Privacy Policy
Welcome to our A Life of Faith web site! We hope your visit to our site will be an enjoyable one and that you will learn wonderful things about our Christian heroines, the time periods in which they lived, and their powerful faith. We want you to know that we are very concerned about protecting your privacy. That is why we have adopted this privacy policy.
                                              
If you are under the age of 13, before you submit any personal information to us, please read this entire message with your parents or guardians.
                
Note to Parents/Guardians: We have worked hard to make our site a safe, wholesome place for visitors of all ages. Nevertheless, we strongly encourage you to talk to your children about safe and responsible use of the Internet and protection of their personal information. Please review this entire policy with your children. We hope that after you have reviewed it, you will be comfortable with your child's visiting our Web site and corresponding with us.
                   
Personal Identifying Information
            
You need to be very careful when it comes to giving us or anyone else personal information about you or your family over the Internet, particularly information that would allow someone to actually contact you.
                       
For the purposes of this policy, we will call information that would allow someone to actually contact you "Personal Identifying Information." Personal Identifying Information includes things like your full name (first name plus last name), your email address, your home address, your telephone number, your school name, your place of employment, your social security number, or other similar items.
                             
Personal Identifying Information is different from information that will not allow a person to actually contact you. Information like your first name without your last name, your city without your street address, your age, your favorite color, what magazines you like, etc., will not allow us or anyone else to actually contact you. For the purposes of this policy, we will call these kinds of information "Profile," "Demographic" or "Non-Identifying" Information.
                    
The distinction between Personal Identifying Information and Non-Identifying Information is very important. You should carefully protect all personal information, but Personal Identifying Information is what you need to safeguard the most.
                                            
The Kinds of Information We Collect
At our Web site, we will ask for the following personal information:
                        
Profile/Demographic Information - we will at times ask you for your first name, last initial (so we can tell girls with the same first name apart), age, state, and country. This is Non-Identifying Information, however, if you are concerned about sharing it with us, you are always free to submit your information under a false or "screen" name. 
                       
Identifying Information - we will at times ask for your email address. Email address is the only piece of Personal Identifying Information we will ask for. We ask for it so that we may add you to our email mailing list and correspond with you. Email address is never mandatory.

Editorial Information - we will give you the opportunity to voluntarily provide your thoughts and ideas to us through the various sections of our Web site. There are lots of reasons for you to write and we want to hear from you. You might, for example, choose to send us questions or answers in our "Talk With Elsie" or other Club sections, or you might want to send in suggestions or ideas for our "Homemade Fun" sections. You might want to enter one of our essay contests. Or you might want to tell us what you thought about one of our online Bible lessons or our book products. For the purposes of this policy, we will refer to your comments, ideas, opinions, suggestions, stories, questions and answers, and all other information or communication from you as "Editorial Information."
                                        
Server Information - there is information which our server or computer system records in the process of operating, maintaining and administering our Web site. This includes how many visitors we had, the number of visitors which viewed each of the pages on our site, what times of day visitors came to our site, what browsers our visitors used, and what part of the Internet they came to our site from, and other similar information. This "Server Information" provides us with aggregate data and market research that is very helpful to us in evaluating our site.
                       
Cookies - A "cookie" is a message given to a Web browser by a Web server. At times we will use cookies to keep track of your online session for personalization purposes, such as storing your username and password for you to easily log in on your next visit, or to send you personalized information about upcoming products and promotions that we believe will interest you based on information you have given us. We also use cookies to track usage of our website and to create website usage statistics and reports. At times we send the data collected by these cookies to an outside program called Google Analytics, but we never include your personally identifiable information in the data that we send.
                          
How We Use the Information   
      
At our Web site, we use the information from or about you to:
· respond to your correspondence, questions, comments, prayer requests, etc.;
· continually develop and design our content to meet your interests and needs;
· notify you about new products and new Web site content and to send you announcements and newsletters;
· contact you in the event you win a prize in one of our games or contests;
· understand our audience and their interests better so we can continue to improve our products, services and Web site. 
                         
How We Protect Personal Identifying Information
1) We do not sell, rent or lease any of your Personal Identifying Information to any third party.
2) We do not give your Personal Identifying Information (your email address) to anyone except the company that maintains our email mailing list for us (we are too small a company to handle this in-house).
3) If we choose to post any of the Editorial Information that you send in to us, we will only post Non-Identifying Information - things like your first name, last initial, your age, state, and country. We will NOT post your email address.
                           
Our Rights to Use the Editorial Information You Send Us
We love to hear from our readers and regularly receive email and postal correspondence from girls and women of all ages! All Editorial Information that you send us will become the sole property of Mission City Press, and we will be free to post, publish or otherwise use it for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to publishing new book or other products using or including such information, developing products based on ideas you have sent us, placing your comments in our promotional pieces, etc. All of the information you send us will be carefully reviewed, and if we do decide to post it, publish it or use it, we will have the right to edit it. With the exception of your Personal Identifying Information, everything we receive from you will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary.

Our Mailing List
If you would like to be on our email and/or postal mailing list, please contact us in one of the ways listed below and request to be placed on our email or postal mailing list. However, if you are under 13, we will need written consent from your Parents/Guardian (see below). If you are over 13, we would greatly appreciate having a form on file for you too, though it is not mandatory.
                 
Opting-Out
You will at all times have the opportunity to opt-out of receiving further communications from us. Simply contact us in one of the ways listed below and request to be removed from our email or postal mailing list.
                       
Corrections/Updates
If at any time you would like to correct or update the Personal Identifying Information we have on file for you, simply contact us in one of the ways listed below and provide the corrected or updated information.
                     
Parental Consent 
            
If you are under 13 years old and you want us to be able to correspond with you (write you letters, put you on our email mailing list, send you prizes, etc.), we must have a letter on file from your Parent or Guardian giving us their consent. If you are over 13, while we are not required by law to have your Parent's consent, it would greatly help us if you would send in a Parent Consent Form anyway.    
                             
We want to know that your parents are aware of our site, that they approve of your use of it, and that they are pleased to have us correspond with you. The form also gives us the postal information we need to write to you by mail or send prizes to you for our contests. In addition, in the event we launch an e-pal or pen pal program, it gives us a way to contact your parents for permission.  
                                                       
Note to Parents/Guardians:
                      
If you have read our privacy policy and are comfortable with your child's corresponding with us and being on our email and/or postal mailing list, we will need you to provide written parental consent. This consent cannot be given via email. You must write or fax us a letter giving us your consent along with the email and/or postal contact information you want us to have in our files. You must sign the letter and provide a way for us to reach you (such as your email address or telephone number) if necessary to confirm your consent. You may revoke your consent at any time by contacting us via any of the methods listed in the following section.
                             
We realize that these requirements are time-consuming, but they are measures now required by law for your child's protection. For a sample consent letter that you can print out, sign and mail or fax to us, see Parent Consent Form.
                             
Contacting Us
                    
We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing you with a safe, enjoyable and enriching on-line experience. If you have concerns or questions about this privacy statement or our Web site, please do not hesitate to contact us. Please call 1-800-840-2641 or write to us at Mission City Press, 8122 Datapoint Drive, Suite 1000, San Antonio, TX 78229 (Attention: Permissions Manager).
                        
Thank you for your concern about online privacy. We hope you have a safe and positive experience getting to know our Christian heroines and learning about their lives of faith.
 
Updated 2-26-09