Privacy Policy

Heart for Lebanon Foundation is committed to respecting your privacy and security. We provide this Privacy Statement to make you aware of our privacy policy and security practices, and to inform you about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on the homepage of our website. Once you choose to provide us personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified) either online or offline, you can be assured that it will only be used to support your relationship with Heart for Lebanon Foundation

Information Collected
In your relationship with Heart for Lebanon Foundation you can become a prayer partner, investor, make donations, request materials or subscribe to emails and land mail or SMS text messages. The types of personal information we may collect include name, contact and billing information, transaction and payment information.
In order to tailor our subsequent communications to you and continuously improve our services, we may also ask you to provide us with information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, experiences as a sponsor, and contact preferences.

Use and Disclosure of Information
Heart for Lebanon Foundation uses your information to understand your needs and provide you with better service. Specifically, we use your information to help you complete a transaction, communicate back to you, update you on the work you have invested, special events, and to personalize our services and communications with you.

Credit card and/or checking account information is used only for payment processing and is not retained for other purposes. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you the say thank you, pray with you, for market research or provide you with information we think would be of particular interest.

At a minimum, we will always give you the opportunity to opt out or decline Heart for Lebanon Foundation’s marketing or market research contact. We will also follow local requirements, such as allowing you to opt in before receiving unsolicited contact, where applicable.

Who we share it with
It is Heart for Lebanon Foundation’s policy to ensure that personal data is not used or disclosed except as necessary to provide services, to protect the confidentiality or security of personal data or as otherwise permitted by law.

Heart for Lebanon Foundation does not rent, sell, or lease personal data with others. However, in those situations where we retain third parties to perform processing tasks or other activities, and transfers personal data to those partners or to any of our international offices, we require that these groups agree to provide at least an equivalent level of protection as provided by Heart for Lebanon Foundation.

Choice
Heart for Lebanon Foundation will not use or share the personally identifiable information you provide to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without first letting you know and offering you a choice. As previously stated, you may let us know if you do not wish to receive unsolicited direct marketing materials from us, and we will do everything we can to honor such requests.

Accuracy
Heart for Lebanon Foundation takes reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is reliable, accurate, and complete. The steps we take to ensure data integrity are made in light of the purposes for which the data is used. It is the policy of Heart for Lebanon Foundation to ensure that all Personal Data is maintained only as long as necessary or as otherwise permitted by law.

Security
Heart for Lebanon Foundation is committed to ensuring the security of your information. We have implemented reasonable electronic, physical and procedural safeguards designed to help protect against the loss, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration or destruction of the information under our control. We use encryption systems, when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as credit card information. Certain features of our Web Site may require you to use an access code, password or similar unique identifier. You are responsible for protecting the secrecy of your account information. Although we strive to protect your personal information, no data transmission over the Internet is completely secure. There is some risk associated with any data transmission, including the risk that personal information may be intercepted in transit. If a breach of your personal information occurs we will provide a notification within a timeframe and by a manner permitted by your local jurisdiction.

Consent to Transfer
This Web Site is operated in the United States. If you are located in the European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By using the Web Site or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer.

Conditions of Use
Heart for Lebanon Foundation provides these services described to you subject to the conditions contained within this Privacy Statement. If you visit our website you accept these conditions. Please read them carefully. In addition, when you use any current or future Heart for Lebanon Foundation website, service or visit any entity referenced by Heart for Lebanon Foundation, in its website, you also will be subject to the guidelines and conditions applicable to any such entity.

Copyright
All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, photographs, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the sole and exclusive property of Heart for Lebanon Foundation/Heart for Lebanon or its content suppliers and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of Heart for Lebanon Foundation and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws.

Trademarks
Heart for Lebanon Foundation trademarks Heart for Lebanon and might have other trade names, trademarks, trade dress, and service marks, including those marks indicated on our website are the sole and exclusive property of Heart for Lebanon Foundation including, without limitation, designs, logos, page headers, button icons and scripts (“Marks”). Heart for Lebanon Foundation. Marks and trade dress may not be used in connection in any way not expressly authorized in writing by the Heart for Lebanon Foundation or in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among the public, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Heart for Lebanon Foundation. All other trademarks not owned by Heart for Lebanon Foundation that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners.

License and Site Access
Heart for Lebanon Foundation grants you a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable, and revocable license to access and make personal use of this site and not to download or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of the Heart for Lebanon Foundation This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents; any collection and use of any information, images, content or photographs or any derivative use of this site or its contents; any downloading or copying of information for the benefit of another; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of Heart for Lebanon Foundation. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any Marks, photographs, content or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Heart for Lebanon Foundation website without express written consent. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by Heart for Lebanon Foundation to access this site.

Site policies, modification.
Heart for Lebanon Foundation reserves the right to make changes to this site, policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.

Are cookies used?
Cookies are used to determine the success of Heart for Lebanon Foundation website and marketing campaigns. This allows us to be good stewards with the donations that are given to us to determine our online effectiveness, which also helps keep our expenses low.

In addition to cookies, we use other technologies, including pixel tags, to gather information on how our users interact with our website and to help us efficiently monitor our website and marketing campaigns. These technologies, for example, show us popular pages, conversion rates, click-throughs and other information that can be used to improve our website. We also occasionally share select non-personal information with trusted third parties. Heart for Lebanon and its third party vendors use pixel tags to track and analyze non-personally identifiable usage information to compile statistical traffic analysis or usage patterns. Third-party cookies may also be used to inform, optimize and serve on other websites based on your visits to Heart for Lebanon websites.

What is a cookie?
A cookie is a series of data characters that, when programmed into a website, is placed by the web server into the browser’s application folder on your computer. Once placed onto your machine, the cookie will allow the website to “recognize” you as a unique individual. Cookies do not collect data from the end user’s hard drive.

Can cookies be removed from my hard drive?
Yes, cookies can be removed from your hard drive. Also, depending on what type of web browser and what browser version you are using, you may be able to change the properties on your cookie file so that cookies are not used or saved. Please check with your browser provider for more information on removing cookies.

If you have any questions or concerns at all please email Info@HeartforLebanon.org or call 828-505-8432.
Our office is normally open Monday – Friday 8:30 am to 5pm.