Terms of Use

Updated: 03/14/2024

Please read the following Terms of Use (“Terms”) carefully. They govern your use of the CrownLife International Inc. 501(c)(3) EIN 721202161 websites and mobile applications (collectively, the “Site”) of CrownLife International Inc and related sites, hereafter referred to as (“CLI”).

We use Tithley as a paid service provider for our ministry website, and donation processing, on our Tithely site at CrownLife International. Tithely engages Stripe for payment, analytics, and other business services. Stripe collects identifying information about the devices that connect to its services. Stripe uses this information to operate and improve the services it provides to us, including for fraud detection. You can learn more about Stripe and read its privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.

By using these sites, or any of CrownLife International sites you hereby agree that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age and are bound by all of the following provisions of these Terms. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, IMMEDIATELY STOP ACCESSING THE SITE AND DO NOT USE ANY SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH THE SITE.

About CrownLife International Inc 501(c)(3) “CLI'' The “CLI” website content was created by volunteers at CrownLife International and employs third party hosting, web applications, and mobile applications which are products or our paid service providers such as Tithley and Stripe as our payment processor on this site. We are a non profit church ministry founded originally in the 1990's and duly registered with the Secretary of State of Louisiana with U.S. offices in Georgia, USA. The CLI website content has been developed by CLI volunteers with software and other technologies that have been designed, architected and developed by Tithely. “Tithe.ly”' In addition we use the services of DonorBox and their giving systems for other stand alone fundraisers and related forms of processing donations. 

CLI helps to provide general oversight of our campuses in many nations and with their ministry leaders. Each campus has a certain degree of autonomy in their communities and nation, however we all collaborate closely together towards the mission of sharing Jesus while serving the needy. For the purpose of this policy “Donee” CLI or any designated CLI campus to which any love offering is given.

Each of our campus leaders is vetted closely and generally will provide written letters of recommendations from other pastors, ministers or churches where they serve along with their valid, current national identification with their photo and they must answer truthfully a series of vital questions. When we have an existing campus and ministry leader within the region we designate one of our existing local leaders to make personal contact with any new applicant during the onboarding processes. In general most of our campus leaders have served with us for over a decade with a few becoming completely independant and going on to be fully established apart from CLI. All initial new potential Field Partners candidates are assigned to a 30 day probationary period, which may, or may not be extended up to an additional 60 days at CLI’s sole discretion. During this time CLI leadership engages and further vets new potential Field Partner candidates. Each campus, ministry leader, field partner or potential field partner sources their donors who in turn use the CLI sites when making love offerings. Each donor who gives a disinterested love offering on the CLI site does so as a voluntary free will offering and nothing is given in exchange for their offerings. Donors who give love offerings to CLI or to any of our campuses, campus leaders, field partners or probationary field partners have the sole decision and the sole liability at all time if and when they freely choose to make a love offering to the Donees based on their interactions with, relationship to, or knowledge of the donees.

Our vetting of and inclusion of campus locations, ministry leaders, CLI Field Partners, or potential field partners is solely for our own internal determination with regards to whether to list the donnee on our site and does not imply/nor convey that we are directly responsible for, nor do we manage the day to day activities of their local ministries, nor the decision of donors to donate to them. Let the donors beware and make their own freewill decisions when providing donations to CLI, Donees, campuses, field partners, or probationary field partners as CLI has no direct responsibility for the donor, donee relationship. CLI will receive love offerings made by users of the Site (each, a “Disinterested Donor”), and issue email receipts and year end giving reports, as well as transfer to the “donee campus” once or twice monthly. CLI USA Campus receives a 10% love offering from each local campus on a monthly basis.) This can be considered as a pass-through contribution, which is a contribution made to a non-profit ministry (referred to as the Non Profit ministry donee), who then transfers funds to a beneficiary “donee” (CLI Campus) on behalf of the donor. This type of transaction is referred to as an "agency" transaction.

Pursuant to the use of our site and this Agreement, the CLI Campus, Field Partner, Probationary Field Partner (donee) appoints CLI to receive free will love offerings donations disinterested Donors (each a “Payment”) CLI via our donation processors issues receipts, provides basic bookkeeping services, to donors a well as year end report to donors. The love offering that each CLI campus freely gives to CLI USA is 10% of gross donations, which is used to help operate the ministry and may be amended from time to time at CLI’s sole criteria. Donee CLI campuses, ministry leaders, field partners and potential field partners represent that each is party to a separate agreement with each Donor (such as, for example, a promise to donate) for which it receives payment hereunder and in accordance with these terms and that payments received by Donee hereunder are only pursuant to this agreement.

