Welcome to LifeGate Church

LifeGate Church operated from 2511 E. Lufkin Ave., Lufkin Texas 75901.

These Terms govern your access and use of the Website, along with our related websites, mobile applications, and other services (collectively, the “Properties”). These Terms are a legally binding contract between you and
LifeGate Church regarding your use of the Properties. 

The privacy contact email is [email protected], which operates the websites located at the URLs https://www.lifegatelufkin.com, and other https://www.lifegatelufkin.com sub-domains (collectively, referred to together in this Privacy Policy as the “Website”). Last Updated: March 2024.

Terms and Conditions 

BY CREATING AN ACCOUNT, LOGGING INTO YOUR ACCOUNT, OR BY BROWSING, DOWNLOADING, INSTALLING, OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING OR USING THE PROPERTIES, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS, AS UPDATED FROM TIME TO TIME. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, OR TO ANY CHANGES WE MAY SUBSEQUENTLY MAKE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, THEN YOU DO NOT HAVE OUR PERMISSION TO USE THE PROPERTIES AND YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY STOP ACCESSING THE PROPERTIES.

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify or update these Terms at any time for any reason, with or without prior notice to you, and any such changes to these Terms will supersede and replace any previous Terms effective immediately upon posting to this page. It is your responsibility to periodically review these Terms as posted here for any changes. Your continued use of the Properties after the posting of changes to these Terms will constitute your acceptance of such changes. For the avoidance of doubt, you should discontinue using the Properties if you do not agree with any changes to these Terms.

TERMS OF USE

License to Use the Properties

We are pleased to grant you a non-exclusive, revocable, limited license to use the Properties solely for your personal and non-commercial use. You may only use the Properties in the manner in which the Content (as defined below) you access is intended and in compliance with these Terms and with any and all applicable federal, state, local and international laws, rules and regulations. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, commercially exploit, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any Content, software, products or services contained with the Properties without the express written consent of LifeGate Church. You may not use the Properties or any of its Content to further any commercial purpose, including any advertising or advertising revenue generation active on your own website or in any other form or medium. All rights not expressly granted to you in these Terms are reserved and retained by LifeGate Church and/or its Content providers.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Notification

You may only use the Properties if you are 13 years of age or older; however, LifeGate Church is intended for 18+ audiences. To register for an account, purchase products via the Properties, or subscribe to receive any Content or other marketing or promotional material from us (in any form and via any media) (a “Subscription”), you must be 18 years of age or over.

Registration / Accounts

You may create an account by providing us with your name and e-mail address (an “Account”). Users who have created an Account (“Registered Users”) are able to access their accounts through the “Your Account” part of the Properties manage their email addresses and shipping addresses and view their existing or past orders. 

By creating an account, you agree: (a) that you are able to and have the appropriate authority and authorization to create a binding agreement; (b) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself when we request it; (c) maintain and promptly update this information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete to the extent the Service permit such updates; and (d) use limited-access portions of the Services only using access credentials that we have issued to you. 

Eligibility to Purchase Products

In order to make purchases on the Properties, you must be 18 years of age or older, be lawfully able to enter into and form contracts on the Internet in accordance with the laws of the State of California. In order to make purchases on the Properties, you will be required to provide information about yourself that is true, accurate, current and complete in all respects, including your name, address and e-mail address and other requested information as indicated. Furthermore, you will be required to provide payment details that you represent and warrant are both valid and correct and confirm that you are the person referred to in the “Billing” information provided.

Products purchased by you must be for personal use or purchased as a gift and may not be re-sold or used for commercial purposes or for any other commercial benefit. In addition, LifeGate Church reserves the right to restrict multiple quantities of a Product from being shipped to any one customer or postal address.

Orders

When placing an order, you must follow the instructions on the Properties as to how to place your order and to make changes to your order before you submit it to us through the Properties. All orders are subject to acceptance and availability. Any Products in ‘Your Bag’ are not reserved and may be purchased by other customers until your order is complete and accepted by us.

