This site is owned and operated by Men's Ministry Network, or "MMN", a non-profit 501(c)3 non-denominational ministry to church leader and men seeking to be an authenic disciple. Your
privacy on the Internet is important to us. We want to make your experience
online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we
feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding
the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses
what information we gather and how we use it.
INFORMATION MMN GATHERS AND TRACKS
We gather two types of information about users:
Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions.
These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters,
to submit questions and comments, to email a friend, and participation
in polls and surveys, and ticket purchases.
Information gathered through aggregated tracking information derived
mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information
allows us to better tailor our content to men's needs and to let
us know the level of traffic through our site.
We Use Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary
submission of personal information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches): We offer a free electronic
newsletter to users. MMN gathers the email addresses of
users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this
mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that
points users to the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe
to the newsletters at the time of registration.
2. "E-mail this to a friend" Service: Our site users can
choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone
else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must
provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This
information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of
course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information
is not used for any other purpose.
3. Polling: We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily
share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks
about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated
and are not identifiable to any particular user unless permission is
received in advance. MMN may use a system to "tag"
users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular
question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual
users.
4. Surveys: MMN may occasionally conduct user surveys
to better target our content to our audience. We may share the aggregated
demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, future advertisers
and partners. We never share any of this information about specific
individuals with any third party.
Protecting Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental
consent.
Usage tracking
MMN tracks user traffic patterns throughout site. However,
we do not correlate this information with data about individual users.
MMN does break down overall usage statistics according
to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this
information from the browser string (information contained in every
user's browser).
MMN may track search terms that users enter in our Search
function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users.
We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users
like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track
what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall.
This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser
files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal
Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site
to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But
the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you
supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read
cookie files created by other sites. MMN uses cookies
to track user traffic patterns (as described above). You can refuse
cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser
to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message
with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this
site (with the possible exception of utilizing real-time sales described
below). However, you do need cookies to participate actively in forums,
polling and surveys.
Real-Time Sales
When utilizing Real-Time sales on our site, users connect to servers
maintained at Eventbrite.com. Eventbrite.com
may require a cookie to be placed on your system in order to complete
an online transaction. Cookies are necessary in order to hold tickets
for sale between requesting the tickets and paying for them.
USE OF INFORMATION
MMN uses information voluntarily given by our users to
enhance their experience on our site, whether to provide interactive
or personalized elements on the site or to better prepare future content
based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide
in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate
in polls, surveys, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers
on a regular schedule, and occasionally send out special editions when
we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we
are doing.
We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each
page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service
for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of
many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which
terms a particular user enters.
MMN creates aggregate reports on user demographics and
traffic patterns for sponsors and partners. We will not disclose any
information about any individual user except to comply with applicable
law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our
users or the public.
SECURITY
MMN operates secure data networks protected by industry
standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and
privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary
and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided
by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices
include:
Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely
alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information
from our users. Occasionally, MMN will trade names and
addresses with other non-profit organizations that
may have programs that are of interest to you. MMN does
not release telephone numbers. If you prefer not to have your name and
address available to other organizations, please email the office at
or call and request the Do Not Swap (DNS) flag to be attached to your
patron file. You will continue to receive MMN correspondence
unless you also request a Do Not Mail (TDM) flag to be attached as well.
Requesting a Do Not Mail flag will take you completely off of our mailing
lists.
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information
by MMN. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we
will post those 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.
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