Privacy Policy

Last Updated: February 2026

Introduction Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.HopeCorps.net and Hope Corps International and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Hope Corps International include www.HopeCorps.net and Hope Corps.

The Hope Corps website is an Apostolic Bible Program and ministry site. By using the Hope Corps website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

1. Collection of Your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with the programs, services, and products offered on our Site, Hope Corps International may collect personally identifiable information.

Information you voluntarily provide may include:

Contact Information: First and Last Name, Mailing Address, E-mail Address, Phone Number.
Ministry Information: Church Information, Pastor Information.
Demographic & Profile Data: Age, Gender, Religion, Ethnicity, Citizenship Information, and Picture.
Sensitive Information: In specific instances (such as program enrollment or background checks required for ministry/volunteering), we may collect your Social Security Number. This data is handled with the highest level of security and confidentiality.

Financial Information: If you make a donation, pay tuition, or purchase merchandise/products from Hope Corps, billing and credit card information will be required. This data is processed by third-party payment processors (such as PayPal) to complete the purchase transaction. Hope Corps International does not store your full credit card number on our internal servers.

Automatically Collected Information: Hope Corps International may collect anonymous demographic information that is not unique to you. Information about your computer hardware and software may also be automatically collected. This can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the website.

2. Use of Your Personal Information

Hope Corps International collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested. We may use your information to:

Process donations, tuition payments, and merchandise orders.
Ship products or course materials to your address.
Register you for accounts, events, or programs.
Communicate with you regarding services or products you have requested.
Respond to your emails, chats, or customer service inquiries.
Inform you of other programs, products, or services available from Hope Corps International and its affiliates.

3. Sharing Information with Third Parties

Hope Corps International does not sell, rent, or lease its donor, student, or customer lists to third parties.

Hope Corps may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Hope Corps, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Legal Disclosure: Hope Corps International may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Hope Corps or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Hope Corps; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Hope Corps, or the public.

4. User Generated Content (Comments & Media)

Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. (See Gravatar Privacy Policy).
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.
Embedded Content: 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, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

5. Tracking User Behavior & Cookies

The Hope Corps website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time (e.g., remembering your billing address or login status). You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.

Hope Corps may also keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Hope Corps, in order to determine what services and products are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content within Hope Corps to users whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

6. Security of Your Personal Information

Hope Corps International secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We use the following methods for this purpose:

SSL Protocol: When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. However, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. By using this site, you acknowledge that there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control.

7. Data Retention

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. For users that register on our website, we 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. We retain donor and student records for as long as necessary for tax, legal, and administrative purposes.

8. Children Under Thirteen

Hope Corps International does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

9. E-mail Communications & Opt-Out

From time to time, Hope Corps may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Hope Corps, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button located in our emails. You may also contact us directly to be removed from third-party partner communications.

10. Changes to this Statement

Hope Corps International reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy.

Contact Information

Hope Corps International welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.

Hope Corps International 400 Roebuck Parkway Birmingham, AL 35206

Email Address: info@hopecorps.net

Telephone number: (901) 290-7263