Effective Date: FDecember 4, 2022

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") explains how EZ Web Company and our subsidiaries and designated clients (collectively, "Ez Web Company" "we" or "us") collect, use and share information about you when you access or use the How the Bible Became the Bible website, authored by Donald L. O'Dell, or otherwise interact with us.

We may supply different or additional notices of our information practices specific to certain programs or activities. We may also provide different notices of our information practices with respect to certain subsidiaries or affiliates, in which case, this Policy will not apply. For purposes of this policy, personal information includes "personal data" and similar terms as defined under applicable privacy laws.

We may change this Policy from time to time.

If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the Effective Date above and, in some cases, we may provide you with more prominent notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification). We encourage you to review this Policy whenever you access our Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.

OVERVIEW

We collect information about your activity when you browse our website; access and use our Services or engage with us via social media platforms, and when you email us.

When you browse our website we anonymize tracking data about your visit(s) and regularly delete old raw data from our database. We mask the last six digits of your IP address that is stored.

We are in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

INFORMATION COLLECTED BY COOKIES OR TRACKING TECHNOLOGY

1) We use Matomo Analytics to record and store data about website visitor traffic. Their servers are located in Germany, which is the location our data on website visitor traffic is stored. That information does us cookies, or tracking technology, on our website, but that collected data is in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) procedures. When you browse our website we anonymize tracking data about your visit(s) and regularly delete old raw data from our database. We mask the last six digits of your IP address that is stored.

2) We use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager on this website which is under review in many countries for compliance with GDPR. The type of information collected by Google during your visit includes the following:
-- Unique identifiers
-- Browser type and settings
-- Device type and settings
-- Operating system
-- Mobile network information including carrier name and phone number
-- Application version number

Google also collects information on the apps, browsers and devices you use for/with their services, including IP address, crash reports, system activity and the date, time and referrer URL of your request.

Included in the collected data is activity your perform, such as the following:
-- Search terms on Google
-- Videos you watch
-- Views/interactions with content and ads
-- Voice and audio information when you use audio features
-- Purchase activity
-- People with whom you communicate/share content
-- Activity on third-party sites/apps that use Google Services
-- Chrome browsing history when synced with your Google Account

Google products have access to your GPS, IP address and sensor data for different reasons at different times, whether you’re using Google Maps or interacting with an app that is integrated with Firebase.

Things near your devices, such as public Wi-Fi access points and cell towers will inform Google as to your geolocation. Bluetooth-enabled devices might also interact with bluetooth beacons that are specifically designed to target a small and accurate location radius.

3) We use the LiveChat web bot on our website. It uses cookies to store your location information and browsing information, on this website. Those cookies are stored for 30 days to recall the chat conversation.

Pixels, Cookies, Local Storage, Databases & Server Logs
These are technical details that Google can track either from a pixel implemented on a website (like the Universal Analytics tracking code), cookies, raw data from storage, databases and servers that you interact with that connect with Google or Google products.

USE OF INFORMATION

You may choose to participate in using the LiveChat web bot or become a subscriber to our news. The information you provide is kept private and not sold or shared with any other businesses or organization. Your name, email and phone is stored in our online database. We own that data. The vendor who provides that service to us has an agreement with us, and other clients similar to us, not to share that information.

The analytics of who visits our pages, opens our Live Chat chat bot, or subscribes/unsubscribes to newsletter/offers is stored in our online database.

Reader Comments
When you leave a review on this website there is a cookie that is stored for 72 hours and then it expires. If you leave the comment using Google, Google methods are invovled, some of which are detailed in #2 above.

Intention
If you are a subscriber and/or member we communicate using email to inform you about our products, services, offers, contests, promotions, sweepstakes, surveys and customer experience research, news, events, special offers, and other information we think will be of interest to you.

Purchaser
When you purchase a product or service on our website, the financial transaction is completed using a vendor we pay, who is Amazon and my publisher. They transact your financial details with your bank to complete your purchase. We do not store or ever view your financial information. For example, your credit card or bank account information. To learn about the policies of Amazon and my publisher you will need to visit their privacy policy. All sales initiated on our website are done so with the HIGHEST ENCRYPTION possible. We do everything possible to provide the utmost safety and security in your banking transaction during the purchase process with us.

TRANSFER OF INFORMATION

This website, and website server, are hosted in the USA.

SHARING OF INFORMATION

We do not share personal information about you outside of the EZ Web Company.

If we believe your actions are inconsistent with our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of the EZ Web Company, our members, our customers, or any other persons we will file a report and/or complaint about your activity with the proper law enforcement agency.

SOCIAL SHARING FEATURES

Social sharing features or integrated tools, which let you share actions you take during your visit with other media. The use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the third party that provides the social sharing feature.

When you use social media on our site, we do not control the sharing of information you place on any social media platform. For example, if you post on Facebook, using the link provided on our website, we have no control over that content or who sees it in the social media platform.

For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the third parties that provide these features.

INDIVIDUALS IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (“EEA”)

Matomo Analytics is in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Google Analytics is under review for compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

In the future we may be providing a method for you to control different options about your privacy options when you visit us. If that takes place, it will be compliant with GDPR.

CALIFORNIA, USA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Consumers residing in California, USA are afforded certain rights with respect to their personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). If you reside in California, this section applies to you.

Any and all information we have collected about your website visits in the preceding 12 months has been anonymized.

We do not sell, exchange, or provide data about your visit to our website to third parties. We do not collect your personal information.

You have the right to request more information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collected and disclosed for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months, deletion of your personal information, and that we stop selling your personal information, if we engage in that activity in the future. You may make these requests by submitting a request online at EZ Web Company.

We have no plans to sell your data to any business or individual in the future.

We will verify your request by asking you to provide information related to your recent interactions with us, such as information regarding a recent purchase. If you would like to use an authorized agent registered with the California Secretary of State to exercise your rights, we may request evidence that you have provided such agent with power of attorney or that the agent otherwise has valid written authority to submit requests on your behalf. We will not discriminate against you if you choose to exercise your rights under the CCPA.

SUMMARY

If you have any questions, please email us at services@ezwebcompany.com or call us at (509) 820-0351. You may also direct your privacy-related comments or questions to the following address:

EZ Web Company
ATTN: C/O Donald L. O'Dell Attention: Privacy Officer
2520 N McMullen Booth Rd, B-225
Clearwater, FL 33761