This privacy and cookie policy sets out how “The Good News” Blog uses and protects any information that you provide when you use this website.

The Good News Blog is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. You can be assured that information provided by you will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

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This website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to offer services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.  

 

All direct payment gateways (where applicable) offered by Wix.com and used by our website adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

 

General

Users of our website are welcome to access all sections of our website and print copies of material of interest for their own personal and evangelism needs.

 

Information Provided and Disclosure

The only information collected about users are your name and email address which you yourself would provide through subscribing. Information obtained will be used only to share recent blog posts or other useful gospel materials.

The Good News does not use or disclose information to third parties about your individual visits to the site or information provided to us, such as your name and email address.

 

Data automatically collected

The Good News Blog logs visitor’s domain and IP address automatically; this information does not identify you as an individual, but only the computer IP addresses that is being used to view the site. This data is used to see where the site is being used in the world to ensure coverage, and to help better understand site usage, so that we can improve our service to you. We do not link information automatically logged by such means with personal data about specific individuals.

We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile, where expressly provided as part of a blog post.

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

1. To provide and operate the Services.

2. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support.

3. To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages.

4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our partners may use to provide and improve our respective services. 

5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 

Cookies

Cookies and how we use them

Cookies are small files which may be placed on your computer hard drive or other device used to access a website and are widely used to make websites work or work more efficiently and to provide information to the operator of the website.

The cookies used by the site are divided into three categories:

1. Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the operation of the site and to enable you to move around the site and use its features. These cookies do not collect information that identifies individual users.

1. Performance/Analytical Cookies

These cookies collect information (including the IP address of the computer or device used to access the site) about how visitors use the site, for example, the pages that are visited most often, where visitors have come from and the pages they have visited. The information is used to improve the way the website works. We sometimes use third parties to perform these services for us and when this is the case, the cookies may be set by the third party. This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

1. Functionality Cookies

These cookies recognise you when you return to the site. This enables us to remember your preferences (for example, fields in webforms) and improve your user experience. These cookies do not collect information that identifies individual users.

How to Control Cookies

The Help menu of most web browsers will tell you how to control cookies – for example, how to refuse cookies and how to delete cookies that have already been set. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org. Please Note: restricting cookies will impact your use and/or the functionality of the site.

 

Your rights

The Good News Blog is committed to ensuring that your information is secure in accordance with applicable regulations. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Please contact us using the contact form on the website if any of the below situations arise:

• If you don’t want us to process your data anymore.

• If you would like to: access, correct, amend, or delete any personal information we have about you.

 

Legal Disclaimer

Whilst we take every effort to ensure that the information on this website is accurate and complete, the contents of this website is for gospel evangelism purposes and general information only and any information contained herein or accessed through this website is not intended to provide financial, investment or any other type of advice.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. 

The Good News Blog reserves the right to make changes to the site generally at any time and without notice.

At various points throughout this site, you may be offered automatic links to other internet sites relevant to a particular aspect of this site. This does not indicate any association between The Good News Blog and those other sites or their owners. Whilst it is hoped that you will find those other sites of interest, The Good News accepts no responsibility of any nature whatsoever for those other sites or any information contained on them, none of which has been verified or endorsed by The Good News Blog. If at any time you find that you have accessed another site, you may return to this site by clicking on the “backwards” arrow, or by keying in the domain address for this site (https://www.goodnewsnow.life)

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Further, due to the inherent nature of the internet, errors, interruptions, and delays may occur in the service at any time. Accordingly, this website is provided “AS IS” without any warranties of any kind and we do not accept any liability arising from any inaccuracy or omission in the information or interruption in availability.

The Good News Blog shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of whatsoever nature (including consequential loss or damage) suffered or incurred, directly or indirectly, by the user or any other person because of relying on the use of, or any matter relating to, the information contained on this website, including any loss occurring incidentally.

 

Applicable Laws

This site is controlled and operated by The Good News Blog from Ireland. The Good News Blog makes no representation that the information contained in the site is appropriate or available for use in other locations and The Good News Blog shall have no responsibility in respect of access to it from territories whose laws prohibit such access or where any aspect of the contents of this site may be illegal. Those who choose to access this site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. Any claim relating to the information contained in this site shall be governed by the laws of Ireland and the visitors to the site agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ireland.