LifeGate Church offers Products for sale that are in stock and available for shipping and Products that are pre-production and require “pre-sale” or “pre-order” conditions. When you submit an order to us through the Properties, you agree that you do so expressly subject to these Terms at the date you submit your order. You are responsible for reviewing the latest Terms each time you submit an order.

Once you place an order, you will receive an e-mail acknowledging the details of your order. We will not be obligated to supply a Product to you until we have accepted your order for such Product by e-mail in a form called a “Confirmation of Order” stating that we are accepting your order. An e-mail, letter, fax or other acknowledgement of your order by us is purely for information purposes and does not constitute our acceptance of your order. When we send you an acknowledgement, we may give you an order reference number and details of the Product(s) you have ordered. Pre-sale or Pre-order purchases are non-refundable and are considered purchased at the time of the order confirmation, regardless of shipping, production or manufacturing timelines or delays. 

We may, in our discretion, refuse to accept an order from you for any reason, including if we are unable to obtain authorization for payment, shipping restrictions apply to a particular item, the Product(s) you order are out of stock or do not satisfy our quality control standards or are withdrawn or you do not meet the eligibility criteria set out in these Terms. Until the time when we accept your order, we reserve the right to refuse to process your order and you reserve the right to cancel your order. 

Intellectual Property Rights

The Properties and its content, features and functionality, including, without limitation, information, software, text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, video clips, data compilations and the design, selection and arrangement thereof, are the exclusive property of LifeGate Church, our licensors or other content suppliers, and are protected by Canadian, United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws, and may not be used or exploited in any way without our prior written consent.

User Generated Material

If and to the extent that we elect to accept user-generated material, you may have the opportunity to publish, transmit, submit or otherwise post reviews, ratings, comments, feedback or other materials on the Properties (“User Generated Material”) that may be accessible and viewable by the public.

With respect to User Generated Material posted by you, you represent that (i) you created and own the rights to the content or you have the owner’s express permission to post such content, and (ii) the content does not infringe any other person’s or entity’s rights (including, without limitation, copyrights, trademarks or privacy rights) or violate any applicable laws, rules or regulations, these Terms or any of our other posted policies.

We do not claim ownership to User Generated Material. However, by posting User Generated Material, you irrevocably grant us and our assigns, agents and licensees and other users a worldwide, nonexclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid license under all copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, privacy and publicity rights and other intellectual property rights you own or control to: (i) use, reproduce, transmit, modify, index, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, display and otherwise exploit such content throughout the world in any media, whether now known or hereafter invented, including for any and all purposes, including commercial or marketing purposes, all without further notice to you, with or without attribution, and without the requirement of any permission from or payment to you or any other person or entity, and (ii) to use your name, persona or likeness alone or in connection with such uses, without any obligation or remuneration to you. 

We may refuse, alter, or remove a User Submission without notice for any reason at LifeGate Church’s sole discretion, including our belief that a User Submission may violate these Terms or be otherwise objectionable party.

Modification or Suspension of the Properties and Right to Terminate Your Use of the Properties

We reserve the right to change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Properties at any time and from time to time, in our sole discretion and without notice or liability, including by adding or eliminating certain features or discontinuing the Properties entirely.

PRIVACY POLICY

Policy Purpose

The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform users of the website of the following: 

  • The personal data we will collect;

  • Use of collected data;

  • Who has access to the data collected;

  • The rights of the website users;

  • The website’s cookie policy. 

Consent

By using our website, users agree that they consent to: 

  • The conditions set out in this Privacy Policy;

  • The collection, use, and retention of the data listed in this Privacy Policy. 

Scope of Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and manage your personal information that you provide to us when using the Website, LifeGate Church Services, or otherwise, as well as our privacy practices. This Privacy Policy applies, without limitation, to any individual or entity that (i) uses the Website or uses LifeGate Church Services, (ii) creates an Account (as defined in our Terms of Service), or (iii) otherwise provides any personal information to us.

Please note that this Privacy Policy contains separate components with varied rights that may apply to you differently depending upon where you live or where you are accessing the Website.

