Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

 

December 23, 2019

 

Your privacy is very important to us. At Healing Hands Ministries (“Healing Hands Ministries,” “HHM,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) we have a few important principles:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we need it.

  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law or protect our rights.  We will never sell your information, or give it to anyone to reuse it.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
  • We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact us here.

Healing Hands Ministries operates http://healinghandsministries.org/. It is HHM’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Healing Hands Ministries collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. HHM’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how HHM’s visitors use its website. From time to time, HHM may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Healing Hands Ministries also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments. HHM only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Healing Hands Ministries’ website choose to interact with HHM in ways that require HHM to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that HHM gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Those who engage in transactions with HHM are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, HHM collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with HHM. HHM does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Healing Hands Ministries may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, HHM may monitor the most popular posts on http://healinghandsministries.org/ and may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, HHM does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Healing Hands Ministries discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on HHM’s behalf or to provide services available at HHM’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. HHM’s will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, HHM discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when HHM believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of HHM, third parties or the public at large. HHM takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Healing Hands Ministries uses cookies to help HHM identify and track visitors, their usage of HHM’s website, and their website access preferences. HHM visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using HHM’s website, with the drawback that certain features of HHM’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Advertisements

Healing Hands Ministries may incorporate remarketing by utilizing third party vendors (such as Google) to display content specific advertisements to visitors who have previously visited Healing Hands Ministries’ website. HHM and other third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize and serve ads based on user’s past visits to HHM.

Remarketing is a way for Healing Hands Ministries to connect to HHM users based upon such users’ past interactions with HHM. Third-party vendors (such as Google) may show HHM ads on other sites on the Web.

You may opt out of this use of cookies by visiting the following sites:

 http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/

If you choose, you can opt out by turning off cookies in your browser. You can opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your current web browser, by visiting: http://www.tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Finally, you may opt out by turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Healing Hands Ministries may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in HHM’s sole discretion. HHM encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Change log:

No changes to date.