CLI is not an agent of Donor in receiving Payments. CLI is not a bank, money transmitter, or other money services business, as defined by the Bank Secrecy Act or state banking law. The relationship of CLI to each Donee and donor shall also be governed in general by the rules and regulations of the banks, credit card processing services and sending transmittal platforms that CLI may engage in the transcourse of serving the donee and donor.

Credit and debit card providers also have their own rules that apply to donors and donee, and others. Some of those rules are available here and are incorporated herein by reference:

The Terms include CLI’s Privacy Policy incorporated herein and available at: License and User Conduct CLI grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this Site for making love offerings and reading ministry reports. However, you may not download or modify the Site, or any portion of the Site, except with express written consent of CLI.

This Site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of CLI. Any unauthorized use of the Site shall automatically terminate the license granted to you by CLI for such use.You are required to abide by all applicable international, federal, state and local laws and regulations in your use of this Site. CLI may terminate your use of the Site in CLI’s sole discretion for any reason.

If you are under eighteen (18) years of age, you may not use the Site.

The following is a partial list of prohibited activities on or through the Site:
(1) using a robot, spider, script, automated process, or manual process to “scrape” the Site’s listings or Content; (2) taking any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on CLI’s hardware or software infrastructure; (3) sending SPAM to CLI’s users or others; (4) attempting to reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise obtain the source code to the Site; (5) engaging in or promoting any illegal activities; (6) engaging in any activity that markets another business or attracts CLI’s customers to a third party; (7) submitting Content that is offensive, obscene, harmful to minors, illegal, abusive, threatening, defamatory, or misleading; or (8) using the services if you are or wish to assist a person or entity who is on a Specially Designated National List of the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control (“OFAC”) or otherwise prohibited from accessing the U.S. financial system. Copyrights and TrademarksExcept as otherwise noted on this Site, all information, documentation, and other content posted on this Site are the property of CLI, its affiliates, and/or its licensors.

The graphics, icons, and overall appearance of this Site are the property of CLI. The posting of information, documentation, and other content does not constitute a waiver of any of CLI’s, an affiliate’s, and/or a third party licensor’s proprietary rights in such information, documentation, and other content (such as, but not limited to, copyrights or trademarks) or a transfer of any such rights to you or any third party. The information, documentation, and other content posted on this Site are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws, both as individual works and as collections.

You may not delete any copyright or similar notice from any information, documentation, and other content you obtain from this Site. You may not sell, republish, frame in another webpage, or use on another website, any of the information, documentation, and other content, or any portion thereof, posted in or on this Site without the prior written consent of CLI.

You may view, print, copy, and download portions of the information, documentation, and other content of this Site solely in connection with your use of the Site, and solely for your own individual, internal, non-commercial use or records. CLI and its affiliates reserve the right to revoke this authorization at any time.

When you upload, submit, or store any content (“User Content”) through the Site, you grant CLI a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, and create derivative works from the User Content to provide, support, and improve the Site. You acknowledge that User Content and information regarding your account will be processed by payment processors and stored and processed using online hosting services selected by those secure payment processors.

You represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights in, and obtained all necessary consents to, the User Content and the Third Party Services (described below), to grant our service providers the rights granted under this Section, and to allow our service providers to perform the Integration Services (described below). Registration and Accounts: Only you may use your donation account. You agree to keep your accounts and passwords confidential at all times and not authorize any third party to access or use your account on your behalf, including providing your account information to third-party websites to access your donor account.

You are solely responsible for all activity that takes place within your donor account. At any time, CLI, or our service providers, in their sole discretion, may disable or delete any account registered on the Site, or at our service providers for any reason. By registering to the Site, or to service providers sites you agree to provide any verification information as required by CLI, or the service providers to comply with various United States laws, including, but not limited to, the United States Patriot Act.You agree to be bound by policies of third parties including networks, bank card associations and banks used to process payments and to hold CLI harmless.

You agree to forever release and hold CLI harmless from any cost, damage, or other injury that may arise out of the relationship between you and your financial institution or otherwise out of your agreement with your institution.Some third parties may require a direct agreement with a Donee. If a direct agreement between such a third party and a particular Donee is required,  the donor will make reasonable efforts to facilitate the execution of such agreements between both parties. CLI, or our service providers reserve the right to disable or delete a Donee’s account if Donee is unable to enter into a direct agreement with a third party, as required by the policy of said third party.

Links: This Site may contain links to other external sites. The links are provided “as is.” You should be aware that you use them at your own risk. CLI does not endorse, and CLI is not liable for any content, products, services, software or other materials available on such other sites, even if a page or pages of the other sites are framed with a page of this Site. CLI is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other sites.