WHEN YOU ACCESS THE WEBSITE OR LifeGate Church SERVICES, OR OTHERWISE PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION TO US, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, INCLUDING THE MANNER IN WHICH WE USE YOUR INFORMATION, WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT OR MEMBERSHIP WITH LifeGate Church. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, OR TO ANY CHANGES WE SUBSEQUENTLY MAKE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY STOP USING THE WEBSITE OR OTHERWISE PROVIDING ANY INFORMATION TO US.

The Website contains links to other websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected on or through any such third party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third parties or the content of their websites. Such third parties have their own privacy policies and you should review those privacy policies to determine their privacy practices.

Information Collected

When information identifies or is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you or your household, we refer to it as “personal information.”

We collect the following information:

  • Contact and Account Information: Your name, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, date of birth, username, password and any other contact and/or Account information that you provide us either through LifeGate Church Services or Website.

  • Service Provider Information: Information about the mobile or internet service provider you are using with your device to access the Website, and/or send us messages, including name and IP address.

  • Messages: The date, time and content of any messages you send to us;

  • Payment Information: Credit/debit card and other billing information, including cardholder transaction data, card numbers, expiration dates, billing addresses and CVV codes;

  • Surveys, Quizzes, and Product Testing: We may contact you to participate in surveys, quizzes, or participate in product testing. If you decide to participate, you may be asked to provide certain information which may include personal information.

  • Interactive Features: We and others who use our services may collect personal information that you submit or make available through our interactive features (e.g., messaging and chat features, commenting functionalities, forums, blogs, and social media pages). Any information you provide on the public sections of these features will be considered “public,” unless otherwise required by applicable law, and is not subject to the privacy protections referenced herein. Please exercise caution before revealing any information that may identify you in the real world to other users.

  • Sweepstakes or Contests: We may collect personal information you provide for any sweepstakes or contests that we offer. In some jurisdictions, we are required to publicly share information of sweepstakes and contest winners.

  • Business Development and Strategic Partnerships: We may collect personal information from individuals and third parties to assess and pursue potential business opportunities.

  • Job Applications: We may post job openings and opportunities on our Website or through other platforms. If you reply to one of these postings by submitting your application, CV and/or cover letter to us, we will collect and use your information to assess your qualifications.

Information Collected

  • IP address and other technical information collected from the servers utilized by you or your vendors, such as information and data that is automatically collected upon visiting the Website (i.e., webpage http headers (home server domain names, internet protocol address, operating system type, browser type and language) and information on what pages you access and other information about the way(s) in which you use the Website).

  • Information provided on any application (including the App) or authorization, such as your location, your handset type, your UDID (unique handset code) and any other information you or your mobile device provides to us;

  • Other:Other information you provide to us when you use the Website or otherwise interact with us.

How Information is Collected

We collect information through one or more of the following ways:

  • the completion of electronic forms found on the Website or on a third party-hosted website, whether via computer or mobile device;

  • the completion of paper forms provided to us;

  • SMS (Short Message Service) messages sent via cell phone, or through email and other communications;

  • surveys and quizzes;

  • referring websites or third parties, including social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Threads, TikTok, Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, Google+ and others including by virtue of advertisements placed by us on websites maintained by those third parties;

  • our affiliates and licensees;

  • the maintenance and analysis of Website server logs;

  • offers in which you participate;

  • “cookies” (small text files placed by us on your computer(s)), single pixel GIF image files (also called “Web beacons”), Website server log analysis and other similar technological means. See “Use of Web Technologies” Section below.

We (and our service providers) use your Location Information to provide you with localized nearby services or value-added services (including marketing) that we think you’d like. Where possible, we may also use Location Information to enhance or localize content and services that you use. If you do not wish to share your GPS location with us, you can switch off GPS functionality on your mobile device. 

Certain portions of the Website require that you register for an Account before being able to access them. On those portions of the Website that require registration, we collect information to create your account, as well as to determine specific content, products and services that will be of particular interest to you. By collecting and maintaining accurate information, we learn more about your interests and needs and are better able to provide you with such content and with offers for such products and services.

