Last Modified Date: June 12, 2021
The ChurchPlaza Companies, Inc. (“ChurchPlaza,” “we,” “our,” “us”) values the privacy of our customers and visitors to www.churchplaza.com (the “Website”). This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) addresses how we collect, use, and disclose information that we collect from customers, users, and visitors (“you” or “your”) to the Website. While ChurchPlaza’s business almost exclusively consists of business to business transactions, we value the personal privacy of our customers’ employees and offer this Policy to you so that you may make an informed decision about your personal privacy.
What Information Does ChurchPlaza Collect?
The information that we collect from you depends upon your interaction with us. If you visit our Website and choose to contact us to request a sample, we will collect your name, email address and phone number (collectively, “Sample Information”). Whenever you click on our Website to request a quotation for a product, we will collect your name, email address, phone number, and the content of any message that you choose to provide to us (“Quote Information”). If you contact us with a general inquiry either through the Website or by calling us at (800) 927-6775, we will collect your name, email address, phone number, and the content of any message that you choose to send or provide to us (“General Inquiry Information”).
If you request a Church Chairs guide from us, we will collect your name, email address and telephone number (“Church Guide Information”). We will also ask that you click a box to indicate that you agree with our Policy and consent to our contacting you about our products. Should you choose to purchase a product from us, in response to a price quotation or by calling us with an order, we will collect your organization’s name, mailing and billing address; email address; payment card information; and relevant details regarding your desired product such as color, quantity, etc. (collectively “Product Sales Information”). Our Website also collects information from internet cookies as detailed more fully below in the section titled Internet Cookies.
How does ChurchPlaza Use the Information that it Collects?
We use the information that we collect from you through our Website or when you call us in the following ways:
- We use your Sample Information to fulfill a request for a sample of a product, if applicable, in accordance with our sample policy as detailed on the Website for each product where we offer such a sample, including preparation of and shipping of that sample. We will store your Sample Information in our customer relationship database, which we use to keep track of our interactions with customers and prospective customers, and to evaluate the effectiveness of our sample program.
- We use your Quote Information for purposes of preparing and sending you a quote for the product that you have indicated to us that you desire to receive a price quotation for. We will store your Quote Information in our customer relationship database, which we use to keep track of our interactions with customers and prospective customers.
- We use your General Inquiry Information for purposes of responding to your inquiry of us. We will store your General Inquiry Information in our customer relationship database, which we use to keep track of our interactions with customers and prospective customers.
- When you request a Church Chairs Guide, we use your Church Guide Information to send you the Church Chairs Guide and to contact you to follow up with any questions that you may have. The Church Guide Information is stored in our customer relationship database for purposes of tracking our contact with customers and prospective customers.
- Your Product Sales Information is used for purposes of processing your payment and fulfilling your product order. We use your Product Sales Information to render customer support and service after a product order has been fulfilled. We store your Product Sales Information in our customer relationship database so that we can render customer support.
Internet Cookies
Our Website utilizes third party internet cookies. An internet cookie is a small data file that is transmitted to your computing device when you visit our Website. Internet cookies are used to collect information about visitors to our Website. The internet cookies deployed through our Website collect information such as your internet protocol address, computing device type, the name and version of the internet web browser that you choose to use when you visit our Website, the domain of your internet service provider, your physical location, a unique online identifier, your preferred language, the time and date of your arrival on our Website, the duration of your visit on our Website, and your most recent internet history.
We use the information we receive in connection with the use of internet cookies to detect, troubleshoot and resolve issues with our Website. The information collected from cookies is used by ChurchPlaza to combat fraud, malicious, and criminal activities on our Website. We also use information derived from cookies to identify the areas of the globe where visitors to our Website originate and to judge the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising efforts. In connection with improving and optimizing your user experience while browsing our Website, we use information from cookies to understand the most popular web browsers used to access our Website.
Your Choices Regarding Internet Cookies
Depending upon the internet browser that you use to access our Website, you may have the option to toggle your browser settings to change how your browser handles internet cookies. For example, some internet browsers include a setting that enables users to reject or block internet cookies from being deployed to your computing device. For more information about cookie settings on your internet browser, please consult your internet browser’s help file. If you choose to block or reject internet cookies, certain functionality on the Website may no longer operate or display properly.
For additional information about opting out of Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Does ChurchPlaza Share Information it Collects with Third Parties?
ChurchPlaza does not sell the information that we collect to third parties. From time to time, we do share information that we collect with our third party service providers in connection with making our Website and products available to you. These service providers render a variety of services to us, including web and data hosting, software, marketing, payment card processing, analytics, and logistics service providers. We only permit these service providers to use information that we provide them for purposes of rendering their services to us.
We may also use information that we collect in the following ways:
Compliance with a legal obligation – We reserve the right to disclose information that we have collected about you where we are under a legal obligation to disclose such information, including without limitation in response to a court order, subpoena, or other request from an administrative, judicial, or governmental authority. We will disclose information we have collected about you where such disclosure is required in order for ChurchPlaza to protect our rights, property, or the safety of our company, customers and other third parties.
Sale of our Business – In the event that ChurchPlaza or substantially all of our assets are sold to a third party or there is a circumstance under which ChurchPlaza is reorganized or merged into another entity, the information that we have collected from you, including any personal information, will be among the assets transferred in connection with any such transaction with the acquiring business or merging entity.
