Consent to Collect Your Information?

When we collect, use or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information we will obtain your consent to do so unless such permission is obvious or implied, for example, when you makes a purchase via our website or call to place an order with our customer service department.

If you would like to withdraw your consent for any reason, please email us at .

 

How Do We Use Your Information?

We use your Personally Identifiable Information to provide you with the services or products for which you provided us with your information, and/or for those purposes considered reasonable under the circumstances. We are not in the business of selling your information to third parties and only share information with our related vendors to whom we obtain services, or when it is necessary to comply with the law or to protect the rights, property or safety of Bethel Family Baptist Church.

 

How Long Do We Retain Your Information?

We retain your Personally Identifiable Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which you gave it or for any legal or business purpose. When your information is no longer required by Bethel Family Baptist Church for any reason, we have procedures in place to destroy it, delete it, or convert it to anonymous form.

 

How Is Your Information Kept Accurate?

Bethel Family Baptist Church endeavors to keep your Personally Identifiable Information as accurate as possible so that it can continue to provide you with the products and services you’ve requested. For this, we will need your assistance in maintaining the accuracy of your information. You may request a correction to your Personally Identifiable Information by emailing .

 

How Do We Protect Your Information?

Bethel Family Baptist Church is committed to protecting your Personally Identifiable Information from unauthorized access or disclosure. In this, we do our best to maintain appropriate security both in our technology and our physical records. We also limit access to your information to persons management determines need to know for the purpose of providing you with the requested products and services.

 

Internet Privacy Policy

Your privacy on the Internet is extremely important to us. Because you give us personal information, we believe you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding what we do with that information. This privacy statement discloses the information we gather, how we use it, and how you can correct or change it.

 

Here’s What We Do With Your Internet Provider (IP) Address

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart and to gather broad demographic information.

 

Here’s Why We Place A Cookie On Your Hard Drive

BethelsFamily.org uses a feature of your Internet Web browser that is called a “cookie.” A “cookie” is a file that your Web browser places on your computer’s hard drive. When you initially log on to BethelsFamily.org, we create a “cookie” for your computer and then use it to track your clicks as you go through the Web site. Approximately 95% of eCommerce websites use “cookies” to help make their shopping cart work. BethelsFamily.org uses cookies:

  1. To keep track of items you put into your shopping cart.
  2. To tell us whether you’ve visited BethelsFamily.org previously.
  3. To help determine whether you came to BethelsFamily.org from a particular Internet link or banner advertisement.
  4. To personalize your experience on our site.
  5. To remember who you are. This allows us to auto fill-in forms with information that you have previously entered.
  6. There is no personal information stored within the cookie itself and the data included in the cookie is useful only to BethelsFamily.org. BethelsFamily.org does not and cannot use cookies to retrieve personal information about you from your computer. Cookies cannot be used by BethelsFamily.org to retrieve any personal information about you unless you have previously purchased from or registered with BethelsFamily.org.

The “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of Bethelsfamily.org’s coolest features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

 

Protection of Bethelsfamily.org and Others

We release account and other personal information when we believe that it is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce or apply our Terms of Use or protect the rights, property, or safety of Bethel Family Baptist Church and Bethelsfamily.org.

This Is Why You Register With Bethelsfamily.org

Our registration form ask you to give us information about yourself which will allow us to help you in the following ways.

  • Process your orders accurately and quickly
  • Reduce the amount of information you need to provide each time your purchase resources
  • Protect your privacy
  • Allow us to contact you with your requested information
  • Personalize your experience on our site

 

When You Place An Order, This Is What We Do With The Information

  • Verify and charge your credit card
  • Ship the order you requested
  • Contact you with customer service related questions
  • Send you product catalogs, direct mail, and information as they become available
  • Notify you with requested information
  • We’ll Protect You When You’re On Our Site
  • BethelsFamily.org may contain optional links to partners and third party Internet sites and services that may collect data from you or your computer. Please be aware that if you choose to leave our site via a link, BethelsFamily.org assumes no responsibility for the privacy practices or the content of other web sites.

 

You Can Use Your Credit Cards Safely

Bethelsfamily.org uses a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. All user contact information is contained behind secured networks and is accessible only by a limited number of trusted employees who have special access rights to production systems. Passwords are encrypted in Bethelsfamily.org’s secure database, which is also located behind secured networks. All sensitive/credit information supplied by users is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

 

Product Sold

Upon our receipt of the returned product, we will replace or exchange the product or issue you a refund in the form of your original payment should you wish to return it.

 

Product in Exchange for a Contribution

Upon receipt of the returned product, we will replace or exchange the product. Please note that due to current tax laws, contributions made to the ministry in exchange for a product are unable to be refunded.

 

How to Remove Your Name From Our Newsletter/Mailing List

Bethelsfamily.org gives users the following options for removing their e-mail address from our database so you will not receive future communications:

  1. Send an email message to:
  2. Click on the unsubscribe link on any subscription mail you receive (and follow the directions located on the bottom of each email).
  3. Call the following telephone number: (713) 729-0125
  4. Fax to: (713) 729-0378
  5. Send a letter to the following postal address:

Bethel Family Baptist Church

Attn: Computer Tech Dept.

12660 Sandpiper Drive

Houston, TX 77035

 

If You Want To Change Your Information

We want you to enjoy all of the features of BethelsFamily.org by keeping your account information current. Bethesfamily.org gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:

  1. Send an email message to:
  2. Reply back to any subscription mail you receive (and follow the directions located on the bottom of each email).
  3. Call the following telephone number: (713) 729-0125
  4. Fax to: (713) 729-0378
  5. Send a letter to the following postal address:

Bethel Family Baptist Church

Attn: Computer Tech Dept.

12660 Sandpiper Drive

Houston, TX 77035

 

All Other Questions

If you have additional questions about this privacy statement, the practices of Bethelsfamily.org, or your dealings with this website, please email us at or write us:

Bethel’s Family Baptist Church

Attn: Computer Tech Dept.

12660 Sandpiper Drive

Houston, TX 77035