Privacy Policy
Wycliffe Associates is committed to maintaining your trust and confidence. The following online privacy policy is intended to protect and secure the personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified) you provide to our ministry online.
Last updated: 05/24/2018
Information Collection
You are free to explore our websites without providing any personal information about yourself. When you visit our websites, subscribe to communications, or make a donation, we request that you provide personal information about yourself, and we collect navigational information.
Wycliffe Associates collects the following information through our website:
- Information that you provide to us through online forms, which may include your name, address, email address, and phone number, as well as information related to your involvement in Wycliffe Associates ministries.
- Navigational information about access to our site, which helps us make our site more useful to visitors. This includes the name of the domain (for example, aol.com) or IP address from which you access the Internet, geographical location, browser type, referral source, the time you access our site, length of visit, pages viewed, and the address of the website from which you linked to our site.
- Information that you provide to us when making an online donation.
- When you use our services or view content provided by us, we automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, internet service provider (ISP), the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, clickstream data, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used by Wycliffe Associates for the operation and quality of our services to you, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Wycliffe Associates Website. For these purposes, we do link this automatically-collected data to personal information such as name, email address, address, and phone number.
Personal Information
Wycliffe Associates never sells your personal information to any third party. Wycliffe Associates occasionally shares information with our partners, affiliates, and other third parties who assist us with our activities and programs. These vendors and service providers help us with functions such as fulfilling orders, managing data, processing donations, and communications.
In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may use your personal information to:
- improve your browsing experience by personalizing our websites and our services to you;
- send information to you which we think may be of interest to you by post, email, or other means and send you marketing communications relating to our organization;
- promote use of our services to you and share promotional and informational content with you in accordance with your communication preferences;
- meet legal requirements.
Email Frequency
Wycliffe Associates sends the following types of emails:
- eInvolved is a monthly newsletter that features project updates and devotions from our blog.
- Prayer Watch is a monthly email that shares with you the most critical prayer needs of our team and partners of national translators and local churches doing the work of Bible translation. We sometimes send additional alerts when an urgent prayer need arises.
- Opportunities is a twice monthly email that provides new opportunities to apply your skills and experience to the support of Bible translation in volunteer and paid positions.
- We also periodically send news of financial needs to accelerate Bible translation by supporting translators in crisis, churches struck by natural disaster, projects stalled by equipment shortage, and similar situations.
Links to Other Sites
We may offer links to other websites. Please note: When you click on links to other websites, we encourage you to read their privacy policies. Their standards may differ from ours.
Security
Wycliffe Associates is committed to ensuring the security of your personal information. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the proper use of information, we have established and implemented appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Wycliffe Associates uses Internet Encryption Software, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Protocol when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as credit card information or ACH information. Any information you enter is encrypted at your browser, sent over the public Internet in encrypted form, and then de-encrypted at our server. Once we receive your credit card or ACH information, it is accessible only to a small number of trusted Wycliffe Associates employees who have been specially trained in processing this information.
Cookies
From time to time, we may send a "cookie" to your computer. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie can't read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies do not damage your system. We use cookies to recognize you when you return to our site, or to identify which areas of our website you visit. We may use this information to better personalize the content you see on our site.
Many websites place cookies on your hard drive. You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. Your browser can refuse all cookies, or show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at our site and other websites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended. For more information about cookies, please visit: https://wycliffeassociates.org/privacy-policy/cookie-policy/.
Children's Online Privacy
We are concerned about the privacy of young children and do not knowingly collect any personal information from a child under 13. We encourage you to become involved with your child's access to the Internet and to our site in order to ensure that his or her privacy is well protected.
To read more about online safety and how to become more involved with your child's online experience, visit the Federal Trade Commission website. You may also benefit from the information and resources available on ProtectKids.com.
Legal basis for processing personal information (EEA visitors only)
If you are a visitor/subscriber located in the European Economic Area (EEA), Wycliffe Associates is the data controller of your personal information. We do not solicit or accept donations from people located in the EEA, nor do we target our information to or seek visitors/subscribers from the EEA.
Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which you provide it. However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), we will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are.
Terms of Use
By using our website, and by giving us your personal information, you agree that this Privacy Policy is part of the Terms of Use of this website, and you agree to Wycliffe Associates Privacy Policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Wycliffe Associates reserves the right to change this policy at any time, without advance notice. Whenever we change our privacy policy, the revised policy will always be posted here for your review.
To Unsubscribe From Our Communications
You may unsubscribe from our marketing communications by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link located on the bottom of our e-mails, updating your communication preferences, or by sending us email us at [email protected] or postal mail to Wycliffe Associates, P.O. Box 620143, Orlando, FL 32862 USA, Attention: Privacy. Donors cannot opt out of receiving transactional communication related to their account with us.
Contacting Us
If you have comments or questions about our online privacy policy or our website, please email [email protected] or call 1-800-THE WORD (800-843-9673) during office hours (8am - 5pm EST).
Our mailing address is:
P.O. Box 620143
Orlando, FL 32862
Software Applications Privacy Policy
Wycliffe Associates builds all software applications on BibleTranslationTools.org as Open Source apps. This software is provided by Wycliffe Associates at no cost and is intended for use as is.
This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information for users who decide to use our Software.
If you choose to use our Software, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing and improving the Software. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
Information Collection and Use
For a better experience, while using our Software, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information. The information that we request is will be retained by us and used as described in this privacy policy.
The app does use third party services that may collect information used to identify you.
Link to privacy policy of third party service providers used by the app:
Audio Recording
BTT Recorder and BTT Exchanger allow you to record and edit audio which requires access to your microphone. Audio recorded by BTT Recorder is stored locally on your device, and these recordings are not collected by us. You may choose to share these files with third-party apps, sites, or services. Note that these apps, sites, or services are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these apps, sites, or services. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party apps, sites, or services.
Log Data
We want to inform you that whenever you use our Software, in a case of an error in the app we collect data and information (through third party products) on your device called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing our Software, the time and date of your use of the Software, and other statistics.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
- To facilitate our Software;
- To provide the Software on our behalf;
- To perform Software-related services; or
- To assist us in analyzing how our Software is used.
We want to inform users of this Software that these third parties may have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links to Other Sites
This Software may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
These Software programs do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.
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