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Privacy Policy

Effective Date 19-Aug-2025

This Privacy Policy describes the policies of Heralds of the Gospel, P.O. Box 42359, Houston, TX 77242, United States of America (the), email: contact@heraldsusa.org, phone: (281) 676 8526 on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information that We collect when You use Our Website ( https://www.heraldsusa.org ). (the “Service”). By accessing or using the Service, You are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of Your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If You do not consent to the same, please do not access or use the Service.

 We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice to You and will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Service. The revised Policy will be effective 180 days from when the revised Policy is posted in the Service and Your continued access or use of the Service after such time will constitute Your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. We therefore recommend that You periodically review this page.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the Company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Under GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User as You are the individual using the Service.

Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Heralds of the Gospel Foundation Inc, P.O. Box 42359, Houston, TX 77242.

For the purpose of the GDPR, the Company is the Data Controller.

Application means the software program provided by the Company downloaded by You on any electronic device, named Heralds of the Gospel.

Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.

Account means a unique account created for You to access Our Service or parts of Our Service.

Website refers to Heralds of the Gospel, accessible from https://www.heraldsusa.org

Service refers to the Application or the Website or both.

Country refers to: Texas, United States.

Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used. For the purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.

Third-party Social Media Service refers to any Website or any social network Website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.

Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

For the purposes for GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to You such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

For the purposes of the CCPA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.

Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a Website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that Website among its many uses.

Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Data Controller, for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), refers to the Company as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.

Do Not Track (DNT) is a concept that has been promoted by US regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across Websites.

Business, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), refers to the Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers’ personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers’ personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers’ personal information, that does business in the State of California.

Consumer, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means a natural person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose.

Sale, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer’s Personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Full Address
  • Work Address
  • Payment Information
  • Usage Data

When You pay for a product and/or a service via bank transfer, We may ask You to provide information to facilitate this transaction and to verify Your identity. Such information may include, without limitation:

  • Date of birth
  • Passport or National ID card
  • Bank card statement
  • Other information linking You to an address

 How We Use Your Information

 We will use the information that We collect about You for the following purposes:

  • Marketing/ Promotional
  • Enforce T&C
  • Processing payment
  • Administration info
  • Targeted advertising
  • Site protection
  • Dispute resolution

If We want to use Your information for any other purpose, We will ask You for consent and will use Your information only on receiving Your consent and then, only for the purpose(s) for which grant consent unless We are required to do otherwise by law.

 How We Share Your Information

We will not transfer Your personal information to any third party without seeking Your consent, except in limited circumstances as described below:

  • Ad service
  • Marketing agencies
  • Analytics
  • Payment recovery services
  • Data collection & process

We require such third party’s to use the personal information We transfer to them only for the purpose for which it was transferred and not to retain it for longer than is required for fulfilling the said purpose.

Additionally,

We may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
  • To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
  • To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which We offer that are similar to those that You have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, for payment processing, to contact You.
  • For Business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case We will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
  • With Business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
  • With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be vieWed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.

We may also disclose Your personal information for the following: (1) to comply with applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process; (2) to enforce Your agreements with us, including this Privacy Policy; or (3) to respond to claims that Your use of the Service violates any third-party rights. If the Service or our Company is merged or acquired with another company, Your information will be one of the assets that is transferred to the new owner.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy folloWed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

 

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Service Providers have access to Your Personal Data only to perform their tasks on Our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. Which include but are not limited to,

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a Web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports Website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made Your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

You may opt-out of certain Google Analytics features through Your mobile device settings, such as Your device advertising settings or by following the instructions provided by Google in their Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms Web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Email Marketing

We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.

We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You.

Mautic

Mautic is an open source email marketing sending service developed by Acquia  Inc.

For more information on Mautic, please visit their Website at: https://www.mautic.org/

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, We may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors 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 payment information.

When You use Our Service to pay for a product and/or service via bank transfer, We may ask You to provide information to facilitate this transaction and to verify Your identity.

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

 

Retention Of Your Information

We will retain Your personal information with Us for 90 days to 2 years after users terminate their accounts or for as long as We need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected as detailed in this Privacy Policy. We may need to retain certain information for longer periods such as record-keeping / reporting in accordance with applicable law or for other legitimate reasons like enforcement of legal rights, fraud prevention, etc. Residual anonymous information and aggregate information, neither of which identifies You (directly or indirectly), may be stored indefinitely.

Your Rights

 Depending on the law that applies, You may have a right to access and rectify or erase Your personal data or receive a copy of Your personal data, restrict or object to the active processing of Your data, ask Us to share (port) Your personal information to another entity, withdraw any consent You provided to Us to process Your data, a right to lodge a complaint with a statutory authority and such other rights as may be relevant under applicable laws. To exercise these rights, You can write to Us at contact@heraldsusa.org. We will respond to Your request in accordance with applicable law.

 You may opt-out of direct marketing communications or the profiling We carry out for marketing purposes by writing to Us at contact@heraldsusa.org.

 Do note that if You do not allow Us to collect or process the required personal information or withdraw the consent to process the same for the required purposes, You may not be able to access or use the services for which Your information was sought.

 

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of Our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

 

Cookies

 To learn more about how We use these and Your choices in relation to these tracking technologies, please refer to Our Cookie Policy.

 

Security

The security of Your information is important to Us and We will use reasonable security measures to prevent the loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration of Your information under our control. However, given the inherent risks, We cannot guarantee absolute security and consequently, We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information You transmit to Us and You do so at Your own risk.

 

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

We do not sell personal information.

However, the Service Providers We partner with (for example, our advertising partners) may use technology on the Service that “sells” personal information as defined by the CCPA law.

 

“Do Not Track” Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

However, some third party Websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If You are visiting such Websites, You can set Your preferences in Your Web browser to inform Websites that You do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of Your Web browser.

 

Third Party Links & Use Of Your Information

 Our Service may contain links to other Websites that are not operated by us. This Privacy Policy does not address the privacy policy and other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any Website or service that may be accessible via a link on the Service. We strongly advise You to review the privacy policy of every site You visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

 

Grievance / Data Protection Officer

If You have any queries or concerns about the processing of Your information that is available with Us, You may contact our Grievance Officer at Heralds of the Gospel,

P.O. Box 42359, Houston, TX 77242

Email: contact@heraldsusa.org.

We will address Your concerns in accordance with applicable law.