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It is Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to bloominthedesert.org (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "bloominthedesert.org"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

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

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC's websites choose to interact with Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC in ways that require Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at bloominthedesert.org to provide a username and email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Aggregated Statistics

Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

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. Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC uses cookies to help Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC identify and track visitors, their usage of bloominthedesert.org, and their website access preferences. Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC's use of cookies.

The controller has integrated the component Google Analytics (with anonymisation function) on this website.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analysis is the gathering, collection and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. Among other things, a web analysis service collects data on which website a data subject has come to a website from (so-called referrers), which subpages of the website were accessed or how often and for which period of time a subpage was viewed. A web analysis is mainly used to optimize a website and for the cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.

The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google might transfer the personal information collected via this technical procedure to third parties.

As IP anonymization is activated on our website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within Member States of the European Union or other states in agreement with the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by a Google server in the USA. On behalf of the operator of the website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and to provide further services related to website and internet use to us. The IP address transferred through your browser to Google Analytics will not be combined with other data held by Google.

In addition, this website uses the Analytics feature UserID to track interaction data. This User ID will be additionally anonymized and encrypted and will not be linked with other data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible.

In addition, you may prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available here.

This browser add-on informs Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data and information about website visits may be transmitted to Google Analytics.

In addition, a cookie already set by Google Analytics can be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.

Further information and Google‘s applicable privacy regulations can be found here.  and at the Google Marketing Platform's about page. You can read a further explanation of Google Analytics here.

Our website also uses Google Analytics performance reports relating to demographics and interests and reports on Google Display Network impressions. You can disable Google Analytics for display advertising and customize the ads on the Google Display Network by visiting the ad settings here..

 

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC's sole discretion. Bloom in the Desert Ministries UCC 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.