Privacy Policy

You agree that your use of the International Ministerial Fellowship (IMF) website is subject to the following Terms and Conditions. Your decision to use and access IMF’s website constitutes your express agreement to all of the below Terms and Conditions concerning your use of IMF’s website. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM USING IMF’S WEBSITE AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY.

 

Modification of Terms and Conditions

 

These Terms and Conditions may be modified by IMF at any time and from time to time; the date of the most recent changes or revisions will appear on this page. Your continued decision to use and access IMF’s website constitutes your acceptance of any changes or revisions to these Terms and Conditions. 

 

IMF reserves the right to change, modify, or remove the contents of IMF’s website at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion without notice. IMF has no obligation to update any information on its website. IMF reserves the right to modify or discontinue all or part of its website notice at any time. IMF is not liable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of IMF’s website or any feature or content on IMF’s website.

 

Use Restricted to Adults

 

IMF’s website is intended for users who are at least 18 years old. Persons under the age of 18 are not permitted to use or register for IMF’s website.

 

Intellectual Property Rights

 

Unless otherwise indicated, IMF’s website is IMF’s proprietary property and all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics on IMF’s website (collectively, the “Content”) and the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein (the “Marks”) are owned or controlled by IMF or licensed to IMF, and are protected by copyright and trademark laws and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws of the United States, international copyright laws, and international conventions. The Content and the Marks are provided on IMF’s website “AS IS” for your information and personal use only. Except as expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions of use, no part of IMF’s website and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.

 

Provided that you are eligible to use IMF’s website, you are granted a limited license to access and use IMF’s website and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in and to IMF’s website, the Content and the Marks.

User Representations

 

By using IMF’s website, you represent and warrant that: (1) all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete; (2) you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such registration information as necessary; (3) you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Terms and Conditions of use; (4) you are not under 18 years of age; (5) you will not access IMF’s website through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise; (6) you will not use IMF’s website for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and (7) your use of IMF’s website will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

 

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, you agree that IMF has the absolute right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of IMF’s website (or any portion thereof).

 

User Registration

  

You may be required to register with IMF’s website to access certain features or ministry services. You agree to keep your password confidential and will be responsible for all use of your account and password. IMF reserves the right to remove, reclaim, or change a username you select if we determine, in our sole discretion, that such username is inappropriate, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.

 

Prohibited Activities

 

You may not access or use IMF’s website for any purpose other than that for which we make IMF’s website available. IMF’s website may not be used in connection with any use inconsistent with IMF’s tax-exempt status or that is inconsistent with IMF’s religious beliefs and purposes, as determined by IMF in its sole discretion.

 

As a user of IMF’s website, you agree not to:

• Systematically retrieve data or other Content from IMF’s website to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
• Trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user passwords.
• Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of IMF’s website, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on the use of IMF’s website and/or the Content contained therein.
• Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or IMF’s website.
• Use any information obtained from IMF’s website in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
• Make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
• Use IMF’s website in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations.
• Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to IMF’s website.
• Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of capital letters and spamming (continuous posting of repetitive text), that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of IMF’s website or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of IMF’s website.
• Engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
• Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Content.
• Attempt to impersonate another user or person or use the username of another user.
• Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism, including without limitation, clear graphics interchange formats (“gifs”), 1×1 pixels, web bugs, cookies, or other similar devices (sometimes referred to as “spyware” or “passive collection mechanisms” or “pcms”).
• Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on IMF’s website or the networks or services connected to IMF’s website.
• Harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of IMF’s website to you.
• Attempt to bypass any measures of IMF’s website designed to prevent or restrict access to IMF’s website, or any portion of IMF’s website.
• Copy or adapt IMF’s website’s software, including but not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other code.
• Except as permitted by applicable law, decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of IMF’s website.
• Except as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses IMF’s website, or using or launching any unauthorized script or other software.
• Use a buying agent or purchasing agent to make purchases on IMF’s website.
• Make any unauthorized use of IMF’s website, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user accounts by automated means or under false pretenses.
• Use IMF’s website as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use IMF’s website and/or the Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise.
• Use IMF’s website to advertise or offer to sell goods and services.
• Sell or otherwise transfer your profile.

