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Privacy & Cookies Policy

Last Updated on May 14, 2024

Your privacy and the security and confidentiality of your data are very important to us. You’ve placed your trust in us by using our services, and we value that trust. We are committed to protecting and safeguarding any personal data that you give us. We want you to understand how we use your data and your rights regarding that data.

This website is owned and operated by PrayerUSA.org, an online platform dedicated to helping people find Christian places of prayer and prayer events. This Privacy & Cookies Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and process personal data through our website, our mobile site(s), our iPhone, Android, and other mobile applications, and any other online communications and interfaces (the “site(s)”). If you are a business or a vendor partner with us, please refer to our contractual agreements to find additional information.

Please read the Privacy & Cookies Policy below to learn about our practices. By visiting the site(s), you acknowledge that you have read and understand the practices described in this policy.

Summary of Key Issues

• Collection: This section explains that we collect Personal Data provided to us or that we obtain while you are using the site(s).
• Protection: This section explains how we employ technical, administrative, and physical safeguards that are designed to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of Personal Data.
• Use: This section explains how we use Personal Data to provide you with services from our site(s), build features that will make those services easier to use, and contact you about these services, as well as our legal basis for these uses.
• Sharing: This section explains that we share your Personal Data with external service providers, PrayerUSA.org, our network partners, our third-party partners, our agents, and as necessary to perform transactions with you and manage our business.
• Marketing & Choices: You can exercise your control over most marketing communications. Please contact us via email if you have any questions.
• Cookies: Our site(s) use cookies and other similar technologies. To opt out of advertising and certain other cookies, please notify us via email.
• Data Subject Rights: PrayerUSA.org understands that you may want to change, access, or delete your Personal Data. You may do so by accessing your profile.
• Cross-Border Data Transfers: Our site(s) are primarily but not solely operated in the United States. If you are located outside the U.S., your Personal Data will likely be transferred to the U.S. or another region, which might be a jurisdiction that may not provide an equivalent level of protection as your home jurisdiction. In such cases, the cross-border data transfer would be necessary for the conclusion or performance of your transaction, and/or for the establishment, exercise, and defense of legal claims. To the extent the provision of your Personal Data is not necessary for those purposes, or as otherwise permitted by local law, your use of the site(s) or provision of any Personal Data constitutes your consent to the cross-border transfer of Personal Data and the other activities identified in this Privacy & Cookies Policy.
• Children: You must be at least 18 years old to use our site(s).
• Links: Our site(s) contain links to other websites or services that are not owned or controlled by us, including links to websites of our advertisers, sponsors, and partners. We are not responsible for the content on linked site(s). This Privacy & Cookies Policy only applies to information collected by our site(s).
• California Privacy Rights: California residents may have certain rights related to their Personal Data. Please see this section for a description of such rights.
• Changes to Privacy & Cookie Policy: PrayerUSA.org may revise our Privacy & Cookies Policy to reflect changes in the law, our Personal Data collection and use practices, the features of our site(s), or advancements in technology.
• Contact Us: Should you have any questions, concerns, or comments, please contact us at info@prayerusa.org.

1. Our Collection of Your Personal Data

In order to provide you with our services, we must collect personally identifiable information (“Personal Data”). We may collect the following categories of Personal Data you provide to us while you are using the site(s):

• Identifiers:
  • Name
  • Address
  • Phone number
  • Email address
  • Age
  • Date of birth
  • Gender
  • Username and password for our site(s) and any other information you may choose to provide either directly or through your use of social media sign-in features (such as Facebook Connect) or as may be required to fulfill the requested service; and
  • IP address
• Commercial information:
  • Credit card number and payment information
• Internet or other electronic network activity information:
  • IP address
  • Device information
  • Web log information
  • Search preferences related to specific searches and
  • Bids through your interactions with our site(s)
• Inferences drawn from other Personal Data:
  • Profile or purchasing habits inferred from Personal Data
  • Device information
  • Web log information
  • Search preferences related to specific searches and
  • Bids through your interactions with our site(s)
• Geolocation data:
  • General device location and
  • With consent, specific device location

In addition, we may receive certain categories of Personal Data listed above from sources other than you, specifically from the following categories of sources:

• Third-party applications (including, but not limited to, Facebook and Google) that you use for single sign-on
• Our affiliates, subsidiaries, or business partners
• Third-party data providers and
• Individuals purchasing services on your behalf.

If you purchase services for other individuals, you must make sure that you have the right to provide their Personal Data to us and that those other individuals have accepted how PrayerUSA.org and our network site(s) use their information as stated in this policy. Personal Data of other individuals is collected only for the purpose of providing such Personal Data to the appropriate service provider to fulfill the requested service or as otherwise may be required or permitted by applicable law.

2. Protecting Your Personal Data

Protecting your Personal Data is a top priority at PrayerUSA.org and our network site(s). We employ technical, administrative, and physical safeguards that are designed to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure correct use of Personal Data. To provide protection for credit card transactions while in transit, we currently use Secure Socket Layer encryption. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (e.g., if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please contact us immediately as detailed in the “Contact Us” section of this Privacy & Cookies Policy.

3. Use of Your Personal Data

We use Personal Data to provide you with services, build features that will make the services easier to use, and contact you. This includes a faster website experience, better customer support, timely notice of new services and special offers, and more relevant content.

Our legal basis to use your data, where one is required to be provided by applicable law, is as follows: (a) as necessary to perform a transaction; (b) as necessary to comply with a legal obligation (such as record-keeping to substantiate our compliance with law); (c) where you have provided consent as appropriate under applicable law; and (d) necessary for legitimate interests such as marketing that you have not previously objected to receiving.

In general, you need to provide the Personal Data in order to make a reservation and otherwise enter into a transaction with us, for us to provide you with services, and as may be required for our compliance purposes in connection with such transactions, except in limited instances when we indicate that certain information is voluntary. Not providing Personal Data may prevent us from providing you with requested information and carrying out transactions. However, you can always exercise control over our use of Personal Data for direct marketing (click here for details) and you can control the use of cookies on our site(s) (click here for details).

We also use your Personal Data as described in the “Disclosing Your Personal Data” section below.

4. Disclosing Your Personal Data

PrayerUSA.org & our network site(s) only disclose your Personal Data as described in this Privacy & Cookies Policy or as otherwise authorized by you.

Sharing your Personal Data for business purposes: We may disclose your Personal Data that we collect with the categories of recipients below for our business purposes:

• Suppliers: We may disclose your Personal Data with service providers. Please refer to the websites of third-party suppliers for their Privacy Policies.
• Companies within Our Corporate Family: We disclose your information with our affiliates and their subsidiaries in the U.S. and worldwide, as well as with PrayerUSA.org network organizations (including independent agents) and our group (family) of network organizations, including parent, sibling, subsidiary, and other related organizations. To learn more about our network (family) of companies and brands, please write to us. To learn more about your choices related to how we disclose your information with our group (family) of companies and independent agents, please see the “Your Data Subject Rights” section below. We may disclose your information with our group companies for the following business purposes:
  • To provide you with integrated services (including to administer and manage reservations, bookings, services, and payments across our affiliated platforms).
  • To provide personalized offers or send you marketing communications with your consent or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.
  • To enable “single sign-on”, i.e., allowing you to log into a shared account for multiple network brands using a single set of log-in credentials, which allows us to, for example, show your reservations and bookings made through the