Faith • Stewardship • Responsibility

Legal Policies

Effective and last updated: September 3, 2026

Privacy Policy

Information we receive

This website has no user accounts or donation checkout. Membership, donation, and contact forms open your own email application. We receive only the name, email address, phone number, notice preferences, and other information you choose to send. Hosting and security providers may process limited technical logs such as IP address, browser, timestamps, and requested pages.

Use, sharing, and retention

We use information to respond, discuss donations, enroll free members, send requested journal, research, or ministry notices, review submissions, operate and secure the site, maintain ministry records, and comply with law. We do not sell or rent personal information. Information may be shared with necessary service providers, professional advisers, with permission, or as law requires, and retained only as reasonably needed.

Consent, notice preferences, and withdrawal

The membership form records the notice categories you select. By sending the membership email, you ask us to enroll you and send those notices. You may change your preferences, leave the free membership list, or ask us to stop messages at any time by replying “unsubscribe” or emailing the ministry. We will honor the request within a reasonable period, while retaining information required for legal, security, or recordkeeping purposes.

Security, email, and outside services

Email is not guaranteed to be confidential or secure. Do not send medical records, government identification numbers, passwords, financial credentials, or other highly sensitive information. We use reasonable safeguards but cannot promise absolute security. Your email provider, internet provider, website host, device, and PDF reader may process information under their own policies.

Children and choices

The site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information online. You may request access, correction, or deletion of information you sent, subject to legal and recordkeeping requirements.

Free Membership & Notice Policy

Membership is free and voluntary

Eden’s Healing Garden Ministries membership has no enrollment fee, dues, required donation, or required purchase. Sending a request does not guarantee acceptance, create employment, ownership, voting, governance, clergy, fiduciary, beneficiary, or agency rights, or entitle anyone to cannabis, treatment, services, money, or research participation. The ministry may decline or end membership for lawful reasons, including misuse, harassment, or threats to safety or ministry operations.

Journal and ministry notices

Members may request research updates, new-journal notices, and ministry news. Notices are informational and may not arrive on a fixed schedule. Members are responsible for providing an accurate email address and phone number. We will not send marketing text messages or place automated calls based solely on this website form.

Terms of Use

Purpose and lawful use

This site provides religious, educational, historical, botanical, and community information for lawful personal use. Do not interfere with the site, attempt unauthorized access, submit harmful material, impersonate others, or use ministry content to violate law.

No professional relationship

Using the site or emailing us does not create a physician-patient, attorney-client, tax-adviser, fiduciary, research-subject, counseling, or pastoral-care relationship. Content and third-party links are provided “as is” without guarantees. New Jersey and applicable federal law govern these terms.

Changes, links, and availability

We may correct, update, remove, or suspend site content and downloads without notice. Links and citations to outside sources are provided for context and do not mean the ministry controls, sponsors, or endorses those sources. We are not responsible for third-party content, availability, privacy, or security.

Disclaimers and limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, the site, journals, downloads, and communications are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, noninfringement, safety, or uninterrupted access. The ministry and its leaders, volunteers, and contributors are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from reliance on site content or inability to use the site. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

Governing law, severability, and updates

These policies are governed by applicable federal law and the laws of New Jersey, without creating jurisdiction where it would not otherwise exist. If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. The effective date identifies the current version. Continued use after an update means the updated terms apply to later use, subject to applicable law.

Journal Download, Copyright & Correction Policy

Free personal reading

The journals may be downloaded without charge for personal, educational, devotional, and noncommercial reading. A free download does not place a publication in the public domain or transfer any copyright, trademark, authorship, or ownership rights. Unless the publication states otherwise, you may share an unmodified journal with its title, ministry credit, notices, and disclaimers intact.

Uses requiring written permission

Do not sell a journal; remove attribution or disclaimers; alter and redistribute it as an official ministry edition; use ministry names or branding to imply endorsement; or reproduce substantial portions in a commercial product without prior written permission. Brief quotations, criticism, scholarship, and other uses may be permitted by applicable copyright law.

Versions, citations, and corrections

Publications reflect the sources and information available on their stated publication dates. Science, law, and public-health guidance may change. Check the journal title, publication number, date, and edition before citing it. Report a suspected factual, citation, or accessibility problem by email. We may issue a correction, revised edition, withdrawal, or explanatory note when appropriate.

Donation Policy

Email inquiries only

The site accepts donation interest by email but does not process payments. A gift is complete only when the ministry separately confirms an approved method and receives funds. Never email cash, passwords, bank credentials, Social Security numbers, or card details.

Use and tax treatment

Unless a written restriction is accepted, gifts may be used where most needed for lawful ministry purposes. Do not assume a gift is tax-deductible because the ministry is religious or references Section 508(c)(1)(A). Consult a qualified tax adviser. Donations are ordinarily final, subject to applicable law and review of duplicate or unauthorized transactions.

No cannabis transaction

A donation does not purchase cannabis, hemp, medicine, treatment, research participation, or a controlled substance. Donation inquiries are not used to sell, transfer, or arrange access to cannabis.

Research, Health & Cannabis Disclaimer

Education—not professional advice

Content is for general religious, historical, botanical, cultural, and educational discussion. It is not medical, legal, scientific, or safety advice and is not a recommendation to obtain, cultivate, possess, manufacture, distribute, or use any substance. Consult licensed professionals before health or legal decisions; call 911 in an emergency.

No cure, safety, or longevity promise

Personal stories, traditional knowledge, biblical reflection, laboratory findings, and early research do not establish that a substance is safe or effective for a particular person. Nothing on this site promises that cannabis, hemp, CBD, another plant, or a ministry practice will diagnose, treat, cure, prevent disease, soothe or heal the lungs, extend life, or produce the same result for everyone. Products and substances may cause impairment, side effects, dependence, contamination, allergic reactions, or drug interactions.

Law and ministry status

Cannabis law differs by jurisdiction and changes over time. New Jersey regulates commercial activity through licensing. Section 508(c)(1)(A) concerns a federal tax-exemption notice exception for qualifying churches; it is not a cannabis exemption, controlled-substance license, research authorization, or immunity from law. This site does not sell cannabis, arrange transfers, prescribe products, recruit research subjects, or provide cultivation or manufacturing instructions.

No human-subject research or enrollment

Reading a journal, joining the ministry, sharing a story, making a donation, or sending an email does not enroll anyone in a clinical trial or research study. The ministry does not ask visitors to stop treatment, change medication, use cannabis, or provide specimens or protected health information. Any future regulated research would require separate protocols, qualified oversight, informed consent, and all required approvals and licenses.

Accessibility Statement

Our commitment

We aim to provide an inclusive experience through clear structure, keyboard access, meaningful links, readable contrast, responsive layouts, and assistive-technology compatibility. Accessibility is ongoing. If you encounter a barrier or need an alternate format, contact the ministry by email and describe the page, problem, and preferred format.

Legal Notice

Organization and status

Eden’s Healing Garden Ministries describes itself as a Christian ministry. References to Section 508(c)(1)(A) are not an IRS determination letter or a claim that every activity is automatically tax exempt. Status depends on organization, operation, facts, and compliance.

Names and intellectual property

Eden’s Healing Garden Ministries, its visual identity, original website text, and original publications are ministry materials. Third-party names, research, images, quotations, and trademarks belong to their respective owners. Reference to a person, product, organization, Scripture translation, study, or government agency does not imply affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement.

No offer or guarantee

Nothing here offers cannabis, hemp, securities, medical products, professional services, or research participation. Donations are not purchases or investments. We seek accuracy but do not guarantee all information is complete or current. Verify important legal, scientific, tax, and health information independently.

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