Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect when you visit this Site, how we protect it and what choices you have about how that information is used. We urge you to read our entire privacy policy so that you will understand both our commitment to you and your privacy and how you can participate in that commitment.

Our postal address is:

Purpose Driven Connection
PO Box 8108
Red Oak, IA 51591-1108

You can also reach us via email at Purpose@CustHelp.com or call 1-800-949-6314.

The Information We Collect

For each visitor to our Site, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name, but not the e-mail address.

We collect only the domain name, but not the e-mail address of visitors to our Site. We do collect e-mail addresses and other Personally Identifiable Information (PII), including name and address, telephone number, fax number, payment information (e.g., credit card number and billing address) in many areas of our Site. For example we may collect the email addresses and/or other PII of those who post messages to our bulletin board, those who communicate with us via e-mail, and those who make postings to our chat areas, those who order a product and those who request information from us. We collect information from you in areas open to the public, as will as in our membership only areas.

We collect aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit. We may also provide such aggregate statistics to reputable third parties for statistical analysis, but these statistics will include no personal information.

How We Use the Information We Collect

The information we collect is used for the following purposes: to improve the content of our Site, to customize the content and/or layout of our Site for each individual visitor, to notify consumers about updates to our Site, to contact consumers for marketing purposes, and to share with other reputable companies who would like to contact consumers for marketing purposes.

With respect to cookies: Cookies are bits of data stored on your hard drive that contain no PII but which help enhance your Web-browsing experience. We use cookies to store visitors preferences, record session information, such as items that consumers add to their shopping cart, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our Site, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize our content based on visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends.

How We Share Your Information

We may share your personal information in one or all of the following ways:

We may share it with other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting so that they can communicate with you about interesting offers, discounts etc.

We may share it with WRS Media, Inc., an entity related to Dr. Richard D. Warren, the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Community Church and the author of the book, The Purpose Driven Life.

We may share it with our service providers who manage our customer information and perform services on our behalf, such as fulfilling promotions, sending communications to our customers, conducting surveys, etc. We do not authorize any of these service providers to make any other use or disclosure of your information.

We also reserve the right to transfer your PII and other information to a successor entity in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, sale of assets or other corporate change respecting the Website. In the following limited circumstances we will consider, and may release, personal information to third parties: (1) when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Website and applicable laws or; (2) in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or to others or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Website.

How You Can Make Choices About Receiving Promotional Communications

The Purpose Driven Connection wants to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. Whenever you are asked to submit your email address as part of an online submission form, you will also see clearly identified checkboxes indicating that by submitting the form you will be entitled to receive email correspondence from The Purpose Driven Connection and third parties we select for you, unless you opt out of receiving such email correspondence by unchecking each box. You can also visit your privacy preferences page at any time to change your privacy choices. Each time you submit your email address your privacy preferences will be updated. Your email preferences will be updated within 10 days.

We reserve the right to send you certain communications such as service announcements and administrative messages, relating to PurposeDriven.com and the Purpose Driven Connection that are necessary to our relationship with you.

If you supply us with your postal address or your telephone number, either on-line or offline, you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. We also may share this information as indicated above in the section titled, How We Share Your Information. If you do not wish to receive such mailings and/or phone calls, please let us know by writing to us at the above address.

How You Can Make Choices About Receiving Newsletters

You can view your newsletter preferences on our preferences page as well.

Discussion Boards

Discussion board postings are not private. Others may capture your email address and send you email messages if you post your email address. We cannot control such actions by others; however, we urge you and any other discussion board user not to use our forums as a source of email addresses for sending unsolicited messages. For more information on our discussion boards, please see our Terms of Use for the Site.

Advertisers

To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies, such as Doubleclick, may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. For further information, consult Doubleclick's privacy policy

Hyperlinks to Other Web Sites

Our Site may include links to Web sites of other companies unaffiliated with PurposeDriven.com. Please note that we are unable to review all such sites and take no responsibility for the content or privacy practices of any unaffiliated Web site.

Information Requests

Upon request we provide site visitors with access to all information [including proprietary information] that we maintain about them. Consumers can access this information and/or have this information corrected by writing to us at the address listed above.

Privacy Precaution Warning

We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. However, no data transmission over the internet is 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of the information that you transmit via our online services.

Acceptance of Policy and Modifications

By using this Site, you signify your agreement to this privacy policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. Additionally, from time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Site to notify you of these changes. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Site periodically. Your continued use of any Reader’s Digest site following the posting of any changes to these terms shall mean that you have accepted those changes.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number.

This policy and all of our legal obligations are subject to the laws of New York and the USA, regardless of the location of any user. Any claims or complaints must be filed in the USA in the State of New York.