Welcome to Prayer Warrior USA (“Website”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws worldwide, including the General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR), the UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA), the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and other relevant state and national regulations.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, subscribe to our newsletters, purchase products, make donations, or interact with our Catholic teaching materials and community.
1 Information We Collect
We collect several categories of information to provide, maintain, and improve our services to you:
- Personal Identifiable Information (PII):
- Name, email address, mailing address, telephone number.
- Account credentials (username and encrypted password) if you register on the site.
- Payment and transaction details (billing address, credit card numbers processed securely via third-party gateways—we do not store raw credit card data on our servers).
- Voluntary Submissions & Prayer Requests:
- Information you voluntarily submit through contact forms, comments, discussion forums, or prayer request submissions (which may include personal testimonies or intentions).
- Usage Data & Device Information:
- IP address, browser type and version, operating system, language preferences.
- Referring URLs, pages viewed, time spent on pages, clickstream data, and navigation paths.
- Device identifiers, time zone settings, and internet service provider (ISP) details.
- Sensitive Personal Information:
- Because our site offers content related to Catholic teaching, your interaction with our site (such as requesting specific prayers or joining religious mailing lists) may inadvertently reveal or imply religious beliefs. We process this information strictly with your explicit consent or as voluntarily made public by you.
2 How We Use Information
We process your personal information for lawful, transparent, and specific business purposes, including:
- Service Provision & Fulfillment: To provide Catholic teaching content, process orders, fulfill subscriptions, deliver digital resources, and process donations.
- Communication & Marketing: To send newsletters, daily prayers, devotional content, updates, and promotional communications (where permitted by law or with explicit consent).
- Analytics & Site Improvement: To monitor trends, evaluate user engagement, optimize website layout, and improve our teaching resources.
- Community Engagement: To publish user comments, moderate discussion boards, and manage prayer requests according to your privacy selections.
- Security & Fraud Prevention: To protect against illegal activity, authenticate accounts, defend against unauthorized access, and protect site integrity.
- Legal Compliance: To fulfill statutory tax obligations, legal disclosures, and regulatory enforcement requests.
3 Data Sharing & Third-Party Services
We do not sell your personal information for monetary payment. We share data only with trusted service providers bound by strict confidentiality and data protection agreements:
- Payment Processors:
[e.g., Stripe, PayPal]– to process transactions securely. - Email & Newsletter Providers:
[e.g., Mailchimp, ConvertKit]– to distribute newsletter subscriptions, prayer updates, and notifications. - Website Hosting & Cloud Infrastructure:
[e.g., WordPress.com, AWS, Bluehost]– to host and maintain website operations. - Analytics Services:
[e.g., Google Analytics]– to measure site traffic and performance. - Legal Disclosures: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law, court order, subpoena, or to enforce our Legal Terms or protect the rights, property, and safety of Prayer Warrior USA, our users, or the public.
4 Data Retention & Security Measures
- Data Retention: We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, satisfy legal, accounting, or reporting obligations, or resolve disputes. When personal data is no longer required, it is securely deleted, anonymized, or destroyed.
- Security Measures: We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures, including SSL/TLS encryption, secure server firewalls, access controls, and routine security audits to protect your data against loss, misuse, or unauthorized access. However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system is 100% secure.
5 User Rights (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA)
Depending on your place of residence, you enjoy specific legal rights regarding your personal information:
- Right to Know / Access: You may request details about the categories and specific pieces of personal data we have collected about you.
- Right to Rectification / Correction: You have the right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
- Right to Erasure / Deletion (“Right to be Forgotten”): You may request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain legal exceptions (e.g., tax record requirements).
- Right to Data Portability: You may request a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
- Right to Object / Restrict Processing: You may object to or request restrictions on the processing of your data (including direct marketing).
- Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: You have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising (see Section 3).
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We will never discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided in Section 1.9 below.
6 International Data Transfers
Prayer Warrior USA operates primarily in the United States. If you visit our website from the European Union, European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Canada, or other international regions, please note that your personal information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States.
Where applicable, we rely on standard contractual clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission or appropriate transfer mechanisms to ensure your personal data receives an adequate level of protection.
7 Children’s Privacy (COPPA Notice)
Our website is directed to a general audience interested in Catholic teaching and is not directed to children under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal data to us, please contact us immediately, and we will delete such information promptly.
8 Do Not Track (DNT) Signals
Certain web browsers transmit “Do Not Track” signals. Because uniform standards for DNT have not been finalized across the tech industry, our site does not currently alter its operational behavior upon receiving browser DNT signals, except as required for Global Privacy Control (GPC) recognition (detailed in Section 3).
9 Contact Information for Privacy Inquiries
If you have questions, comments, or wish to exercise your privacy rights under this Privacy Policy, please contact our Data Privacy Administrator:
- Email:
privacy@prayerwarriorusa.com - Mailing Address:
PrayerWarriorUSA / Attn: Privacy Officer, 34, Daladawatta Lane, Thalpitiya South, Wadduwa, 12560