More Bless Every Home is a ministry service of the Mapping Center for Evangelism and Church Growth, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in 1997. This privacy policy applies whenever you use the blesseveryhome.com website or the Bless Every Home mobile app.
As a general governing principle, your personal information is not shared with anybody unless you specifically give us permission to do so under the circumstances described below.
- "Mapping Center", "we", "us": these terms all equally refer to the Mapping Center for Evangelism and Church Growth organization.
- "Light role": a fundamental element of your overall registered account, consisting of one prayer list created for a home address you provided.
- "Blessee": an item on your prayer list, which is usually a home characterized by the names of the people living at a certain address.
- "Neighborhood": a Census Block Group as determined by the United States Census Bureau for the US Census.
- "Partner organization": Bible believing Christian churches and organizations who have partnered and registered with us in order to fulfill the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.
- "Administrator role": an optional feature of your registered account that gives you control over a partner organization.
- "Pray-care-share-disciple progress": the scores you accumulate when you pray for, care for, share with and disciple the blessees on your prayer list.
- "Attenders": members and prospects of a partner organization.
Information about you that you provide us directly when your account is created are your full name, email address, password and home address. Your full name is used as a label for your account, and in addressing you in email communication that you opted in to receive. Your email address is used as a unique identifier of your account, it is part of your login credentials and is where all our email communication you opted into is sent. Your password is part of your login credentials. It is stored in an encrypted format that nobody, even we, can decrypt or thus read. Your home address is used to obtain a location to create your initial prayer list of homes close to you.
Optional information you may provide about your blessees are their names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, prayer requests, your prayer journal notes, preferred prayer reminder days, and reminder messages. All of this optional information is used solely to improve your user experience by allowing you to augment and customize your prayer list and its various functionalities.
Optional information you may provide about your Light role are a custom label, church affiliation, other Christian group affiliations, whether you wish to connect with other Light roles in your neighborhood, preferred prayer list size and geographical area, days to receive prayer reminder emails, and whether to receive names and addresses of families moving into your neighborhood. The custom label is used as a display label for your Light role. Entering your church is used to connect your Light role to a partner organization in order to make your progress count towards the overall progress of the partner organization and their affiliated parent organizations, and may be used to facilitate the sending of notifications to you about people moving into your neighborhood as managed by the partner organization. Providing other Christian group affiliations is used to connect your Light role to partner organizations in order to make your progress count towards their overall progress. Connecting your Light role with partner organizations this way allows them to have access to some of your data as described later in this document. The setting for whether you wish to connect with other Light roles in your neighborhood determines if your name and address are visible to other Light roles in your neighborhood, and whether you can see the names and addresses of other Light roles in your neighborhood with the intention of facilitating personal connections between users of our services. Your preferred prayer list size, geographical area and email reminder days are used to customize your prayer list and improve your user experience. The setting for receiving names and addresses of families moving into your neighborhood is used to signal to your church, if entered, that you wish to participate in welcoming new movers to your neighborhood and to receive email notifications about them.
You can optionally provide your personal phone number which, if you have an administrator role, we may use to reach you with issues concerning your registered account.
Our website and mobile app are not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, please do not provide any information on our website or in our mobile app.
Your password is not accessible by or shared with anybody. Not even we can access it. It is stored in an inaccessible encrypted format.
None of the information entered by you is shared with anybody unless you specifically give us permission to do so by opting in to affiliate your Light role with one or more of our partner organizations; by opting in to have your contact information available to other Light roles in your neighborhood; or by creating an administrator role in a partner organization.
If you optionally choose to affiliate your Light role with one or more of our partner organizations, such as your church, that organization gains access to a subset of your information. This subset includes your name, email address and home address; the custom label and size of your prayer list; the name and address of blessees placed on your prayer list by us and not edited by you; your pray-care-share-disciple progress with all of your blessees individually; and your preference to whether you wish to receive names and addresses of people having moved recently to your neighborhood. The partner organization does not get access to your phone number; any optionally entered prayer requests, phone numbers and email addresses of any of your blessees; any blessee names and addresses that you entered or edited; your prayer journal notes, preferred prayer reminder days, reminder messages, and other Christian group affiliations you may have entered.
If you optionally choose to have your contact information available to other Light roles in your neighborhood in order to facilitate the building of personal relationships, your name and address will be visible to other Light roles in your neighborhood.
If you have an administrator role in a partner organization your name and email address are accessible to users when they view the information page of that partner organization.
Your prayer list size and pray-care-share-disciple progress will be included anonymously in various geographical data summaries. No personal information is identifiable from these summaries. If you optionally choose to affiliate your Light role with one or more of our partner organizations, your prayer list size and pray-care-share-disciple progress will be included anonymously in data summaries of the partner organization and in data summaries of other partner organizations above it in the chain of affiliations. No personal information is identifiable from these summaries.
Only you can edit and delete any of the data you entered. In the event you explicitly instruct us to edit or delete any of your data, we may do so on your behalf.
