PRIVACY POLICY
Internet Privacy Statement for St. Paul's Rock Creek Parish
Your
privacy and the privacy of others are important to The St. Paul's Rock Creek Parish. In particular, we believe that a vibrant spiritual
community depends on maintaining a trusted user environment. As such, The St. Paul's Rock Creek Parish is committed to providing a
clear and
specific description of its policies to protect the privacy of its
parishioners and other users. In general, any information we collect
from our users is for the internal use of The St. Paul's Rock Creek Parish and a related group including, except as described below.
By using our
site and entering your information, you consent to our collection and
the use of that information as described below. Any material changes to
our policy will be reflected on this page so that you are aware of the
information we collect and how we use it.
Sources and Uses of User Information
Each
time a visitor comes to The St. Paul's Rock Creek Parish site, information
is collected from the visitor or user to improve the overall quality of
the site. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our
server, and to administer our web site. Your IP address is used to help
identify you, your areas of interest and to gather broad demographic
information. Our site may use cookies to keep track of your visit to
our site. "Cookies" are used to tailor content specific to your
interests, to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each
time you visit our site, and to track which areas of the web site are
most popular with our users. With most Internet Browsers, you can erase
cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies or receive a
warning before a cookie is stored on your computer. Please refer to
your Browser instructions or a help screen to learn more about these
functions and how to use them.
Some of our site's registration
and other forms may also ask users to give us demographic and contact
information (like name and e-mail address), unique identifiers (like
telephone numbers) and demographic information (like zip code, age, or
gender). We may use such contact information from these forms to send
you information about our church. Users may choose not to receive
future mailings at any time. Demographic and profile data is also
collected at out site. We use this data to tailor the visitor's
experience at our site, by showing content that we believe visitors and
users might be interested in, and displaying content according to a
user's preferences. Unique identifiers (such as telephone numbers) are
collected to verify the user's identity and for use as an identifier in
our parish record system. Some of the above information is required to
use the site. Other information is provided at your option. If you do
not want the optional information collected, please do not give it to
us.
Aggregated information is used by The St. Paul's Rock Creek Parish and shared within our parish staff, including the members of our
clergy, administrative staff, vestry, and other current church
officials. In addition, certain aggregated information may be reported
to the diocese and other church agencies, as may be required by law,
and accrediting bodies. This aggregated information cannot be used to
personally identify or contact a specific individual. The St. Paul's Rock Creek Parish may be compelled to surrender personal
user or parishioner
information to authorities without express user consent if presented
with a court subpoena or similar legal order.
In the event of a
violation of the terms and conditions of use of this site or a
violation of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or
through this site, we may disclose personal user information to our
affected business partners or legal authorities.
Links to Other Sites
Our
site contains links to other sites. The St. Paul's Rock Creek Parish is
not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any
third-party web sites, including those for which we may provide a link
on our site. Any information provided by a user to such third-party
sites is subject to the privacy practices of that third-party and not The St. Paul's Rock Creek Parish. Nor is The St. Paul's Rock Creek Parish responsible for the quality of the products and services made available
at any such third-party site.
Public Forums
Our
site may make use of chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news
groups available to its users. Please remember that any information
that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you
should not disclose any personal information that you would not be
comfortable having made generally available. Nor should you disclose
any information about your employer if there is any chance the
information might be proprietary or confidential information of your
employer.
Security
All information will
be stored as securely as possible, consistent with nationally
recognized internet security standards, while maintaining our ability
to quickly and effectively access this information to serve your needs.
The site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our control. In order to change or
modify information previously provided by you to us on this site,
please contact The St. Paul's Rock Creek Parish feedback email page of
this site.
We hope you found this information informative. Now
please enjoy and experience The St. Paul's Rock Creek Parish. We
thank you.
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