Children’s Online Privacy
We do not knowingly market to or solicit personal information from children under the age of thirteen. Users of our Website must be at least eighteen years of age. If you are not at least eighteen years of age, please do not provide us with any personal information. For purposes of this section, the term “personal information” has the same meaning ascribed to that term under the United States Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, as set forth in Section 6501, et. al. of Title 15 of the United States Code and its regulations. If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child under the age of thirteen and believe that your child may have provided us with personal information, please contact us using one of the contact methods provided at the bottom of this document to have your child’s information deleted.
Do Not Track Signals or Requests
Our Website does not honor “Do Not Track” signals or requests that are transmitted from internet web browsers because there is no current standard regarding such requests.
Third Party Hyperlinks
Our Website contains third party hyperlinks that redirect you to websites that are owned, operated, and controlled by third parties (collectively, “Third Party Websites”). We provide hyperlinks to Third Party Websites for informational purposes only and for your convenience. Please note that ChurchPlaza does not have any control over any content, information, business or privacy practices of any Third Party Websites. Any use of Third Party Websites is entirely at your own risk. Under no circumstances will ChurchPlaza be liable or responsible in connection with your use of any Third Party Websites, including without limitation any content, information, business or privacy practices of such Third Party Websites.
Changes to this Policy
We reserve the right to make revisions to this Policy from time to time at our sole discretion. In the event that we make any revisions to this Policy, we will update the “Last Modified Date” that is located at the top of this document. Any revisions to this Policy will become effective as of the date of posting. It is your responsibility to routinely check this Website for revisions as any such revisions are binding upon you. If you do not agree with any revision to this Policy, then you must immediately cease your use of our Website. Your use of this Website following any revisions to this Policy shall be deemed as your acceptance of such revisions. In the event that we choose to make a material change to the way in which we collect, use, or share information, we will post a notice on the main page of our Website to direct your attention to the Policy so you may advise yourself of the changes.
Your Options Regarding Your Information
If you would like to review, correct, update, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us, including your first and last name, email address, mailing address, telephone number or other information that is identifiable to you, please contact us using one of the methods listed below under the section titled “Contact Us. Please include “Information Request” in the subject line of your email message to us and include enough information about your request that we may locate your information to fulfill your request.
Although ChurchPlaza does not sell your information and has no intention of doing so, you may submit a request that we do not sell your information by contacting us by email below and including “Do Not Sell Request” in the subject line of your email message to us.
European Union (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) Disclosures
In accordance with the EU’s GDPR, we are required to provide EU data subjects with certain disclosures concerning their data rights. References contained in this section of the Policy to “controller,” “data subject,” “personal data,” “processor,” and “supervisory authority” shall have the meanings set forth in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the European Council, dated 27 April 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC.
Identity of the Controller
ChurchPlaza.com, Inc.
1725 Barber Rd, Sarasota, FL 34240
Purposes of Processing
The personal data we collect from you is processed for the specific purposes set forth in the preceding sections of this Policy. To the extent that you provide us with personal data in connection with requesting a sample, price quotation, or making a general inquiry of us, the legal basis for such processing is both your consent and our legitimate interest in responding to requests of our business. The legal basis for our storage of your data in our customer relationship management system is for our legitimate interest in rendering good customer service and support in connection with our business. If you choose to purchase a product from us, the legal basis for processing your Product Sales Information is by contract and our legitimate basis in selling our products to customers.
Recipients of your Personal Data
We provide your personal data to third parties, including service providers, law enforcement (where legally required) and in connection with a sale of our business as more fully described in the section titled “Does ChurchPlaza Share Information it Collects with Third Parties?”
Data Transfers
ChurchPlaza is located in the State of Florida and within the United States of America. When you provide us with personal data, this information is collected and stored within the United States. We have no intention of transferring any of your personal data outside of the United States, but in the event that a transfer of your personal data is required, we will comply with all applicable data privacy laws and utilize an approved mechanism for transfer, including the Standard Contractual Clauses, as approved by the EU commission.
Data Retention Policy
At this time, we retain your personal data until you contact us to request deletion of your personal data.
EU Data Rights
In accordance with EU law, data subjects located within the EU are afforded certain data rights under the GDPR, including the right to request access to and rectification of the personal data that we have collected and maintain about you. As a data subject, you also have the right to request deletion of your personal data. Data subjects are afforded the right to object to certain processing activities and request data portability with respect to the personal data that we maintain about you. To the extent the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is based solely on your consent, data subjects have the right to withdraw their consent at any time Where we fall short of our applicable legal requirements under the GDPR, data subjects have a right to lodge a complaint against us with a supervisory authority. Data subjects may exercise their data rights by contacting us using one of the methods described below.
Statutory or Contractual Requirement for the Collection of Personal Data
The personal data that we collect from you in connection with a request for a sample, price quotation, or general inquiry is not a statutory requirement or otherwise required by applicable law. Our internet web form collects this basic personal data so that we may contact you in connection with a specific request. If you do not provide us with all of the requested information, we may not have sufficient details to contact you in response to your request.
To the extent that we collect Product Sales Information from you, we are not required by statute or law to collect these fields of information, but doing so is required in order for us to process and fulfill your sales transaction with us. Your failure to voluntarily provide us with such information will prevent us from being able to fulfill your transaction.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or would like to exercise any of the data rights described above, please contact us utilizing one of the contact methods provided below:
- Via U.S. Mail at: The ChurchPlaza Companies, Inc. 1725 Barber Rd, Sarasota, FL 34240
- Telephone at: (800) 927-6775
- Email: [email protected]
