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Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
Privacy Policy
Greetings from A Quiet Refuge and welcome to our
site! We extend the following information to assure you, our guest, that we are concerned
about and respect your privacy while visiting our Web site. A Quiet Refuge will
never sell, lease or rent your confidential information. We will always endeavor to
take steps to assure that any information you provide to us will remain secure. We
want you to feel safe in your online experience while visiting our site. We therefore
request that you take a moment to review the following valuable information.
Collection of Information
A Quiet Refuge does not collect personal information
without your knowledge during your visit to our Web sites.
However, A Quiet Refuge does at times ask that you
provide us with personal information while online.
The type of information we collect typically, but not always, corresponds directly
with the service you request. For
instance, you can make donations, when requested
you can offer your thoughts, opinions, prayers, concerns, ideas, personal experiences,
questions and/or suggestions to our
resources, contests, or radio broadcasts, or you
can request that a resource be sent to you directly from our Online Resource Center.
As a visitor, the personal information
you provide may also be used to improve the useability
of, and information available on, our sites. In other words, at times we will ask
you for more information, beyond
just your name and contact information, than is needed
to facilitate our response to your specific request. Your provision of such additional
information is your acknowledgement
that you consent to our use of such information to
better serve you, our visitor, and others coming to our sites. As always, your name
and address will never be shared
with third parties. We also have a Privacy Policy
for Children that parents may be interested in reviewing.
Security
Our Web site's ecommerce system uses SSL encryption to
protect sensitive data transmissions from your computer to our Web site. You are able
to see when the SSL encryption is active either by the "padlock" icon at
the bottom of your browser's window or by a blue line around the window. In certain
areas, password protection is used to protect your privacy and security.
Changes
A Quiet Refuge reserves the right to make changes to this privacy
policy at any time and requests that you review this policy for updates.
Questions or Suggestions
Please direct all questions or comments regarding this
privacy policy to A Quiet Refuge at (800) A-FAMILY (800-232-6459) or write us at A Quiet Refuge, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80995. This Web site may provide links to external
Web sites maintained by individuals or organizations external to A Quiet Refuge.
Once you access information that links you to another Web site, you are subject to
the privacy policy of the Web site containing the information you have linked to.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT OUR ONLINE RESOURCE CENTER WEBSITE:
Cookies
A small piece of data that a website can store on your
system is referred to as a "cookie." Cookies are often used to enhance your
online experience. Many browsers recognize when a cookie
has been sent to your computer and will give you the option to refuse or allow it.
Within the Online Resource Center,
we use two different cookies. Below are details regarding
how these two cookies are used by our web site. Please be aware that we do not use
cookies to track a user's
navigation through our Web site.
Account Registration
When you request a resource we require that you provide
us certain information that allows us to complete your transaction. This information
is used to create a unique account within our Online Resource Center. Following account
registration, a "cookie" is used to automatically identify you as a registered
user when you are browsing the Online Resource Center (you have the option of declining
this cookie during account registration if desired).
Shopping Cart Identification
The Shopping Cart Identification "cookie" allows the Online Resource Center
to connect you to your active shopping cart. This cookie is set to expire whenever
you exit your current browser session.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
We have taken every effort to design our Web sites to
be useful, informative, helpful, honest and fun.
Hopefully we’ve accomplished
that — and would ask that you let us know if you’d like to see improvements
or changes that would make it even easier for you
to find the information you need and want.
A Quiet Refuge exists to bring families closer to each other and to our Creator.
Our sites are based on a set of foundational Christian beliefs which you may want to
review. We make no apologies for holding a Judeo-Christian perspective of marriage,
family and the value of life and children. Thanks for your openness to respectfully
consider our viewpoints. We appreciate your courtesy! To find out more about our organization,
please visit About Us.
All we ask is that you agree to abide by the following Terms and Conditions. Take
a few minutes to look them over because by using our sites you automatically agree
to them. Naturally, if you don’t agree, please do not use the sites. We reserve
the right to make any modifications that we deem necessary at any time. Please continue
to check these terms to see what those changes may be! Your continued use of the A Quiet Refuge Web sites means that you accept those changes.
THANKS AGAIN FOR VISITING!
