PASTOR CHRIS DIGITAL LIBRARY [PCDL] Privacy Policy
[Last Updated: June 1, 2020]
We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, store, use
and disclose Personal Information (defined below) from individuals who use the Application or the
Site.
By accessing and using the Application or the Site, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and
policies outlined in this Privacy Policy and you hereby consent that we will collect, store, use, and
disclose your Personal Information in the following ways.
We reserve the right, in its sole discretion, to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting a notice
inside the Application or on the Site. You shall be responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar
with any such modifications. Your access and use of the Application or the Site following such
notification constitutes your acceptance of the practices of this Privacy Policy as modified.
1. Collection of Information
"Personal Information" shall mean any personally identifiable information such as your name,
telephone number or e-mail address and any other non-public information about you that is associated
with or linked to any of the foregoing information.
We collect Personal Information from you when you use the Application or the Site in a manner as
described below.
1.1. Account.
We will ask you to provide your full name, profile picture, and a phone number upon your registering
for account associated with the Application or the Site (“Account”). We will retain your phone
number in an encrypted format only.
1.2.Profile Picture.
The Application includes a profile picture feature that allows you to add a picture to your profile
in your Account. If you elect to use this feature, other users will be able to see your profile picture.
1.3.Other Information You Provide.
We may also collect Personal Information from time to time through (i) other communications
with you (ii) information downloads, (iii) product or service purchases, (iv) user support, (v) feedback,
and (vi) surveys and forums. If you post any information to a public forum, you understand that other
users will be able to see it.
1.4. Information Collected Via Technology.
To make our Application and Site more useful to you, we may collect certain information about you
and your mobile device via technologies (“Technology Data”). Like most companies, we may
automatically gather the Technology Data and store it in log files each time you visit our Site or use
the Application. Such Technology Data may include, but is not limited to, the type of device you have,
your device ID and push tokens (if you have a device from Apple), a generated device ID internal to
the Application (if you have a Android device), Internet Protocol (IP) address of the TCP connection
for each authentication request, the date/time stamp for various Application activities, and other
similar diagnostic logs.
We may also use Cookies (as defined below) and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators
(URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit on the Site or of your use of
the Application and the solutions and information which you searched and which you viewed.
“Cookies” are tiny text files which identify your mobile device or computer to our server as a unique
user when you visit certain pages of the Application or the Site and they are stored by your Internet
browser on your mobile device’s or computer's hard drive. Cookies can be used to (i) recognize your
Internet Protocol (IP) address, and/or (ii) help you save you time (a) while you are visiting/using the
Application or the Site, or (b) when you want to enter, the Application or the Site.
We only use cookies for your convenience in using the Application or the Site and not for obtaining
or using any other information about you (for example targeted advertising).
Your browser can be set to not accept cookies, but if you elect to do so, some parts of the Application
or the Site may not work properly on your mobile device.
2. Use of Information
2.1. Generally, we collect, store, use and disclose information to enable us to (i) improve your
experience when you use the Application and visit the Site, (ii) create/open your Account, (iii)
identify you as a user, (iv) respond to your inquiries and emails, (v) improve the Application and
the Site, (vi) send you administrative and service related communications, and (vi) send you
newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials. Except as set out in this Privacy
Policy, your Personal Information will not be used for any other purpose without informing you
first by updating this Privacy Policy.
2.2. Except for the limited disclosures described in this Privacy Policy, we don't sell customer lists and
we will endeavor to keep your Personal Information private.
2.3. Anonymous aggregate statistics that do not personally identify a user will be kept and used
by us for various purposes including analysis and reporting of usage patterns. We reserve the
right to use and disclose anonymous aggregate statistics for any purpose and to any third party
in its sole discretion.
3. Disclosures & Transfers
We may additionally disclose your information as follows:
3.1.Your Personal Information may be available to a third party under a lawful order, irrespective
of the safeguards we have put in place for the protection of your Personal Information.
3.2.From time to time we may employ third parties to help us provide or improve the
Application and/or the Site. These third parties may have limited access to databases of the
Application’s and the Site’s user information or registered member information solely for the
purpose of helping us provide or improve the Application and the Site and they will not be
able to use the information about our registered users or visitors for any other purpose.
3.3. We may disclose Personal Information in some other limited circumstances, but we will
specifically describe them to you by revising this Privacy Policy.
3.4.We may, and you hereby authorize us to, disclose your Personal Information to a third party
without your consent: (a) if we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is
necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury
to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other
website users, or anyone else (including the rights or property of anyone else) that could be
harmed by such activities, (b) in connection with any legal investigation, and/or (c) when we
believe in good faith that such disclosure is required by and in accordance with the law or to
respond to subpoenas or warrants served on the Company.
3.5.We may also disclose your Personal Information in connection with a corporate reorganization, a merger or acquisition with another entity, or a sale of all or a substantial portion
of our assets or stock provided that the information disclosed continues to be used for the
purposes as permitted by this Privacy Policy by the entity acquiring the information. Although
we currently do not have a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other
companies under a common control (collectively, “Affiliates”), we may in the future. We may
share some or all of your Personal Information with these Affiliates, in which case we will
require our Affiliates to comply with this Privacy Policy.
4. Security
4.1.The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We use commercially reasonable
efforts to store and maintain your Personal Information in a secure environment and have
implemented commercially reasonable procedures designed to limit unauthorized access, use or
disclosure of your Personal Information. Despite these measures, you should know that we cannot
fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information.
4.2.You are also responsible for helping us protect the security of your Personal Information. For
instance, never give out your password, and remember to log out of your Account when you are
finished using the Application.