For your protection, please refer to the terms of service and privacy policies of the respective sites. CLI shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on such other sites, or our CLI site. CLI shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, goods or services available on such other sites, or for any actions taken or not taken in reliance thereon. CLI uses Tithley as our website host and Tithely is fully in charge and responsible for site security and site issues pursuant to their own rules and policies.

Pay Services Certain services made available over the Site may be offered on a recurring fee basis (hereinafter referred to as a “Pay Service”). You agree to pay all the fees applicable to any purchased Pay Service, including any fees associated with the use of such Pay Service and any payment service fees listed on the accept payment page together with all applicable taxes (collectively, the “Fees”). Fees shall apply to Donors who may kindly elect to pay processing fees, or to Donees only. CLI is free to Donors, unless they voluntarily help cover the processing fees cost. Unless otherwise indicated on the relevant Pay Service description page, all Fees for a Pay Service will be billed immediately to the credit card designated by you and are non-refundable. CLI and our service providers reserve the right to change the amount of, or basis for determining, any Fees for a Pay Service, and to institute new Fees or terms at any time effective upon notice to you, which notice may for certainty include the posting of any such changes on the relevant pages of the of our service providers sites related to the use of the Pay Services.

Donations CLI and service providers present pricing terms for Donors and/or Donees when giving via CLI, service providers, or associated systems. However, for clarity, additional pricing terms include:Transaction Fees. The services provided under this Agreement for Donees are subject to payment of fees by Donees (“Fees”). CLI reserves the right to off-set from each Payment the applicable Fees, and other portions before settling such Payment to a Donee.

Donor Refunds. 

Donee agrees that CLI may, when possible, and in its sole and absolute discretion, offer a refund to a Donor for a Payment in the event that the donor provided the donation in error to CLI, or in other situations where CLI determines in its sole discretion that the transaction should be refunded. Except as otherwise set forth herein, to be eligible for a refund, Donors must submit a request within thirty (30) days of providing any Payment, to agency@crownlifeinternational.org with the Subject “Refund Request” and include the purchaser’s CLI username, processing platform name and transaction information.

CLI will make commercially reasonable efforts to respond within ten (10) days of any such request but does not guarantee that the refund will occur. After such a ten (10) day period, if the matter is not resolved to the entire satisfaction of the Donor, Donor shall address the payment processor directly and CLI shall have no liability in respect of the Payment except and to the extent required under the Operating Regulations.

Disbursements. 

Payments received by Donee, through the CLI site, shall be settled to Donees, less applicable Fees by sending services. 

Payment Processing. 

CLI utilizes Tithely and Donorbox for payment processing. Donee agrees to any terms and conditions related to Donorbox, and Tithely and any other service providers that are published or linked on the Site, or their respective websites. PCI-DSS ComplianceCLI shall comply, and require applicable service providers and other third parties to comply, with and shall have a program to assure continued compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) published by the PCI Security Standards Council, as the PCI-DSS may be amended, supplemented, or replaced from time to time, and as applicable to the transactions processed via the Site.

If CLI becomes aware that CLI or its service provider is not, or will not likely be, in compliance with PCI-DSS for any reason, CLI will promptly report the same in writing.Third Party Integrations / ContentIntegrations Generally. This section applies to any Integration Services (defined below) that are not otherwise governed by separate terms and conditions. “Integration Services” means any services related to the integration of the Site or any portions thereof, with any other third party services (“Third Party Services”), as requested and directed by Donor or Donee.

CLI is not obligated to, and shall provide any Integration Services at its sole discretion. Donees shall be solely responsible for identifying any Third Party Services, and any dealings with such Third Party Services are between Donee, Donor and the Third Party Services and may be subject to additional terms provided by such Third Party Services. Donee and Donor agree that by using such Third Party Services, CLI is not liable for any loss or claim that it may have against any such Third Party Services.Content. When Donee, or Donor uploads, submits, or stores any content (“Donee Content” “Donor Content”) through the Site, Donee/Donor grants CLI a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, and create derivative works from the Donee/Donor Content to provide, support, and improve the Site.

Donee/Donor acknowledges that Donee/Donor Content and information regarding Donee’s/Donor’s account will be processed by outside services providers and stored and processed using online hosting services selected by those providers. Donee/Donor represents and warrants that it has all necessary rights in, and obtained all necessary consents to, the Donee/Donor Content and the Third Party Services, to grant CLI the rights granted under this Section, and to allow CLI, or a duly elected services provider to perform the Integration Services.