Use of Information Collected

We use the information we collect:

  • to authenticate and verify individual identities, including requests to exercise your rights under this privacy policy.

  • to provide customized information and offers of products and services, including to enable third party services to display customized content and advertising provided by us.

  • to manage and communicate with you about your account with us, including responding to your questions and providing customer or technical support.

  • for the purposes of processing payments and fulfilling orders for products or services placed by you, processing your request to use our interest-free payment plans and order fulfillment and tracking.

  • for statistical purposes.

  • to publish feedback, personal testimonials, and other information in our editorial publications and online articles.

  • to provide information about our company such as newsletters or other communications, and to deliver advertising and promotional information from our partners and third party vendors.

  • to improve our technologies including for the purpose of enhancing your experience on the Website.

  • to provide marketing messages, promotions, offers of products and services and other content which we think will be of specific interest to you, where you have consented (or not opted out, as applicable).

  • to participate in data cooperatives in order to send catalogues, direct mail, and/or other direct marketing to customers and better understand their buying habits.

  • to process applications if you apply for a job that we post on our Website.

  • to manage and secure our operations including for detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity; debugging to identify and repair errors with our Website; and auditing relating to interactions, transactions and other compliance activities.

  • to enforce our agreements and policies

  • to comply with our legal obligations.

We store or transfer your credit/debit card data in order to more easily provide services to you. If such credit/debit card and other billing information is collected and/or stored, such credit/debit card and other billing information will be collected and transferred over a secure connection in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements, and is used only for processing underlying transactions.

Where you have consented (or not opted out, as applicable), we add your information to our databases to contact you through future emails, postal mailings and SMS text-messaging regarding site updates, upcoming offers and events, new products and services and/or the status of orders placed online.

When you sign up for an account with us, we will send you a welcome email. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide any services you request, to provide newsletters or other updates that you request and to manage your account. In addition, when you register an Account with us, you consent to our contacting you by email and to receiving our email subscriptions, editorial emails and advertorial emails from us. If, at any time, you no longer want us to contact you by email and/or receive our email subscriptions, editorial emails and advertorial emails, you can opt out of these functions by unsubscribing from marketing communications located in the footer of each email, or by following the instructions listed in the communication. 

If you have an Account with us, then from time to time, and in addition to emails or email subscriptions sent by us, we will send you emails that contain advertising or other content sponsored by third party retailers or businesses (“advertorial emails”). These advertorial emails are clearly marked as such in the subject line and a note at the top of the article itself. The content is paid for by our sponsors and does not reflect the opinions of our editorial staff. If you prefer not to receive these emails, you can deactivate your Account or otherwise opt-out. We do not share your personally identifiable information with such sponsors, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, but we can sell or share aggregate, non-personal information with such sponsors for any legally permissible purpose.

Sharing of Information Collected with Third Parties

We reserve the right to rent or sell the information we collect from you to third parties.

We also share your information with certain third parties in other circumstances, including when complying with legal process, preventing fraud or imminent harm and/or ensuring the security of our network and services.

We will share certain of your information with third parties for the purposes of fulfilling orders for products or services placed by you. We will share your credit/debit card data only with those directly involved in the processing of the underlying transaction, and who maintain appropriate security measures designed to safeguard such information.

We will share your information with third parties, such as brand partners, to provide you with a product or service you have requested, or to invite you to participate in an offer or an event. We may also share your information with business partners with whom we jointly offer products or services. In some cases, we will ask our partners to send event invitations or offers on our behalf.

We will also share certain of your information with third parties for the purposes of providing you with newsletters or other communications.

We will provide you with direct access to functionality from other third parties, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Spotify, advertising networks and others. The placement of social media widgets, or advertising units on the Website can permit these third parties to see information about you and your activities via cookies, web beacons and other technologies they place and/or access on your browser or device, even if you do not interact with them.

