Privacy Policy
Effective July 19, 2024.
MorningStar Mission (“we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and safeguard information obtained through our Website at www.morningstarmission.org (“Website”).
By using this Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Website. We may update this Privacy Policy periodically; the most recent revision date will always appear at the top of this page.
If you have questions, contact us at info@morningstarmission.org.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Personal Information
You may freely visit our Website anonymously and without being required to provide us with any personal information, and without being required to register. However, certain services, requests and features do require that you provide us with some personally identifying information including, but not limited to, name, address, email, phone numbers, billing addresses, and credit card numbers. Availing yourself of any of these services, requests, and applications is voluntary. Examples include:
Newsletter Signup: We collect your name and email to send updates. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link in our emails.
Donations and Events: We collect necessary billing and contact information to process donations or event registrations. Credit card information is used only for processing and is not stored unless you authorize recurring donations.
Volunteering: We use the information to communicate about volunteering opportunities.
Contact Forms: Information provided through contact forms is used to respond to your inquiry.
Job Applications: Application information is used to evaluate qualifications and contact applicant.
Non-Personal Information
We collect certain non-personal information by automated means when you visit the Website. Much of this information is collected through the use of third-party tracking services, including Google Analytics. The information collected may include usage information, such as the numbers and frequency of users to the Website, pages visited, web browsing histories, your location and device, social networking activities and similar data. When gathered, this this data is used in the aggregate, and not in a manner that is intended to identify you personally. This type of aggregate information may be shared with third parties including advertisers and marketers.
Cookies; Scripts: In conjunction with advertisements that we may serve on this Website, we also may use “ad pixels” and/or “trackers” that follows and tracks your activities from an ad placement to specific Website use/activities. A cookie is a piece of information that a web server may place on your computer when you visit a Website. Cookies are commonly used by websites to improve the user experience. Many cookies last only through a single Website session, or visit. Others may have an expiration date, or may remain on your computer until you delete them. We may use “session cookies” in order to enhance the user experience and for other web-related purposes. These session cookies are not linked to personally identifiable information. We may also use cookies for other purposes, including to maintain continuity during a user session or to gather data about the usage of our Website for research and other purposes. We may also employ the use of scripts on the Website. Scripts are small computer programs embedded within web pages that give those pages extra functionality.
Most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookie/scripts, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie/script, and how to disable existing cookies/scripts. You can also increase your control over scripts and cookies with a multitude of browser plug-ins such as NoScript. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of all the features on our Website.
Web Beacons: Our Website may contain “web beacons” (also know as Internet tags, pixel tags and clear GIFs). These web beacons allow third parties to obtain information such as the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the beacon appears, the URL of the page on which the beacon appears, the time the page containing the beacon was viewed, the type of browser used to view the page, and the information in cookies set by the third party. Web beacons also may be used to track whether you have opened an HTML email. When the email is opened, a part of the code that makes up the HTML page calls a web server to load the web beacon that then generates a record showing that the email has been viewed. Web beacons may also recognize when the email was opened, how many times it was forwarded and which URLs (links within the email) were clicked.
IP Addresses: When you visit and interact with the Website, third parties with whom we have contracted to provide services for us may collect Internet Protocol addresses (each an “IP Address”), as well as browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and page navigation. An IP Address is a unique identifier number that certain electronic devices use to identify and to communicate with each other on the Internet; your Internet Service Provider automatically assigns an IP Address to the computer that you are using. We gather this information to track Website visitor movement in the aggregate, and to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Our goal in gathering this information is to learn how our customers and the public are using our service. We may use this information to enhance our Website or for other lawful purposes.
HOW WE MAY SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose all of the information (described herein) that we collect, as stated in this Privacy Policy including in accordance with the terms set forth in this section. MorningStar Mission works with a variety of third-party partners in order to allow us to make the Website available to you, to host and store the information we collect from you, and to provide certain functionality and features, such as to process payment/donation transactions. Except as stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not reveal personally identifiable information about you to third parties for their independent use. MorningStar Mission may release certain information (i) if required to comply with a subpoena, legal process, government request or other legal obligation, (ii) to prevent, investigate, detect, or prosecute criminal offenses or attacks on the technical integrity of the Website or our network, and/or (iii) to protect the rights, privacy, property, business, or safety of MorningStar Mission, their partners and employees, the visitors of the Website, or the public.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personally identifiable information about visitors to our Website that are less than 13 years of age. If you are under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian to assist you while accessing/viewing this Website. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under 13 years of age and believe that they have disclosed personally identifiable information to us, please contact us at info@morningstarmission.org and be sure to include in your message the same user name and password and/or e-mail address that your child submitted, if applicable.
EXTERNAL LINKS
We also provide links to some third-party social media sites and/or websites. Please note that we have no affiliation with these other parties, and cannot control and are not responsible for the information collection, use, and disclosure practices of such third parties. Please review the privacy policies of any linked websites before providing personal information.
HOW WE SAFEGUARD YOUR INFORMATION
We maintain – and ask that any third-party partners who may store information on our behalf to maintain – administrative, technical and physical safeguards for the Website designed to protect your personal information against theft, loss, misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of the personal information that we collect from you. We restrict access to personal information collected about you on the Website to our employees, our affiliates’ employees, those who are otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy, or others who need to know such information to provide services to you or in the course of conducting our business operations or activities. However, no website, application or transmission can guarantee security. Thus, while we have established and maintain what we believe to be reasonable procedures to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of personally identifying information obtained through the Website and we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.
YOUR CHOICES
Upon written request we will update or amend your information, but we reserve the right to use any information previously obtained to verify your identity or take other actions that we believe are appropriate and lawful. We will endeavor to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, are impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law. Please note we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes, and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed from such locations. Finally, please note that we are not responsible for removing or deleting information from the databases of third parties (such as service providers) with whom we have shared information about you.
USE OF THE WEBSITE FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
We do not represent or warrant that the Website, or any part thereof, are appropriate or available for use in any particular geographic location. If you choose to access our Website, you do so on your own initiative and at your own risk, and are responsible for complying with all local laws, rules, and regulations applicable in your jurisdiction. Please note that the Website is hosted in the United States and is governed by United States law. If you are visiting the Website from outside the United States, please be aware that your information will be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using the Website, you consent to your information being transferred to our facilities and to the facilities of those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Policy.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@morningstarmission.org.
Updated October 31, 2025.