GFA World is committed to your privacy. We value your trust and believe data privacy is essential.
We provide this Privacy Policy to make you aware of our privacy practices, and explain how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal data when you interact with us in one of the ways described below. This privacy Policy also provides you with important information about your privacy choices.
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We may collect personal data from you when you visit one of our websites, donate to us, attend our events, request information from us or otherwise communicate with us, volunteer with us, apply for a position, partner with us, visit or travel with us, or raise funds on our behalf. The following provides examples of the type of information we collect from you and how we use it.
Account Registration - We collect your name and contact information when you create an account. We also collect information relating to the actions that you perform while logged into your account.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use the personal information to better serve you to provide account related functionalities to our users. Accounts can be used for easy checkout and to save your preferences and transaction history.
Cookies and first party Tracking - We use cookies and similar technologies when you interact with our website. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to a computer’s hard drive while a web site is viewed. See the Cookies Section below for more information.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use these cookies for to make our website operate efficiently.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use these cookies to engage in advertising, capture website analytics and improve our services to you, for our legitimate interest.
Donation and Sponsorship information including Demographic Information - We collect information from our donors and sponsors such as contact and payment information, and demographic information about our donors.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use contact and payment information to process donations and sponsorships, provide you with receipts for tax purposes, provide updates on your sponsorship including from your sponsored child, and contact you to resolve donor issues or answer questions. We use other information including information from third parties to learn about donors and sponsors for the purpose of identifying other individuals who may be interested in partnering with us on the mission of transforming communities with Christ’s love.
Donor Advised Fund Information, Donor Life Income Agreement information, Wills and Estate Planning Information - We may collect your Social Security Number, birthdate, Driver’s License or other form of identification, bank account information along with Donor and Beneficiary Information.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use this information to manage the donations that you make to GFA.
Donor Audio, Video, or photographs - We collect audio, video, and photographs of your experience with us which you choose to provide to us.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use this information with consent for marketing purposes.
Email Interconnectivity - If you receive email from us, we use certain tools to capture data related to when you open our message, click on any links it contains and make donations.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use this information to understand how you interact with our communications for our legitimate interest and to better serve you.
Events, Tours and Visits - If you sign up for a event or a vision trip, we collect information such as your name, email address, and any other information relevant to the event, including Passport information for international travel. We may also collect additional information such as dietary preferences, health requirements and emergency contact information.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use this information for your safety and to facilitate your participation in the event or tour.
Feedback/Support - If you provide us with feedback or contact us for support, we will collect your name, e-mail address, account information (as applicable), and any other content you send us, to reply.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use this information to receive, and act upon, your feedback or issues.
Information from Applicants – If you apply for an opportunity or role with GFA, we collect your personal information, references, credentials, and relevant experience.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use the information you submit on your application to process and review the application and to perform our obligations for compliance with statutory requirements.
Letters (and other communication) to Sponsored Children, including Photographs: If you write a letter to a sponsored child, we store those letters digitally including any information you include in the letter.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We store letters and communication, for example so that they can be referenced by both the writer and the child, as well as to monitor communications for inappropriate behavior.
Mailing List - When you sign up for one of our mailing lists, we collect your email address or postal address.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We share information about our programs and services with individuals that consent to receive such information. We also use this information to share information about our programs or services.
Prayer Requests - We collect donor prayer requests.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use this information to pray for, and with, our donors.
Religious-based information - We may collect information in this category, such as such as a decision to follow Jesus Christ, your agreement to our statement of faith, or information about your church and missions involvement.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: This information is processed with your express consent for our legitimate purposes as a result of GFA being a religious organization.
Surveys - When you participate in a survey, we collect information that you provide through the survey or questionnaires. If the survey or research is facilitated by a third-party service provider, the third party’s privacy policy applies to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use his information to understand your opinions and collect information relevant to GFA.
Website interactions - We use technology to monitor how you interact with our website. This may include which links you click on, or information that you type into our online forms. This may also include information about your device or browser.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use this information to understand how you interact with our website to improve it, and to understand your preferences and interests to select offerings that you might find most useful. We also use this information to detect and prevent fraud.
Web logs - We collect information, including your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that is automatically assigned to a computer when the Internet is used), domain name, click-activity, referring website, and/or a date/time stamp for visitors.
Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information: We use this information to monitor our networks and the visitors to our websites.
