Privacy Policy
Sojourners is committed to preserving your privacy and safeguarding your information. None of your personal data, including email address and physical address, is ever shared beyond our own platforms or sold. The following statements describe our general information-gathering and usage practices:
Subscriptions
Magazine Subscriptions
Personal identifying information (data about you) is collected when you subscribe, through the webpages hosted on our site. These webpages are hosted for Sojourners by our Circulation Service Provider, Cambey & West Inc.
This Personal identifying information (PII) includes your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number that you provided. You will have also provided a credit card to pay for your subscription, and while needed for processing your payment, the card number is not stored. Instead the transaction id received back from the card processor is stored. All of the PII data is stored within the Cambey & West system, which has been tested and verified to be PCI compliant as a Level 1 Service Provider by an independent agency. This is a thorough and rigorous testing of the security, proving the inability to penetrate and acquire any data stored within it.
When you submitted a subscription form hosted on our site, you entered into an agreement with us to provide you the subscription you requested in exchange for PII and the subscription fees. Your data will not be shared with any third parties without your express consent.Your PII is retained for the duration of your subscription.
Since this is your data, at any point you have the right to:
- access and review your data
- correct your data
- withdraw your consent
- be forgotten, erasure of your data.
You can manage your subscription by logging in to the web site or contacting sojourners@sojo.net / 202.328.8842 to request changes to your account. Requests will be addressed in 30 days or less.
Preaching the Word Subscriptions
To ensure access to the Preaching the Word section of the website, we ask subscribers to create a user account, which requires collecting an email. Preaching the Word subscriptions are securely processed by our contracted vendor Recurly. See Recurly's Privacy Policy here.
Website
E-mail Lists
Sojourners uses Blackbaud's Luminate program to manage emails gathered on the website. Read about Blackbaud's General Data Protection Regulation compliance here.
We ask for data, such as zip codes, so that we can send you the most relevant event announcements or opportunities for action. Sojourners will not sell, trade, or give away email addresses that are subscribed to our email lists — such as SojoMail, our weekly email newsletter — to any other organization or entity without your consent.
User Accounts
When a visitor registers for a user account on our website — to access the magazine or Preaching the Word content — we collect the user's email address to communicate any updates. You can manage your user account by logging into the web site.
Cookies
This website uses browser cookies to enhance your user experience and store display preferences. We do not collect or store any personally identifying data and we certainly don't share or sell data collected in this manner.
Google Analytics
Sojourners uses Google Analytics to better understand our audience by anonymously tracking which pieces are the most read and most engaging, where our visitors come to us from, and to drive our strategy.
Donor Privacy Policy
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we rely on the generous contributions of our supporters. We value the faithful support of our financial community and therefore take the privacy of our donors very seriously.
Out of mutual respect we will not rent, sell, or exchange any personal donor information with outside parties, organizations, or individuals. This includes all relevant information obtained through online donation forms, dispatched appeals, phone calls, and in person solicitation. Online credit card donations are processed securely by our contracted e-commerce service. We maintain this information in our database in order to keep you up-to-date on our future work and related issues that may be of interest. If you wish to refrain from receiving our emails and/or direct mail solicitation, you can contact our office at donate@sojo.net or call 202-328-8842.
If you have further questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at sojourners@sojo.net or call 202-328-8842.
Terms of Use
Sojo.net ("the Site"), composed of its associated sites and discussions, is intended to provide a venue for a healthy and open exchange of information, opinions, and comments. Since the Site is designed to provide an enjoyable and informative experience for all participants, you agree to abide by certain rules regarding your participation and your comments.
The following Terms of Use govern the use of the Site, including participation in its discussions. Your use of the Site will constitute your agreement to comply with these terms and conditions. If you cannot agree with these Terms of Use, please do not use the Site. Sojourners reserves the right to modify these Terms of Use at any time; changes will be announced here.
If any of these terms or any future changes are unacceptable to you, you can cancel your account by sending an email to: support@sojo.net. Your use of the Site following announced changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes. Please review these Terms of Use regularly to stay abreast of any modifications.
Registration: All users are required to provide accurate name and email address information, and to select a password. You must also provide other registration information as requested, which must be accurate and updated. If any registration information provided by you is inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your membership. To use any of our discussions, you must provide a Screen Name. You may not use a Screen Name in an attempt to impersonate another member, use a Screen Name in which someone else has rights without authorization, or use a Screen Name that Sojourners deems offensive.
