Terms of Service

Effective Date: 8/15/2009; rev. 2/19/2025

Welcome to Enter the Bible. By using our website, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Please read them carefully.

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using Enter the Bible (the “Website”), you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (“Terms”). If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not use the Website.

2. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Any modifications will be effective upon posting on this page. Your continued use of the Website after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.

3. Use of the Website

• Eligibility: You must be at least 13 years old to use the Website. If you are under 18, you must have permission from a parent or guardian.
• Permitted Use: The Website is for personal and educational use. You agree not to misuse it in any way, including but not limited to:
  • Violating any applicable laws
  • Attempting to disrupt or harm the Website’s functionality
  • Using automated tools (bots, scrapers, etc.) to access content
  • Posting or sharing harmful, offensive, or inappropriate material

4. Intellectual Property

All content on Enter the Bible, including text, graphics, images, videos, and other materials, is the property of Luther Seminary or its licensors and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. You may use the content for personal, educational, or non-commercial purposes, please just provide attribution when you share or distribute it (for example, “This material was first published on Enter the Bible.”).

5. User-Generated Content

If you submit comments, questions, or other content to the Website:

• You grant Enter the Bible a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, and distribute your submission.
• You agree not to submit anything illegal, defamatory, harassing, or otherwise inappropriate.
• We reserve the right to remove or edit user submissions at our discretion.

6. Privacy

Your use of Enter the Bible is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, and protect your data. By using the Website, you consent to our data practices as outlined in the Privacy Policy.

7. Third-Party Links

The Website may contain links to third-party sites. These links are provided for your convenience, but we do not endorse or take responsibility for their content or privacy practices. Please review their terms before engaging with them.

8. Disclaimers

• The content on Enter the Bible is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as professional or legal advice.
• We strive to provide accurate information, but we make no guarantees regarding completeness, reliability, or timeliness.
• Your use of the Website is at your own risk. The Website is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind, express or implied.

9. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Enter the Bible and its affiliates are not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Website.

10. Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us at enterthebible@luthersem.edu.

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Privacy Policy

Luther Seminary is fully committed to providing an engaging, informative and useful website for its visitors. We strive to serve you with helpful resources, invite you into our community and provide helpful interaction with our many programs and offerings. Visitors to any Luther Seminary web page have the opportunity to contact us via email at communic@luthersem.edu.

The policy of Luther Seminary regarding its officially controlled and operated websites is to respect and protect the privacy of its users. These users include faculty, staff, students, donors, alumni and other visitors.

How we collect information

This policy defines how Luther Seminary collects information from you and how it is used. For each visitor to one of Luther Seminary’s websites, the following information may be collected:

Anonymous Information

• Internet address information of visitors to our websites (IP addresses)
• Aggregate information on what pages people visit
• User-specific information on what pages people visit
• Information on browser capabilities
• Information on referring domains (what websites link to Luther Seminary)

Personal information

• Email addresses of those who communicate with us via email
• Information volunteered by a visitor, such as survey responses
• Personal information volunteered for specific purposes such as online event or course registration, online applications, online donations or information requests

Luther Seminary websites may log IP addresses and browser types, but will not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information. This means that a user’s session may be tracked but their identity will remain anonymous unless personal information is specifically submitted. You can browse Luther Seminary websites without entering any personal information and therefore remain anonymous during your visit.

Security and SSL

There are cases where Luther Seminary websites may request or provide personal information such as LutherNet username/password, address or credit card information. To provide for your privacy in these instances, Luther Seminary utilizes a secure server which transmits and receives data in SSL-encrypted format.

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, a technology for managing the security of online message transmission. SSL encrypts any information sent from your browser to the server you are connected to. This technology protects your information from being viewed by an outside user.

Luther Seminary also has appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

Cookies

Some Luther Seminary websites utilize “cookies” to provide an enhanced online experience, enable e-commerce functionality and to facilitate login authentication to protected areas of the site.

Cookies store small amounts of data on your computer when you visit a website. The web server issuing the cookie is the only server that can read that particular cookie. Cookies cannot retrieve information from your hard drive or profile your system. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser. Our websites are viewable even if you disable the cookie function on your browser. However, if you disable cookies, some advanced and customized features of our site, as well as other websites, will not be available to you.

Third-party web beacons

We use third-party web beacons from Google to help analyze where visitors go and what they do while visiting our website. Yahoo! may also use anonymous information about your visits to this and other websites in order to improve its products and services and provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Learn more about this practice and know your choices about not having this information used by Google.

Social Media Services

Luther Seminary makes use of multiple social media services (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) to share information about Luther Seminary news, programs and other items that may be of interest to you. We also integrate these social media services on our sites. If you make use of a social media service on one of our sites, you are agreeing to the privacy policy of that service. These policies can be viewed in more detail here:

• Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
• Flickr – https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/flickr/details.html
• Google – https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
• Instagram – https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/
• iTunes U – https://www.apple.com/privacy/
• Pinterest – https://pinterest.com/about/privacy/
• Twitter – https://twitter.com/privacy
• Vimeo – https://vimeo.com/privacy
• YouTube (Google) – https://www.youtube.com/t/privacy

How we use information

The information collected by Luther Seminary websites is used for internal purposes which include improving the content and usability of the Luther Seminary websites, registering people for events or courses and fulfilling product orders or information requests. It will not be shared with other organizations. However, Luther Seminary may use the information to contact visitors for marketing and fundraising purposes. If you do not wish to be contacted by Luther Seminary for these purposes, please contact us at the address below.

Luther Seminary does not sell, rent or distribute any personal information obtained from our visitors to groups not affiliated with Luther Seminary, unless required by law. According to federal and state law, Luther Seminary may provide personal information to outside parties if a criminal act is under investigation by authorities.

A number of Luther Seminary pages contain links which may take you outside of our website. These other sites may send and receive cookies, collect data or solicit personal information and may use this information in ways that are not in accordance with Luther Seminary’s privacy policy statement. Always be aware of the policies of those sites you visit.

While Luther Seminary strives to protect its users’ personal information and privacy, it cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online and you do so at your own risk. Luther Seminary’s policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond our control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.

Luther Seminary reserves the right to make changes to this policy at any time. Feel free to check this page periodically for amendments/updates. By using this site, you agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy. Whenever you submit information via this site, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

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