1. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Sold to Him Media Ministries’ website ( namely, its primary URL: sthmediaministries.com). We appreciate your viewership and listenership with trust. Sold to Him Media Ministries, LLC (Sold to Him Media Ministries or STHMM) is a United States based company, providing broadcasting services and media products to for your Christian growth, enjoyment through our website experience. Please read this Privacy Policy, that by its use of our website, asserts consent to the following privacy policies necessary to use our services.
2. DATA COLLECTED
DATA STORAGE LOCATION
We are United States (US) based company and operate web servers in various locations in and outside the US. We ensure that your data is securely stored and GDPR compliant.
REGISTRATION DATA
If you register on our website, we store your username and name, email address and any additional personal information to maintain your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except changing your username). Website managers can also see and edit this information.
PURCHASE DATA
To receive product support, you have to have one or more Sold to Him purchase codes on our website. These purchase codes will be stored together with support expiration dates and your user data. This is required for us to provide you with downloads, product support and other customer services.
SUPPORT DATA
If you have registered on our website and have a valid support account, you can submit support tickets for assistance. Only the data you explicitly provided is sent, and you are asked for consent, each time you want to create a new support ticket.
COMMENTS
When you leave comments on the website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
CONTACT FORM
Information submitted through the contact form on our site is sent to our company email. These submissions are only kept for customer service purposes they are never used for marketing purposes or shared with third parties.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
We use Google Analytics on our site for anonymous reporting of site usage. So, no personalized data is stored. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics monitoring your behavior on our website please use this link: Google Analytics Opt-out.
INSTANCES FOR USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We use your personal information in the following instances:
- Verification/identification of the user during website usage;
- Providing Technical Support;
- Sending updates to our user email or via your account/profile with important information to inform about changes/additions/or deletions;
- Checking the accounts’ activity in order to prevent fraudulent transactions and ensure the security of your information
- Oversee your personal information as a purchaser, donor, or for other purposes related to your usage.
- Customize the website to make your experience more personal and engaging;
- Guarantee overall performance and administrative functions run smoothly.
3. EMBEDDED CONTENT
Pages on this site may include embedded content, like Vimeo videos, for example. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged-in to that website.
4. COOKIES
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.
NECESSARY COOKIES (ALL SITE VISITORS)
- CFDUID: Is used for our CDN CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. See more information on privacy here: CloudFlare Privacy Policy.
- PHPSESSID: To identify your unique session on the website.
NECESSARY COOKIES (ADDITIONAL FOR LOGGED IN AS PURCHASERS OR DONORS)
- wp-auth: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication and user verification.
- wordpress_logged_in_{hash}: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication and user verification.
- wordpress_test_cookie Used by WordPress to ensure cookies are working correctly.
- wp-settings-[UID]: WordPress sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
- wp-settings-[UID]:WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
5. WHO MAY ACCESS YOUR DATA
If you are not a registered client for our site, there is no personal information we can retain or view regarding yourself.
If you are a client with a registered account, your personal information can be accessed by:
- Our system administrators, managers, and technicians.
- Our sponsors when they (in order to provide support) need to get the information about the client accounts on our system.
6. THIRD PARTY ACCESS OF YOUR DATA
We don’t share your data with third-parties in any way to reveal your personal information such as name, email, etc. The only exceptions to that rule are for partners we have to share limited data in order to provide services to you.
7. HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
When you submit a support ticket or comment, or make a purchase or contribution, its metadata is retained until such data is no longer needed for the purpose of reporting those transactions or until you tell us to remove it. We use this data so that we can recognize you and approve your comments automatically instead of holding them for moderation.
Registering on our website also requires storage of your personal information for an indefinite time to provide you with your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except changing your username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information for purposes of corrections you have given us.
8. SECURITY MEASURES
We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personal identifiable information is not captured/hijacked by third parties without authorization.
In case of a data breach, system administrators will immediately take the necessary steps to ensure system integrity, and will contact the affected users to reset passwords, if needed.
9. YOUR DATA RIGHTS
GENERAL RIGHTS
If you have a registered account on this website or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we retain, including any additional data you have provided to us.
You can also request that we delete any of the personal data we have stored. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, security, or tax purposes. In short, we cannot delete data that is vital to you being an active customer (i.e. basic account information like an email address).
If you wish that all of your data is deleted, we will no longer be able to offer any support or other product-related services to you.
GDPR RIGHTS
Your privacy is critically important to us. Going forward with the GDPR we aim to support the GDPR standard. Sold to Him Media Ministries permits residents of the European Union to use its Service. Therefore, it is the intent of Sold to Him Media Ministries to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation.
10. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Sold to Him Media Ministries may post links to third party websites on this website. These third party websites are not screened for privacy or security compliance by Sold to Him Media Ministries and release us from any liability for the conduct of these third party websites.
All social media sharing links, either displayed as text links or social media icons do not connect you to any of the associated third parties, unless you explicitly click on them.
Please be aware that this Privacy Policy, and any other policies in place, in addition to any amendments, does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to members of this Service or Site. Sold to Him Media Ministries bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third party website. Please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through third party links.
11. RELEASE OF YOUR DATA FOR LEGAL PURPOSES
At times it may become necessary or desirable for Sold to Him Media Ministries, for legal purposes, to release your information in response to a request from a government agency or a private litigant provided legal rules are met. You agree that we may disclose your information to a third party where we believe, in good faith, that it is legitimate to do so for the purposes of a criminal investigation, or other legal matter. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, we may elect to notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either. We may also proactively report you, and release your information to, third parties where we believe that it is prudent to do so for legal reasons, such as our belief that you have engaged in fraudulent activities. You release us from any damages that may arise from or relate to the release of your information to a request from law enforcement agencies or private litigants.
Any passing of personal data for legal purposes will only be done in compliance with the laws of the country you or we reside or are actively engaged.
12. AMENDMENTS
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will update this page accordingly and require you to accept the amendments in order to be permitted to continue using our services.