Privacy Statement
Pastoral Reflections Institute (“PRI”) is committed to protecting your privacy with technologies intended to provide you with a powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to PRI’s website and governs data collection and usage. By using the PRI website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
PRI may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address; name; home or work address; and home, work, and cellphone number. PRI may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites.
Additionally, PRI may automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software, which may include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information would be used by PRI for enhancing your website experience with PRI, to maintain quality of your experience, and to provide general statistics regarding visitations to PRI’s website.
We want to caution you that your direct disclosure of personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through one or more public message boards, the information disclosed may be collected and used by others. However, PRI does not read any of your private online communications.
PRI recommends that you take time to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from PRI in order to understand how those websites collect, use, and share your information. PRI is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of PRI’s website.
Use of Your Personal Information
PRI may collect and use your personal information to operate its’ website and to deliver the services you have requested of PRI, and to inform you of other PRI products or services. PRI may also contact you to request your opinion of current services or future service offerings.
PRI will not sell, license, rent, or lease its listener/customer lists to third parties, provided that from time-to-time PRI may contact you on behalf of PRI’s external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. If PRI initiates this contact, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) will not be transferred to such third-party business partners. Additionally, PRI may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide their services to PRI.
PRI does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
PRI keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit to determine what PRI services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
PRI disclosure of your personal information, with or without notice, will comply in all respects with applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
Use of Cookies
PRI’s website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize PRI pages, or register with PRI in some form or fashion, a cookie helps PRI recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses and shipping addresses. When you return to the PRI website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use PRI website features, if and as offered or customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of PRI’s website.
Security of your Personal Information
PRI secures your personal information in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
PRI reserves the right to update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. PRI recommends that you periodically review this Statement to be informed of PRI’s continuing security practices for protecting your information.
Contact Information
PRI welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that PRI has not adhered to this Statement, please contact PRI, attention Executive Director, at info@pastoralri.com. PRI will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly reply and to determine and remedy any problems.