
PRIVACY
Updated 11/2007
At HOBBS MINISTRIES, we respect and protect the privacy of our customers and those who use our website. The
following Privacy Statement provides details about how your personal information is collected and used. This privacy
statement applies to the Hobbs Ministries website and products and services that are located in the
Hobbsministries.com domain.
Information Collection and Use
Hobbs Ministries is the sole owner of information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information
to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Hobbs Ministries collects information from our
users at several different points on our website. Our website offers several opportunities for visitors to register for
promotional and informational mailings, articles and resources. We also sometimes ask for assistance in evaluating
our services. These registration forms are often linked to Hobbs Ministries mailing lists and require users to give
contact information (such as name and email address). We use this contact information to send users information
about our company and its products and services if requested or necessary.
Sharing and Usage
We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information with third parties for their promotional use. We may
disclose or report personal information in limited circumstances where we believe in good faith that disclosure is
required under the law. For example, we may be required to disclose personal information to cooperate with
regulators or law enforcement authorities; to comply with a legal process such as court order, subpoena, search
warrant, or law enforcement request.
Use of Web Technologies
We use a variety of technologies on our site. Among these are cookies; a piece of information that our website
provides to your browser when you visit our site. Cookies allow us to verify the login status of customers using
products or services linked directly with our website, track point of entry to point of registration for those users
participating in our affiliate sign up programs, and to track and measure the success of a particular marketing
campaign. Cookies also allow us to track overall site usage and determine which areas users prefer. This enables
us to make your visit to our website easier because we recognize you when you return and are able to customize your
experience. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. If you
choose to disable cookies, you may still use our site; however, you may have limited access to some areas within our
website. We may access and set cookies using web beacons, also known as single-pixel GIFs which are invisible
graphical images. These web beacons provide us useful information regarding our site such as which pages users
access. When we send you emails, we may include a single-pixel GIF to allow us to determine the number of people
who open our emails. When you click on a link in an email, we record this individual response to allow us to
customize our offerings to you. We also keep track of activity on our website via log files stored on our web servers.
We collect information such as IP address, browser type and version, and pages you view. We also keep track of how
you got to our site and any links you click on to leave our site. Once you leave our site, we do not track you. We use
your website activity to assist us in offering you a personalized Web experience, assist you with technical support,
diagnose problems with our server, administer our website and tailor our product and service offerings to you.
Hobbs Ministries takes care to reinforce the importance of our website visitors' security and privacy among our
employees. Our employees are trained and required to safeguard your information and using physical, electronic and
procedural safeguards, we restrict access to personal information to those employees and agents for business
purposes only. Additionally, we use internal and external resources to review the adequacy of our security procedures.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on the Hobbsministries.com Website; so our
users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we
disclose it.