Terms and Policies

Terms and Conditions

Welcome to the website for Purpose Church! Our legal name is First Baptist Church of Pomona, but we’re all about helping you discover your purpose in life, so our “doing business name” is Purpose Church. So that’s what we’ll use in this document.

Purpose Church is headquartered at 586 N Main Street, Pomona, California. These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of Purpose Church’s website. By accessing this website, we assume you accept these terms and conditions in full. Do not continue to use Purpose Church’s website if you do not accept all the terms and conditions stated on this page. These Terms and Conditions may be updated or changed from time to time and your continued use of the website is your acceptance and tacit acceptance of the changes and/or updates.

The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and any or all Agreements: “Website Visitor,” “You” and “Your” refers to you, the person accessing this website and accepting The Church’s terms and conditions. “The Church,” “Ourselves,” “We,” “Our” and “Us,” refers to Purpose Church. “Party,” “Parties,” or “Us,” refers to both the Website Visitor and ourselves, or either the Website Visitor or ourselves. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalization and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.

Access and License: Provided you are thirteen (13) years of age or older, we hereby grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access our websites and use the content only for your own personal use. Users are not required to register to access the public pages of this website.

Contents: This site is provided to you on an “as is” basis. Purpose Church makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of this site or to the information contained therein. This includes, but is not limited to, the text, graphics, audio, icons, buttons, images, and products contained on this site. Purpose Church, nor any other person or entity involved in creating, producing or delivering this site, shall not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of this site, including, but not limited to, direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, and consequential damages. This limitation of liability applies without limitation to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, tortuous behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action. The Church also assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable for any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in this site, or of your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from this site.

Intellectual Rights: Unless otherwise stated, Purpose Church owns the intellectual property rights for all material on Purpose Church. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may view and/or print pages from https://purposechurch.com for your own personal use subject to restrictions set in these terms and conditions. You must not:

Cookies: We employ the use of cookies. By using Purpose Church’s website, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with Purpose Church’s privacy policy (below). Most interactive websites today use cookies to enable us to retrieve user details for each visit. Cookies are used in some areas of our site to enable the functionality of this area and ease of use for those people visiting.

User Comments: Certain parts of this website may offer the opportunity for users to post and exchange opinions, information, material and data (‘Comments’) in areas of the website. Purpose Church does not screen, edit, publish or review Comments prior to their appearance on the website and Comments do not reflect the views or opinions of Purpose Church or its staff. Comments reflect the view and opinion of the person who posts such view or opinion. To the extent permitted by applicable laws Purpose Church shall not be responsible or liable for the Comments or for any loss cost, liability, damages or expenses caused and or suffered because of any use of and/or posting of and/or appearance of the Comments on this website. Purpose Church reserves the right to monitor all Comments and to remove any Comments which it considers in its absolute discretion to be inappropriate, offensive or otherwise in breach of these Terms and Conditions. You warrant and represent that: You are entitled to post the Comments on our website and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so; The Comments do not infringe any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent or trademark, or other proprietary right of any third party; The Comments do not contain any defamatory, libelous, offensive, indecent or otherwise unlawful material or material which is an invasion of privacy The Comments will not be used to solicit or promote business or custom or present commercial activities or unlawful activity. You hereby grant to Purpose Church a non-exclusive royalty-free license to use, reproduce, edit and authorize others to use, reproduce and edit any of your Comments in any and all forms, formats or media.

Inappropriate Content: Purpose Church assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of this site or additional sites or pages linked to this site, for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger or inaccuracy contained therein. The Church will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the disclosure of the identity of any person positing any such information or materials.

Hyperlinking to our Content: You are not permitted to hyperlink to our website from another website without our express and written permission. We will consider link requests from other individuals or organizations that we determine do not reflect unfavorably on us, our staff or participants in our programs; however, approval is not implied or guaranteed by this statement. To request permission to hyperlink to our site, please submit a request in writing. Include your name, your organization name (if applicable), contact information (a phone number an e-mail address) and the URL of any URLs from which you desire to link to our Website. Allow 3 weeks for a response.

Use of Branding Content: No use of Purpose Church’s logo or other artwork or photos will be allowed for linking on other sites or reproduction in any format online or offline.

Misrepresentation: No website, electronic, recorded or printed material can be created or distributed that directly or indirectly purports to be an official product of Purpose Church. While we will attempt peaceably to have any such misrepresentations removed, Purpose Church reserves the right to take legal action if prior attempts to resolve the situation are not successful.

User Conduct: You understand and agree that you are the sole person that is responsible for any information that you post, upload, email or transmit to or from this site, including, but not limited to, all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, audio, messages, or other material. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane materials or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. You are prohibited from collecting or storing personal information about other users and from stalking or harassing another. Furthermore, you are prohibited from engaging in any conduct that is harmful to minors in any way.

Use of Website by Children: We will not knowingly collect, use or distribute personal information from children under the age of 13 without prior verifiable consent from a parent or guardian. Furthermore, The Church requests that no child under 13 years of age use this website without the supervision of or consent of the child’s parent or legal guardian.

Purpose Church will not provide any personally identifying information, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever for users younger than 13 years. A user under 13 years will not be permitted to register on the site without the consent of his or her parent or legal guardian, which will allow us to notify that person that the child has registered for a service or feature. The Church is not liable for anyone misrepresenting his- or herself as 13 years of age or over when that in not the case. If you are the parent or guardian of a child age 13 or under who has provided us with Personal Information and you would like that information removed, please contact us at info@purposechurch.com.

Indemnity: You agree to indemnify and hold Purpose Church, its affiliates, agents, directors, deacons, officers, or employees harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by anyone due to or arising from content you submit, post, transmit, or make available through this site, your use of this site, your connection to this site, your violation of these Terms and Conditions, or your violation of any rights of another.

Privacy Policy

Purpose Church acknowledges that your privacy is very important to you and that you have a right to control your personal information. The Church further acknowledges that when you willingly provide your personal information to Purpose Church, it is an act of trust. Your privacy and the trust you place in us is critically important to us and we take maintaining your privacy very seriously. This Privacy Policy (the policy) outlines how Purpose Church will treat your personal information and how we will safeguard their privacy as much as possible.

The policy applies to purposechurch.com (hereinafter, “us,” “we,” or “purposechurch.com”). We have adopted the policy to explain what information may be collected on our website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, in conjunction with the Terms and Conditions also posted on this website, outline the general rules and policies governing your use of our website.

Collection of Information: As is standard on many websites, Purpose Church collects non-personally-identifying information that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Our purpose in collecting this information is to better understand how visitors use our website. From time to time, Purpose Church may internally review non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate or release it in a report that looks at website usage trends.

Sharing of Information: Any information that you provide to Purpose Church or that the Church obtains through this website will only be used for church purposes. We will not sell, rent or exchange your personal information to other entities except as necessary to other ministries that we have asked to provide you with information to further the ministry of the church to you. We will not release your name, address, phone number or e-mail address without your express consent, unless such disclosure is required to comply with laws or relevant legal proceedings.

Secure Website: To protect any sensitive information that you provide to us, we use a SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connection. All transactions that potentially include sensitive information, including but not limited to a credit/debit card number and expiration date or bank account number, use a SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connection.

Changes to Privacy Policy: We reserve the right to modify the Privacy Policy from time to time, with or without cause or prior notice. Changes to the Privacy Policy are effective immediately upon our posting it to this website. You are responsible for reviewing the Privacy Policy as use of the Site indicates your full and complete agreement to its terms.