5. Children.
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13
or knowingly allow such persons to open an account associated with the Application and/or
the Site. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to open any such account or to send
any information about yourself to us. No one under the age of 13 may provide any personal
information to the Company, on the Site or via the Application. In the event that we learn that
we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13 without any prior
parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that
we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact
us at support@pastorchrisdigitallibrary.org.
6. Your Rights and Choices.
You have choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information:
a. Opting out of receiving electronic communications from us. If you no longer want to receive
marketing-related emails from us, you may opt-out via the unsubscribe link included in such emails.
We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you
opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative
messages that we are required to provide you in connection with your Account, or your use of the
Application.
b. How you can see or change your Account Personal Information. If You would like to review,
correct, or update Personal Information that You have previously disclosed to us, You may do so in
the Profile tab on the PCDL app or website.
c. Your data protection rights. Depending on your location and subject to applicable law, you may
have the following rights with regard to the Personal Information we control about you:
• The right to request confirmation of whether PCDL processes Personal Information relating to you,
and if so, to request a copy of that Personal Information;
• The right to request that PCDL rectifies or updates your Personal Information that is inaccurate,
incomplete or outdated;
• The right to request that PCDL erase your Personal Information in certain circumstances provided
by law;
• The right to request that PCDL restrict the use of your Personal Information in certain circumstances,
such as while PCDL considers another request that you have submitted (including a request that
PCDL make an update to your Personal Information); and
• The right to request that we export to another company, where technically feasible, your Personal
Information that we hold in order to provide services to you.
Where the processing of your Personal Information is based on your previously given consent, you
have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You may also have the right to object to the
processing of your Personal Information on grounds relating to your particular situation.
d. Process for exercising data protection rights. In order to exercise your data protection rights,
you may contact PCDL as described in the Contact Us section below. We take each request seriously.
We will comply with your request to the extent required by applicable law. We will not be able to
respond to a request if we no longer hold your Personal Information. If you feel that you have not
received a satisfactory response from us, you may consult with the data protection authority in your
country.
For your protection, we may need to verify your identity before responding to your request, such as
verifying that the email address from which you send the request matches your email address that we
have on file. If we no longer need to process Personal Information about you in order to maintain
your Account, or for you to use the Application, we will not maintain, acquire or process additional
information in order to identify you for the purpose of responding to your request.
We retain your Personal Information as long as you maintain an Account, and/or you utilize the
Application. We retain Personal Information after we cease providing services directly or indirectly to
you, even if you close your Account, or delete the Application, to the extent necessary to comply with
our legal and regulatory obligations, and for the purpose of fraud monitoring, detection and
prevention. We also retain Personal Information to comply with our tax, accounting, and financial
reporting obligations, where we are required to retain the data by our contractual commitments to our
financial partners, and where data retention is mandated by the payment methods that we support.
Where we retain data, we do so in accordance with any limitation periods and records retention
obligations that are imposed by applicable law.
8. International Data Transfers.
We are a global business. Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we
have operations or where we engage service providers. We may transfer Personal Information that we
maintain about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which the Personal Information
was originally collected, including to the United States. Those countries may have data protection rules
that are different from those of your country. However, we will take measures to ensure that any such
transfers comply with applicable data protection laws and that your Personal Information remains
protected to the standards described in this Privacy Policy. In certain circumstances, courts, law
enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be
entitled to access your Personal Information.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the UK or Switzerland, we comply with
applicable laws to provide an adequate level of data protection for the transfer of your Personal
Information to the US. By submitting your Personal Information, you agree to the transfer, storing or
processing of it outside of your jurisdiction.
9. Jurisdiction-specific Provisions.
United States - California residents. This section provides additional details about the personal
information we collect about California consumers as well as the rights of California consumers under
the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
a. How We Collect, Use, and Disclose your Personal Information. The Personal Data We
Collect section describes the personal information we may have collected over the last 12 months,
including the categories of sources of that information. We collect this information for the purposes
described in the How We Use Personal Data section. We share this information as described in
the How We Disclose Personal Data section. PCDL uses cookies, including advertising cookies, as
described in our How We Use Cookies section.
b. Your CCPA Rights and Choices. As a California consumer and subject to certain limitations
under the CCPA, you have choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal information:
• Exercising the right to know. You may request, up to twice in a 12-month period, the following
information about the personal information we have collected about you during the past 12 months:
o the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you;
o the categories of sources from which we collected the personal information;
o the business or commercial purpose for which we collected the personal information;
o the categories of third parties with whom we shared the personal information; and
o the categories of personal information about you that we disclosed for a business purpose, and
the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed that information for a business purpose.
• Exercising the right to delete. You may request that we delete the personal information we have
collected from you, subject to certain limitations under applicable law.
• Exercising the right to opt-out from a sale. You may request to opt out of any “sale” of your personal
information that may take place. We do not use, share, rent or sell the Personal Data of our Users’
Customers for interest-based advertising. We do not sell or rent the Personal Data of our Users, their
Customers or our Site visitors.
• Non-discrimination. The CCPA provides that you may not be discriminated against for exercising
these rights.
To submit a request to exercise any of the rights described above, you may contact PCDL using the
details in the Contact Us section below. We may need to verify your identity before responding to
your request, such as verifying that the email address from which you send the request matches your
email address that we have on file. Authentication based on a government-issued and valid
identification document may be required. If you are a Customer of a PCDL User, please direct your
requests directly to the PCDL User with whom you shared your personal information
10. Contact Us
Should you have any query in relation to this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal
information, please email us at support@pastorchrisdigitallibrary.org.