Words in bold are changes made to our Privacy Policy (January 2008).

This is the web site of Believers Fellowship Ministries Inc.

Our postal address is: 
180 Old Stone Rd.
Sturgis, SD 57785
We can be reached via
or you can reach us by telephone at (605) 347-4866

Protecting your privacy is important to us. Your trust is also important to us, and we want you to know what information is collected, how it is protected, and how it is used. Personal information—nonpublic information that identifies you—is essential in providing ministry and will be treated respectfully and according to this Privacy Policy. 

IP Addresses
For each visitor to our Web page, our web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's IP address, but not the e-mail address, unless you volunteer it. These IP addresses are not linked to any personally identifiable information. Please note that with each post in our forum, your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from our forum or your ISP contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of our forum's Registration Agreement.

Cookies
We do not set any cookies except when participating in our forum. This is a text file containing bits of information (such as your username and password) in your browser's cache. This is ONLY used to keep you logged in/out. This cookie does not collect or send any other form of information to or from your computer.  If you make a donation to us through PayPal or Google Checkout they will place cookies on your computer. Refer to their Privacy Policy to see how they handle cookies.

Collecting Personal Information
We may collect the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, such as those used for contributions, signing our guestbook, registering for our forum or email correspondence.

Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers, postal address, or email on-line may be contact by us with information such as updates to our web site, upcoming events or contributions. If you do not wish to receive such contact, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address or calling us at the above telephone number. Please provide us with your exact name, address and telephone number.

We do not share your personal information with any other outside organization, unless we have received express permission to do so.

Updating Personal Information
Upon request we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact or transaction information. You can have this information corrected by sending us e-mail at the above address or giving us a call at the above phone number.

Ad Servers
We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies. 

Security
When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial or contact, we redirect visitors to a secure server (PayPal or Google Checkout).  If you sign our guestbook, give us feedback, use our forum or send us an email your information will not be secure, so that information could be intercepted by others.  We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

Links to Other Web Sites
Our web site contains links to other web sites. When clicking on these links a new window or tab will open with the linked web site to indicate that you have left Believers Fellowship Ministries' web site. These sites are the work of organizations separate from Believers Fellowship. Believers Fellowship is not responsible for the content on these sites. These sites are provided for your enjoyment and personal growth. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to refer to the privacy statements on these sites as to their privacy policies.

Policy Changes
From time to time, we may use your information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post significant policy changes to our Web site in a prominent place to notify you of these changes. You will have the option to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically. You may prevent your information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by e-mailing us at the above address or giving us a call at the above phone number. 

Comments or Questions
We welcome comments and questions on this policy. If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above address, email address or phone number.