Privacy Policy
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are, and how and why we collect, store, use, and share your personal information. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us or supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
We collect, use, and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are subject to various laws in the United States, and we are responsible as “controllers” of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
- Key Terms. It would be helpful to start by explaining some key terms used in this policy:
We, us, our | Blended Kingdom Families Ministries |
Our representatives | Scott and Vanessa Martindale |
- Personal Information We Collect About You. We may collect and use the following personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:
Categories of Personal Information | Specific Types of Personal Information Collected |
Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers) | Name, location, IP address, email address, mobile number |
Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. | We may request access to certain features from your mobile device, including your mobile device’s Bluetooth, calendar, camera, reminders, SMS messages, social media accounts, and other features. |
Characteristics of protected classifications under Texas or Federal law. | Race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, familial status, and disability |
Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies) | N/A |
Biometric information | N/A |
Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement) | IP address, location, and time of your visit to our website |
Geolocation data | Location |
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information | N/A |
Professional or employment-related information | N/A |
Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) | N/A |
Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes | The information we collect depends on the context of your interaction with us and the Sites, the choices you make and the products and services you use. |
This personal information is required to provide products and/or services to you. If you do not provide the personal information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing products and/or services to you.
If you are under the age of 18, do not submit any information to our Sites. If we learn that we collected personal information from children under the age of 18, we will take steps to delete that information as soon as possible.
- How Your Personal Information is Collected. We collect most of this personal information directly from you in person, by telephone, by text, or email, and/or through our website and apps. However, we may also collect information:
- From publicly accessible sources including but not limited to databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms (e.g., Facebook);
- Directly from a third-party source (e.g., marketing leads and search results and links including paid listings such as sponsored links or due diligence providers);
- From a third party with your consent (e.g., your bank);
- From cookies on our website; and
- Via our IT systems, including:
- Door entry systems and reception logs;
- Automated monitoring of our websites and other technical systems, such as our computer networks and connections, CCTV and access control systems, communications systems, email, and instant messaging systems; and
- How and Why; We Use Your Personal Information. Under data protection law, we can only use your personal information if we have a proper reason for doing so, e.g.:
- To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
- For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;
- For our legitimate interests or those of a third party; or
- Where you have given consent.
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.
The table below explains what we use your personal information for and our reasons for doing so:
What we use your personal information for | Our reasons |
To provide products and/or services to you | For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract |
To prevent and detect fraud against you or Blended Kingdom Families Ministries | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to minimize fraud that could be damaging for us and for you |
Conducting checks to identify our customers and verify their identity Screening for financial and other sanctions or embargoes Other processing is necessary to comply with professional, legal, and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, e.g., under health and safety regulations or rules issued by our professional regulator |
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Gathering and providing information required by or relating to audits, inquiries, or investigations by regulatory bodies | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Ensuring business policies are adhered to, e.g., policies covering security and internet use | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to make sure we are following our own internal procedures so we can deliver the best service to you |
Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training, and quality control | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you at the best price |
Ensuring the confidentiality of commercially sensitive information | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to protect trade secrets and other commercially valuable information To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, e.g., in relation to our financial performance, customer base, product range, or other efficiency measures | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you at the best price |
Preventing unauthorized access and modifications to systems | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for us and for you To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Updating and enhancing customer records | For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g., making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products |
Statutory returns | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Ensuring safe working practices, staff administration, and assessments | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g., to make sure we are following our own internal procedures and working efficiently so we can deliver the best service to you |
Marketing our services and those of selected third parties to: ¾ existing and former customers; ¾ third parties who have previously expressed an interest in our services; ¾ third parties with whom we have had no previous dealings. |
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to promote our business to existing and former customers |
Credit reference checks via external credit reference agencies | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to ensure our customers are likely to be able to pay for our products and services |
External audits and quality checks, e.g., for ISO or Investors in People accreditation and the audit of our accounts | For our legitimate interests or a those of a third party, i.e., to maintain our accreditations so we can demonstrate we operate at the highest standards To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
The above table does not apply to special category personal information, which we will only process with your explicit consent.
- Promotional Communications. We may use your personal information to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone, or post) about our products and/or services, including exclusive offers, promotions, or new products and/or services.
We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information for promotional purposes (see above “How and Why We Use Your Personal Information”). This means we do not usually need your consent to send you promotional communications. However, where consent is needed, we will ask for this consent separately and clearly.
We will always treat your personal information with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organizations outside the Blended Kingdom Families Ministries for marketing purposes.
You have the right to opt-out of receiving promotional communications at any time by:
- Contacting us at info@blendedkindgdomfamilies.com;
- Using the “unsubscribe” link in emails or “STOP” in texts; or
- Updating your marketing preferences at info@blendedkingdomfamilies.com.
- Please note that information is never completely removed from our history and disaster recovery archives.
