PRIVACY POLICY & TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

Who we are – Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service

Our website address is: http://faithmunity.com

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment/s on our Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service.

Media

If you upload images to the our Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on our Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment on our Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Our Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Additional information

How we protect your data

What data breach procedures we have in place

What third parties we receive data from

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Profile Data

When you register on our Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website, you may be asked to provide certain personal data for display on your profile. The “Name” field is required as well as public, and user profiles are visible to any site visitor. Other profile information may be required or optional, as configured by the site administrator. User information provided during account registration can be modified or removed on the Profile > Edit panel. In most cases, users also have control over who is able to view a particular piece of profile content, limiting visibility on a field-by-field basis to friends, logged-in users, or administrators only. Site administrators can read and edit all profile data for all users.

Activity

This Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website records certain user actions, in the form of “activity” data. Activity includes updates and comments posted directly to activity streams, as well as descriptions of other actions performed while using the site, such as new friendships, newly joined groups, and profile updates. The content of activity items obey the same privacy rules as the contexts in which the activity items are created. For example, activity updates created in a user’s profile is publicly visible, while activity items generated in a private group are visible only to members of that group. Site administrators can view all activity items, regardless of context. Activity items may be deleted at any time by users who created them. Site administrators can edit all activity items.

Messages

The content of private messages is visible only to the sender and the recipients of the message. With the exception of the Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website administrators, who can read all private messages, private message content is never visible to other users or site visitors. Site administrators may delete the content of any message.

Cookies

We use a cookie to show success and failure messages to logged-in users, in response to certain actions, like joining a group. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted immediately after the next page load. We use cookies on group, member, and activity directories to keep track of a user’s browsing preferences. These preferences include the last-selected values of the sort and filter dropdowns, as well as pagination information. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted after 24 hours. When a logged-in user creates a new group, we use a number of cookies to keep track of the group creation process. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted either upon the successful creation of the group or after 24 hours.

This Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary.

Please note that you cannot register on our Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service at http://faithmunity.com without accepting this agreement.

THIS SERVICE IS FOR THOSE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD.

Our Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website at http://faithmunity.com service is a way for single adults to meet other single adults online.

This is a legal agreement between you and http://faithmunity.com. Please read the agreement carefully before registering for http://faithmunity.com services. By registering with http://faithmunity.com, you become a member of our Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website Service, and you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement (the “terms”) for as long as you continue to be a member.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS, PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER FOR THE http://faithmunity.com SERVICES. THE TERMS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY http://faithmunity.com AT ANY TIME. Registration is explicit acceptance of the terms herein. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE http://faithmunity.com SERVICE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF ANY CHANGES. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO REVIEW THIS AGREEMENT AND TO ACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH ANY CHANGE(S) THAT ARE MADE. 

By becoming a member of Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website at http://faithmunity.com you agree to receive email mailings from http://faithmunity.com or through our companies. These mailings are related to your use of http://faithmunity.com and to the services provided by or through http://faithmunity.com.You can unsubscribe at any time.

MINORS MAY NOT BECOME MEMBERS. When you register, and from time to time thereafter, http://faithmunity.com may require that you provide sufficient information to indicate that you are at least 18 years old. By becoming a Member of Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old.

Either you or http://faithmunity.com may terminate your Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website at http://faithmunity.com membership at any time, for any reason, effective upon sending written notice electronically to the other party. http://faithmunity.com reserves the right to immediately suspend or terminate your access to http://faithmunity.com services, without any prior notice, upon any breach of this agreement by you which is brought or comes to http://faithmunity.com attention. In the event your access to the http://faithmunity.com service is suspended or terminated upon any breach of this agreement by you, you will not be entitled to a refund of any unused membership fees.

Your membership on our Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website at http://faithmunity.com service is for your sole, personal use. You may not authorize others to use your membership, and you may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity.

