Privacy Policy

Introduction

We’re committed to respecting your privacy and keeping your personal information safe. This privacy policy tells you what to expect when The Inspirational Network, Inc. doing business as Inspiration Ministries(hereafter known as “Inspiration”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) collects personal information collects personal information from or about you.

Who We Are

Inspiration’s mission is to impact people for Christ worldwide through media. We are here to help strengthen your spiritual walk and bring you hope and encouragement along life’s journeys. Through inspirational teachings, daily devotionals, and uplifting video programming, we seek to strengthen your walk with God.

We accomplish our Kingdom mission through the efforts of several related ministry organizations established by David Cerullo. They are The Inspirational Network, Inc. and the broadcast signal of Inspiration TV.

What Personal Information We Collect About You

Inspiration primarily gathers Personal Data to fulfill our responsibility to provide you with requested products, materials, or services; and for communicating with our constituency to teach Kingdom principles, inspirational information, share ministry results driven by partner support, and request partner support.

The personal information we collect can include your name; communication preferences; email address; postal address; IP address or similar data, such as device type when you visit our website; telephone number; mobile number; date of birth or bank account or bank card details so we can process donations; or information as to whether you are a taxpayer to help us to claim gift aid (where applicable).

In some cases, we may also collect information about you from publicly available data providers.

The sources of the personal information we collect directly from you include when you:

  • Ask about our activities
    • Register with us for information
    • Make a donation
    • Sign up for publications or newsletters
    • Sign up for our daily videos
    • Sign up to receive special greetings and communications
    • Submit your video testimony or photo with your praise report
    • Submit a testimonial
    • Register for Legacy Society
    • Become an Inspiration Covenant Partner
    • Purchase an item from the online store
    • Telephone, write, contact us online or text us
    • Otherwise provide us with your personal information

We do not collect certain information viewed as “sensitive” about you unless there is a clear reason for doing so or you provide it to us directly, for example, when you share a health concern as part of a prayer request.

If you freely and voluntarily give us sensitive personal information as part of our ministry (i.e., for example, through a prayer request), you are giving consent to us to collect and store such sensitive information within our encrypted database. We never sell or share sensitive information.

Service Providers

We use service providers to facilitate our website and services, such as fundraising agencies, direct mailing companies, mobile marketing providers, software, and software as a service (SaaS) providers.

We may give these service providers access to your personal information, but only to allow them to perform their authorized services for us.

How We May Use Your Information

We will not rent, swap or sell your personal information.

The legal basis that we rely on for processing your data will depend upon the circumstances in which it is being collected and used, but will in most cases fall into one of the following categories:

• Where you have provided your consent to allow us to use your data in a certain way
• Where the processing is necessary to carry out for the performance of a contract with you
• Where the processing is necessary in order for us to comply with a legal obligation Such as Gift Aid reporting and audit requirements; or
• Where it is in our legitimate interests to perform our functions, for example, processing donations or sending you administrative communications where our legitimate interest is to raise funds and to deliver our charitable purposes

Legal Requirements

We may disclose your personal information when required to by law, for example, donation transaction data to the HMRC for tax purposes, or as a result of a subpoena or court order. Further, we safeguard the sharing of such information with our vendors by using formalized information sharing agreements where appropriate, or on an ad hoc basis after ensuring the request and disclosure are legally compliant, such as filing HRMC reports.

Other ways we may use your information:

Our Donors and Supporters

If you wish to support us by making a donation, becoming an Inspiration Partner, or joining our Legacy Society, we will collect your name and contact details as a minimum.

Where appropriate, we may also ask for your date of birth and your motivation or personal experience for supporting us. We will use the information you provide to give you the services, products or information you asked for, tailor communications to you, to administer your donation including processing gift aid where applicable, to send you a thank you letter or thank you call, to support your fundraising or manage your marketing preferences.

We may also send you administrative communications, for example confirming a direct debit instruction when you have made a donation to us.

We may participate in affiliate marketing programs that allow us to earn a commission, a no cost to you, on sales when you use a link on our website to purchase products or services from third-party websites. Any money generated through these programs goes directly to support the mission and activities of Inspiration Ministries. Thank you for your support.

Online Donations and Payments

To make an online donation or payment by direct debit or payment card, you will be directed to a payment gateway which uses security features and encryption to ensure your data remains safe. The payment gateway encrypts your bankcard information , so we never keep your bankcard information in our records.

We work with various payment processing companies to facilitate provision of our services. These companies have payment gateways operated on behalf of and under contract to us. Further information about the collection and use of your data will be provided on the relevant payment gateway for you.

