Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 18, 2026

Sermon Academy respects your privacy and is committed to being clear about how we collect, use, share, and protect information. This Privacy Policy explains how Sermon Academy, a division of Freestyle Media Productions, LLC (“Sermon Academy,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), collects and uses information through SermonAcademy.com, our email lists, donation pages, digital resources, videos, forms, and related online services.

By using SermonAcademy.com or interacting with us, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

1. Our Privacy Philosophy

Sermon Academy exists to create and distribute Gospel-centered teaching, sermons, articles, videos, study tools, and related resources. We use information to operate the ministry, improve our content, communicate with subscribers and supporters, process gifts or purchases, measure reach, and share resources more effectively.

We aim to use information in ways that are lawful, transparent, respectful, and consistent with the trust people place in us.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of information:

Information You Provide Directly

This may include:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • Donation or payment information

  • Subscription preferences

  • Messages, questions, prayer-related notes, feedback, or form responses

  • Church, ministry, organization, or role information, if you choose to provide it

  • Any other information you submit through our website, forms, email, or other channels

Donation and Payment Information

If you make a gift, donation, payment, or purchase, your transaction may be processed by third-party payment providers. We may receive transaction details such as your name, email address, billing information, gift amount, transaction date, frequency of giving, and confirmation details.

We do not intentionally store full credit card numbers on our own systems unless expressly disclosed and handled through a secure, compliant provider.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit SermonAcademy.com or interact with our emails, videos, or digital resources, we and our service providers may collect information such as:

  • IP address

  • Device type

  • Browser type

  • Operating system

  • Pages visited

  • Links clicked

  • Referring websites

  • Search terms

  • Approximate location derived from IP address

  • Email opens and clicks

  • Video views and watch activity

  • Date, time, and duration of visits

  • Cookie identifiers and similar tracking technologies

Faith-Based or Sensitive Inferences

Sermon Academy is a Christian teaching and media ministry. Your use of our content may suggest an interest in Christian teaching, Bible study, preaching, ministry, or related topics.

We do not require you to disclose your religious affiliation. However, because our services are faith-based, some interactions with us may reveal or imply religious or spiritual interests. We handle that information carefully and use it only for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

3. How We Use Information

We may use information for the following purposes:

  • To provide, operate, maintain, and improve SermonAcademy.com

  • To send sermons, articles, videos, devotionals, study guides, and other resources

  • To manage email subscriptions and communication preferences

  • To process donations, gifts, purchases, or other transactions

  • To send confirmations, receipts, updates, and administrative messages

  • To respond to questions, comments, requests, and support needs

  • To personalize content, recommendations, emails, and website experiences

  • To analyze website, email, video, and campaign performance

  • To understand audience reach, engagement, and content effectiveness

  • To develop new resources, tools, articles, videos, and ministry offerings

  • To conduct fundraising, donor communications, and supporter engagement

  • To promote Sermon Academy content, resources, campaigns, and opportunities

  • To advertise or retarget content where legally permitted

  • To protect our website, systems, users, donors, and organization

  • To prevent fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, and other harmful activity

  • To comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms and policies

  • For any other purpose disclosed when you provide information or with your consent

We may also use aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified information for research, analytics, reporting, content planning, ministry impact reporting, advertising, or operational improvement.

4. Email and Communications

If you subscribe, donate, download a resource, fill out a form, or otherwise interact with Sermon Academy, we may send you emails and other communications.

These may include:

  • Sermons and Bible teaching

  • Articles and study resources

  • Devotional or discipleship content

  • Donation or supporter updates

  • Campaign updates

  • Event or resource announcements

  • Administrative or transactional messages

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link in the email. You may also update your communication preferences by emailing us at info@sermonacademy.com.

Even if you unsubscribe from promotional messages, we may still send transactional or administrative messages, such as donation confirmations, account notices, or legally required communications.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, analytics tools, and similar technologies to operate the website and understand how people use our content.