PURPOSE OF SERVICE.

http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website) is a Christian religious organization and ministry serving a traditional Christian market, based on Biblical beliefs and teachings. It is designed for fellowship, education and entertainment for any persons interested in the Christian faith. It is also designed for Christian singles for the purposes of romantic relationships, with the goal being marriage. As a matter of belief, doctrine, and religious practice, http://faithmunity.com reserves the term marriage for the covenant relationship as ordained by God. It is the most intimate of human relationships, a gift from God, a sacred institution, holy, and central to the community of faith. This covenant relationship also represents the union between Christ and His Body (the church). Genesis 2:18-24; Matthew 19:5-6; Mark 10:7-8; Ephesians 5:22-33; Colossians 3:18-19; 1 Peter 3:1-7; Hebrews 13:4.

http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website) is designed for anyone over the age of 18 and anyone over the age of 18 is permitted to join. We at faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website), do not discriminate on the basis of a users’s or members’s real or supposed age, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, lifestyle, religion, gender identity, family situation, pregnancy, physical appearance, surname, state of health, disability, genetic characteristics, personal beliefs, political opinions, club or union memberships.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE AND ONLINE CONDUCT.

As a Member, you agree that:

  • We will keep your profile posted if your time expires but after a period of inactivity – 180 days – your account will be auto-archived by our system to keep http://faithmunity.com database current.
  • http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website) reserves the right to immediately suspend or terminate your access to the http://faithmunity.com services, without any prior notice, upon any breach of this agreement which is brought to http://faithmunity.com attention. In the event your access to the http://faithmunity.com service is suspended or terminated upon any breach of this agreement which is brought to http://faithmunity.com attention, you will not be entitled to a refund of any unused membership fees.
  • Your membership on our Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website at http://faithmunity.com service is for your sole, personal use. You may not authorize others to use your membership, and you may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity.
  • You are solely responsible for the content or information you publish or display (hereinafter, “post”) on our Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website at http://faithmunity.com service, or transmit to other http://faithmunity.com members.
  • You will not post on http://faithmunity.com service, or transmit to other http://faithmunity.com members or employees, any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, racially offensive, or illegal material, or any material that infringes or violates another party’s rights (including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, and rights of privacy and publicity).
  • You will use http://faithmunity.com service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
  • You will not include in your profile any email addresses, chat or messenger numbers or handles (Viber, Skype, AOL Messenger, Yahoo, MSN, etc.), web addresses or links to other websites, telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, or other contact information; offensive anatomical or sexual references, or offensive sexually suggestive or connotative language, and you will not post any photos containing nudity or personal information. You will not attach to your written or multiple choice section of your profile any images, video files or music files. http://faithmunity.com reserves the right to remove anything that it deems to be inappropriate, at its sole discretion. http://faithmunity.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to reject any profile or photo that does not comply with these prohibitions.
  • You will not include any email addresses; Skype numbers or handles; or Messenger numbers or handles; or any other Chat numbers or handles in your messages to other TCC members, unless you are a paying member of http://faithmunity.com
  • You will not create multiple profiles, unless permitted by http://faithmunity.com Staff in writing.
  • You will not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other members to buy or sell any products or services through the Service. You will not transmit any chain letters or junk E-mail to other http://faithmunity.com members.
  • You will not post, distribute or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior consent of the owner of such proprietary rights.
  • You are solely responsible for your interactions with other http://faithmunity.com members. http://faithmunity.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor accounts which break the rules of conduct and to monitor disputes between you and other members.
  • You will never send money to, nor ask for money from, other http://faithmunity.com members, for any reason.
  • Your use of http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service websitemust be for bona fide relationship-seeking purposes, only, in order to maintain the integrity of the Service. For example, you may not become a member solely to compile a report of compatible singles in your area, or to write an article or perform market research. We will consider such requests by reporters on a case-by-case basis, sent to us in advance via email. You may only proceed upon receipt of written permission from us, and abide by all conditions set down by us.
  • You will not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other members to buy or sell any products or services through the Service. You will not transmit any chain letters or junk E-mail to other http://faithmunity.com members.
  • You will not promote any other dating and/or matchmaking service to our members in any way whatsoever.

INDEMNITY BY MEMBER.

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website), its officers, directors, employees, endorsers and advertisers, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) relating to or arising out of your use of http://faithmunity.com service, including any breach by you of the terms of this Agreement.

ONLINE CONTENT.

