CFNnow.com Privacy Notice
The Christian Financial Network operates CFNnow.com, CCBAonline Community, and other web sites through our Alliance Partners Program. All web sites operated by the Christian Financial Network, are governed by this Privacy Notice.
We know that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy.
By visiting CFNnow.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What Personal Information About Users and Customers is Gathered by CFNnow.com?The information we learn from users and customers helps us personalize and continually improve your experience at CFNnow.com and the web sites operated by us. Here are the types of information we gather. - Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. Click here to see examples of what we collect. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future feature articles for you, establishing relationship with thrid party online vendors, and communicating with you.
- Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses CFNnow.com. Click here to see examples of the information we receive. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at CFNnow.com if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
- E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when youe-mail from CFNnow.com if your computer supports such capabilities. We also compare our member list to lists received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our members and site users. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust your Mailing List Manager.
- Information from Other Sources: For reasons such as improving personalization of our service (for example, providing better product recommendations or special offers that we think will interest you), we might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information. We also sometimes receive updated delivery and address information from our service partners or other sources so that we can correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily.
What About Cookies? - Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features and recall your preferences without requiring you to enter infomration more than necessary.
- The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of CFNnow.com's coolest features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Does CFNnow.com Share the Information It Receives?Information about our customers and site users is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only with CFNnow.com's parent organization, controlled affiliates, alliance partners and as described below. - Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control: We work closely with our affiliated businesses, an example of which our a Auto and Homeowner insurance company or agency. In some cases, businesses operating stores at CFNnow.com or sell offerings to you at CFNnow.com. In other cases, we operate stores, provide services, or sell product lines jointly with these businesses. You can tell when another business is involved in your transactions, and we share customer information related to those transactions with that business.
- Agents: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
- Promotional Offers: Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of CFNnow.com customers and site users on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business your name and address. If you do not want to receive such offers, please adjust your Customer Interest Preferences.
- Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores or assets. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the unlikely event that CFNnow.com, Inc., or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
- Protection of CFNnow.com and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of CFNnow.com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.
How Secure Is Information About Me? - We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
- We never reveal your full credit card number when confirming an order. Of course, when a credit card order is taken, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
- It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
What Information Can I Access? CFNnow.com gives you access to the following information about you for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information. This list will change as our Web site evolves.
What Choices Do I Have? - As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage of such CFNnow.com features.
- You can add or update certain information on pages. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records.
- If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust your Mail Preference. (If you do not want to receive Terms of Use and other legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Notice, those notices will still govern your use of CFNnow.com, and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.)
- The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, you will not be able to use many cool and important features.
- The Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy on its own Web site,Site Seeing on the Internet.
ChildrenCFNnow.com does not offer products for purchase by children. We sell children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use CFNnow.com only with involvement of a parent or guardian.
Terms of Use, Notices, and RevisionsIf you choose to visit CFNnow.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Virginia. If you have any concern about privacy at CFNnow.com, please send us a thorough description to tos, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly. This Notice and the Terms of Use will change also, and use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time of use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes.
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