Privacy Policy

Power Of The Spirit may ask you for personal information at times, including (but not limited to) when you enter a promotion sponsored by Power Of The Spirit and/or our many partners; when you make a purchase at Power Of The Spirit's store; and when you report a problem with one of our sites or services. Power Of The Spirit also occasionally asks users to complete surveys that we use for internal research. Wherever Power Of The Spirit collects personal information we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.



3. What are cookies and how does Power Of The Spirit use them?
As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, Power Of The Spirit may use cookies to store and sometimes track your information. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and may be stored on your computer's hard drive.

4. Who is collecting information?
When you are on a Power Of The Spirit site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information for use by Power Of The Spirit alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. Some Power Of The Spirit services may be offered in conjunction with a partner company. In order to provide this service to you, it may be necessary for us to share your personal information with our partner company. In such cases you will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular service.

Promotions that run on Power Of The Spirit may be sponsored by companies other than Power Of The Spirit or may be cosponsored by Power Of The Spirit and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified prior to the time of data collection or transfer. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if you don't want your data to be shared.

Please be aware that Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those Web sites linked to Power Of The Spirit are not covered by this privacy statement.



5. With whom does Power Of The Spirit share my information?
As a general rule, Power Of The Spirit will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. The following describes some of the ways that your information may be disclosed.

Business Partners: Power Of The Spirit may disclose your personal information to business partners, but this is specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data. Some or all data collected during a Power Of The Spirit promotion may be shared with a sponsor. If personally identifying data about you will be shared, we will tell you before we collect or transfer the data.

Some promotions offer opportunities to request additional information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give Power Of The Spirit permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request. In many instances, only your email address will be shared.

Power Of The Spirit Store: If you make a purchase from a Power Of The Spirit store the information obtained during your visit to the store, and the information you give such as your credit card number and contact information, may be provided to a merchant if necessary to process your transaction.

Other: Power Of The Spirit may also disclose user information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Power Of The Spirit's rights or property, other Power Of The Spirit users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Power Of The Spirit may disclose user information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.



6. What are my choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of my information?
If you express interest in receiving offers or information from Power Of The Spirit and our partners, we may occasionally send you e-mail or postal mail about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. Only Power Of The Spirit (or agents working on behalf of Power Of The Spirit and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings and only if you indicated that you do not object to these offers.

At any time you can easily unsubscribe from Power Of The Spirit’s mailing list and no longer receive such offers and mailings.

You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use those Power Of The Spirit services that require the use of cookies in order to participate.

Power Of The Spirit does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions or contests.



7. How does Power Of The Spirit protect my personal financial information?
Keeping your personal financial information private is vitally important to us. As with all personal information, Power Of The Spirit will never rent or sell your personal financial information. Knowing that you use certain services or features may help us to offer you better and more relevant content and advertisements. But as with all personally identifiable information, we do not make this available to any third parties without your permission.

Please note that there may be places on the Power Of The Spirit network of Web sites where you can transmit credit card information in order to complete a purchase transaction or for verification purposes. Any time we ask for a credit card number we transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format. We use industry-standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.



8. What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Power Of The Spirit cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.



9. What else should I know about my privacy?
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on message boards, through email, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any registration information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.



10. Additional Information
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to postmaster@powerofthespirit.org.