Welcome to the villaDeus Privacy Policy, designed to provide clarity on how we manage, utilize, and disclose personal data across our services, and to empower you to exercise your privacy rights effectively.
Our privacy policy delineates the collection, use, protection, disclosure, correction, and deletion of your personal information by villaDeus. We encourage you to review this policy carefully to understand our information practices, including the types of information we gather, how we utilize it, to whom we disclose it, and how we safeguard your personal data. At villaDeus, safeguarding your privacy is paramount, and we spare no effort in ensuring its protection.
This privacy policy is applicable to all webpages and embeddable modules hosted by or provided by villaDeus, including all subpages and future iterations, as well as all software and services provided by us. This includes, but is not limited to, services accessible through our websites or within embeddable modules used by churches, ministries and other clients of villaDeus.
villaDeus may periodically update its privacy policy. In the event of a material change to the policy, we will provide notice on our website along with the updated privacy policy.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
At villaDeus, we gather information to facilitate various user accounts and to address inquiries you may make. This data includes contact details, business information, and, for merchant applications, tax, corporate, and personal identity details like driver’s license numbers, social security numbers, and dates of birth. We collect these details only when necessary to establish merchant accounts. Rest assured, we do not trade, sell, or transfer your personally identifiable information to external parties without prior notice, except for our website hosting partners and service providers directly involved in website operation, business management, or service provision. These parties are obligated to uphold the confidentiality of such information. We may disclose your information when legally required, to enforce site policies, or to safeguard the rights, property, or safety of others.
CHURCH DIRECTORY INFORMATION
For our church directory product, any user information provided by church attendees or uploaded by their church remains the sole property of the church. villaDeus does not sell this data to anyone or share it with external parties unless required by a court of law. The information is securely stored and encrypted to protect against unauthorized access and hacking. Only authorized personnel with specific job-related needs have access to this data, ensuring its confidentiality and security.
You have the following options at any time by contacting us using the information provided at the end of this privacy policy:
Discover what data we hold about you
Correct/update any data we hold about you
Request deletion of any data we hold about you
Voice concerns about our use of your data
SECURITY
When you submit sensitive information via our website, it is safeguarded during both collection and offline storage. Our website undergoes regular scans for vulnerabilities and employs encryption to ensure secure transmission of sensitive data. While encryption protects online transmission, offline storage is similarly secure, with access restricted to employees with specific job-related needs.
COOKIES
Cookies enhance user experience by allowing websites to recognize browsers and remember certain information. At villaDeus, we utilize cookies to improve services and monitor site interactions and traffic. Disabling cookies via browser settings will not hinder site usage, and cookies are not linked to personally identifiable information.
COPPA
villaDeus does not engage with individuals under the age of 13. Any personally identifiable information provided by individuals under 13 will be promptly deleted.
FAIR INFORMATION PRACTICES
In the event of a data breach involving personally identifiable information, affected individuals will be notified via email within ten business days.
LINKS
Our website may contain links to external sites whose content and privacy practices we do not control. We advise users to review privacy statements of linked sites before providing any personally identifiable information.
CAN SPAM ACT
To unsubscribe from future emails, contact us at: info@villaDeus.com, and we will promptly remove you from all future correspondence.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
The “Effective Date” at the top of this document will be updated whenever changes are made to this privacy notice.
CONTACTING US
For questions regarding this privacy policy, reach out to us using the information provided below.
info@villadeus.com