Comments by Users are not Endorsed or Verified by Sojourners. Sojourners does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, verify, or agree with the comments, opinions, or statements posted in discussions or otherwise contained in the Site. Any information or materials placed online, including advice and opinions, are the views of those who post the statements, and do not necessarily represent the views of Sojourners. Moreover, Sojourners assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or contents of any material posted.
By commenting on the Site, users agree to abide by the Sojourners Comment Community Covenant guidelines and acknowledge that their comments may be published in the Letters to the Editor section of Sojourners magazine.
Sojourners Community Comment Covenant
- I will express myself with civility, courtesy, and respect for every member of the Sojourners online community, especially toward those with whom I disagree, even if I feel disrespected by them. (Romans 12:17-21)
- I will express my disagreements with other community members' ideas without insulting, mocking, or slandering them personally. (Matthew 5:22)
- I will not exaggerate others' beliefs nor make unfounded prejudicial assumptions based on labels, categories, or stereotypes. I will always extend the benefit of the doubt. (Ephesians 4:29)
- I will hold others accountable by clicking "report" on comments that violate these principles, based not on what ideas are expressed but on how they're expressed. (2 Thessalonians 3:13-15)
- I understand that comments reported as abusive are reviewed by Sojourners staff and are subject to removal. Repeat offenders will be blocked from making further comments. (Proverbs 18:7)
- You are responsible for all the activity of your account, whether by you or by any third party you've authorized to use your account.
Prohibited Materials and activities: You agree not to post any material or content that is obscene, indecent, harassing, threatening, libelous, abusive, bigoted or hateful, constitutes SPAM or unauthorized advertising, invades anyone's privacy, or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law or regulation. You agree to use the Site only for lawful purposes. In addition, you agree not to disrupt or interfere with the Site, or to alter or tamper with any information or materials on or associated with the Site.
Civility and Expression of Ideas: Sojourners encourages forum dialogs that include a wide range of viewpoints — there's a wealth of knowledge available from forum members. It's just as important to consider that this is a community with many opinions and preferences, so if you do not agree with another user's post, by all means debate, but do not attack. Personal attacks are prohibited and are justification for temporary suspension and/or termination of your account.
Editing and Deletions: Sojourners reserves the right, but undertakes no duty, to review, edit, move, or delete any material provided for display or placed on the Site or its discussions, at its sole discretion.
Copyrighted Material: You are responsible for ensuring that any material you post on a discussion — including but not limited to text, photographs, and sound — does not violate the copyright or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party or is posted with the permission of the owner(s) of such rights. Material on the Site is for your personal use only. The Site contains copyrighted and other proprietary information. You may not in any way make commercial or other unauthorized use, by publication, re-transmission, distribution, or otherwise, of material obtained through the Site, except as permitted by the Copyright Act or other law.
Use of Material Posted by You: Postings to the Site are not private. You grant Sojourners the unrestricted right to use, reproduce, modify, translate, and distribute any material you post to the Site in any medium (now in existence or hereafter developed), and for any purpose, including commercial uses, and to authorize others to do so.
Indemnification: You agree to indemnify the Site producer and its employees, agents, and representatives, and to hold them harmless, from any and all claims and liabilities (including attorneys' fees) which may arise from your submissions, from your unauthorized use of material obtained through the Site, or from your breach of these rules, or from any such acts through your account. You further agree that the Site provider is not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, with respect to any material posted by others. If you are dissatisfied by such material or any other material on the Site or with any of the Site's terms and conditions, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Site.
Fees and Payment: Sojourners reserves the right to at any time in the future charge a membership fee for access to portions or all of the Site. You would not be charged, however, unless you agree in advance of such fees. At the time of the advance notice of this change, you would have the option and opportunity to cancel your account.
Termination: Sojourners reserves the right to terminate or suspend your membership to the Site with or without cause at any time.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
The Site is provided "as is," and the Site provider hereby expressly disclaims any and all warranties, express and implied, including but not limited to any warranties of accuracy, reliability, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.
You use the Site and the information and material on the Site at your own risk. The site provider shall not be liable for any damages allegedly sustained arising out of the use of the Site, including for viruses alleged to have been obtained from the Site and including any consequential, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
Some states do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above exclusions or limitations may not apply to you. You may also have other rights which vary from state to state.