Privacy Policy

Gbarnga Mission's Donor Privacy Policy

In the same way we promise to be good stewards of the gifts you give to support our mission, Gbarnga Lutheran Mission Project, Inc. ("Gbarnga Mission") is committed to appropriate stewardship of the information you have entrusted to us. We value and respect the privacy of our donors. We want to ensure our supporters that donor information will not be shared with any third party.

 

Awareness

Gbarnga Mission provides this Donor Privacy Policy to make you aware of our privacy policy and to inform you about how your information is used. We also include information about how to remove your name from our mailing list, if you desire to do so.

 

Information Collected

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

 

How Information is Used

When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Gbarnga Mission uses your information to understand your needs and provide you with better service. Specifically, we use your information to help you complete a transaction, communicate back to you, and keep you informed about our mission and how your donations are used to support our mission. Credit card numbers are used only for donation or payment processing and are not retained for any other purposes. We use the comments you offer to provide you with information and improve our mission.

 

Why We Collect Personal Information

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

• To provide and operate the Services;

• To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

• To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

• To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

• To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

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No Sharing of Personal Information

Gbarnga Mission will not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to other organizations. We assure you that the identity of all our donors will be kept confidential. Use of donor information will be limited to the internal purposes of Gbarnga Mission and only to further the organizational activities and purposes of Gbarnga Mission. We will never send you mailings on behalf of another organization.

 

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.  

 

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

 

Removing Your Name From Our Mailing List

It is not the intention of Gbarnga Mission to send unwanted mail or other communications to our donors. Please contact us if you wish to be removed from our mailing list.

 

Contacting Us

If you have comments or questions about our donor privacy policy, please send us an email at communications@gbarngamission.org