Our church changes constantly, so we may amend this Policy from time to time — your continued use of this service acts as your agreement to any amendments, of which you will always receive notice.
Last revised: June 17th, 2023
The Cibus Mission (herein referred to as "Cibus Mission", "the Church", "we", and "our") cares about the privacy of visitors (herein referred to as "you" and "yours") to our site. We also know you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly.
Please read on for a full discussion and understanding of our privacy policy and how we may utilize, disclose, and protect this information. By visiting our websites, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Notice and our Terms of Use.
There are three types of information we collect or use:
Personally-Identifying Information: When you choose to contribute or fill out an application, your personally-identifying information — including your name, email address, telephone number, and physical address — is obtained. This is information provided directly by you.
Financial Information: The second type is your financial information, collected through third-party platforms like Stripe (which is used by Zeffy) when you make a purchase. We can only see the last 4 digits of your credit card number. This information is securely stored and used only to process payment and fulfill your order. Your financial information will never be shared with outside or third parties for any other purpose.
Non-Personal Information: Automatic, non-personal information such as cookies, your IP address, and your browsing activity on our sites (e.g. date and time visited, time spent, pages visited, etc.) is collected automatically when you visit our web properties.
Personally-Identifying Information: In order to provide you a legal and valid ordination, we require all of our ministers to provide us with their full legal name, email address, and physical address. This information is collected to verify your identity, populate our member records, and aid in generating legally valid ministerial documents. Your personal information is stored in our secure records. As a valid church, the law requires that we retain this information in our records.
Should any of your personal information change, such as your name or address, we require that you contact us to update your records accordingly. Registered members may update some account information by accessing the "My Account" section of the website after logging in.
Financial Information: If you make a purchase, financial information is securely stored and used only to process payment. Only authorized personnel have access to this information, and the most sensitive elements are obfuscated internally. When your transaction is completed, your financial information is permanently deleted from our systems, unless you initiate post-transaction activity.
Non-Personal Information: Automatic, non-personal information such as cookies is used to improve our products, services and operations; to detect and investigate activities that may violate our policies or be illegal; and to keep track of activity on our websites. A user's continued usage of the Church's online services constitutes agreement with this Privacy Policy.
We acknowledge that individuals have the right to control when and how their personal data is stored and used. We have made provisions for both the deletion and sharing of any information collected at the request of the user who provided that information.
If you would like a copy of the personally-identifying information the Church has collected about you, please contact our support staff by emailing [email protected] or by writing to us at 406 Jonathan St, Hagerstown, MD 21740. After your request has been processed and your identity verified, your information will be dispatched to you electronically within 30 days.
The Church maintains that it is legally obligated to store some essential personally-identifying information — like your name and address — that you submitted as part of the ordination process indefinitely. Some non-essential information (like your telephone number) may be deleted upon formal request within 30 days. Please note that many of the online services provided by the Church will not be available to you when your data is deleted, and such a request is deemed a simultaneous request to have your ordination revoked.
The Church's online properties do not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals at this time, as there is no established legal standard for how DNT signals ought to be honored. We anticipate and intend to honor any standard that is established in the future.
We will never sell or rent to any third party your personal or financial information, unless you give us consent. Nor will we use personal or financial information in ways not described in this Privacy Policy.
From time to time the Church may contract with third parties to conduct surveys or assist with marketing directly pertaining to the Church. In such cases, we may provide your email address to these third parties, but we will not share any other personally-identifying information, and never any financial information.
At times, we may be required by law to disclose personal information, such as to law enforcement or by court order. We also utilize carriers (such as the US Postal Service) to fulfill orders, and companies to process credit card payments. These third parties have access to some personal information needed to perform their limited functions only, and are not permitted to use it for other purposes.
Our websites often contain links to third-party websites with privacy policies that may differ from our own. Cibus Mission is not responsible for the content or privacy practices on those websites.
The Church does not direct its products or services to minors. Furthermore, the Church does not ordain or sell to persons under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children, and anyone under the age of 18 may use our sites only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.
If we suspect that an individual has registered/become ordained on the site while under the age of 18 or using false information, we will promptly cancel the ordination and delete this information. If you suspect that an individual under the age of 18 has registered for ordination, please alert us at [email protected].
The security, integrity, and confidentiality of your information are important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, misuse, disclosure, and alteration by unauthorized third parties.
Please be aware that, despite our best efforts, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Any transmission of your data on or using the Cibus Mission websites is at your own risk.
In the unlikely event of a data breach, the Church will immediately assess to what extent personal data of ministers was accessed, will report the breach to the proper authorities, and whenever necessary will alert users who were personally affected.
If you have any questions or concerns about any of the elements of our Privacy Policy, please contact our office: