About Cookies & Other Tracking Technologies

COOKIES

To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?

We use cookies to show you content, resources, and information that is most likely available based on where you are located and based on your browser’s timezone and location. This is a session cookie that we set.

We use cookies to show you opportunities for engagement with our ministries. These include opportunities such as signing up for e-mail, invitation to participate in a survey, or to test new features or functionalities on the site to only a select number of visitors. These cookies are permanent cookies.

We use cookies to show you content based on how frequently you visit our website. This helps us to better provide you with opportunities to engage with our content on a daily basis. This is a cookie set by our website and is a permanent cookie. It is used only for this purpose and can be cleared at any time. If you choose to remove this cookie, your experience will presume you have never visited our site before.

We use cookies to track anonymous statistical information about how you use our site. This helps us know which areas of the site are most effective and the areas that are not working as well, and we use this information to help inform how we can better serve you. We use third parties to set these cookies. We do not use these cookies for any purpose other than stated.

HOW TO CONTROL COOKIES

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer, and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site, and some services and functionalities may not work.