Cookie policy

This website www.livingactivemethod.com uses Cookies and similar technologies in order to distinguish you from other users. By using Cookies, We are able to provide you with a better experience and to improve www.livingactivemethod.com by better understanding how you use it. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of Our Cookie Policy is deemed to occur when you press the “accept” button on Our Cookie banner or when you have selected your preferred Cookie options in Our Cookie manager and pressed the “Continue” button. If you do not agree to Our Cookie Policy, please stop using www.livingactivemethod.com immediately.

All of the Living Active Method (LAM), Youth as Multiplying Disciplers, and the LAM Journey are copyrighted content and property of Children of Character, also doing business as Children in Christ (CIC). In the following policies, all reference to Children of Character will be referenced as CIC.

1. Definitions and Interpretation

In this Cookie Policy, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings:
Cookie: means a small file placed on your computer or device by www.livingactivemethod.com when you visit certain parts of www.livingactivemethod.com and/or when you use certain features of www.livingactivemethod.com;
Cookie Law: means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and of EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”);
Personal data: means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data, as defined by EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”); and
We/Us/Our: means “Our Website/School/Company”, the brand owned and operated by CIC.

2. Information About Us

www.livingactivemethod.com is owned and operated by CIC.
  • Email address: laminfo@childrenic.org

3. How Does www.livingactivemethod.com Use Cookies?

  • 3.1 www.livingactivemethod.com may place and access certain first-party Cookies on your computer or device. First party Cookies are those placed directly by CIC and are used only by CIC. We use Cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of www.livingactivemethod.com and services. We have carefully chosen these Cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times.
  • 3.2 By using www.livingactivemethod.com, you may also receive certain third-party Cookies on your computer or device. Third-party Cookies are those placed by websites, services, and/or parties other than CIC. Third-party Cookies are used on www.livingactivemethod.com for analytics and for marketing purposes. For more details, please refer to section 4 below.
  • 3.3 All Cookies used by and on www.livingactivemethod.com are used in accordance with current Cookie Law. We may use some or all of the following types of Cookie:
  • 3.3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
    A Cookie falls into this category (usually first-party cookies) if it is essential to the operation of www.livingactivemethod.com as without them we cannot provide the functionality that you need to use this website. For example, essential cookies help remember your preferences as you navigate through the online school, also support functions such as logging in, and payment transactions.
  • 3.3.2 Functionality Cookies
    Functional Cookies allow our web site to remember choices you make, e.g. your user name, log in details and language preferences and any customizations you make to pages during your visit. They are necessary to provide features and services specific to individual users.
  • 3.3.3 Analytics Cookies
    It is important for CIC to understand how you use www.livingactivemethod.com, for example, how efficiently you are able to navigate around it, and what features you use. Analytics Cookies enable us to gather this information, helping CIC to improve www.livingactivemethod.com and your experience of it.
  • 3.3.4 Marketing/Targeting Cookies
    It is important for CIC to know when and how often you visit www.livingactivemethod.com, and which parts of it you have used (including which pages you have visited and which links you have visited). As with analytics Cookies, this information helps CIC to better understand you and, in turn, to make www.livingactivemethod.com and advertising more relevant to your interests. Some information gathered by targeting Cookies may also be shared with third parties.
  • 3.3.5 Third Party Cookies
    Third-party Cookies are not placed by CIC; instead, they are placed by third parties that provide services to CIC and/or to you. Third-party Cookies may be used by advertising services to serve up tailored advertising to you on www.livingactivemethod.com, or by third parties providing analytics services to CIC (these Cookies will work in the same way as analytics Cookies described above).
  • 3.3.6 Persistent Cookies
    Any of the above types of Cookie may be a persistent Cookie. Persistent Cookies are those which remain on your computer or device for a predetermined period and are activated each time you visit www.livingactivemethod.com.
  • 3.3.7 Session Cookies
    Any of the above types of Cookie may be a session Cookie. Session Cookies are temporary and only remain on your computer or device from the point at which you visit www.livingactivemethod.com until you close your browser. Session Cookies are deleted when you close your browser.
  • 3.4 Cookies on www.livingactivemethod.com are not permanent and will expire as indicated in the table below.
  • 3.5 For more details of the personal data that We collect and use, the measures we have in place to protect personal data, your legal rights, and our legal obligations, please refer to our Privacy Policy
  • 3.6 For more specific details of the Cookies that We use, please refer to the table below.