In addition to the information that we collect from you directly, we also receive information about you from other sources, including third parties, business partners, our affiliates, or publicly available sources. For example, if you apply to join or volunteer with GFA, we conduct a background check.
We may also use personal information we acquire about you from 3rd party sources to help provide better service to you and to identify potential new supporters. One example of this would be comparing your address data to the National Change of Address service.
We may disclose information to third parties, including service providers, partners and other third parties, for various reasons.
Service Providers. GFA utilizes third-party service providers (i.e. email service provider, web platform, etc.) to help us provide services we are not able to on our own. We share your information with third-party service providers to help us better serve you as our partner. Among other things, service providers help us to administer our website, conduct surveys, provide technical support, conduct analytics, improve our services, facilitate events, and process payments.
For compliance, fraud prevention, and safety. We may share your personal data for compliance, fraud prevention, and safety purposes.
Ministry partners. In limited circumstances, we may share your personal data with ministry partners to help administer your agreed upon partnership. For example, we may need to share your personal data in this way if you sponsor a child in a program run by a ministry partner, or if you travel to see the work of a ministry partner or engage with GFA in any way that requires collaboration between GFA and a ministry partner.
Other Third Parties. We share, and exchange personal information (i.e., contact information, donation information, and demographic information) with trusted third parties for valuable consideration. Information of this kind is used to allow GFA and similar non-profit organizations to identify others like yourself interested in partnering with us to help transform communities.
As with most other Internet sites, we collect information about your interaction with our websites and communications you receive from us using cookies and web beacons. Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies store information about your use of a website (for example, shopping cart contents or keeping track of your session as you navigate through a website). Web beacons are small graphic images, usually a 1x1 pixel, embedded within webpages or email that collect, store, and transmit data about your interaction with webpages or emails to a web server.
We use cookies and web beacons to maintain our websites, improve the functionality and performance of our websites and email communications, and display advertisements elsewhere online.
We permit third parties providing us with website analytics or online advertising services to place (1) third-party cookies on your computer or mobile device, and/or (2) web beacons on our website that, when activated, place first-party cookies on your computer or mobile device. These third-party service providers collect information about your use of our websites in order to provide us with website analytics or to deliver advertisements elsewhere online that are more relevant to you. Cookies are used to determine the success of our 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.
Cookies can be removed from your device. 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.
Depending on where you live and subject to certain exceptions, you may have some or all the following rights:
Please note, not all of the rights described above are absolute, and they do not apply in all circumstances. In some cases, we will limit or deny your request if the law permits or requires us to do so, or if we are unable to adequately verify your identity. We will not discriminate against individuals who exercise their privacy rights under applicable law.
Note that, as required by law, we will require you to prove your identity. We may verify your identity by phone call or email. Depending on your request, we will ask for information such as your name, address, phone number, account number and/or billing information. We may also ask you to provide a signed declaration confirming your identity.
The security of your personal data is very important to us. We employ a variety of administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal data we collect. That said, security risk is inherent in all Internet and information technologies, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal data.
We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy notice without advance notice.
Changes to this privacy notice were last made on February 1, 2024.
Transfer of Personal Data Between Countries
We may share the information we collect globally, both internally and externally, with our affiliates, ministry partners, and service providers. Because our work is global, transfers are necessary for a variety of reasons, including so that we can facilitate sponsorship and operate charitable programs worldwide. Depending on where you are located and how you interact with us, your personal data may need to be transferred, stored, and processed in a country other than your country of residence, including, but not necessarily limited to, the Unites States, in order for us to carry out the purpose for which we collected your information. This means your personal data may be transferred to a country where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your country. When required, we rely on lawful transfer mechanisms for international data transfers.
Other Sites, Mobile Applications, and Services
We may include links to other websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. In addition, our content may be included on webpages or in mobile applications or online services that are not associated with us. We do not control third party websites, mobile applications or online services, and we are not responsible for their actions. Other websites and services follow different rules regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your personal data. We encourage you to read the privacy notices or policies of the other websites, mobile applications and online services you use.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, please contact us at our address.
GFA World
1116 St Thomas Way
Wills Point, TX 75169
This page was last updated August 8, 2024
info@gfa.org
1-800-946-2742
GFA World
1116 St. Thomas Way
Wills Point, TX 75169
Made with in Wills Point, TX
GFA World is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization. All donations to GFA World are income-tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