Restrictions on Use of Our Online Materials
All Online Materials on the A Quiet Refuge sites,
including, without limitation, text, software, names, logos, trademarks, service marks,
trade names, images, photos, illustrations, audio clips, video clips, and music are
copyrighted intellectual property. All usage rights are owned and controlled by A Quiet Refuge. You, the visitor, may download Online Materials for non-commercial,
personal use only provided you 1) retain all copyright, trademark and propriety notices,
2) you make no modifications to the materials, 3) you do not use the materials in
a manner that suggests an association with any of our products, services, events or
brands, and 4) you do not download quantities of materials to a database, server,
or personal computer for reuse for commercial purposes. You may not, however, copy,
reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute Online Materials in any
way or for any other purpose unless you get our written permission first. Neither
may you add, delete, distort or misrepresent any content on the A Quiet Refuge
sites. Any attempts to modify any Online Material, or to defeat or circumvent our
security features is prohibited.
Everything you download, any software, plus all files, all images incorporated in
or generated by the software, and all data accompanying it, is considered licensed
to you by A Quiet Refuge or third-party licensors for your personal, non-commercial
home use only. We do not transfer title of the software to you. That means that we
retain full and complete title to the software and to all of the associated intellectual-property
rights. You’re not allowed to redistribute or sell the material or to reverse-engineer,
disassemble or otherwise convert it to any other form that people can use.
Submitting Your Online Material to Us
All remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, comments,
or other information that you send to A Quiet Refuge through our sites (other
than information we promise to protect under our Privacy Policy), becomes and remains
our property, even if this agreement is later terminated.
That means that we don’t have to treat any such submission as confidential.
You can’t sue us for using ideas you submit. If we use them, or anything like
them, we don’t have to pay you or anyone else for them. We will have the exclusive
ownership of all present and future rights to submissions of any kind. We can use them
for any purpose we deem appropriate to our A Quiet Refuge mission, without compensating
you or anyone else for them.
You acknowledge that you are responsible for any submission you make. This means
that you (and not we) have full responsibility for the message, including its legality,
reliability, appropriateness, originality, and copyright.
Information About Health
Information accessible on this site is not intended to
substitute for professional medical advice and information. Information provided is
general in nature and may be helpful to some people but not others, depending upon
their personal medical needs. This is why you should always consult with your personal
physician prior to changing or undertaking a new diet, exercise program or following
advice designed for general audiences only. Your physician is typically best able
to evaluate whether or not a specific health suggestion or potential course of treatment
is best for you. Advance consultation with your physician is especially important
if you are under eighteen (18), pregnant, nursing a baby, or have health problems.
Never disregard professional medical advice or delay to seek it because of something
you may have read on this site.
Limitation of Liability
A Quiet Refuge WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
OR INJURY THAT ACCOMPANY OR RESULT FROM YOUR USE OF ANY OF ITS SITES.
THESE INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO) DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY ANY:
USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) THE SITES
USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) ANY SITE TO WHICH YOU HYPERLINK
FROM OUR SITES
FAILURE OF OUR SITES TO PERFORM IN THE MANNER YOU EXPECTED
OR DESIRED
ERROR ON OUR SITES
OMISSION ON OUR SITES
INTERRUPTION OF AVAILABILITY OF OUR SITES
DEFECT ON OUR SITES
DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION OF OUR SITES
COMPUTER VIRUS OR LINE FAILURE
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING:
DAMAGES INTENDED TO COMPENSATE SOMEONE DIRECTLY FOR A
LOSS OR INJURY
DAMAGES REASONABLY EXPECTED TO RESULT FROM A LOSS OR
INJURY (KNOWN IN LEGAL TERMS AS "CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.")
OTHER MISCELLANEOUS DAMAGES AND EXPENSES RESULTING DIRECTLY
FROM A LOSS OR INJURY (KNOWN IN LEGAL TERMS AS "INCIDENTIAL DAMAGES.")
WE ARE NOT LIABLE EVEN IF WE’VE BEEN NEGLIGENT OR IF OUR AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITIY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR BOTH.
