Privacy Policy
Last modified: March 9, 2024

We value your trust and are committed to protecting your privacy online. This privacy policy explains the practices of Pastor Rick’s Daily Hope, Pastors.com, and the other ministries of Purpose Driven Connection (“we” or “us”), for collecting, maintaining, disclosing, protecting, and using the information we may collect from you through your use of our websites, products, and services.

This policy applies to information we collect when you access or use our websites (including pastorrick.com, pastors.com, rickwarren.org, purposedriven.com, celebraterecoverystore.com), engage our services, use our products that link to or refer to this policy, or otherwise interact with us online or offline (collectively, the “Services”).

This policy is part of our Terms of Use. By accessing or using the Services, you agree to be bound by the Terms of Use, which can be found here. Please read the complete Terms of Use, including this privacy policy, before using this website. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services.

This policy may change from time to time, as detailed below. Your continued use of the Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this policy periodically for updates.

The Types of Information We Collect
Information You Provide to Us
We collect and maintain a variety of personal information that you provide directly to us. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. For example, we collect information from you when you:

  • – Sign up to receive our devotionals or other newsletters;
  • – Register to use our Services by creating an account;
  • – Contact us by phone, mail, email, in person, or via our websites;
  • – Engage with our Services, including when you make a donation or place an order;
  • – Comment on or review products on our websites;
  • – Interact with us through our pages or accounts on social media sites; or
  • – Navigate or engage various activities on our websites.

From time to time, you may provide us with personal information in ways not described above. By providing your personal information to us, you give your consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of such information as described in this policy.

The types of personal information we collect directly from you includes your:

  • – Contact information (such as name, address, email, and phone number);
  • – Financial information (such as your payment information);
  • – Transaction information (such as types and amounts of donations or transactions, billing and shipping information, and a description of the transactions); and
  • – Any other information you choose to provide us, such as by submitting a prayer request, participating in surveys, promotions, or events, contacting us, purchasing from us, publicly commenting or posting on the Services, or by registering for an account, event, or mailing list on our site.

We never store your credit card information, which constitutes your credit card number, expiration date, and security code. If you request for your credit card information to be saved, we keep a representation of the card that is only meaningful to the payment processor in order to ensure the security and efficiency of any future transaction that you request. Any credit card information that we request is done for the purpose of effectively fulfilling your request.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Services, or transmitted to other users of the Services or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users of the Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons or used in unauthorized ways.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
Cookies are files that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website and store certain information about website usage. They are useful because they allow websites to recognize a user’s device. The term “cookie” is used in this policy in the broad sense to include all similar techniques and technology, including web beacons, pixels, and log files. For more information on how cookies work, go to All About Cookies.org.

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we and our service providers use cookies to automatically collect certain information to analyze your use of our websites and to serve you with more relevant advertising as you browse the web. Such information includes:

  • – Details of your visits to our Services, including the number of clicks, pages viewed and the order of those pages, your viewing preferences, the website that referred you to our Services, whether you are visiting our Services for the first time or not, communication data, traffic data, location data, logs, the resources that you access and use on the Services, and other similar information; and
  • – Information about your computer and internet connection, including your browser type, browser language, IP address, operating system, and platform type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your interaction with email messages, such as whether you opened, clicked on, or forwarded a message, and your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services.

Cookies help us to better understand your use of our Services and, as a result, allow us, among other things, to offer our web visitors a more personalized and consistent experience. They help us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns; store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Services according to your individual interests; speed up your searches; analyze customer trends; engage in online advertising; and recognize you when you return to our Services. We can use information about visitors to our Services to better target advertising for our Services on other sites. We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us.

In addition to our cookies, some third-party companies may place cookies on your browsers, access them, and associate web beacons with them. These cookies enable third-party features or functionalities to be provided on or through the Services (e.g., social media features). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your device both when it visits our Services and also when it visits certain other websites. Our Privacy Policy does not cover these third-party companies. Please contact these third-party companies (e.g., Google, Meta) directly for more information about their privacy policy and your choices regarding their tags and the information collected by their tags. Please see the “Management of Automatic Data Collection Technologies” section below for information on how you can manage your cookie preferences.

How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us for activities such as: communicating with you; processing transactions; identifying fraud; helping our customer service team resolve issues and respond to your requests; facilitating your access to and use of our Services; improving our Services; soliciting your feedback; securing our Services and resolving technical issues being reported; complying with all laws and regulations, including reporting requirements; establishing, exercising, or defending our legal rights where it is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others; and fulfilling any other purpose for which you provide it or for which you give consent.

We also use information we collect for reporting and analysis purposes, by examining metrics such as how you are engaging our Services, the performance of our marketing efforts, and your response to those marketing efforts. We may also use it for purposes such as contacting you by phone or sending you, either electronically or through the mail, information about our products, services, events, and ministry updates as well as other materials that we think may be of interest to you.

Disclosure of Your Information
We do not sell, trade, transfer, lease, or rent any personal information to any third party except as authorized by you or as disclosed in this policy. We may disclose your information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy to our subsidiaries and affiliates and to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support and facilitate our activities. For example, we may share your personal information with service providers that process transactions, store our data, assist in our marketing and online advertising, coordinate our emails or direct mail, and otherwise assist with our communications, legal, fraud prevention, or security services. We may also disclose such personal information to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it, for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information, and/or with your consent.

We reserve the right to access, retain, and disclose your information to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request; enforce applicable terms of service or contracts; detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; or for other reasons that we determine in good faith are necessary or appropriate. We may transfer personal information to our successors or assigns, if permitted by and done in accordance with applicable law.

We may disclose and use aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, for any purpose.

