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1. United States law. Much of OurWord.org's membership, our servers and databases are primarily located in the United States. As a result, the personal information you provide us will be processed in and is subject to the laws and regulations of the United States. If you are a visitor from outside the United States and you provide us with your contact or other personally-identifiable information, you will be asked to consent to the collection and/or processing in the United States of your personally-identifiable information, which includes the use of cookies as described below.
2. Collection of Information. In participating on this site, we collect information, including some information that is personally identifiable. Some of this is provided by you on a voluntary basis.
1. Voluntarily provided information. Registration is required to post on the site, at which point a valid email address is requested. This email address will remain private. However, we reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on OurWord.org. The rest of the information you provide in your user profile will be visible to others, including anonymous visitors to the site.
2. Other information. The site collects other information by use of internet technology available to make this site function properly.
   1. This includes use of cookies to store your user session IDs. OurWord.org uses session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser s 'help'? file.
   2. As is true of most Web sites, OurWord.org gathers certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Except as noted below, we do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
   3. It should be noted that each user's IP address is logged with each visit and each action performed on the site. This information is never provided to the public, and is logged only for a temporary period of time. IP address information is linked to user data and may be used in an effort to block a "banned" user from accessing the website.
   4. If there is advertising on the site, such advertising may employ the use of cookies to track hits and click-throughs. We are not responsible for advertiser cookies or how the information gathered through their use might be used.
3. Sharing of Information. We may share aggregated demographic information about our user base with other entities, such as advertisers. This information does not identify individual users. We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information. We may share personally identifiable information with third-party vendors and partners only in those situations where you have given us specific permission to do so.
4. Links to Other Sites. OurWord.org contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by OurWord.org. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.
5. Participation on a Public Website. You should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit on this website in blogs, comments, other posts and your user profile can be read, collected, or used by other users of this website, including anonymous visitors, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit on this website.