If you enter your details into one of our online forms and you don’t “send” or “submit” the form we may contact you to see if we can help you with any problems you may be experiencing with the form or our website.

Data Profiling and Analysis

We may also carry out analysis of the personal information we collect about you and add publicly available information to create a profile of your interests, preferences and your ability to support us, including the amount or level of potential donation or legacy you may be able to give.

This is so we can contact you in the most appropriate way and with the most relevant information, which enables us to raise funds for ministry outreach more cost-efficiently to fulfill our mission to reach people worldwide for Christ through media. Publicly available information is compiled from sources such as public registers (e.g. listed Directorships), newspaper articles, and social media posts.

Please let us know if you would prefer us not to process your data in this way by contacting us at [email protected].

Marketing Communications

We will also use your personal information in order to send you marketing and fundraising communications in connection with the following marketing and fundraising activities and services:

 

  • Devotional Magazines and updates – including our newsletters, magazines and other publications informing you about our work
    • Appeals and fundraising activities – including requests for donations, information about how you can leave us a gift in your will, or attend or take part in a fundraising event, , and updates on the impact that your fundraising activities have had on our Kingdom mission
    • Shop products and other services – including information about products offered by our online shop and other services that may be of benefit to you
    • Membership Appeals – From time to time, information on how you can become an Inspiration Partner may be communicated.
  • Online Advertisements – We may send you interest-based advertisements as you navigate other websites.

You decide how you want us to contact you, whether by mail, email or by phone or text message (SMS/MMS) and you can update your communication preferences at any time by contacting us here. Occasionally, we will also send you a communication to update and refresh your communication preferences.

Donating Through Our Online Shop

When you make a donation and select a thank gift from our online store, we will collect certain information from you including your name, address, phone number, email address, gift aid status where applicable, marketing preferences and payment details, so that we can process your gift and thank you product shipment, or contact you if we have any queries regarding your transaction. Transactions will be processed by our fulfillment vendor, DPC&S.

We may send you information about other offers that may be of interest to you by post, email, SMS or contact you by phone.

Your data will be held and processed by Inspiration Ministries. Depending upon the communication preferences you select when registering your details, we may then also contact you for fundraising and marketing purposes.

Inspiration Ministries will not use your personal data for any other purpose unless you explicitly instruct us to do so.

Cookies and other Tracking Technologies

We use cookies to help us with our services. Cookies are small text files that sit on your device so that our website will remember you and your preferences.

To help us create a more effective website that reflects users’ needs, we use cookie files to collect and record information about how our website is used and collect your IP address (a number that identifies a specific computer or other internet device) for system administration and to report aggregated information. For more information about how we use cookies, please review our entire Cookie Policy here.

You can refuse to use cookies by turning them off in your browser. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how. You may also contact your browser’s software manufacturer for questions on how to disable your cookies. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use most of this site.

However, please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of some areas of our website. You may find that some areas on the website will be slower or may not function at all, and you may not be able to participate in certain activities if cookies are disabled.

For more information on cookies, visit whatarecookies.com.

Information Security

We protect your data by using up-to-date security features and procedures and we respect the privacy of all visitors to our website. The safety and security of your information also depends on you.

Associated Websites

This policy applies to our hosted websites as listed below:

bencerullo.com
encontrandoadios.com

inspiration.org
inspirationcampmeeting.com
iprayedtheprayer.com
iprayedtheprayer.org
uncommonseed.com

answerquest.tv

encontrandoadios.com

lifebeyonddeath.tv

Third Party Links

Our website may also include links to other websites, not owned, associated or managed by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other websites. For this reason, you should consult the privacy notice on any external website you access from our website that collects personal information.

How Long We Hold Your Personal Information For

We regularly review personal information we hold and delete anything we no longer need. We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary or as otherwise required by law. Different laws require us to keep different data for different periods of time.

Keeping Your Information and Preferences Up To Date

We continually strive to improve the quality and accuracy of the information you have provided, such as your contact details, by checking against external data lists such as the Post Office’s National Change of Address database & The National Deceased Register. This helps us ensure our records are fully up-to-date and to avoid misdirecting communications.

You can help us keep our records up to date by telling us when your contact details and other personal information changes. You can also change your mind at any time about how we contact you or ask us to stop contacting you altogether.

Please contact our Partner Services team to submit a request to update your information:

Inspiration Ministries
PO Box 7750
Charlotte, NC 28241

If you tell us that you no longer want to receive further contact from us and you are on our donor database, it may take a few weeks before our communications stop altogether. If you request to receive no further contact from us, we will keep the information we hold on you and add you to our suppression lists to ensure that you do not receive unwanted materials in the future.