Your Rights and Your Choices
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the information you provide to us. You can review and request changes to the personal information that we have collected about you by contacting us as described in the “Contact Us” section below. Moreover, if you would like further information in relation to your legal rights under applicable law or would like to exercise any of those rights, please contact us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below at any time. Your local laws may permit you to request that we, for example, update information which is out of date or incorrect; provide access to, a copy of, and/or delete certain information we hold about you; restrict the way that we process and disclose certain of your information; or revoke your consent for the processing of your information.

Please be aware that certain information may be exempt from such requests in some circumstances, including if a request would violate any law or legal requirement, record retention or other legitimate interests of ours, or cause the information to be incorrect. Deleting your personal information may also require deleting your user account (if any). We may request you provide us with information necessary to confirm your identity before responding to your request.

We want to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. You can opt out of receiving communications related to our Services by following the instructions in those messages or by informing us that you would not like to receive future communications by contacting us as described in the “Contact Us” section below. Opting out of receiving communications may impact your use of the Services. If you decide to opt out, we may still send you personal communications, such as digital receipts and messages about your transactions.

Management of Automatic Data Collection Technologies; Do Not Track Disclosures
You may exercise your preferences regarding cookies, including opting-out of our use of cookies and tracking technologies, through the controls available to you in your browser. To learn more about browser controls, please consult the documentation that your browser manufacturer provides. Most browsers also enable you to review and erase cookies and to be notified of the receipt of a cookie, so that you can decide whether you want to accept it or not. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

If you use a mobile device, your device may share location information (when you enable location services) with our websites, mobile application(s), services, or our service providers. You may prevent your mobile device from sharing your location data by adjusting the permissions on your mobile device or within the relevant app.

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is an optional browser setting that allows you to express your preferences regarding tracking across websites. These functions are not uniform, and we do not have a mechanism in place to respond to DNT signals at this time.

Analytics services such as Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, Hyros, and Hotjar provide services that analyze information regarding use of our Services. They use cookies and other tracking mechanisms to collect this information.

  • To learn more about Google’s privacy practices, click here. To access and use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, click here.
  • To learn about Facebook Pixel’s privacy practices or to opt-out of cookies set to facilitate reporting, click here.
  • To learn more about Hyros’ privacy practices, click here.
  • To learn more about HotJar’s privacy practices, click here. To opt-out of Hotjar, click here.

If you are interested in more information about tailored online advertising and how you can generally control cookies from being put on your computer to deliver tailored advertising, you may visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out link, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Opt-Out link, or Your Online Choices to opt-out of receiving tailored advertising from companies that participate in those programs.

Retention of Personal Information
We will retain your personal information in accordance with our record retention requirements and policies which reflect business and legal considerations. We will retain your personal information for the time period reasonably necessary to achieve the business and commercial purposes described in this Privacy Policy or any other notice provided at the time of collection. Your personal information may be retained longer if required or permitted by applicable law.

International Users
Because we are based in the United States, please note that your information may be processed and stored in the United States and other jurisdictions around the world where our service providers are located, and that such jurisdictions may have different privacy laws than those in your jurisdiction. By using the Services, you acknowledge that your information may be processed and stored outside of your country of residence. We may work with external parties including legal counsel, the appropriate regulatory authorities, and/or local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding our processing of information. You can contact your local data protection authority if you have concerns regarding your rights under local law.

Security
We use a variety of technical and organizational security measures to host and maintain the Services in a secure manner and to protect the information provided to us from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Nevertheless, the internet is not a 100% secure environment, and we cannot guarantee absolute security of the transmission or storage of your information, so any transmission of information is at your own risk. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any information to us online.

Other Sites and Social Media
If you contact us on one of our social media platforms or otherwise direct us to communicate with you via social media, we may contact you via direct message or use other social media tools to interact with you. In these instances, your interactions with us are governed by this policy as well as the privacy policy of the social media platform you use.

Our website may contain links to third-party websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website for which we have no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours.

Children’s Privacy
Our Services are intended for general audiences and are not directed at children. If we become aware that we have collected information without legally valid parental consent from children under an age where such consent is required, we will take reasonable steps to delete it as soon as possible.

SMS Policy
By subscribing to receive text messages (SMS & MMS) from us through the provision of your phone number, you have provided us with consent to send you text messages regarding alerts, event reminders, new content, and requests for volunteer and donation support. Message frequency varies by events/preference. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undeliverable messages. Some of the text messages we send may include links to websites. To access these websites, you will need a web browser and internet access.

We respect your privacy and will not distribute your mobile phone number to any third parties except as authorized by you or as disclosed in this policy.

Opt-out Information
If you wish to stop receiving text messages from us, reply “STOP” to any message you have received from us. You may also stop text messages by calling us at 800-600-5004 or emailing us at [email protected].

Help & Support
Reply “HELP” to any text messages you have received from us to receive contact information and opt-out instructions. You may also contact us by phone at 800-600-5004 or email at [email protected].

Supported Carriers
This program, provided by Powered By Text, LLC, is supported by Alltel, AT&T, Boost, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile, MetroPCS, T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular. T-Mobile is not liable for delayed or undeliverable messages. Products and services are compatible with AT&T handsets.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this policy at any time to reflect changes in the law, our data collection and use practices, or advances in technology. We will make the revised Privacy Policy accessible on our Services, so you should review the Privacy Policy periodically. You can know if the Privacy Policy has changed since the last time you reviewed it by checking the “Last modified” date included at the beginning of the document. By continuing to use the Services, you are confirming that you have read and understood the latest version of this Privacy Policy.

Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or the way we collect and use information, please contact us at Purpose Driven Connection, PO Box 80448, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688 or through the other methods described on this website.

By providing my phone number to Pastorrick.com, I agree and acknowledge that Pastorrick.com may send text messages to my wireless phone number for any purpose. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency will vary, and you will be able to opt out by replying “STOP”. No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.