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Policies
SfMe Media is a trade name of Search for Me Ministries, Inc. While seeking to utilize sound business practices, SfMe Media follows a "ministry first" model. We provide some digital resources at no cost and offer significant discounts for group orders.
Because we are a small organization, we partner with online retailers rather than fulfilling orders ourselves. The one exception would be copies of the Community Prayer Devotional that are personalized for your community.
Store Policies
Shipping
Search for Me Ministries, Inc. does not ship outside of the mainland USA. International orders for books can be placed through various retail outlets such as Christian Book Distributors and Amazon.com.
Returns
Because personalized copies of the Community Prayer Devotional are special order, they are non-refundable. If an order arrives damaged, or if you are not satisfied with the quality, please contact us within 24 hrs of receiving your order. Be sure to include your name and order number in the email.
Policy Changes
Search for Me Ministries, Inc. reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify and amend these policies in any manner at any time by posting a change notice or new policy to our website.
Copyright Policies
We seek to pursue a ministry first approach when it comes to the issue of copyright. Thus, we have gone through a great deal of effort to set up a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and publishing ministry to ensure that copyrights 9in addtion to publishing rights) for our resources are owned by a not-for-profit organization. We think that it is both resonable and fair to pay some royalties to contributors for some of the materials we develop, but our bottom line is always ministry and not money.
At the same time, we need to generate income to care for our employees and to more effectively serve the body of Christ. We also feel the need to protect the integrity of Search for Me Ministries, Inc. and the teaching materials we produce. Balancing these issue, we have established the copyright policies listed below.
We will do our best, as we are able to provide our resources at a reasonable cost or even for free. The audio files from the Search For Me identity series, for example, are available for listening on our SfMe Media website. We also do periodic free giveaways of our books through Amazon Kindle. If you do not own a Kindle, you can download a free Kindle App for your computer, tablet, or smartphone.
SfMe Media Resources (except for the items specified below).
The content of our resources is protected by the copyright laws of the United States of America. Except for those which fall under fair use standards, any materials may not be used for commercial purposes without the prior, express written consent of Search for Me Ministries, Inc. We do, however, give permission for churches, college ministries, and Christian non-profit organizations to copy portions of our materials for the purposes of discipleship and group study. Any copies produces for group use may not be sold for.a price beyond the actual cost of materials (e.g. paper).
Community Prayer Devotional
The Community Prayer Devotional is part of an ongoing effort to mobilize North American churches to pray for God's blessing upon our land. As a result, this inspirational devotional is being made widely available at minimum to no cost.
For security reasons, please do not copy or circulate digital PDF, mobi, or ePub files of this document. Also, do not accept a file from another person. Instead, we ask that you individually download the digital files at no cost through Smashwords. Permission is granted to make physical copies of this material for the purpose of praying for your community. However, it is not acceptable to sell the copies that are produced or to change the textual content of this work.
Bob's Blog
Written Text
Copies of Bob's blog may be printed or electronically transferred for non-commercial ministry purposes. Except for quotations, posting of the blog is not permitted on other websites, but you may provide a link to our blog site.
Images
Our ministry and blog logos, and any of our photos showing people's faces may not be copies. Some of the photos we use have public licenses to allow use by others. When appropriate, the license will be clearly indicated.
In no instance may any of our materials be used for commercial purposes without express written permission from Search for Me Ministries, Inc.
The Search for Me Identity Series
Limited permission is granted to churches, campus ministries, and non-profit organizations to copy The Search for me study materials for small group use. Individual or for-profit entitties may not copy the Series or any portion thereof.
The copyright in and to the Series is owned by Search for Me ministries, Inc., however, some of the individual elements contained in the Series are not. Search for Me Ministries, Inc., does not make any claim of ownership to the individual licenses. the images and other elements with limited copyright restrictions are subject to the terms of each individual license classification (e.g., Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License), as set forth in the credits of the Series. If you would like to use any of the elements of the Series which are not owned by Search for Me Ministries, Inc., in any manner, please refer to the credits to find teh source of the leement and the applicable ownership information. It is your responsibility to identiy the copyright owner and to obrain all necessary clearances before making use of these materials.
You may not extract any images, clips or bignettes form teh production except for promotional purposes solely within your organization. If you are ijnterested in making any other us eof any element of the Series which is owned by Search for Me Ministries, Inc., please contact us.
Upon purchasing the Series small group kit, your organization may make up to five (5) copies of the originical DVDs. The duplicates you make may not be copies. The workbook PDF files may be printed or copies at will fro use within one specific local non-profit ministry organization (i.e., church, campus ministry, mission facility). The Series small group CD may be copies up to five times and "ripped" to MP3 audio files which may be downloaded onto MP3 players for thsoe who are participating in group studies only. If you would like to recommend the audio messages contained in the Series to others, we have made the audio files freely available to all (via streaming) to sample through our website, and an MP3 audio CD is available for purchase.
One copy of the Series may be used multiple times for multiple groups within your specific local ministry. This means that a local church may run to to five Series small groups simultaneously without the need to purchase more materials. We strongly urge you to make backups of all disks and to store the originals in a safe location. For the sake of convenience, and to further support Search for Me Ministries, Inc., churches with the financial means are encourage to purchase multiple copies of the Series.
Non-profit ministries may charge a small fee tor group participants to help cover the actual cost involved with copying these materials, but may not sell any o the copies that you have made.
You may not alter the content of the Series without the prior, express written consent of Search for Me Ministries, Inc.
We believe that there will be a strong desire for many of you to share the Series with loves one, friends and other ministries, You may lend the Series to other local ministries for review purposes only, but they may not copy or distribute the Series of any portion thereof. If you would like to purchase the Series small group material s to give to other ministries, you may feel entirely free to do so!
The Series may not be used for commercial purposes without the prior, express written consent of Search for Me Ministries, Inc.
Privacy Policies
Our website use "cookies" to collect certain information every time you visit including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the time and date of your visit, the pages on our site you visit, the addresses of any websites that linked you to our site, and any keywords you may have entered into a search engine which led to our site. You can disable cookies on your browser if you would prefer, but this may inhibit you as your navigate through our site.
All credit card transactions take place off-site through a third party, and so Search for Me Ministries, Inc., does not store-or even have access to -your credit card information.
Information such as your name, address, telephone, fax, or email may be collected if you make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, submit a review for a product, contact customer service, or enter a contest. In these cases, we may also store information such as email content, customer reviews, or names and addresses of third parties of whom you might request a product be shipped.
All information we collect and store form you is strictly for the uses of processing and fulfilling orders, correspondence regarding orders or requests for information, sending promotional alerts and newsletters, and improving our products and customer service. SfMe Ministries does not sell, trade, or rent personal contact information it collects to outside parties. Nor does SfMe Ministries inundate customers and donors with requests for money.
If you would like to opt out of our email list or update your subscription preferences, you can do so by either clicking the links at the bottom of a newsletter, or by contacting customer service. If you choose to contact customer service, please be sure to specify your name and your email address that receives our newsletter.
Policy Changes
Search for Me Ministries, Inc. reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify and amend these policies in any manner at any time by posting a change notice or new policy on our website.