Privacy Policy

This is the website of Kalamazoo Gospel Ministries, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, as recognized by the State of Michigan.

Our postal address is:
448 N Burdick St
Kalamazoo MI 49007

We can be reached via email at info@kzoogospel.org or by telephone at (269) 345-2974.

Last updated: August 30, 2024

Kalamazoo Gospel Ministries knows you care how information regarding you is shared and used, and we are grateful for your trust that we will do so cautiously and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy.

By visiting www.kzoogospel.org and its subdomains, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

Personal Information and other data we collect:

When you register for a service or otherwise voluntarily provide such information, Kalamazoo Gospel Ministries collects personal information.

www.kzoogospel.org servers automatically record information when you visit our website or use some of our services, including your IP address, country, browser type, visit duration, operating systems, and search keywords and key phrases.

Information You Provide: We will not sell your personal information to any other entity in existence. We use the information you present for such purposes as communicating with you, responding to your requests, and improving our site and services. We receive and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. You may choose not to offer certain information, but then you might not be able to benefit from our many features. When you donate or register at www.kzoogospel.org, we collect and store the information you provide. This allows you to auto-populate future forms with the information you provide. In addition, in order to invite new donors to help support the work of Kalamazoo Gospel Ministries and to better understand and cater content to our current supporters, we participate in various non-profit co-ops which share information about the donation habits of supporters of various non-profit organizations.

Affiliated sites: We offer some of our services in connection with other websites and their vendors.

Links: www.kzoogospel.org may present links in a format that allows us to track if these links have been followed. We use this information to customize content and improve the quality of our technology.

In addition to the above stated purposes of shared personal information, your personal information may be collected for the following purposes:

If you do not want to receive email from us in the future, please let us know by emailing us at info@kzoogospel.org.

Privacy Policy
We have created this statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. We do not collect personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. This policy is your guide to how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our website.

Online Donations
Personal information obtained by us through your online donation will not be shared with any outside parties. We may use your contact information to send further information about our organization or to contact you when necessary.

Sending us an Email or Contact Form
You also may decide to send us personally identifying information, for example, in an email message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a form on the site that provides us this information. We use personally identifying information from email primarily to respond to your requests. We may forward your email to other employees who are better able to answer your questions. We may also use your email to contact you in the future about our programs that may be of interest.We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. Except as might be required by law, we do not share any information we receive with any outside parties.If you sign up for one of our email lists, we will only send you the kinds of information you have requested. We won’t share your name or email address with any outside parties. Kalamazoo Gospel Mission is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your visit to our website is completely secure. Security of your Personal Information:To maintain the security of your information, we use the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol with 128-bit encryption strength to transmit sensitive information.  Once the information is in our system, it is accessible to authorized Kalamazoo Gospel Mission personnel only. We strictly enforce our privacy policies with our employees. Kalamazoo Gospel Mission only saves such personal information that is necessary for us to communicate our services to.

Cookies
Our cookies may record information about how you use our website so that we can continue to customize and optimize your online experience with us. The information we gather is used to help identify visitors, assess usage patterns, identify user preferences and settings, control the display of ads, diagnose problems with our servers, gather demographic information, analyze trends and usage patterns, conduct research, deliver editorial content, record registration and personalized information, and otherwise administer Mission products and services.

We may use third party cookies to enable added functionality and site usage analytics software. These cookies are provided by trusted third-party companies and never collect personally identifying information. We do not control and are not responsible for cookies set by our third party partners to enhance our website functionality.

Kids and Privacy
For children who visit our site, special rules apply. We do not request personal information about children, such as first and last name or street address and city. When kids send email to us, their online contact information (email address) is not used to re-contact them and is not maintained in retrievable form.

Questions about our policies
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact us at info@kzoogospel.org

Last Updated: 9/11/2019