Access to Your information, Correction, and Erasure

You have the right to see and access information contained in personal data we hold about you. If you would like to receive or transfer some or all of your personal information (called a Subject Access Request), please contact the Data Protection Team:
email: [email protected] or write to:

Inspiration Ministries
PO Box 7750
Charlotte, NC 28241

We may require proof of identity of the person making the request. Please see our Subject Access Request Form for more information.

We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove any information you think is inaccurate by contacting the Data Protection Team at the address provided below.

You have a right to ask us to delete your personal data; however, this is not an absolute right. We can refuse to erase personal data which we need to keep (i) to comply with a legal obligation (for instance, gift aid processing and bankcard provider requirements) and (ii) in relation to the exercise or defense of any legal claims. Please note, upon a request for erasure, we may also keep a minimal amount of personal data on an in-house marketing suppression file in order to comply with a request not to receive marketing.

Children’s Policy

Some pages of our websites may be directed to children, as described under federal law (“Children Webpages”). We acknowledge the necessity of enhancing privacy protections for the personal information we collect from children on our websites and applications. When we refer to “children we are referring to individuals under 13 years of age.

The types of personal information we collect from the Children Webpages may include: name, email address, country of residence, and online information collected automatically while the child visits the website (e.g., IP address and device type). The Children Webpages do not allow children to make any other their personal information publicly available.

We may use the children’s personal information consistent with our discussion of using general personal information, as discussed above in the previous sections.

In our efforts to protect the privacy of children we do not collect their personal information.

Privacy Disclosure for Residents of the European Union, the European Economic Area, or the United Kingdom

This section of the Privacy Policy applies if you are in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), or the United Kingdom (U.K.) and supplements the Privacy Policy.

The Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Information

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and/or the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (“U.K. GDPR”), we are required to have a valid legal basis for processing your personal information, and we must inform you of that legal basis. Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

Generally, we will collect personal information from you only when you have consented to such collection, when we need the personal information to perform our obligations under a contract with you (for example, to provide you with requested products, materials, or services), or where the processing is in our legitimate business interests (for example, to detect and prevent fraud). In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you (for example, to verify your identity when making a purchase). If we collect information from a minor under the age of 16 years old, we will only collect personal information from that minor with the consent of the minor’s parent(s) or guardians.

If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to enter into a contract with us, we will make this clear at the time we request that personal information. Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information, we will provide you with our legitimate business interests for such collection and use.

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis for which we collect and use your personal information, please contact the Data Protection Team.

Data Storage, Transfers, and Security: We use industry-standard methods of securing electronic databases of personal information. However, you should know that no organization, including Inspiration, can fully eliminate security risks associated with personal information.

Transfer: In using the Site, your personal information will be transferred to the United States. We rely on your consent or Article 49 of the GDPR for transfers of data collected from Data Subjects within the EEA. Transfers are made to Inspiration only when you have explicitly consented to the proposed transfer after having been informed of the possible risks of such transfers.

Additionally, we transfer your information for the performance of a contract between you and Inspiration, i.e., when make a purchase on the Site.

Inspiration discloses your personal information, as the Controller, with third party Data Processors who have entered into an agreement with us that incorporates the Standard Contractual Clauses, protecting your privacy and the security of your information.

When you make a donation, the listed online payment gateways process your personal information on behalf of The Inspiration Network, Inc. and Inspiration TV, outside the EEA.

While your personal information is outside of your country of residence, it is subject to the laws of the country in which it is held and may be subject to disclosure to the governments, courts, law enforcement or regulatory agencies of such other country, pursuant to the laws of such country.

We will protect all personal information we obtain in accordance with this Privacy Policy and take reasonable steps to ensure that it is treated lawfully.

Your Data Protection and Privacy Rights and Choices

If you are in the United Kingdom or in a country that is a member of the EU/EEA, or if you use our service from one of these countries, you have the following rights, which you can exercise at any time:

You can find out the personal information Inspiration has about you by contacting our Data Protection Team.

You can correct, update, or delete certain personal information Inspiration processes by contacting our Data Protection Team.

You can object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information, or request the portability of your personal information where applicable and technically possible by contacting our Data Protection Team.

If we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting our Data Protection Team. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

You have the right to opt-out of email communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by contacting our Data Protection Team or by using the unsubscribe link provided in each email. It may take up to three business days to remove you from our marketing lists. Please note that even after you opt out, you will still receive service and transaction emails from us. You can learn more about our Email communications here.

You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. Contact details for data protection authorities in the EU, EEA, and U.K. are available here.

Changes To This Policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on October 25, 2024.

How To Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please let us know by contacting us:

Inspiration Ministries
PO Box 7750
Charlotte, NC 28241