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you instruct us to provide further products and/or services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
- Who We Share Your Personal Information With. We routinely share personal information with:
- Our affiliates, including companies within the Blended Kingdom Families Ministries;
- Service providers we use to help deliver our products and/or services to you, such as payment service providers, warehouses, and delivery companies;
- Other third parties we use to help us run our business, such as marketing agencies or website hosts;
- Third parties approved by you, including social media sites you choose to link your account to or third-party payment providers;
- Credit reporting agencies;
- Our insurers and brokers;
- Our bank[s];
We only allow our service providers to handle your personal information if we are satisfied, they take appropriate measures to protect your personal information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers relating to ensure they can only use your personal information to provide services to us and to you. We may also share personal information with external auditors, e.g., in relation to ISO or Investors in People accreditation and the audit of our accounts.
We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
We may also need to share some personal information with other parties, such as potential buyers of some or all of our business or during a re-structuring. We will typically anonymize the information, but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
We will not share your personal information with any other third party.
- Personal Information We Sold or Disclosed for a Business Purpose. In the preceding 12 months, we have sold to one or more third parties the following categories of personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:
- Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers);
- Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information;
- Characteristics of protected classifications under Texas or Federal law;
- Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies);
- Biometric information;
- Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement);
- Geolocation data;
- Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information;
- Professional or employment-related information;
- Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); and
- Inferences are drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed for a business purpose to one or more third parties the following categories of personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:
- Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers);
- Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information;
- Characteristics of protected classifications under Texas or Federal law;
- Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies);
- Biometric information;
- Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement);
- Geolocation data;
- Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information;
- Professional or employment-related information;
- Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); and
- Inferences are drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
- Where Your Personal Information is Held. Information may be held at our offices and those of our third-party agencies, service providers, representatives, and agents as described above (see above: “Who We Share Your Personal Information With”).
- How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept. We will keep your personal information while you have an account with us or while we are providing products and/or services to you. Thereafter, we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:
- To respond to any questions, complaints, or claims made by you or on your behalf;
- To show that we treated you fairly; or
- To keep records required by law.
We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal information.
When it is no longer necessary to retain your personal information, we will destroy it, delete it, or convert it to an anonymous form. anonymous form.
- For Visitors Accessing the Site from California: Your Rights Under the CCPA.
You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge:
Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You | You have the right to know: · The categories of personal information we have collected about you; · The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected; · Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information; · The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information, if any; and · The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you. · Please note that we are not required to: · Retain any personal information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained; · Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information; or · Provide the personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period. |
Personal Information Sold or Used for a Business Purpose | In connection with any personal information, we may sell or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know: The categories of personal information about you that we sold and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold; and The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose. You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to opt-out of the sale or disclosure of your personal information. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or disclosure of your personal information, we will refrain from selling your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the sale of your personal information. To opt-out of the sale or disclosure of your personal information, visit our homepage and click on the Do Not Sell My Personal Information link here: https://www.blendedkingdomfamilies.com/ |
Right to Deletion | Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will: · Delete your personal information from our records; and · Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records. · Please note that we may not delete your personal information if it is necessary to: · Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us; · Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity; · Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; · Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law; · Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act; · Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent; · Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us; · Comply with an existing legal obligation; or · Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information. |
Protection Against Discrimination | You have the right to not be discriminated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA. This means we cannot, among other things: · Deny goods or services to you; · Charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties; · Provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or · Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services. Please note that we may charge a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of goods and/or services to you, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to our business by your personal information. |
Keeping Your Personal Information Secure. We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We continually test our systems and are ISO 27001 certified, which means we follow top industry standards for information security. We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. If you provide us with your financial information or any other personal information, the information is encrypted using industry-standard protections, including 256-bit encryption on our donation page. Our donation page is hosted via Stripes, and/or store payment processing is hosted via Stripes. Please refer to the websites of these providers for information regarding their own security protections and use of your personal information.
If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses, and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.
How to Exercise Your Rights. If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, please:
- Complete a data subject request form available on our website at https://www.blendedkingdomfamilies.com/
- Call us at 253-480-5335; or
- Email/write to us at info@blendedkingdomfamilies.com.
Please note that you may only make a CCPA-related data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period.
If you choose to contact us directly by website/email/phone/in writing, you will need to provide us with:
- Enough information to identify you (e.g., your full name, address, and customer or matter reference number);
- Proof of your identity and address (e.g., a copy of your driving license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill); and
- A description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.
We are not obligated to make data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf.
Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with your request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.
- European Union. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) was enacted but the European Union in 2018 in an effort to protect privacy in the digital age. As the ministry has an international reach, we have updated our programs to meet the demands of the GDPR. We are dedicated to safeguarding the personal information under our control and in developing a data protection program that is effective and demonstrates an appreciation of the GDPR.
- Changes to This Privacy Notice. This privacy notice was last updated on May 6, 2022.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time–when we do, we will inform you via email.
- How to Contact Us. Please contact us by post, email, or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information, we hold about you.
Our contact details are shown below:
Blended Kingdom Families Ministries |
1700 Tennison Parkway Ste 100B Colleyville, TX 76034 |
info@blendedkingdomfamilies.com |
(253) 480-5335 |
- Do You Need Extra Help? If you would like this notice in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille) please contact us (see “How to contact us” above).
BKF Life Verse
“to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.”
Isaiah 61:3