PRIVACY POLICY

Under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Holtzhausen Ministries is a small business operator, and therefore exempt from the application of the Australian Privacy Principles. If you reside in the EU and EEA, and provide us with your personal data, this policy will explain how we treat your data under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

Holtzhausen Ministries is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This statement of privacy applies to information collected, used, stored, and disclosed by Holtzhausen Ministries, including information collected through you contacting Holtzhausen Ministries. By using the Holtzhausen Ministries website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Holtzhausen Ministries collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. Holtzhausen Ministries also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favourites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Holtzhausen Ministries. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used by Holtzhausen Ministries for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Holtzhausen Ministries website. In addition, Holtzhausen Ministries may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, arrange for deliveries, or assist in the provision of other requested products or services. Holtzhausen Ministries will only collect the reasonable minimum amount of data for its disclosed purposes.

Holtzhausen Ministries, on review of its data, will delete or remove inaccurate or outdated data.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Holtzhausen Ministries public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Holtzhausen Ministries does not read any of your private online communications.

Holtzhausen Ministries encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Holtzhausen Ministries so that you can understand how those websites collect, use, and share your information. Holtzhausen Ministries is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of Holtzhausen Ministries and Holtzhausen Ministries’ family of websites.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Holtzhausen Ministries collects and uses your personal information to operate the Holtzhausen Ministries website and deliver the services you have requested. Holtzhausen Ministries also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Holtzhausen Ministries and its affiliates. Holtzhausen Ministries may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Holtzhausen Ministries does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties. Holtzhausen Ministries may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Holtzhausen Ministries may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Holtzhausen Ministries, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Holtzhausen Ministries does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Holtzhausen Ministries keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Holtzhausen Ministries, in order to determine what Holtzhausen Ministries services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Holtzhausen Ministries to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Holtzhausen Ministries websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Holtzhausen Ministries or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Holtzhausen Ministries; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Holtzhausen Ministries, or the public.

USE OF COOKIES

The Holtzhausen Ministries website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Holtzhausen Ministries pages, or register with Holtzhausen Ministries site or services, a cookie helps Holtzhausen Ministries to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Holtzhausen Ministries website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Holtzhausen Ministries features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Holtzhausen Ministries services or websites you visit.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND BREACHES

Holtzhausen Ministries secures your personal information (and any back-ups) from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Holtzhausen Ministries secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

We will take seriously and deal promptly with any accidental or unauthorized disclosure of personal information.

OVERSEAS DISCLOSURE

Holtzhausen Ministries is not likely to disclose your personal information to overseas recipients, except in exceptional circumstances related to the authorized use under this policy, for the purposes of storage on a cloud server, or for any other lawful purpose.

To the extent your personal information is stored on an overseas server, Holtzhausen Ministries will take such steps as are reasonable to ensure that your information is kept securely and treated confidentially, in accordance with Holtzhausen Ministries’ requirements under the relevant privacy laws.

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT

Holtzhausen Ministries will occasionally update this statement of privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Holtzhausen Ministries encourages you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how Holtzhausen Ministries is protecting your information.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Holtzhausen Ministries welcomes your comments regarding this statement of privacy. If you believe that Holtzhausen Ministries has not adhered to this statement, or if you have a complaint or concern about your information, please contact Holtzhausen Ministries at admin@holtzhausenministries.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

[Updated April 2024]