These technologies may help us:

  • Keep the website functioning properly

  • Remember preferences

  • Measure page views and traffic sources

  • Understand which content is useful

  • Improve user experience

  • Track email opens and clicks

  • Measure advertising or campaign performance

  • Support retargeting or interest-based advertising where legally allowed

You can usually control cookies through your browser settings. Some features may not work properly if cookies are disabled.

Where required by law, we will provide cookie notices, consent tools, or opt-out mechanisms.

6. Analytics, Advertising, and Retargeting

We may work with analytics, advertising, email, video, and marketing service providers to understand audience engagement and promote Sermon Academy content.

These providers may use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about your interactions with our website, emails, videos, and ads.

Depending on applicable law, some of this activity may be considered “targeted advertising,” “sharing,” or “sale” of personal information. Where required, we will provide opt-out rights and honor legally recognized preference signals when applicable.

7. Artificial Intelligence and Automation

We may use artificial intelligence, automation, or similar tools to help us:

  • Draft, organize, or improve content

  • Analyze website or email performance

  • Summarize feedback

  • Improve search, recommendations, or resource development

  • Detect spam, fraud, or abuse

  • Support operational efficiency

We do not intend to use private personal information to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you without appropriate notice, safeguards, and rights required by law.

We will not knowingly submit sensitive personal information, private donor payment details, or confidential user messages into public AI tools in a way that allows them to be publicly exposed.

8. How We Share Information

We may share information with the following categories of recipients:

Service Providers and Vendors

We may share information with trusted companies that help us operate, including:

  • Website hosting providers

  • Email marketing platforms

  • Donation and payment processors

  • Analytics providers

  • Advertising platforms

  • Customer relationship management systems

  • Cloud storage providers

  • Security and fraud-prevention providers

  • Video hosting and distribution platforms

  • Form, survey, and communication tools

  • Contractors, consultants, or professional advisors

These providers may only use information as permitted by contract, law, or their applicable service terms.

Ministry, Business, and Operational Partners

We may share information with partners, contractors, affiliates, or collaborators when reasonably necessary to operate Sermon Academy, distribute resources, conduct campaigns, support donors, improve offerings, or fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Legal, Safety, and Compliance Purposes

We may disclose information if we believe it is reasonably necessary to:

  • Comply with law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or legal process

  • Protect rights, safety, property, or security

  • Prevent fraud, abuse, or unauthorized activity

  • Enforce our terms, policies, or agreements

  • Respond to government or law enforcement requests

  • Protect Sermon Academy, users, donors, partners, or the public

Business Transfers

If Sermon Academy or Freestyle Media Productions, LLC is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, financing, partnership restructuring, or similar transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

9. We Do Not Sell Personal Information in the Traditional Sense

We do not sell your personal information for money.

However, some privacy laws define “sale” or “sharing” broadly to include certain advertising, analytics, retargeting, or data-sharing activities. To the extent our use of advertising or analytics tools is considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” under applicable law, you may have the right to opt out.

10. Donations, Gifts, and Payment Processing

Sermon Academy may accept gifts, donations, purchases, or other payments through third-party platforms.

When you give or pay through a third-party provider, that provider may collect and process your information under its own privacy policy and terms. We encourage you to review those policies before submitting payment information.

We may use donation and transaction information to:

  • Process and confirm your gift or payment

  • Send receipts or confirmations

  • Manage recurring giving

  • Communicate with supporters

  • Understand fundraising performance

  • Maintain financial and legal records

  • Prevent fraud and abuse

Unless otherwise stated, gifts to Sermon Academy are not tax-deductible.

11. Data Retention

We keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to operate Sermon Academy, maintain records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent fraud, and support legitimate business or ministry purposes.

Retention periods may vary based on the type of information, how it is used, legal requirements, and operational needs.

When information is no longer needed, we may delete, anonymize, de-identify, or securely retain it as permitted by law.

12. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information.

However, no website, platform, database, email system, or internet transmission is completely secure. You use SermonAcademy.com and submit information at your own risk.

