Who we are
Early Childhood Christian Network is a professional network of Christian early educators, weekday church ministry staff, caregivers, childcare providers, preschool ministry leaders and early education leaders. Our website address is: https://earlychildhoodchristiannetwork.com. You may reach us via email at hello@@earlychildhoodchristiannetwork.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it- the basics:
ECCN collects your first and last name, email address with every account in order to provide learning certificates. If a user purchases a product, we collect their billing and shipping address including church/program name, street 1 and street2, city, state, zip and phone number. For shipping products and processing payments, these fields are necessary. If a user chooses to join a membership level, we also collect information about the church/school where they work — Church Name, School Name, address, phone number, the number of staff, number of children enrolled and details about the program (duration, type). When a user completes a course on our website, we also collect the date of enrollment, start date, completion date, and certificate for training and certificate retention. If a user is registered by someone else to attend a conference, their first name, last name, phone number, and email address are stored in a “ticket” so we can track who is attending our events.
DETAILS about what we collect:
Data Collected to Manage Your Membership
At checkout, we will collect your name, email address, username, and password. This information is used to setup your account for our site. If you are redirected to an offsite payment gateway to complete your payment, we may store this information in a temporary session variable to setup your account when you return to our site.
At checkout, we may also collect your billing address and phone number. This information is used to confirm your credit card. The billing address and phone number are saved by our site to prepopulate the checkout form for future purchases and so we can get in touch with you if needed to discuss your order.
At checkout, we may also collect your credit card number, expiration date, and security code. This information is passed to our payment gateway (Stripe) to process your purchase.
When logged in, we use cookies to track some of your activity on our site including logins, visits, and page views.
We maintain logs of transactional emails sent to you for operational and support purposes. These logs include the email content, recipient address, subject line, and delivery status.
Entries are automatically purged after 90 days.
If you request deletion of your personal data, all email log entries associated with your account will be permanently removed.
We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.
What we collect and store when you shop on our site:
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
- Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
- Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Send you information about your account and order
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
- Improve our store offerings
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
- Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
- Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.
What we share with others
We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; for example —
Payments
We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information. We DO NOT store credit card details — all of that information is passed through to PayPal.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
What we collect and store regarding Courses:
When you enroll in a course from us, we’ll ask you to provide first and last name and email address. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Monitor enrollment and show course progress
- Generate certificates for completed courses and/or quizzes
We store information about you for as long as your account exists.
We store course progress, including completion status, quiz scores, and certificates.
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Group Leaders can access: Order information such as your enrolled courses, course progress and username / email address.
Any additional information added in your WordPress User Profile can also be visible to the administrator(s).
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. Any logos or images you upload become the property of Early Childhood Christian Network and we reserve the right to reuse and/or repurpose them at our discretion. The user has the ability to request removal of any images they have uploaded with proof of connection to their account.
Contact forms
ECCN includes forms to subscribe to our newsletter in multiple places on our website. We collect a user’s first name, last name and email address with these forms when the user clicks the “subcribe” or “download PDF” buttons.
Cookies
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. We provide a contact list to our vendors at SOME events. This list includes the First Name, Last Name, church, address, email address and phone number of the user who purchased a registration to a conference.
SMS Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy
Terms & Conditions
By subscribing, you have provided ECCN with consent to send you text messages (SMS & MMS) regarding alerts, event reminders, new content, and requests for volunteer support. Message frequency varies by events/preference. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undeliverable messages. Some of the text messages we send may include links to websites. To access these websites, you will need a web browser and internet access.
Opt-out Information
If you wish to stop receiving text messages (SMS & MMS) from ECCN, reply “STOP” to any message you have received from us. You may also stop text messages by calling us at 972-439-5805 or email at hello@earlychildhoodchristiannetwork.com
Help & Support
Reply “HELP” to any text messages (SMS or MMS) you have received from ECCN to receive contact information and opt-out instructions. You may also contact us by phone at 972-439-5805 or email at hello@earlychildhoodchristiannetwork.com
Supported Carriers
This program is supported by Alltel, AT&T, Boost, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile, MetroPCS, T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular. T-Mobile is not liable for delayed or undeliverable messages. Products and services are compatible with AT&T handsets.
Privacy Policy
We respect your privacy and will not distribute your mobile phone number to any third parties.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. For users who are registered for an event, we store the personal information provided by the person who registered them in a “ticket” for that specific event.
How we use AI
We use ChatGPT, Notebook LM and CoPilot to aid in development of course resources including course notesheets, course facilitator guides, course resources, course quiz questions. We limit these AI tools to each specific course transcript as we are creating resources. Nothing is published without significant human effort — we vigorously examine all output generated form these AI tools and are diligent in ensuring content is accurate to the original course content as well as to our voice and our mission.
We use ChatGPT, Notebook LM and CoPilot to assist in generating blog post ideas, some blog post content and editing for readability. All blog posts include significant human effort in reviewing AI recommendations, writing content, editing content, and ensuring content is developmentally appropriate as well as easily digested taking current communication strategies into account.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
We send your first name, last name, and email address to our email marketing tool, Kit, for the sole purpose of sending appropriate emails based on your purchases on our website. You have the ability to “unsubscribe” or update any preferences with every email. You may also contact us to remove you completely from that list.
Security
We use hCaptcha service on to protect forms on our website from spam and automated bots. hCaptcha provides a verification mechanism to distinguish between human users and bots.
We use the hCaptcha security service (hereinafter “hCaptcha”) on our website. This service is provided by Intuition Machines, Inc., a Delaware US Corporation (“IMI”). hCaptcha is used to check whether user actions on our online service (such as submitting a login or contact form) meet our security requirements. To do this, hCaptcha analyzes the behavior of the website or mobile app visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website or mobile app visitor enters a part of the website or app with hCaptcha enabled. For the analysis, hCaptcha evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website or app, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to IMI. hCaptcha analysis in the “invisible mode” may take place completely in the background. Website or app visitors are not advised that such an analysis is taking place if the user is not shown a challenge. Data processing is based on Art. 6(1)(b) of the GDPR: the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the website visitor is party (for example, the website terms) or in order to take steps at the request of the website visitor prior to entering into a contract. Our online service (including our website, mobile apps, and any other apps or other forms of access offered by us) needs to ensure that it is interacting with a human, not a bot, and that activities performed by the user are not related to fraud or abuse. In addition, processing may also be based on Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR: our online service has a legitimate interest in protecting the service from abusive automated crawling, spam, and other forms of abuse that can harm our service or other users of our service. IMI acts as a “data processor” acting on behalf of its customers as defined under the GDPR, and a “service provider” for the purposes of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). For more information about hCaptcha’s privacy policy and terms of use, please visit the following links: https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy and https://www.hcaptcha.com/terms.