Legal Disclosure, Disclaimer, & Privacy Policy
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Privacy Policy (Summary) - Great Church Sound
Your privacy is critically important to us. Your data is your own. We make no claims to it and will only use it according to the policies outlined below.
Mobile App Users (Android & iOS)
Great Church Sound and the Church Sound Guide App may collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that mobile applications typically make available, such as the device type, browser type, language preference, and the date and time of each visitor request. Great Church Sound's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use the mobile app. Great Church Sound also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Special permissions may be required to use the mobile app because it accesses the microphone and speakers for audio functionality of the sound pressure level (SPL) meter, Real Time Analyzer (RTA) frequency analysis tool, and multi-track practice mixer. Audio captured by the microphone is not stored or transmitted to Great Church Sound or anywhere beyond the user's mobile device.
Website Visitors
Like most website and application operators, Great Church Sound may collect 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. Great Church Sound's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use this website. Great Church Sound also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors choose to interact with Great Church Sound in ways that require Great Church Sound to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Great Church Sound gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. In each case, Great Church Sound collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Great Church Sound. Great Church Sound 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
Great Church Sound may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, Great Church Sound may collected device demographic information. Great Church Sound may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Great Church Sound does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Great Church Sound 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 Great Church Sound's behalf or to provide services available at Great Church Sound's website, and (ii) that 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 Great Church Sound's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
Great Church Sound 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, Great Church Sound discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Great Church Sound believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Great Church Sound, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of an Great Church Sound website and have supplied your email address, Great Church Sound 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 Great Church Sound and our products. We primarily use our various blogs and pages to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Great Church Sound takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
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. Great Church Sound uses cookies to help Great Church Sound identify and track visitors, their usage of the Great Church Sound website, and their website access preferences. Great Church Sound visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Great Church Sound's website, with the drawback that certain features of Great Church Sound's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Great Church Sound may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Great Church Sound's sole discretion. Great Church Sound 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.
Limited Warranties
We do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this website; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law in respect of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).
Indemnity
You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms of use, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms of use.
Adapted from the automattic.com privacy policy under a Creative Commons Sharealike license.
Privacy Policy (Legal Specifics) - Great Church Sound
GSI, Inc. (doing business as Great Sound Institute and Great Church Sound) PRIVACY POLICY
GSI, Inc. (the “Company”) is committed to protecting the privacy of its users. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is designed to help you understand what information we gather, how we use it, what we do to protect it, and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Service. Unless otherwise indicated below, this Privacy Policy applies to any website that references this Privacy Policy, any Company website, as well as any data the Company may collect across partnered and unaffiliated sites.
For purposes of this Agreement, “Service” refers to the Company’s service which can be accessed via our website at www.greatchurchsound.com, www.greatsoundinstitute.com, www.jameswasem.com, or through our mobile application. The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the Company. “You” refers to you, as a user of Service.
1. CONSENT
By accessing our Service, you accept our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and you consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, by using our Service, or services across partnered and unaffiliated sites, you are accepting the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy. Each time you visit our website, or use the Service, and any time you voluntarily provide us with information, you agree that you are consenting to our collection, use and disclosure of the information that you provide, and you are consenting to receive emails or otherwise be contacted, as described in this Privacy Policy. Whether or not you register or create any kind of account with us, this Privacy Policy applies to all users of the website and the Service.
2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may collect both “Non-Personal Information” and “Personal Information” about you. “Non-Personal Information” includes information that cannot be used to personally identify you, such as anonymous usage data, general demographic information we may collect, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, preferences you submit and preferences that are generated based on the data you submit and number of clicks. “Personal Information” includes information that can be used to personally identify you, such as your name, address and email address.
In addition, we may also track information provided to us by your browser or by our mobile application when you view or use the Service, such as the website you came from (known as the “referring URL”), the type of browser you use, the device from which you connected to the Service, the time and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify you. We use this information for, among other things, the operation of the Service, to maintain the quality of the Service, to provide general statistics regarding use of the Service and for other business purposes. We track this information using cookies, or small text files, which include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to a user’s browser from our servers and are stored on the user’s computer hard drive. Sending a cookie to a user’s browser enables us to collect Non-Personal Information about that user and keep a record of the user’s preferences when utilizing our services, both on an individual and aggregate basis. The Company may use both persistent and session cookies; persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your session and until you delete them, while session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of the Service may not work properly.
