Who we are
Our website address is: www.cefva.com
Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) is a Bible-centered organization composed of born-again believers whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to establish (disciple) them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian living. In fact, it is “the world’s largest evangelistic outreach to children,” and operates in most countries in the world. CEF of Virginia is separately incorporated and currently has eight regions conducting ministry. Our corporate office is located in Richmond, Virginia.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so, such as to provide our services to you, communicate with you, or if you otherwise grant us permission to use your information. We collect information from you in the following ways: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through the use of our services, and from outside sources. We do not sell, rent, or lease your personal data to third parties for the purposes of marketing. However, we may share information with our ministry partners and other parties to assist us with establishing, maintaining, managing our relationship with you, and providing our ministry products and services.
We collect information from you:
- When you provide it to us through our donation process
- Through your becoming a ministry partner
- To provide you with services, activities, or information that you have indicated you want to receive
- To comply with applicable laws and regulations
- For our own internal administrative purposes
- To provide you with information about us, our events or other activities or services
- Where you have provided your consent to publish your personal data
- To provide you with information about volunteering opportunities
- To provide you with details about our campaigns
- To manage your communication preferences with us generally
- To provide you with information about goods and services that we feel may interest you
- To notify you about changes to our services and/or donor opportunities.
If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (AKA the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:
- Request access to your personal data;
- Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
- Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
- Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
- Request portability of your personal
European Union individuals also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.
If you request to receive no further contact from us or request to have your personal data deleted from our system, we will keep some basic information in order to avoid sending you unwanted communications in the future. If we do not retain this information, then this could result in us contacting you again as we would no longer have a record of your request not to be contacted.
Media
If we provide you with the ability to upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
As with most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If we provide you with the ability to leave a comment, the comment and its metadata will be retained indefinitely. This is so that we can recognize and approve of any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Any visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.