Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

Terms of Use

Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) maintains this website as a service to its members and visitors. The Privacy Policy set forth below governs your use of this website, and by using the website you agree to be bound by them. Therefore, please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you use this website. If you do not agree with our Privacy Policy, please do not use this website.

Permissions

You may not reproduce or distribute copies of materials found on this site (including, but not limited to text, logos, graphics, sounds or images) in any form (including by email or other electronic means), without prior written permission from Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO). Instead, we encourage you to tell others how to access the materials directly through this site.

Requests for permission to reproduce or distribute materials found on this site should be sent to our webmaster via the Contact Us form

Links

Our website contains several links to sources outside of Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO)'s domain that we believe are useful to visitors to our site. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Once you leave Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO)'s website and connect to the site of another entity, that site is not under the control of Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO), and Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) is not responsible for the content of sites to which it is linked. Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO)'s endorsement of the site(s).

Links to other websites are included when the content of those sites are judged to be suitable or helpful. However Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) has no control over the nature of content of those websites, which may change from time to time. If you find a link on our site to any other site where the content does not appear to be suitable, please immediately notify the webmaster. Upon confirmation that the content is not appropriate, the link may be removed from the Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) web page(s).

Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) welcomes links to its site. You are free to create a hypertext link to our site as long as the link does not state or imply any sponsorship of your site by Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO). Also, we request a courtesy notification, via our Contact Us page, in advance of your intention to link to our site.

Disclaimer

Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, non-infringement, suitability or fitness for a particular purpose of the information and materials made available through this site. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) be liable for any special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages whatsoever arising out of or resulting from:
(i) the use of, or inability to use, data, documents or information made available on this site or other websites linked to this site, or
(ii) content errors, omissions or infringing material, including without limitation, lost profits, damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction or any and all other damages or losses, even if Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) is advised of the possibility thereof and regardless of the legal or equitable theory (contract, tort or otherwise) upon which the claim is based.

Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) may make improvements and/or changes to any product(s) or service(s) described in this site at any time. Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) does not guarantee that any product or service described in this site will be continuously available. The information on our site is periodically updated. The documents and related graphics published on this site could include typographical errors or technical inaccuracies.

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Statement governs the manner in which Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from website visitors ("User") of the globallutheranoutreach.com website. This privacy policy applies to the website and all products and services offered by Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO).

Personal identification information

We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, register on the site, fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our website. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, name, email address, mailing address, phone number or other information. Users may, however, visit our website anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website related activities.

Non-personal identification information

We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our website. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our website, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.

Web Browser Cookies and visitor tracking

Our website may use "cookies" to enhance User experience. User's web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the website may not function properly.

Google Analytics – we use Google Analytics to measure how our site is used by visitors and to generate reports for our own use. Google Analytics does not collect any personally identifiable information about you from this website.

How we use collected information

Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) may collect and use Users personal information for the following purposes:

How we protect your information

Information you enter in a Contact form or, for making a donation, is transmitted over a SSL secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures. Your contact information is transmitted to email accounts only. Personal information such as name, address, country, etc. that is gathered as part of making a monetary donation is not stored on our website server. However, your information may be stored on other entities databases such as PayPal or Vanco Payment Solutions database in order to process your donation.

Use of Personal Information

Your personally identifiable information is kept secure. If you give us personal information, we will not share that information with any third party, except with authorized staff members who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential, or in order to comply with the law, to enforce or apply the Privacy Policy or Terms of Use or to protect the rights, property or safety of the website, any user of the site, Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) or any of its directors, officers, employees, agents or affiliated organizations. Children's names, ages, address, etc. will not be published on our site in any public area. Global Lutheran Outreach (GLO) will not post the names of missionaries and/or military personnel to foreign countries.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using this website, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our website. Your continued use of the website following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about the Terms of Use or this Privacy Statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us by clicking on the "Contact" tab and completing the form. You may also contact us by mail using the address and phone number in the footer below.

Updated on August 3, 2018