Opinions, advice, statements, offers, or other information or content made available through http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website), service are those of their respective authors and not of http://faithmunity.com, and should not necessarily be relied upon. Such authors are solely responsible for such content.

 http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website), DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION ON THE SERVICE AND NEITHER ADOPTS NOR ENDORSES NOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY OPINION, ADVICE, OR STATEMENT MADE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL http://faithmunity.com BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE RESULTING FROM ANYONE’S RELIANCE ON INFORMATION OR OTHER CONTENT POSTED ON THE http://faithmunity.com SERVICE, OR TRANSMITTED TO THE http://faithmunity.com MEMBERS.

WARNING – PLEASE READ THIS:

It is possible that other Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website members at http://faithmunity.com or users (including unauthorized users, or “hackers”) may post or transmit offensive or obscene materials on http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website), service and that you may be involuntarily exposed to such offensive and obscene materials. It also is possible for others to obtain personal information about you due to your use of the service, and that the recipient may use such information to harass or injure you. http://faithmunity.com is not responsible for the use of any personal information that you may choose to disclose on the service. Please carefully select the type of information that you post on http://faithmunity.com service or release to others.

YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IF YOU ATTEND A PERSONAL MEETING, OR PERSONAL MEETINGS ,WITH ANY PERSON, OR PERSONS, YOU HAVE COMMUNICATED WITH OR MET, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY AS A RESULT OF THE http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website), SERVICE/S, THAT http://faithmunity.com ASSUMES NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR ANYTHING THAT MAY OCCUR, HAPPEN TO YOU OR WHICH YOU MAY SUFFER, PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY OR OTHERWISE, DURING SUCH PERSONAL MEETING(S) AT THE HANDS OF THE PERSON(S) YOU MEET. http://faithmunity.com RESERVES THE RIGHT, BUT HAS NO OBLIGATION, TO MONITOR THE MATERIALS POSTED IN THE PUBLIC AREAS OF THE http://faithmunity.com SERVICE. 

http://faithmunity.com SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMOVE ANY SUCH MATERIAL THAT VIOLATES, OR IS ALLEGED TO VIOLATE, THE LAW OR THIS AGREEMENT. NOTWITHSTANDING THIS RIGHT OFhttp://faithmunity.com , YOU REMAIN SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF THE MATERIALS YOU POST IN THE PUBLIC AREAS OF THE SERVICE AND YOUR PRIVATE MAILBOX MESSAGES. MESSAGES SENT BETWEEN YOU AND OTHER MEMBERS OF http://faithmunity.com VIA YOUR MAILBOX ON http://faithmunity.com WILL BE TREATED AS PRIVATE BY http://faithmunity.com TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW. HOWEVER, IN THE EVENT THAT ANY SUCH MATERIAL EXCHANGED FROM YOUR PRIVATE MAILBOX IS SUSPECTED BY http://faithmunity.com TO VIOLATE, OR IS ALLEGED TO VIOLATE, THE LAW OR THIS AGREEMENT, http://faithmunity.com RESERVES THE RIGHT, BUT HAS NO OBLIGATION, TO MONITOR AND REMOVE THE OFFENDING MATERIALS FROM YOUR MAILBOX WITHOUT NOTIFICATION TO YOU.

PROPRIETARY RIGHTS.

You agree that the Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website at http://faithmunity.com has no obligation to you whatsoever to grant you access to any part of the http://faithmunity.com service, including, but not limited to, your profile, your mailbox, or any other part of the http://faithmunity.com service, if you do not have time left in your account, whether free time which we have granted you (entirely at our discretion), or paid time which you have purchased from the http://faithmunity.com service. This includes no obligation whatsoever for the Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website at http://faithmunity.com to grant you access to retrieve any information you have posted on your profile or mail you have sent other members to their mailbox on the http://faithmunity.com service or which other members have sent to your mailbox on the http://faithmunity.com service, or any other access whatsoever if you do not have time left in your account to access the http://faithmunity.com service, whether from free time which we have granted you (entirely at our discretion), or paid time which you have purchased from the http://faithmunity.com service. The only obligation the http://faithmunity.com service has to you, in the event you do not wish to purchase additional access to the http://faithmunity.com service, or the http://faithmunity.com service decides to grant you additional free access to the http://faithmunity.com service, entirely at their own discretion, is to either archive your profile (such that it will not remain visible to any other member for the duration of it being archived) until you decide to either unarchive it or delete it, upon your explicit written request, or delete your profile from the http://faithmunity.com service upon your explicit written request. 

http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website) owns and retains other proprietary rights in http://faithmunity.com service. The Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website Service contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of http://faithmunity.com and its licensors. In addition, other members may post copyrighted information, which has copyright protection whether or not it is identified as copyrighted. Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given permission, you will not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information.