EXCEPTION: CERTAIN STATE LAWS MAY NOT ALLOW US TO LIMIT OR EXCLUDE LIABILITY FOR
THESE "INCIDENTAL" OR "CONSEQUENTIAL" DAMAGES. IF YOU LIVE IN ONE
OF THOSE STATES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION OBVIOUSLY WOULD NOT APPLY WHICH WOULD MEAN THAT
YOU MIGHT HAVE THE RIGHT TO RECOVER THESE TYPES OF DAMAGES.
HOWEVER, IN ANY EVENT, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL LOSSES, DAMAGES, INJURIES, AND
CLAIMS OF ANY AND EVERY KIND (WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARE CLAIMED UNDER THE TERMS OF A
CONTRACT, OR CLAIMED TO BE CAUSED BY NEGLIGLENCE OR OTHER WRONGFUL CONDUCT, OR THEY’RE
CLAIMED UNDER ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY) WILL NOT BE GREATER THAN THE AMOUNT YOU PAID
TO ACCESS OUR SITES.
Links to Other Sites
We sometimes provide referrals to and links to other
World Wide Web sites from our sites. Such a link should not be seen as an endorsement,
approval or agreement with any information or resources offered at sites you can access
through our sites. If in doubt, always check the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address
provided in your WWW browser to see if you are still in a A Quiet Refuge-operated
site or have moved to another site. A Quiet Refuge is not responsible for the
content or practices of third party sites that may be linked to our sites. When A Quiet Refuge provides links or references to other Web sites, no inference or assumption
should be made and no representation should be inferred that A Quiet Refuge is
connected with, operates or controls these Web sites. Any approved link must not represent
in any way, either explicitly or by implication, that you have received the endorsement,
sponsorship or support of any A Quiet Refuge site or endorsement, sponsorship
or support of the ministry of A Quiet Refuge, including its respective employees,
agents or directors.
Monitoring Online Postings
A Quiet Refuge shall have the right to monitor and
review the content of any discussions, chats, forums, postings, transmissions and
bulletin boards, although A Quiet Refuge is not under legal obligation to do
so. As a Christian organization we uphold specific foundational beliefs. We expect
visitors to our sites, and anyone using our communication tools to adhere to a sense
of decency and decorum that we deem appropriate. We are the sole authority on questions
of appropriateness. Naturally, A Quiet Refuge assumes no responsibility or liability
arising from the content of an online posting. However, we do specifically prohibit
you or any visitor from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous,
obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material
that could constitute or encourage what could be considered a criminal offense, give
rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law. A Quiet Refuge will fully
cooperate with authorities or court orders requesting details of criminal postings.
A Quiet Refuge shall have the right in its sole discretion to edit, refuse to
post or remove any material submitted to or posted on any A Quiet Refuge web
site. A Quiet Refuge shall have the right to remove any material that it determines
to be in violation of these provisions or otherwise objectionable.
In addition, children 12 and under are not authorized to post messages or participate
in Forums on any A Quiet Refuge Web site unless the site has been specifically
designed for them and all appropriate parental notification and approval devices have
been complied with fully. For more information see our Privacy Policy.
Termination of This Agreement
This agreement is effective until terminated by either
party. You may terminate this agreement at any time, by destroying all materials obtained
from all A Quiet Refuge Web sites, along with all related documentation and all
copies and installations. A Quiet Refuge may terminate this agreement at any
time and without notice to you, if, in its sole judgment, you breach any term or condition
of this agreement. Upon termination, you must destroy all materials. In addition,
by providing material on our Web sites, we do not in any way promise that the materials
will remain available to you. And A Quiet Refuge is entitled to terminate all
or any part of any of its Web sites without notice to you.
Jurisdiction and Other Points to Consider
Unless otherwise specified, the Online Materials on our
sites are presented to provide information about the resources of A Quiet Refuge.
The ministry of A Quiet Refuge was organized under the laws of California, in
the United States of America. If you use our sites from locations outside of the United
States, you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. These Terms
of Use, and the agreement they create, shall be governed by and interpreted according
to the laws of the State of Colorado (without applying the state’s conflict-of-law
principles.) If any provision of this agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable,
it will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. A Quiet Refuge may modify these Terms of Use, and the agreement they create, at any
time, simply by updating this posting and without notice to you. This is the ENTIRE
agreement regarding all the matters that have been discussed.
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