National Center for Thought Life Privacy Policy. Last updated: 12/19/2024

This Privacy Policy describes how the National Center for Thought Life (the “Site,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from www.ncftl.org (the “Site”) or otherwise communicate with us (collectively, the “Services”). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “you” and “your” means you as the Services user, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected according to this Privacy Policy.

As of the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual or any knowledge that we “share” or “sell” (as those terms are defined in applicable law) personal information of individuals. 

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any Services.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy occasionally to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the “Last updated” date, and take any other steps that applicable law requires.

How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

To provide the Services, we have collected personal information about you over the past 12 months from various sources, as set out below. The information we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.

In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use the information we collect about you to communicate with you, provide the Services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any relevant terms of service, and protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

What Personal Information We Collect

The types of personal information we obtain about you depend on how you interact with our Site and use our Services. When we use the term “personal information”, we refer to information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you. The following sections describe the categories and specific types of personal information we collect.

Information We Collect Directly from You Information that you directly submit to us through our Services may include:

– Basic contact details, including your name, address, phone number, and email.

– Order information, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, and phone number.

– Account information, including your username, password, and security questions.

– Customer support information, including the data you choose to include in communications with us, such as when sending a message through the Services.

Some Services features may require you to directly provide us with information about yourself. You may elect not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.

Information We Collect Through Cookies

We also automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services (“Usage Data”). We may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies (“Cookies”) to do this. If we do use this information, it will only be for functions inside the NCFTL. The information willl not be shared outside of the NCFTL. Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our Site and your account, including device information, browser information, network connection information, IP address, and other information regarding your interaction with the Services. This will be only for the NCFTL use.

Information We Obtain from Third Parties

Finally, we may obtain information about you from third parties, including from vendors and service providers who may collect information on our behalf, such as:

– Companies who support our Site and Services, such as WordPress and Woocommerce..

– Our payment processors collect payment information (e.g., bank account, credit or debit card information, billing address) to process your payment to fulfill your orders and provide you with products or services you have requested to perform our contract with you.

– When you visit our Site, open or click on emails we send you, or interact with our Services or advertisements, we, or third parties we work with, may automatically collect certain information using online tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, software developer kits, third-party libraries, and cookies.

This Privacy Policy will treat any information we obtain from third parties. We are not responsible or liable for the accuracy of the information provided to us by third parties and are not responsible for any third party’s policies or practices. For more information, see the Third Party Websites and Links section below.

How We Use Your Personal Information

– Providing Products and Services. We use your personal information to provide you with the Services to perform our contract with you, including processing your payments, fulfilling your orders, sending notifications to you related to your account, purchases, returns, exchanges, or other transactions, to create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, to arrange for shipping, facilitate any returns and exchanges and to enable you to post reviews.

– Marketing and Advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as sending marketing, advertising, and promotional communications by email, text message, or postal mail and showing you advertisements for products or services. This may include using your personal information to better tailor the Services and advertising on our Site and other websites.

– Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to detect, investigate, or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, or malicious activity. If you use the Services and register an account (if applicable), you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe. We highly recommend not sharing your username, password, or other access details with anyone else. If you believe your account has been compromised, please get in touch with us immediately.

• Communicating with you. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support and improve our Services. This is in our legitimate interests to be responsive to you, provide adequate services, and maintain our business relationship with you.

Cookies

We do not use Cookies. Unlike many websites, cookies are not used. We will only use Cookies if we need to empower and improve our Site and Services (including to remember your actions and preferences), run analytics, and better understand user interaction with the Services (in our legitimate interests to administer, improve, and optimize the Services). 

We do not use cookies. Remember, most browsers automatically accept Cookies by default, but you can set your browser to remove or reject Cookies through your browser controls. Please remember that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some of the services, including certain features and general functionality, to work incorrectly or be unavailable. 

How We Disclose Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

 Circumstances may include:

  – With vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment, and shipping).

• With business and marketing partners, including WordPress and/or Woocommerce, to provide services and advertise to you.

• When you direct, request us, or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship your products or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations, with your consent.

– With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group, in our legitimate interests to run a successful business.

– In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including responding to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests), to enforce any relevant terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

Category:

– Identifiers such as basic contact details and specific order and account information

– Commercial information such as order information, shopping information, and customer support information – Internet or other similar network activity, such as Usage Data

Categories of Recipients:

– Vendors and third parties who perform services on our behalf (such as Internet service providers, payment processors, fulfillment partners, customer support partners, and data analytics providers)

– Affiliates

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information to infer your characteristics.

WE WILL NOT AND DO NOT SELL OR SHARE YOUR INFORMATION. IT IS ONLY FOR NCFTL WORK AND MISSION.

Category of Personal Information

– Identifiers such as basic contact details and certain order and account information

• Commercial information, such as records of products or services purchased and shopping information – Internet or other similar network activity, such as Usage Data
  

Categories of Recipients

User Generated Content

• The Services may enable you to post product reviews and other user-generated content. If you submit user-generated content to any public area of the Services, this content will be public and accessible to anyone.
• We do not control who will have access to the information you choose to make available to others and cannot ensure that parties with access to such information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information that you make publicly available or for the accuracy, use, or misuse of any information that you disclose or receive from third parties.
  

Third Party Websites and Links

Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated with or controlled by us,

Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms, may also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use by us or a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Services.

Children’s Data

The Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about or from children. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details below to request that it be deleted.

As of the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual or any knowledge that we “share” or “sell” (as those terms are defined in applicable law) personal information of individuals under 16 years of age, nor do we sell anyone’s information.

Security and Retention of Your Information

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” In addition, any information you send us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.