In the event that we go through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition or sale of our assets, your personal information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information. We transfer your information as an asset in connection with a proposed or actual merger or sale (including any transfers made as part of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving all or part of our business or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock sale or other change in control.

We also use and disclose your information to parties connected with the contemplated or actual financing, insuring, sale, assignment or other disposal of all or part of our business or assets, including for the purposes of determining whether to proceed or continue with such transaction or business relationship or fulfilling any records or other reporting requirements to such parties. Other than to the extent use and disclosure is pursuant to a court order, we will require such parties and successors in interest to treat your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and to use and disclose it only for the purposes for which it was collected.

We reserve the right to release information to law enforcement or other governmental officials as we, in our sole discretion, deem necessary to comply with applicable law.

Use of Web Technologies

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on the Website. We link the information we store in cookies to personally identifiable information that you submit while on the Website. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when a browser is closed. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on the Website. You can remove the persistent cookies by following the directions provided in your internet browser’s “help” file. If you reject cookies, you can still use the Website but your ability to use particular areas of the Website will be limited.

Tracking Pixels

We employ a software technology called tracking pixels (a/k/a web beacons/web bugs/clear gifs) that enables us to better manage the content on the Website by informing us what content is effective. Tracking pixels are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of visitors to a website. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, tracking pixels are embedded invisibly on website pages and are about the size of the period at the end of a sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by tracking pixels to your personally identifiable information.

We use tracking pixels in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see the “How to Submit a Request” section of this Privacy Policy below.

Log Files

As is true of most websites, we gather information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the Website, to track the movements of users around the Website and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

What types of cookies and other Web Technologies do we use and how do we use them?

The types of cookies and similar technologies used by us and our partners in connection with the Website can be classified into one of five categories, namely ‘essential Website cookies’, ‘functionality cookies’, ‘analytics and performance cookies’, ‘advertising cookies’, and ‘social media cookies’. Cookies do a lot of different tasks to ensure you enjoy your visit to our Website, for example, they are used to remember your preferences on our Website, to help you navigate between pages more efficiently, to enable you to log into your account more easily and to make sure the adverts you see on our Website are relevant to you and your interests. We have set out some further information about each category, and the purposes of the cookies we and third parties set in the following table.

You can block these cookies and similar technologies by changing your browser setting. However, in relation to those that are essential for the operation or improve the functionality of the Website, this may impact your use of the Website.

Cookies necessary for essential Website purposes

These cookies are essential to provide you with the Website and any services available through this Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible.

Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies record information about choices you’ve made and allow us to tailor the Website to you. These cookies mean that when you continue to use or come back to the Website, we can provide you with our services as you have asked for them to be provided.

Performance Cookies

We use performance/analytics cookies to analyze how the Website is accessed, used, or is performing in order to provide you with a better user experience and to maintain, operate and continually improve the Website.

Advertising and Targeting Cookies

As you use our Website, you will notice that it features advertising. We allow third party companies, including advertising companies, to place cookies on our Website.

These cookies enable such companies to track your activity across various sites where they display ads and record your activities so they can show ads that they consider relevant to you as you browse the Internet.

Social Media Cookies

These cookies are used when you share an article using a social media sharing button on our Website (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, or Google Plus) as the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this. If you are logged in to your account with the third party, the third party will be able to link information about you with your actions via cookies.

Security

We take reasonable precautions to protect the confidentiality and security of your personally identifiable information by using industry recognized security safeguards. Unfortunately, no method of transmission over the Internet is completely secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information within industry standards, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of your personally identifiable information. Our security procedures mean that we will occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you. You are responsible for protecting against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer/mobile device. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Data Retention

We will retain your information as long as needed to enable you to access the Website or otherwise interact with you, and for as long as you or we can bring a legal claim.

Privacy Policy Updates

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it on a regular basis. Any changes made to this Privacy Policy will be posted here and we will notify you of any material changes. The date stamp at the top of the page represents the last day this Privacy Policy was updated. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at [email protected]. By maintaining an Account with us, or by using or accessing any services provided by us, you will be deemed to have acknowledged our Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].