By posting information or content to any public area of Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website at http://faithmunity.com, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to http://faithmunity.com and other http://faithmunity.com members an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully-paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY MEMBER.

Except as noted under “OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT” below, http://faithmunity.com will keep confidential all information supplied by you to http://faithmunity.com, including credit card number(s), and shall use or disclose such information only for the purposes for which such information was collected, or as required by law.

COMPLAINTS.

To resolve a complaint regarding http://faithmunity.com service, you should first contact http://faithmunity.com Customer Support.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY.

http://faithmunity.com PROVIDES THE http://faithmunity.com SERVICE ON AN “AS IS” BASIS AND GRANTS NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, IN ANY COMMUNICATION WITH  http://faithmunity.com OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES, OR OTHERWISE WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE. http://faithmunity.com SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT. http://faithmunity.com does not warrant that your use of http://faithmunity.com service will be secure, uninterrupted, always available, or error-free, or will meet your requirements, or that any defects in the Service will be corrected. http://faithmunity.com DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR, AND NO WARRANTY IS MADE WITH RESPECT TO, TELEPHONE SERVICE, INCLUDING COVERAGE, RANGE OR ANY INTERRUPTION IN TELEPHONE SERVICE.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.

IN NO EVENT WILL http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website), BE LIABLE (i) TO YOU FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INDIRECT DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF PROGRAMS, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES OR SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE http://faithmunity.com SERVICE, EVEN IF http://faithmunity.com OR ITS AGENTS OR REPRESENTATIVES KNOW OR HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR (ii) TO ANY PERSON OTHER THAN YOU. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, http://faithmunity.com ‘S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO http://faithmunity.com FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.

IN ADDITION, http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website), DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, FOR THE ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF OTHER MEMBERS OR USERS (INCLUDING UNAUTHORIZED USERS, OR “HACKERS”) OF THE http://faithmunity.com SERVICE.

STATE BY STATE (and PROVINCE by PROVINCE) VARIATIONS.

Certain jurisdictions limit the applicability of warranty disclaimers and limitations of liability so the above disclaimers of warranty and limitations of liability may not apply to you.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

This Agreement is entered into in The United Kingdom. You agree that UK law (regardless of conflicts of law principles) shall govern this agreement, and that any dispute arising out of or relating to this agreement shall be subject to law courts in the UK. This agreement, accepted upon registering for http://faithmunity.com service, contains the entire agreement between you and http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website), regarding the use of the service. This agreement may only be amended upon notice by http://faithmunity.com to you, or by a writing signed by you and an authorized official of http://faithmunity.com Unless otherwise explicitly stated, the terms will survive termination of your membership to the service. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this agreement shall continue in full force and effect.

OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT

http://faithmunity.com (Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website), is committed to creating a safe and secure online environment where members can connect comfortably and anonymously with other members. http://faithmunity.com collects personal information from our members in order to provide accurate and convenient billing, appropriate matching, and responsive customer service. We will not share your billing information with anyone outside of our corporation. We will not share any additional personal information with anyone outside of our corporation and/or our trusted marketing partners, except as provided in this agreement. Customers may change their information via the “Profile” page or review their service agreement at any time via the “Membership” page.

Information Collected at this Web Site

Our web server automatically collects some information about you when you request pages from our server, including your IP address. We do this by placing a cookie on your harddrive. A cookie is simply an HTTP header which contains text information, such as the domain, path and other variables the website sets. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer so that data (such as the web pages you request) can be sent to you. Our computer uses IP addresses and cookies to gather broad demographic information about users in a particular area. This information does not, however, contain anything that can identify you personally.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of this site, please contact: Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website at http://faithmunity.com – 33 Queen St Place, London EC4R 1AP, UK 

Please note that you cannot register on Online Christian Community & Christian Dating Service website at http://faithmunity.com without accepting this agreement.