3. HOW WE USE AND SHARE INFORMATION
Personal Information:
In general, we do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share your Personal Information with third parties without your consent. We may share your Personal Information with vendors and other third-party providers who are performing services for the Company. In general, the vendors and third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide for the Company. For example, when you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery, or return a purchase, you consent to our collecting and using such personal information for that specific purpose, including by transmitting such information to our vendors (and their service providers) performing these services for the Company.
However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment processors, have their own privacy policies in respect of the information that we are required to provide to them in order to use their services. For these third-party service providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so that you can understand the manner in which your Personal Information will be handled by such providers.
In addition, we may disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or if you violate our Terms of Use.
Non-Personal Information:
In general, we use Non-Personal Information to help us improve the Service and customize the user experience. We also aggregate Non-Personal Information in order to track trends and analyze use patterns of the Service. This Privacy Policy does not limit in any way our use or disclosure of Non-Personal Information and we reserve the right to use and disclose such Non-Personal Information to our partners, advertisers and other third parties at our sole discretion.
4. HOW WE PROTECT INFORMATION
We implement reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices in order to protect your Personal Information and ensure that such Personal Information is not accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. However, these measures do not guarantee that your information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of such precautions. By using our Service, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.
5. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING THE USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You have the right at any time to prevent us from contacting you for education, information, and marketing purposes. When we send a promotional communication to you via our email communications service Active Campaign, you can opt out of further promotional communications by following the unsubscribe instructions provided at the bottom of each e-mail. Please note that notwithstanding the promotional preferences you indicate by either unsubscribing or opting out of, we may continue to send you administrative emails including, for example, periodic updates to our Privacy Policy.
6. ONLINE SERVICE PROVIDERS WE USE
Amazon fulfills audiobook, ebook, printed book, and other physical product ordering services. These services and processed and delivered under Amazon's terms of service and privacy policy. We may receive a small commission or referral fee, at no additional cost to you, for referring sales to Amazon. All links from the Service and Website to Amazon should be considered affiliate links that redirect to Amazon products or services.
Kajabi provides us with most of the services you use on this website, including:
- Email Communications service. When you sign up to receive an email from us, it is sent from Kajabi email servers.
- Shopping cart and payment gateway for transactions that happen on the website. When you purchase a product directly from Great Church Sound, you are using technology provided by Kajabi.
- Membership management service. When you sign up for private access to a training course or other content, you are using Kajabi to save your user name and password for the website. The information you enter for this special access is stored on Kajabi's secure servers.
- Website Service platform. When you visit our website, the information and pages are hosted on Kajabi data servers.
PayPal and Stripe provide us with payment processing services. When you enter your credit card or other payment information, it is processed by either of these providers depending on your checkout selection.
Each of these platforms allows us to provide the Service to you. Your information, including Personal Information, may be stored through various servers hosted by these service providers. By using the Service, you consent to the collection, disclosure, storage, and use of your Personal Information in accordance with each service's privacy policy. You are encouraged to review each privacy policy by visiting each link listed for the related company and service above.
7. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
As part of the Service, we may provide links to or compatibility with other websites or applications. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by those websites or the information or content they contain. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us through the Service. Therefore, this Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of a third-party website accessed by selecting a link or a promoted product via our Service. To the extent that you access or use the Service through or on another website or application, then the privacy policy of that other website or application will apply to your access or use of that site or application. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of other websites before proceeding to use them.
8. AGE OF CONSENT
By using the Service, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age.
9. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
The Company reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post these changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Any such modifications become effective upon your continued access to and/or use of the Service five (5) days after we first post the changes on the website or otherwise provide you with notice of such modifications. It is your sole responsibility to check this website from time to time to view any such changes to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any changes, if and when such changes may be made to this Privacy Policy, you must cease access to this website. If you have provided your email address to us, you give us permission to email you for the purpose of notification as described in this Privacy Policy.
10. MERGER OR ACQUISITION
In the event we (or our Service Providers) undergo a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge and consent that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy, and that any acquirer of our (or our Service Provider’s) assets may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at any time in the future, we will post the policy changes here so that you may opt out of the new information practices. We suggest that you check this Privacy Policy periodically if you are concerned about how your information is used.
11. EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS & OPTING OUT
We will send you Service-related announcements on occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our Service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, or a new enhancement is released, which will affect the way you use our Service, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. Based upon the Personal Information that you provide us, we may communicate with you in response to your inquiries to provide the services you request and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes. We may also use your Personal Information to send you updates and other promotional communications. If you no longer wish to receive those email updates, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each update or communication.
12. CONTACT US & WITHDRAWING CONSENT
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the practices of this Site, or wish to withdraw your consent for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Information, please contact us by sending an email via our contact page.
Last Updated: This Privacy Policy was last updated on January 16, 2020.