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Cookies Policy

LAST UPDATED: August 18, 2021

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This Cookie Policy explains how Makeesha L. Allen Ministries, Inc. (“M.L.A.M.”, "Company", "we", "us", and "our") uses cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at https://www.mlam.org, ("Websites"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

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First and foremost, we DO NOT sell your personal information. However, when you visit or interact with our websites, services, applications, tools or messaging, we or our authorized service partners may use cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies to make your experience better, faster and safer for advertising purposes. They also allow us to continuously improve our websites, services, applications and tools. Any personal information or data collected by these technologies is used only by us, or by our authorized service partners on our behalf, and you always have full control over whether these technologies work on your devices by visiting our Manage Settings to toggle them 'on' or 'off'.

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What are cookies, web beacons and similar technologies?

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These technologies are essentially small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone or other device (“collectively, a “device”) that allows M.L.A.M. to record information when you visit or interact with our websites, services, applications, messaging and other tools. Though often these technologies are generically referred to as “Cookies,” each function slightly differently, and is better explained below:

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Cookies: Cookies are small (often encrypted) text files placed in the memory of your web browser or device when you visit a website or view a message. Cookies allow a website to recognize a particular device or browser. There are several types of cookies:

  • Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and allow us to link your actions during that browser session.

  • Persistent cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences or actions across multiple websites.

  • First-party cookies are those set by a website that is being visited by the user at the time to preserve your settings (e.g., while on our websites).

  • Third-party cookies are placed in your browser by a website, or domain, that is not the website or domain that you are currently visiting. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website this would be a third-party cookie.

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Cookies are used for a variety of purposes on our websites. For example, they store information that allows us to present our websites in your local language, or prices in local currency. They also communicate data to our servers when you visit our websites to maintain the websites’ preferences you set. Preventing your browser from accepting 1st party cookies will prevent the placement of some cookies that are classified as “Essential”.

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Web beacons (pixels): A web beacon (also called “tracking pixels” or “image tags”) is a small file (most often a transparent, 1x1 GIF file) that is loaded on our web pages. These pixels may work in concert with cookies to collect information about your visit, your web browser/device, browsing activity, or onsite behavior and provide that information to us or our service partners. Pixels are most commonly used to collect anonymous traffic metrics (page visits, button clicks, order completion) used to analyze website performance.

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Scripts: A script is a small piece of website code placed on our websites to power customer service tools like live chat, allow for the delivery of events/video devotionals/Bible teachings/podcasts, and allow us to provide interactive experiences to visitors. They are also used to collect data that we use for website analytics, or to provide data on the effectiveness of our advertising.

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Similar technologies: Technologies that store information in your browser or device utilize local shared objects or local storage, such as HTML 5 cookies, and other web application software methods. These technologies can operate across all your browsers. In some instances, these technologies may not be fully managed by your browser and may require management directly through your installed applications or device. We do not use these technologies for storing information to target advertising to you on or off our websites.

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What technologies do we use and why?

Our cookies, web beacons and similar technologies serve various purposes, but generally they (1) are necessary or essential to the functioning of our websites, services, applications, tools or messaging, (2) help us improve the performance of or provide you extra functionality of the same, (3) help us to serve relevant and targeted advertisements or (4) allow us to offer support tools that you utilize to interact with our care guides:

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Strictly Necessary or Essential: "Strictly necessary" or “essential” cookies, web beacons and similar technologies let you move around the websites and use essential features like secure areas and shopping baskets. Without these technologies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. Please note that these technologies do not gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the Internet. Accepting these technologies is a condition of using our websites, services, applications, tools or messaging. So, if you utilize tools that might prevent these from loading, we cannot guarantee your use or how the security therein will perform during your visit.

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Performance: Performance technologies may include first or third-party cookies, web beacons/pixels, and scripts placed to gather information about how you use our websites (pages you visit, if you experience any errors, load times, etc.). These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and are only used to help us improve how our website works, understand the interests of our users, and measure how effective our content is by providing anonymous statistics and data regarding how our website is used.

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Advertising: Advertising technology may include first or third-party cookies, web beacons/pixels, and scripts placed to gather information on the effectiveness of our marketing efforts, deliver personalized content, or to generate data that allows for the delivery of advertising relevant to your specific interests on our websites, as well as third-party websites. We also utilize third party service providers to assist us in delivering on the same functions, which means that our authorized service partners may also place cookies, web beacons and similar technologies on your device via our services (first and third party cookies). They may also collect information that helps them identify your device, such as IP address, or other unique or device identifiers.

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Support: Support technologies may include first or third-party cookies, web beacons / pixels, and scripts placed to provide tools for you to interact with our customer support teams. This technology allows us to provide chat services, gather customer feedback, and other tools used to support our visitors. Data collected for these purposes is never used for marketing or advertising purposes.

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How to manage, control and delete these technologies?

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You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our websites or service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our websites. Please note, as further described in our Privacy Policy, we currently do not alter our practices when we receive a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser.

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Internet browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your Internet browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise, you should use the 'Help' option in your Internet browser for more details.

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  • Cookie settings in Internet Explorer

  • Cookie settings in Firefox

  • Cookie settings in Chrome

  • Cookie settings in Safari

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If you wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you will need to delete your cookies using your Internet browser settings. 

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How often will you update this Cookie Policy?

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We may update this Cookie Policy periodically. For example, changes related to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay abreast to any updates about our use of cookies, web beacons and similar technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

 

Where can I get further information?

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We hope the information in this policy provides you with clear information about the technologies we use and the purposes for which we use them. However, if you have any additional questions, or require any additional information, please review our Privacy Policy, email us at support@mlam.org or by post to:

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Makeesha L. Allen Ministries, Inc.

1701 W. Wetherbee Rd.

#771200

Orlando, FL 32877

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Please be assured that any personal information you provide in communications to the above email and postal address will not be used to send you promotional materials.

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