13. Your Choices

Depending on where you live and how you interact with us, you may have choices regarding your information, including the ability to:

  • Unsubscribe from marketing emails

  • Request access to certain personal information

  • Request correction of inaccurate information

  • Request deletion of certain information

  • Opt out of certain targeted advertising or data sharing

  • Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable

  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

  • Request a copy of certain information in portable format

  • Object to or restrict certain processing where applicable

To make a privacy request or update your communication preferences, email us at:

Email: info@sermonacademy.com

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request. We will not discriminate against you for exercising legally available privacy rights.

14. California Privacy Notice

This section applies to California residents where the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, applies.

California privacy law gives consumers rights such as the right to know, delete, correct, opt out of certain sale or sharing, and limit certain uses of sensitive personal information.

Categories of Personal Information We May Collect

We may collect:

  • Identifiers, such as name, email address, IP address, and account or donor identifiers

  • Customer records, such as donation or transaction information

  • Commercial information, such as giving history or resource downloads

  • Internet or network activity, such as browsing activity, clicks, page views, and email engagement

  • Geolocation information, such as approximate location from IP address

  • Audio, electronic, or visual information, if you submit media, participate in calls, or interact with video tools

  • Professional or ministry-related information, if you provide your role, church, organization, or ministry context

  • Inferences, such as content interests, engagement patterns, or communication preferences

  • Sensitive personal information, only where applicable, such as information that may imply religious or spiritual interests based on interaction with faith-based content

Purposes for Collection

We collect and use these categories for the purposes described in Sections 3 through 8 of this Privacy Policy.

Categories of Recipients

We may disclose personal information to the categories of recipients described in Section 8.

Sale or Sharing

We do not sell personal information for money. We may use advertising or analytics tools that could be considered “sharing” or “sale” under California law. California residents may opt out where applicable.

Sensitive Personal Information

We do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics beyond the purposes reasonably expected from your interaction with a faith-based teaching website, unless permitted by law or with your consent.

California Rights

California residents may request to:

  • Know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, sell, or share

  • Access personal information

  • Delete personal information

  • Correct inaccurate personal information

  • Opt out of sale or sharing

  • Limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal information where applicable

  • Not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights

To exercise these rights, contact us at info@sermonacademy.com.

15. Notice for Visitors Outside the United States

Sermon Academy is operated from the United States. If you access SermonAcademy.com from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.

Privacy laws in those countries may differ from the laws where you live.

Where required, we rely on appropriate legal bases and safeguards for international data transfers.

16. European, UK, and Similar Privacy Rights

Where the GDPR, UK GDPR, or similar privacy laws apply, we process personal information under one or more legal bases, including:

  • Your consent

  • Performance of a contract or requested service

  • Compliance with legal obligations

  • Our legitimate interests, such as operating, improving, protecting, and promoting Sermon Academy

  • Other lawful bases permitted by applicable law

Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Access your personal information

  • Correct inaccurate information

  • Request deletion

  • Restrict or object to processing

  • Withdraw consent

  • Request data portability

  • Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

To exercise these rights, contact us at info@sermonacademy.com.

17. Children’s Privacy

SermonAcademy.com is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate parental consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Parents or guardians who believe a child has provided personal information may contact us at:

Email: info@sermonacademy.com

18. User-Submitted Content

If you submit comments, testimonials, messages, questions, reviews, stories, prayer requests, or other content, we may use that content to respond to you, operate Sermon Academy, improve resources, or communicate with our audience.

We will seek consent before publicly using your name, image, testimonial, or personally identifying story in promotional materials, unless you have already made that information public or otherwise authorized its use.

Do not submit confidential, sensitive, or third-party personal information unless you have permission and understand that we may process it as described in this Privacy Policy.

19. Third-Party Links and Platforms

SermonAcademy.com may link to third-party websites, platforms, videos, payment processors, social networks, email tools, or other services.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties. Their privacy policies and terms govern their collection and use of information.

20. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on SermonAcademy.com with a new “Last Updated” date.

Your continued use of SermonAcademy.com after changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.

21. Contact Us

For questions, requests, preference updates, or privacy concerns, contact us at:

Sermon Academy
A division of Freestyle Media Productions, LLC
Email: info@sermonacademy.com
Website: SermonAcademy.com