Privacy policy

Website visitors

Like most website operators, Discipleship Tech 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. Discipleship Tech’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Discipleship Tech’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Discipleship Tech may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Discipleship Tech also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Discipleship Tech does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of personally-identifying information

Certain visitors to Discipleship Tech’s websites choose to interact with PrayerMate.net in ways that require Discipleship Tech to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Discipleship Tech gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who use our forums to provide a username and email address. In each case, Discipleship Tech collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with PrayerMate.net. Discipleship Tech 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

Discipleship Tech may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. However, Discipleship Tech does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of certain personally-identifying information

Discipleship Tech 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 Discipleship Tech’s behalf or to provide services available at Discipleship Tech’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Discipleship Tech’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Discipleship Tech 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, Discipleship Tech discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Discipleship Tech believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Discipleship Tech, third parties, or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Discipleship Tech website and have supplied your email address, Discipleship Tech may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Discipleship Tech and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Discipleship Tech takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Legal grounds for processing personal information

We rely on one or more of the following processing conditions:

Access to data

You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all your personal information, please follow the instructions at the end of this section.

PrayerMate.net user accounts can be edited by following these steps:

  1. Visit https://www.prayermate.net/users/sign_in?locale=de , and enter your username and password.
  2. Once signed in, click your username in the top right and choose "Edit account details".

If you would like to request access to your account data, please email info@prayermate.net.

Retention of personal information

We will retain your personal information on our systems only for as long as we need to. We keep contact information (such as mailing list information) until a user unsubscribes or requests that we delete that information from our live systems. If you choose to unsubscribe from a mailing list, we may keep certain limited information about you so that we may honor your request.

Discipleship Tech will not delete personal data from logs or records necessary to the operation, development, or archives of the PrayerMate.net project.

When deletion is requested or otherwise required, we will anonymise the data of data subjects and/or remove their information from publicly accessible sites if the deletion of data would break essential systems or damage the logs or records necessary to the operation, development, or archival records of the PrayerMate.net project.

If you would like to request deletion of your account and associated data, please email info@prayermate.net.

Rights in relation to your information

You may have certain rights under data protection law in relation to the personal information we hold about you. In particular, you may have a right to:

If you would like to exercise these rights or understand if these rights apply to you, please email info@prayermate.net.

Third Party Links

Our website may contain links to other websites provided by third parties not under our control. When following a link and providing information to a 3rd-party website, please be aware that we are not responsible for the data provided to that third party. This privacy policy only applies to the websites listed at the beginning of this document, so when you visit other websites, even when you click on a link posted on PrayerMate.net, you should read their own privacy policies.

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. Discipleship Tech uses cookies to help Discipleship Tech identify and track visitors, their usage of PrayerMate.net website, and their website access preferences. PrayerMate.net visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Discipleship Tech’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Discipleship Tech’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy policy changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Discipleship Tech may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Discipleship Tech’s sole discretion. Discipleship Tech 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.

Based upon the Wordpress.org Privacy Policy, published under Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license.