Privacy Notice
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2021
John 3:16 Ministries Gift Shop may provide additional or supplemental privacy notices to
individuals at the time we collect their data, which will govern how we may process the
information provided at that time. We may alter this Privacy Statement as needed to abide by
local laws or regulations around the world, such as by providing supplemental information in
certain countries.
Table of Contents
1. The personal data we collect
2. How we use your personal data
3. How we share your personal data
4. Your rights and choices
5. How we keep your data safe
6. Changes to this Privacy Notice
7. Contact Us
1. The personal data we collect
(i) When you make a payment at a John 3:16 Ministries Gift Shop, we collect information
about the transaction, which may include personal data. Information about transactions
includes the payment card used, name associated with the payment card, electronic
signature, name and location of the merchant at which the transaction occurred, date
and time of the transaction, transaction amount, and information about the goods or
services purchased in the transaction.
This “Privacy Notice” describes the practices of John 3:16 Ministries Gift Shop and the rights and
choices available to individuals, regarding personal data. Personal data means any information
that relates to an identifiable individual.
A. Information that we collect when individuals make a payment at the Gift Shop.
(ii) Additional information John 3:16 Ministries Gift Shop customers may be required to
provide Clover or what other POS systems in use at the time.
Your email address or phone number, for example, if you choose to receive an electronic
receipt.
B. Information that we collect from private and publicly accessible sources
We may also maintain pages for our company and our products and services on a
variety of third-party platforms, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+,
YouTube, Instagram, and other social networking services. When individuals interact
with our pages on those third-party platforms, the third-party’s privacy policy will
govern your interactions on the relevant platform. If the third-party platform provides
us with information about our pages on those platforms or your interactions with
them, we will treat that information in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
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C. Information collected via automated means
When you access our websites or use our mobile applications, we, our service
providers, and our partners may automatically collect information about you, your
computer or mobile device, and activity on our websites or mobile applications.
Typically, this information includes your computer or mobile device operating system
type and version number, manufacturer and model, device identifier (such as the
Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for Advertising), browser type, screen resolution,
IP address, the website you visited before browsing to our website, general location
information such as city, state or geographic area; and information about your use of
and actions on or in our websites or mobile applications, such as pages or screens
you accessed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between
pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times,
and length of access. Certain products or services that we provide incorporate into
their websites or mobile applications may automatically collect additional
information, as may be further described in a separate privacy notice.
Our service providers and business partners may collect this type of information over
time and across third-party websites. This information is collected via various
mechanisms, such as via cookies, web beacons, embedded scripts, through our
mobile applications, and similar technologies. This type of information may also be
collected when you read our HTML-enabled emails. Please refer to our Cookies
Disclosure for more details. You can choose to disable cookies or to opt out of the use
of your browsing behavior for purposes of targeted advertising. For opt out
instructions, please review the “Targeted online advertising” portion of the “Your
Choices” section of this Privacy Notice.
We use your personal data for the following reasons:
A. Providing our products and services, which includes:
Fulfilling a payment or return transaction initiated by you
Delivering electronic receipts via email or text message
Maintaining records for merchants of their customers’ purchase activity and history
Checking for fraud or money laundering and/or managing either our or merchants’ risk
Administering and protecting our business
We use your personal data as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with
applicable laws, lawful requests and legal processes, such as to respond to
subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
B. Complying with the law
C. Compliance, fraud prevention and safety
We use your personal data as we believe necessary or appropriate to:
enforce the terms and conditions that govern our products and services;
protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others;
protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized,
unethical or illegal activity.
3. The parties with whom we share your personal data
A. Service providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to administer and provide
services on our behalf (ex: companies that help us process payments). These third
parties may use your information only as directed by John 3:16 Ministries Gift
Shop in a manner consistent with this Privacy Notice and are prohibited from
using or disclosing your information for any other purpose.
B. Merchants
When Clover (as the current POS for John 3:16 Ministries Gift Shop) performs
services for us, it may share personal data with those merchants. For example,
Clover may collect information about a customer from or on behalf of the John
3:16 Ministries Gift Shop, such as when Clover processes payment transactions,
and Clover may provide personal data about those customers back to the
merchant. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of merchants who use
our services.
C. Participants in the transaction processing chain
Clover (acting as the current POS for John 3:16 Ministries Gift Ship) shares personal
data with companies in the transaction processing chain in connection with
processing a payment transaction, such as merchants, banks or other card issuers,
card associations, debit network operators and their members.
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We may disclose your personal data to professional advisors, such as lawyers,
bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional
services that they render to us.
How we use your personal data (cont)
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D. Professional advisors
E. To comply with laws and law enforcement; protection and safety
Clover (acting as the current POS for John 3:16 Ministries Gift Ship) may disclose
information about you to government or law enforcement officials (including tax
authorities) or private parties as required by law, and disclose and use such
information as we believe necessary or appropriate to:
(i) Comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal processes, such as to
respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities;
(ii) Enforce the terms and conditions that govern our products and services;
(iii) Protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others;
(iv) Protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized,
unethical or illegal activity.
4. Your rights and choices.
Where we request personal data directly from you, you do not have to provide it to
us. If you decide not to provide the requested information, in some circumstances we
may be unable to provide products or services to you. For example, we may be
unable to process your transaction.
5. How we keep your data safe.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data
from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or
disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees,
agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They
will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a
duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach
and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally
required to do so.
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A. Use for new purposes
We may use your personal data for reasons not described in this Privacy Notice where
permitted by law and the reason is compatible with the purpose for which we
collected it. (ie: processing payments.)
B. How long will you use my personal data?
We will use your personal data for as long as necessary based on why we collected it
and what we use it for. This may include our need to satisfy a legal, regulatory,
accounting, or reporting requirement.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the
amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from
unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we
process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through
other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In general terms, we will retain your personal data for the duration of your
involvement/engagement with us and for as long as reasonably necessary
afterwards; however, we may maintain different retention periods for different
products and services. There are also certain types of information which are required
to be retained for a certain period by law.
How we keep your data safe (cont)
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6. Changes to this Privacy Notice.
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Notice at any time. We encourage you to
periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. If we
make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we will notify you by updating the date
of this Privacy Notice and posting it on our website and in app stores where our
mobile applications covered by this Privacy Notice are available for download. We
may (and, where required by law, will) also provide notification of changes in another
way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you, such as via e-mail (if you have an
account where we have your contact information) or another manner through our
website or mobile applications.
Any modifications to this Privacy Notice will be effective upon our posting of the new
terms and/or upon implementation of the new changes (or as otherwise indicated at
the time of posting). In all cases, your continued use of our products or services after
the posting of any modifed Privacy Notice indicates your acceptance of the terms of
the modifed Privacy Notice.
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Changes to this Privacy Notice (cont)
Effective Date October 1. 2021
7. Contact us
If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints about this Privacy Notice or our
privacy practices, or to request access to your personal data, you may contact us at
mediateamjohn316@gmail.com.