 

User Generated Contributions

 

IMF’s website may invite you to provide information and/or data, chat, contribute to, or participate in blogs, message boards, online forums, and other functionality, and may provide you with the opportunity to create, submit, post, display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute, or broadcast content and materials to us or on IMF’s website, including but not limited to text, writings, video, audio, photographs, graphics, comments, suggestions, or personal information or other material (collectively, “Contributions”). Contributions may be viewable by other users of IMF’s website and through third-party websites. As such, any Contributions you transmit may be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. When you create or make available any Contributions, you thereby represent and warrant that:

• The creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance, and the accessing, downloading, or copying of your Contributions do not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or moral rights of any third party.
• You are the creator and owner of or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, releases, and permissions to use and to authorize IMF and other users of IMF’s website to use your Contributions in any manner contemplated by IMF.
• You have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in your Contributions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of your Contributions in any manner contemplated by IMF.
• Your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, or misleading.
• Your Contributions are not unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, pyramid schemes, chain letters, spam, mass mailings, or other forms of solicitation.
• Your Contributions are not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, libelous, slanderous, contrary to the religious beliefs and practices of IMF, or otherwise objectionable (as determined by us).
• Your Contributions do not ridicule, mock, disparage, intimidate, or abuse anyone.
• Your Contributions are not used to harass or threaten (in the legal sense of those terms) any other person and to promote violence against a specific person or class of people.
• Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule.
• Your Contributions do not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party.
• Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law concerning child pornography, or otherwise intended to protect the health or well-being of minors.
• Your Contributions do not otherwise violate, or link to material that violates, any provision of these Terms and Conditions, or any applicable law or regulation.

Any use of IMF’s website in violation of the foregoing violates these Terms and Conditions and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use IMF’s website.

 

Contribution License

By posting your Contributions to any part of IMF’s website, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license to host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, archive, store, cache, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, transmit, excerpt (in whole or in part), and distribute such Contributions (including, without limitation, your image and voice) for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Contributions, and grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. The use and distribution may occur in any media formats and through any media channels.

 

This license will apply to any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed, and includes our use of your name, company name, and franchise name, as applicable, and any of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, and personal and commercial images you provide. You waive all moral rights in your Contributions, and you warrant that moral rights have not otherwise been asserted in your Contributions.

 

IMF does not assert any ownership over your Contributions. You retain full ownership of all of your Contributions and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your Contributions. IMF is not liable for any statements or representations in your Contributions provided by you in any area on IMF’s website. You are solely responsible for your Contributions to IMF’s website and you expressly agree to exonerate IMF from any and all responsibility and to refrain from any legal action against us regarding your Contributions.

 

IMF has the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, (1) to edit, redact, or otherwise change any Contributions; (2) to re-categorize any Contributions to place them in more appropriate locations on IMF’s website; and (3) to pre-screen or delete any Contributions at any time and for any reason, without notice. IMF has no obligation to monitor your Contributions.

 

Site Management

 

IMF reserves the right, but not the obligation, to: (1) monitor IMF’s website for violations of these Terms and Conditions and take any other actions consistent, in its sole discretion, with IMF’s religious beliefs and practices; (2) take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Terms and Conditions, including without limitation, reporting such user to law enforcement authorities; (3) in our sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any of your Contributions or any portion thereof; (4) in our sole discretion and without limitation, notice, or liability, to remove from IMF’s website or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way burdensome to our systems; and (5) otherwise manage IMF’s website in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of IMF’s website.