4. What Cookies Does www.livingactivemethod.com Use?

  • 4.1 The following first-party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:
Name of Cookie Purpose Strictly Necessary Expires
XSRF-TOKEN Preserves User Login information and states Yes When you close your browser
DPSettings Preserves the user's Cookie policy preferences Yes 12 days
slim_session Preserves User Login information and states Yes 2.5 days
affiliate Tracks purchases made through affiliate links to ensure proper credit is given to the affiliate partner. No Depends on your affiliate cookie settings
  • 4.2 The following strictly necessary third-party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device (remove stripe cookies from the list if you don’t use stripe):
Name of Cookie Provider Purpose Expires
__stripe_sid checkout.stripe.com Used to process payments for our website. 30 minutes
__stripe_mid checkout.stripe.com Used to distinguish users. 1 year
cid checkout.stripe.com Used to process payments for our website. 3 months
vuid vimeo.com These cookies are used by Vimeo to collect analytics tracking information. 3 years
player player.vimeo.com These cookies are used by Vimeo to collect analytics tracking information. 1 year
cf_clearance www.cloudflare.com Used by clouflare to specify the duration that our website is accessible to a visitor that successfully completed a previous Captcha or challenge. 4 hours
  • 4.3 www.livingactivemethod.com uses analytics services. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyze anonymous usage information, enabling us to better understand how www.livingactivemethod.com is used. This, in turn, enables us to improve www.livingactivemethod.com and the products and services offered through them.
  • 4.4 The analytics services used by www.livingactivemethod.com use Cookies to gather the required information. You do not have to allow us to use these Cookies, however, whilst our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of www.livingactivemethod.com, it does enable us to continually improve www.livingactivemethod.com, making it a better and more useful experience for you.
  • 4.5 The analytics services used by www.livingactivemethod.com uses the following Cookies: 
Google Analytics
Name of Cookie Provider Purpose Expires
_ga www.livingactivemethod.com Google Analytics: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 2 years
_gat www.livingactivemethod.com Google Analytics: Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate. When you close your browser
_gid www.livingactivemethod.com Google Analytics: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. When you close your browser
_ga_container-id www.livingactivemethod.com Used to persist session state. 2 years
  • 4.6 Targeting/Marketing cookies
    Targeting/Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising (remove cookies not exploited in your school): 
Facebook
Name of Cookie Provider Purpose Expires
_fbp www.livingactivemethod.com Identifies browsers for advertising and site analytics services 90 days
fr facebook.com Delivers advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers 90 days
datr facebook.com Identifies the web browser used to connect to Facebook; enhances security and site integrity 2 years
c_user facebook.com Contains the user ID of the currently logged-in user 1 year<
xs facebook.com Contains session number and secret number for security Varies, tied to session
sb facebook.com Helps improve friend suggestions 2 years
oo facebook.com Opt-out of Facebook showing ads based on activity on third-party websites 5 years
presence facebook.com Contains user's chat state (e.g., which chat tabs are open) End of session
Hubspot
Name of Cookie Provider Purpose Expires
__hstc www.livingactivemethod.com The main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk (see below), initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). 6 months
hubspotutk www.livingactivemethod.com This cookie is used for to keep track of a visitor's identity. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when de-duplicating contacts. 6 months
__hssc www.livingactivemethod.com This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if we should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. 30 min
__hssrc www.livingactivemethod.com Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set. We set it to 1 and use it to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when we manage cookies, we assume it is a new session. session
messagesUtk www.livingactivemethod.com This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the messages tool. If the visitor leaves your site before they're added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. If you have a history of chatting with a visitor and they return to your site later in the same cookied browser, the messages tool will load your conversation history with that visitor. 6 months
Google AdWords
Name of Cookie Provider Purpose Expires
ads/ga-audiences www.livingactivemethod.com Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behavior across websites. When you close your browser

5. Consent and Control

  • 5.1 Before Cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown a banner requesting your consent to set those Cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of Cookies you are enabling CIC to provide the best possible experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies unless those Cookies are strictly necessary; however certain features of www.livingactivemethod.com may not function fully or as intended. You will be given the opportunity to allow and/or deny different categories of Cookie that We use.
  • 5.2 In addition to the controls that We provide, you can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all Cookies or only third-party Cookies. By default, most internet browsers accept Cookies but this can be changed. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser or the documentation that came with your device.

6. Changes to this Cookie Policy

  • 6.1 We may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of www.livingactivemethod.com after the changes have been made. You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time.
  • 6.2 In the event of any conflict between the current version of this Cookie Policy and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.