Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy

For Harmony Acres Ministry - https://harmonyacres.com/

Harmony Acres Ministry : Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is intended to help you better understand how we collect, use and store your personal information when you visit or make a donation from harmonyacres.com (the “Site”). This policy applies to you whether you are a member of our website, or whether you are simply visiting this website. By visiting our website or making a donation, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages, food or items that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following contracted technologies: - “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps. - “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.  - Google analytics, which tracks the source of website traffic, behavior on our website, and other information about site visitors.  - Ecommerce technology from Grazecart.com (see Grazecart’s privacy policy here: https://start.grazecart.com/pr...), which allows us to store member’s donation history, address, etc. All credit card information is stored securely on Stripe.com and is not accessible to us directly.

Additionally, when you make a donation or attempt to make a donation through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, address, email address, and phone number.  We refer to this information as “Donation Information.”

Harmony Acres Ministry Association does not personally handle or store credit card information. Credit cards are securely stored with Stripe.com. Please refer to Stripe’s privacy policy for more information. https://stripe.com/us/privacy

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Donation Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Donation Information that we collect generally to fulfill any donations placed through the Site (including processing your means of donation, arranging for delivery or shipping, and providing you with donation confirmations).  

Additionally, we use this Donation Information to: Communicate with you; screen our requests for potential risk or fraud; and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or outreach relating to our foods or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our members browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our outreach missions).

COOKIES

When you use and access our website, we may place a number of cookie files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes: to provide analytics, to store your preferences, and to enable outreach delivery including behavioral outreach. We use Google Analytics and Cookies to improve our mission, the member experience, and for analyzing how our website is used. Google analytics will collect your IP address to track your approximate location. Other information collected by Google Analytics is mostly anonymous traffic data including browser information, device information, and language. This information is used to provide an overview of how people are accessing and using our website. We might use your data to automate decisions such as presenting you with targeted messages based on how you were referred to our Ministry's website.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We only share your Personal Information with third-parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above.  We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our members use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpag...

BEHAVIORAL OUTREACH

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted outreach or communications we believe may be of interest to you.

Harmony Acres Ministry Association is not involved with or engaged in "advertising" of any kind. Certain third-party services do however engage in such practices.

For more information about how third-party targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.... can opt out of targeted advertising by visiting:   FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/setti...   GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/setting...   BING - https://advertise.bingads.micr...

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at:  http://optout.aboutads.info/

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

DATA RETENTION

When you place a donation through the Site, we will maintain your Donation Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational reasons.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email at:

info@harmonyacres.com or by mail using the details provided below:

Harmony Acres Ministry Association
557 Amish Rd,
Gap, PA 17527