Mentor Ministry Privacy & Service Agreement
Privacy
Statement
E-Church
Essentials, LLC is committed to the security of your Ministry's private
information. As a company, we will not re-distribute your ministry's private
information to any unauthorized third-party. All e-commerce transactions placed
through E-Church Essentials, LLC and its affiliates are fully encrypted and
make use of the latest security technologies.
The
Essential Solution program by E-Church Essentials, LLC is designed to
facilitate a mentorship relationship between registered individuals and various
ministries organizations that have registered with E-Church Essentials as
"Mentor Ministries". By registering your ministry organization with
the Essential Solution program as a "Mentor Ministry", your ministry
agrees to serve the personal, spiritual and ministerial needs of individuals
who freely choose to associate themselves with your ministry. When individuals
register with your ministry, they grant your ministry leadership permission to
have limited access to their personal information for the exclusive purpose of
receiving personal, spiritual and ministerial mentoring. All Mentor Ministries
associated with the Essential Solution by E-Church Essentials, LLC agree to
protect the privacy of their registered members, and to not distribute their
personal information outside of the confines of their ministry, unless an
individual demonstrates that they are a danger to themselves or to others. If a
member under your Ministry's care believes that your organization has abused
its privilege to serve as a Mentor Ministry because of privacy violations or
for any other legitimate reason, your ministry organization agrees to address
those concerns with the registered individual(s) citing the concerns, and
furthermore agrees to hold E-Church Essentials, LLC and its representatives
legally and civilly blameless.
If
your ministry believes one of your members is behaving inappropriately based
upon the requirements of the System User & Privacy Agreement, and your
organizational leadership have exhausted all efforts to address the problem,
your ministry organization may communicate your concerns about the registered
individual to E-Church Essentials, LLC in writing and mail it to
E-Church
Essentials, LLC
E-Church Essentials will facilitate an account transfer of
the individual user to another Mentor Ministry if so requested in writing, and
will investigate alleged concerns presented in writing and signed by the
person(s) asserting the concerns. If sufficient complaints or legal evidence
against a registered individual exist, demonstrating that the individual has
voided their good-faith agreement with E-Church Essentials and with your
ministry, your ministry has the ability to deactivate the offending user
account. In addition, if necessary, E-Church Essentials, LLC will take the
appropriate and necessary steps to remove the individual from the Essential Solution
program.
Your Ministry Responsibility
Our
(i.e. registered Mentor Ministries) ministry's leadership understands that by
registering our ministry organization with the Essential Solution by E-Church
Essentials, we freely associate our ministry organization with the Essential
Solution network and that our ministry's membership is a privilege and not a
contractual right. Furthermore, our ministry organization is in agreement with
the following biblical positions, and in good faith will not espouse teachings
contrary or inconsistent with these positions
- The Bible is God's unique
revelation to people. It is the inspired, infallible Word of God, and the
supreme and final authority on all matters upon which it teaches. No other
writings are vested with such divine authority.
- There is only one God, creator
of heaven and earth, who exists eternally as three persons - Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit, each fully God yet each personally distinct from the
other.
- All people are created in God's
image and matter deeply to Him. Central to the message of the Bible is
that God loves people, and invites them to live in communion with Himself
and in community with each other.
- Apart from Jesus Christ, all
people are spiritually lost and, because of sin, deserve the judgment of
God. However, God gives salvation and eternal life to anyone who trusts in
Jesus Christ and in His sacrifice on his or her behalf. Salvation cannot
be earned through personal goodness or human effort. It is a gift that
must be received by humble repentance and faith in Christ and His finished
work on the cross.
- Jesus Christ, second Person of
the Trinity, was born of the Virgin Mary, lived a sinless human life,
willingly took upon Himself all of our sins, died and rose again bodily,
and is at the right hand of the Father as our advocate and mediator. Some
day, He will return to consummate history and to fulfill the eternal plan
of God.
- The Holy Spirit, third Person
of the Trinity, convicts the world of sin and draws people to Christ. He
also indwells all believers. He is available to empower them to lead
Christ-like lives, and gives them spiritual gifts with which to serve the
church and reach out to a lost and needy world.
- Death seals the eternal destiny
of each person. At the final judgment, unbelievers will be separated from
God into condemnation. Believers will be received into God's loving
presence and rewarded for their faithfulness to Him in this life.
- All believers are members of
the body of Christ, the one true church universal. Spiritual unity is to
be expressed among Christians by acceptance and love of one another across
ethnic, cultural, socio-economic, national, generational, gender, and
denominational lines.
- The local church is a
congregation of believers who gather for worship, prayer, instruction,
encouragement, mutual accountability, and community with each other.
Through it, believers invest time, energy, and resources to fulfill the
Great Commission - reaching lost people and growing them into fully
devoted followers of Christ.
This statement reflects a
contemporary summary of the central doctrines in the Bible, which are also
presented in the historic creeds of the Christian church.
We
understand that our ministry organization may lose its right to participate in
the Essential Solution network if it regularly advocates theological or
doctrinal positions contrary or inconsistent with the above doctrinal
statement, uses vulgar language or promotes sexually explicit and/or immoral
acts and that such actions shall be judged by the clear standards of the Bible,
not by societal norms. I further understand that my ministry organization may
also lose my membership privileges if it threatens, harms, or harasses any
member of the Essential Solution network. Our ministry organization further
agrees that if documented evidence of such behavior exists, and that as a
result our ministry organization should lose our Essential Solution membership,
our ministry organization and its members agree to forfeit any right to
financial reimbursement and agree to not hold E-Church Essentials, LLC nor its
representatives legally or civilly liable.
Finally,
our ministry understands that each registered Mentor Ministry on the Essential
Solution network is solely responsible for their content. E-Church Essentials,
LLC can not be held responsible to edit or manage the communications of their
various customers, unless such communication clearly violates this agreement
and so voids the ministry's privilege to participate within the network.