When a partner organization is registered, the name and address of the organization are entered. These are used to uniquely identify the organization and may be displayed to any user. If the partner organization identifies itself as a church, its weekly attendance is entered, and is used to customize the prices of our products. The weekly attendance data is only available to administrator roles of the partner organization and is not shared with anyone. If the partner organization identifies itself as an association, its number of member churches is entered, and is used to customize the prices of our products. The number of member churches data is only available to administrator roles of the partner organization and is not shared with anyone.
A partner organization can optionally provide its phone number, web address, the link to its privacy policy, and affiliations with other partner organizations. This information is used to improve user experience and may be displayed to any user.
A partner organization can optionally provide data about its attenders, including their member status, name, address, home phone number, mobile phone number, email address, family identification, family position and other non-labelled information. Provision of such data may be entered individually through a form, uploading multiple items from a file, or by connecting to various church management software. The data about attenders is only available to administrator roles of the partner organization that provided the data, it is not shared with anybody, and is used to display attenders on maps and to augment our various information analysis services offered to the partner organization.
If a partner organization optionally chooses to affiliate itself with one or more other partner organizations, the total number, city, state, zip code and approximate location of its Light roles; and the total number of adopted homes and total pray-care-share-disciple progress become available to the partner organization affiliated with.
The number of adopted homes and pray-care-share-disciple progress of a partner organization will be included anonymously in various geographical data summaries. If a partner organization optionally chooses to affiliate itself with one or more other partner organizations, its number of adopted homes and pray-care-share-disciple progress will be included anonymously in data summaries of the affiliated partner organization and in data summaries of other partner organizations above it in the chain of affiliations.
Only administrator roles can edit and delete any of the data entered for partner organizations. In the event an administrator role explicitly instructs us to edit or delete any of its partner organization data, we may do so on their behalf.
When you make a donation to us or when a partner organization subscribes to any of our products we ask for a credit card number, card expiry date and card verification code through a secure online form. This data is not viewed and is not stored by us. We immediately pass this information to our payments provider, Authorize.net. We also pass on your name, address and email address, and if applicable, those of the partner organization, in order to facilitate the processing of payment transactions. We encourage you to review their privacy policy at https://www.authorize.net/en-anz/about-us/privacy.html.
We physically store all the data we collect on secure servers at GoDaddy Mediatemple Inc. (MediaTemple). Being the fundamental hardware provider for our services, MediaTemple has the technical capability to access any of our stored data, but under what circumstances they may do so is very strictly limited by law, their privacy policy at https://mediatemple.net/legal/privacy-policy and more specifically their data processing addendum at https://mediatemple.net/legal/data-processing-addendum.
Our website and mobile app are being developed by the Best Company of the World Ltd. (BCW), a General Data Protection Regulation compliant company. During the development of our services, BCW necessarily may come into contact with our stored data to the extent required to fulfill their assignments. Our data processing agreement with BCW strictly limits their access to the data, forbids any copying of the data for any reason, and specifies strong standards BCW and their employees must comply with.
Like most websites, we use cookies to track a very limited set of non-personal data about how you browse our website in order to improve your user experience by automatically offering you the possibility to join partner organizations whose link you followed to our website or app; by providing you with discounts and free subscriptions; and by guiding you to pages and showing you content we assume would be of benefit for you to see.
We partner with Google Analytics to allow tracking technologies on our website and in our mobile app through the use of cookies in order to analyze and track the usage of our services, determine the popularity of certain content, understand the demographics of and technologies used by users, and better understand online behaviour. We do not transfer any personal information to Google, and we encourage you to review their privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
We partner with Vimeo to show videos on our website through their embeddable video player which uses cookies that they consider essential to the video player experience. We do not transfer any personal information to Vimeo, and we encourage you to review their privacy policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.
To better understand user behaviour and improve your user experience, we use tracking images in the emails we send to you. With these we record the first time you open an email and the first time you click any links in the email. We do not share any of this data with anybody.
For troubleshooting and dispute resolution purposes we may record and store your IP address.
We do not retain any of your personal data after you delete your account. We may retain IP addresses for troubleshooting and dispute resolution purposes.
As we develop our organization, we might sell, buy or restructure the organization or its assets. In the event of any sale, merger, reorganization, restructuring, dissolution or similar event involving our organization or assets, personal data may be part of the transferred assets.
If you have any complaints regarding our compliance with this privacy policy, you should first contact us. We will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding use and disclosure of personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact a Christian mediation and arbitration organization.
This privacy policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our services or to satisfy legal requirements. The date of the last update will be prominently published in the footer of our website and in the first paragraph of the privacy policy on the website and in the mobile app. Any changes to our privacy policy will become effective upon posting of the revised privacy policy on our website. Use of our website, our mobile app, any of our products and services, and/or providing consent to the updated privacy policy following such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised privacy policy then in effect.
