Privacy Policy

CHRISTIAN DISCIPLING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL PRIVACY POLICY

THIS CHRISTIAN DISCIPLING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL PRIVACY POLICY WAS LAST UPDATED ON JULY 23, 2023.

Technical information systems such as computers, servers, and websites are used by Christian Discipling Ministries International (“Our Academy” or “we”, “us”, or “our”). This Privacy Policy applies to all of the systems used by Christian Discipling Ministries International unless a different policy is provided in association with a particular service, system or site, in which case such different policy shall control. This Privacy Policy is subject to change, so you are encouraged to revisit and review this Privacy Policy from time to time. Christian Discipling Ministries International reserves the right to alter, modify, update, add to, subtract from or otherwise change this Privacy Policy at any time for any reason or no reason at all. Christian Discipling Ministries International will post any changes here, and any changes will become effective immediately upon being posted unless otherwise indicated in the posted Privacy Policy.

Very important

By using our technology information services, websites, and media systems and/or by providing us with any personal data, you give us, Christian Discipling Ministries International, your explicit consent that all personal data that you provide may be used and processed by us for the purpose and in the manner described in the following Privacy Policy and in compliance with effective laws and regulations concerning the use of personal data.

Our websites

We, at Christian Discipling Ministries International, respect and are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains the basis for which any personal data that you provide to us or we collect from you will be used and processed on our websites. The term “websites” includes this website and any of our associated sites, such as ChristianDMI.org, etc. You are not required to provide any personal information to browse the public areas of any of our websites.

This website is affiliated and works cooperatively with Beroean Christians, Christian Discipling Ministries International and Christian Millennial Fellowship, a not-for-profit corporation to share a deeper understanding of the Word of God worldwide, and impart guidance in living a Christ-filled life. If you decide to apply, enrol, become a volunteer or otherwise become an associate of Antioch Academy, start an account, make a donation, request a conference, or otherwise take any actions that involve the providing of personal data, you are consenting to this Privacy Policy, and accept to store of your data on servers used by Christian Discipling Ministries International.

Security and reasonable safeguards

We endeavour to use up-to-date data storage systems and security techniques to protect your personal information from any unauthorised access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. We have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures as required by law and as we deem reasonable to safeguard and help prevent abuse of privacy online and protect personal data. However, we cannot guarantee the ultimate security of any information that is disclosed online. We urge you to be proactive and use effective anti-virus/anti-phishing software to help protect against abuses, as we implement safeguarding strategies on our end, beyond these means and safeguards we can make no warranty regarding the security of any information you transmit to us via this site and you do so at your own risk.

Children & Minors

If you are not yet of legal age in the country in which you are residing and considered a minor while accessing our website services, you may only submit your personal data on this website with the explicit involvement and consent of your guardian or parent(s). If you are a guardian or parent(s) of a minor accessing our services and you provide consent for the minor to submit personal data on this website, then you agree to this Privacy Policy with respect to the minor’s use of our services.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union and the European Economic Area.

If you are a European resident, we are Data Controller of your data and you have the right to know how your personal information is processed, what we collected about you and to ask that this data to be corrected, updated, or deleted. Additionally, please note that your information may be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States. Please contact us if you have any questions about your GDPR rights. For more information or complaints please contact your local data protection authority.

Data Retention

We retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service or unless and until you ask us to delete this information. Data we store, we’ll protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. Customer passwords which we may store are is stored as a hash and original password cannot be recovered.

Email Communication

We may communicate with you by email or telephone in response to your inquiries or send you service-related announcements based on Personal Information you provide to us. We may also use your Personal Information to send you updates and other promotional communications if we received your agreement. If you no longer wish to receive those email updates, you may opt-out at anytime of receiving them by following the instructions included in each communication. Usually it's an "unsubscribe" link.

Links To Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to and from third party websites or services that are not operated by us. If you follow a link to any of these websites and you will be redirected to third part website, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or practices. Please review the Privacy Policy of every website you visit before you submit any Personal Information to any of these websites.

Notice to California Residents

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents who have supplied personally identifiable information, as defined in the statute, to the site to request and obtain certain information regarding our disclosure, if any, of personally identifiable information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes (namely, the categories of personally identifiable information shared and the names and addresses of all third parties that received personally identifiable information from this site for their direct marketing purposes) during the immediately prior calendar year. To make such a request (limit one request per year), please send an e-mail to cdmi.org@gmail.com with “California Privacy Rights” as the subject line. You must include your full name, e-mail address, and postal address in your message.

HEA/HEOA

These acts, among other things, help Christian Discipling Ministries International make clear and transparent any costs associated with our educational degrees, as well as influencing the statistical data about itself that we may gather and submit, now or in the future, to regulatory bodies.

PCI-DSS and FACTA

These guidelines and regulations relate to Christian Discipling Ministries International 's management of credit information of students, donors, and other individuals who may voluntarily submit credit card information to the College for payment purposes.

FERPA

This act protects the privacy of student education records and ensures that student education record information is only released to certain individuals and/or in certain situations; e.g., to eligible students, to school officials with legitimate educational interest, to accrediting organizations, etc. This act also governs processes such as parents’ or eligible students’ right to request that records in error be corrected.

Clery Act

This act relates to the College’s gathering and publication of information concerning campus security and certain types of on-campus crimes, as well as the maintenance of logs and statistics concerning those crimes. Questions, comments, or complaints concerning privacy practices, as noted below, may be communicated to < cdmi.org@gmail.com >. This distribution group exists to handle incoming concerns or inquiries from Christian Discipling Ministries International community members including applicants, students, alumni, faculty, and staff as well as for the general public in any way related to the privacy of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) gathered by Christian Discipling Ministries International. The Student Records Policy provides additional, superseding information regarding the privacy policy on student records and the information contained there, including specific rules regarding access to, retention of, and change process for that information. To review that policy, please see the appropriately named section of the current Curriculum Catalog.

Contacting Christian Discipling Ministries International

Any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy and Christian Discipling Ministries International’s handling of personal information (including, without limitation, personally identifiable information) should be directed to: < cdmi.org@gmail.com >. Christian Discipling Ministries International will contact any person lodging a formal complaint and will cooperate with appropriate regulatory authorities to resolve any complaints that cannot be resolved between Christian Discipling Ministries International and any individual(s).

Christian Discipling Ministries International reserves the right to disclose, share, assign and/or otherwise transfer user information, including without limitation personally identifiable information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, consolidation, the sale of substantially all of its assets, or any other corporate change or restructuring, whatever form it may take.