 

Limitation of Liability

 

The materials contained on IMF’s website are provided by IMF as a service to you for your use on an “AS IS, AS AVAILABLE” basis. You acknowledge that you are using the website at your own risk. IMF assumes no responsibility for error or omissions in these materials. IMF makes no commitment to update the information contained herein. IMF makes no, and expressly disclaims any and all, representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the website, including without limitation the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of text, graphics, links, products and services, and other items accessed from or via the website, or that the website will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of viruses or other harmful components. No advice or information given by IMF or any other party on the website shall create any warranty or liability.

 

ACCORDINGLY, THE USE OF IMF’S WEBSITE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK, AND IN NO EVENT SHALL IMF BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR ANY OTHER MONETARY OR OTHER DAMAGES, FEES, FINES, PENALTIES, OR LIABILITIES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING IN ANY WAY TO THIS WEBSITE, THE MINISTRY SERVICES ACCESSED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, AND/OR CONTENT OR INFORMATION PROVIDED HEREIN. ANY CLAIMS AGAINST IMF AND IMF’S LIABILITY RELATING TO ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE OBTAINED OR ACCESS THROUGH OR ON IMF’S WEBSITE IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE PRODUCT OR SERVICE. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH IMF’S WEBSITE OR SERVICE IS TO STOP USING THE SERVICE. USER HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL APPLY TO ALL CONTENT, MERCHANDISE, AND SERVICES AVAILABLE THROUGH IMF’S WEBSITE. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Third Party Sites

IMF’s website may from time to contain contains links to other sites operated by third parties, including but not limited to third party sites that may display IMF marks or materials (collectively “Third Party Sites”).  Such links are provided for the user’s convenience and serve no other purpose. IMF does not warrant or make any representation about the substance, quality, functionality, accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability or any other representation about any Third Party Site or its content. Any link to a Third Party Site does not constitute sponsorship, endorsement, approval, or responsibility by IMF for any Third Party Site. IMF makes no representation or warranty as to any products or services offered on any Third Party Site. The privacy policy and terms and conditions of any Third Party Site may differ from those governing IMF’s website. You should review the conditions of use for all Third Party Sites for more information about the terms and conditions that apply to your use of Third Party Sites.

Testimonials

 

IMF’s website may contain testimonials by users of IMF’s ministry services or IMF’s website. These testimonials reflect the real-life experiences and opinions of such users. However, the experiences are personal to those particular users, and may not necessarily be representative of all users of our products and/or services. We do not claim, and you should not assume, that all users will have the same experiences. Your results and experiences may vary.  

 

Severability

If any provision or part of a provision of these Terms and Conditions is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Terms and Conditions and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

Dispute Resolution and Governing Law

You agree that any dispute or claim (including personal injury claims) related to your use of the International Ministerial Fellowship website shall be governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota. The exclusive forum for actions between the parties is the District Court of Minnesota sitting in Hennepin County, Minnesota. These Terms and Conditions also apply to anyone making a claim on your behalf.

 

 

 

 

 

IMF is a Christian organization and believes the Bible commands IMF to make every effort to live at peace and to resolve disputes with others (individuals and  entities) in private or within the Christian church (see Matthew 18:15-20; 1 Corinthians 6:1-8) and not in court of law or equity. Therefore, IMF requires that any claims or disputes arising from or related to the use of the IMF website and/or the related Terms and Conditions shall be settled by mediation and, if necessary, legally binding arbitration in accordance with the Mediation Procedures and/or Commercial Arbitration Rules used by and/or recommended by the American Arbitration Association. Judgment upon an arbitration decision may be entered in any court otherwise having jurisdiction. These methods shall be the sole remedy for any claim or dispute arising out of any and all uses of the IMF website. Therefore, all users of the IMF website expressly waive their right to file a lawsuit in any civil court against IMF involving any claim or dispute, except to enforce an arbitration decision. If any portion of this Dispute Resolution Clause is held to be unenforceable, the remainder shall continue to be enforceable.

 

Revised April 12, 2022