Your privacy is very important to us. At The Father's Business we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
- The Father's Business, Inc. (“The Father's Business”) operates several websites including TheFathersBusiness.com.
- It is The Father's Business’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, The Father's Business 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. The Father's Business’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Father's Business’ visitors use its website. From time to time, The Father's Business may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Father's Business also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. The Father's Business only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to The Father's Business’ websites choose to interact with The Father's Business in ways that require The Father's Business to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Father's Business gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive The Father's Business updates via email, we collect their emails.
In each case, The Father's Business collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Father's Business. The Father's Business 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
The Father's Business may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, The Father's Business may monitor the most popular pages on the TheFathersBusiness.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. The Father's Business may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Father's Business does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
The Father's Business 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 The Father's Business’ behalf or to provide services available at The Father's Business’ websites, and (ii) 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 The Father's Business’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
The Father's Business 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, The Father's Business discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Father's Business believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Father's Business, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of an The Father's Business website and have supplied your email address, The Father's Business 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 The Father's Business and our products. If you sign up for our devotional emails, you will receive these regularly (typically on a weekly basis). You can unsubscribe from our email list at any time using the link at the bottom of each email.
If you submit comments to blog posts or devotionals, or if you submit reviews for The Father's Business' products, the name and email address you provided along with your IP address will be stored on our website. Information collected during the process of a purchase made on The Father's Business website will be stored in perpetuity on the website for administrative purposes.
The Father's Business takes reasonably necessary measures to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Information for Citizens of the EU
If you are a citizen of a European Union member state and would like to request the removal of your personal information from this website, please send an email to [email protected] requesting removal.
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. The Father's Business uses cookies to help The Father's Business identify and track visitors, their usage of the The Father's Business website, and their website access preferences. The Father's Business visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Father's Business’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Father's Business’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If The Father's Business, or substantially all of its assets were acquired or transferred to another organization, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of The Father's Business may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Father's Business may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at The Father's Business’ sole discretion. The Father's Business 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.