Privacy Policy

St. Luke Publishers believes that your personal information - including your name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address and credit card data - belongs to you. While we collect this type of information when you provide it to us, we do not rent or sell your information to third parties. We use it only to process book orders and to contact you directly in regards to the publishing of your ebook. 

When users visit our Web site, there are two types of information that may be collected.

The first type of information is known as "personally identifiable information." In order to serve your needs and to provide improved products and services, we may from time to time request personal and private information, such as your name or company, address, contact information, education, interests, payment information when you place orders, and/or other information. You may choose to provide this information at your convenience. Many areas of our site are accessible without providing any personally identifiable information. Personally identifiable information excludes any information you may choose to submit publicly, such as reviews, critiques, editorials, testimonials, documentaries, forum or blog discussions.

You may choose to place orders or to set up an account to obtain additional information or to order products and/or services. If you place an order or set up such an account, certain private information will be needed, such as your name or company, address, contact information and payment details. We will maintain a history of orders and payments via your account for normal accounting and business purposes. St. Luke Publishers does not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other third-parties or non-affiliated companies at all.

If you choose not to provide private information to this Web site, alternate ordering and payments can be made by providing the necessary information via fax or via mail. We do not take personally identifiable information via the phone. 

We may use your e-mail address to occasionally notify you about important functionality changes to the Web site, new services and special offers we think you'll find valuable.

We may release account information when we believe, in good faith that such release is reasonably necessary to (1) comply with law, (2) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements, or (3) protect the rights, property, or safety of St. Luke Publishers.

We may release account information when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to:

Respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; to establish or exercise our legal rights; or defend against legal claims.

Believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of St. Luke Publishers' terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

The second type of information is known as "non-personally identifiable information" and is collected upon each visit to our Web site. Our server automatically recognizes visitors' domain names and Internet Protocol (IPs) addresses (where possible). We also collect information and statistics about how visitors use the site. This information, which is collected and maintained in an anonymous, non-personal and composite form, allows us to improve the content of our Web site and facilitate market research.

On occasion, we may provide non-personally identifiable information about our users, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third-party vendors to help us understand this information better. However, these statistics will not include any personally identifiable information. Other than improving our Web site and providing our visitors with the best experience possible, we make no other use of this information.

We employ security measures, including technical, administrative, and physical security steps to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of information under our control. We also use Paypal to protect your credit card number when we store your donation. PayPal is the most widely recognized and respected independent third party company, based in the United States, which specializes in processing online credit card transactions. PayPal is the largest and most respected online payment processor on the Internet with well over 8 million users. They receive the credit card data only to verify the credit card numbers and process transactions. Thus, your credit card and billing information cannot be read as it travels to our ordering system. 

We cannot guarantee that the security measures we implement in connection with the operation of the site will absolutely prevent others from accessing or acquiring any information that you provide while using the site.

Cookies and Information Collected by Technology. This site may use cookies to keep track of website activities, save your password or deliver content specific to your interests. A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience certain interactive features of the Site or access all of the services provided through the site. The site may collect some information (such as your IP address) that may not be readily apparent to you that it is being collected.    We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the site. Your IP address may also be used to help us identify you and any activity in which you engage. We do keep track of the domains from which people visit us. We analyze this data for trends and statistics, but we do not keep it in a personally identifiable manner.

By using this Web site, products and services, you consent to the terms of this policy. If our privacy policy changes, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of access, security, control of personal information, how information will be used and whether it will be provided to third parties. Your continued use of the Web site constitutes your consent to the updated policy.

We welcome your questions and comments about privacy. Please e-mail us at contactus@stlukepublishers.com.