Who We Are
HORME Global (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information with integrity, care, and respect. Our website address is: https://www.hormeglobal.org.
This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal data when you interact with our website, request ministry services, submit prayer requests, or make online contributions.
Information We Collect and How We Use It
1. Online Giving and Donations
When you make a donation or payment through our website, we collect necessary personal details such as your name, billing address, email address, phone number, and transaction history. Payment card details are processed directly and securely by third-party payment processors. We do not store full credit card numbers or sensitive financial credentials on our servers.
2. Prayer Requests and Pastoral Care
Information submitted through contact forms, prayer request forms, or counseling requests is treated with strict confidentiality. Personal and sensitive details shared in prayer requests are accessible only to authorized ministry leadership and prayer teams, unless you explicitly grant permission to share them publicly.
3. Event Registrations and Newsletters
When you register for church events, subscribe to our newsletter, or fill out a connection card online, we collect your contact information (such as your name and email address) to communicate event details, updates, and ministry opportunities. You may opt out of promotional emails at any time using the “Unsubscribe” link included at the bottom of our emails.
4. Comments and Interactivity
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify usage. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public alongside your comment.
5. Media Uploads and Photography
If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from public images.
Note on Church Events: HORME Global frequently photos and streams video during public services and events for worship, outreach, and archival purposes. If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed during in-person services, please inform an usher or team member.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our website uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze site usage, and support basic functionality:
- Comments: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
- Login Sessions: When you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies (contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser). Logging in sets cookies to save your login info (2 days) and screen display preferences (1 year). Choosing “Remember Me” keeps your login active for 2 weeks.
- Content Editing: If you edit or publish an article on our site, an additional cookie indicating the post ID will be saved. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content from Third Parties
Articles and pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g., YouTube or Vimeo videos, livestream feeds, social media links, or map services). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you visited the external website directly.
These external sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content—especially if you have an active account and are logged into those services.
How We Share Your Information
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third-party marketers.
We only share your information with trusted service providers who help us operate our website and ministry services (such as secure payment processors, email deployment platforms, and automated spam detection tools). These third parties are bound by strict confidentiality obligations.
Additionally, if you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email for security purposes.
Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to help us automatically approve follow-up comments without manual moderation queues.
For users who register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profiles indefinitely. Users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit that information.
Financial records, event records, and donation histories are retained in accordance with applicable legal, accounting, and tax compliance requirements.
Your Data Rights
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any information you provided. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obligated to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Online payment and newsletter subscriptions are securely transmitted to third-party providers bound by standard data processing terms.
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or how your personal information is managed, please contact us at:
HORME Global
Website: https://www.hormeglobal.org
Email: info@hormeglobal.org