Responsibilities. 

CLI is not responsible:For any electronic communications and/or Donee/Donor Content which are delayed, lost, altered, intercepted or stored during the transmission of any data by means of third party networks;The operation, availability, functionality, or use of any Third Party Services;For acquiring any rights, title, interests, and/or licenses to any Third Party Services, as may be required in order to perform the Integration Services;Or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any content, events, goods or services available on or through any such Third Party Services, or these Integration Services.

Disclaimer of Warranties

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SITE AND ANY AND ALL CLI RELATED SITE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. CROWNLIFE INTERNATIONAL DOES NOT GUARANTEE, REPRESENT, OR WARRANT THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR FREE, OR VIRUS FREE, OR THAT THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS. INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED, AND CLI DOES NOT GUARANTEE, REPRESENT, OR WARRANT THAT SUCH INFORMATION IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, OR OTHERWISE VALID. CLI DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, TRADE USAGE, OR TRADE PRACTICE.

Limitation of Liability

USE OF THE SITE(S) IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. INFORMATION TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE INTERNET IS NEVER COMPLETELY SECURE. NEITHER CLI, NOR ANY OF CLI’S EMPLOYEES, VOLUNTEERS, DONNES, OFFICERS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES, OR LICENSORS (COLLECTIVELY, “CROWNLIFE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATES”) SHALL BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY COMPENSATORY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ATTORNEYS’ FEES, OR FOR LOST DATA OR LOST PROFIT, ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR INABILITY TO GAIN ACCESS TO OR USE THE SITE OR OUT OF ANY BREACH OF ANY WARRANTY, EVEN IF CLI OR A CLI ASSOCIATE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR SUCH DAMAGES WERE FORESEEABLE.YOUR SOLE RIGHT AND REMEDY WITH RESPECT TO ANY DISPUTE WITH CROWNLIFE INTERNATIONAL IS TO STOP USING THE SITE. BECAUSE SOME STATES OR JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, IN SUCH STATES AND JURISDICTIONS LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. IF THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS ARE UNENFORCEABLE, CLI’S LIABILITY TO YOU UNDER THESE TERMS SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT IN QUESTION  PAID BY YOU. THE CLI SITE IS CONTROLLED, OPERATED AND ADMINISTERED BY CLI, WITH TITHELY AND OUR SERVICE PROVIDERS PROVIDING SERVICES ON THE TITHELY SYSTEMS AND PLATFORM FROM ITS OFFICES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. NEITHER CLI , NOR TITHELY, NOR OUR SERVICE PROVIDERS MAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION THAT MATERIAL AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE IS LEGAL, APPROPRIATE, OR AVAILABLE FOR USE OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES. NOTHING IN THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SHALL LIMIT THE LIABILITY OF CLI TO SETTLE TO DONEE THE AMOUNT OF A PAYMENT IN QUESTION AND RECEIVED BY DONEE THROUGH CLI, LESS APPLICABLE FEES OR OTHER LIABILITIES OF DONEE TO CLI HEREUNDER.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless CLI, its subsidiaries, affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees, volunteers and agents from and against all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of or related to any products or services purchased by you, donations made by you, and/or donations received by you in connection with the Site or any use of the Site in violation of this Agreement.Notices Where required, CLI may give notice to you by a general posting on the Site, by electronic mail, or by conventional mail to your address of record.

You may give notice to CLI by electronic mail or by conventional mail to the address below. If you have any questions about these Terms, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with CLI, please email to Agency@crownlifeinternational.org  or write to:CrownLife International Inc 501(c)(3)101 Vista DriveCleveland, Georgia 30528-0502USACLI welcomes your questions and comments. Direct all questions about donation processing to the respective processing service.

Miscellaneous

The laws of the State of Georgia shall govern the validity, performance, enforcement, interpretation and any other aspect of these Terms, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws thereunder. The parties shall submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the federal and state courts located in the State of Georgia for any action arising out of these Terms or use of the Site. CLI may revise these Terms at any time, and such modifications will be effective immediately upon posting. Your use of the Site after such posting shall be deemed to constitute acceptance by you of such modifications. If you no longer agree with the Terms of this Agreement after any such modification, you may opt-out of the Site by halting your access to the Site, services and related service providers and it is solely incumbent upon the donor to cancel any recurring giving agreement by accessing the link at the bottom of each recurring giving donation receipt. Notwithstanding any provision of these Terms, CLI has available all remedies at law or equity to enforce these Terms.

Last Updated: 03/14/2024