PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date June 24, 2004
The St. Louis Family Church (the "Family Church") is committed to maintaining your trust and confidence. The following online privacy policy is intended to protect and secure the personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified) which you provide to [our ministry] online.
The Family Church provides this online Privacy Policy to inform you of the way your information is collected and used, as well as to make you aware of our security practices ("Privacy Policy").
All information collected on this web site is collected by the Family Church. For contact information, please see the "Contact Us" section below.
Users of this web site may browse without being obligated to submit any personal information. However, we may collect personally identifiable information from you in certain areas of our web site for a limited number of specific purposes. These purposes include the following:
A. Online requests for information about our organization
B. Online requests for materials from our organization
C. Online donations
D. Online purchases
E. Providing you with offers and additional information, opportunities, and services that may be of interest to you, if you so desire
The information we collect online includes the following:
A. Name
B. Address (including country, city, state, and zip code)
C. Telephone number
D. E-mail address
E. Credit card number and expiration date (for online donations and purchases which shall be collected by our third party vendors, PayPal, Inc. ["PayPal"] and MicahTek, Incorporated ["MicahTek"])
F. Other personally identifiable information you affirmatively provide
The Family Church uses the information collected online in a variety of ways which include the following:
A. Completing online transactions through our third party vendors, PayPal and MicahTek (credit card numbers are used only for purchase and donation purposes and are not retained for any other purpose)
B. Issuing income tax receipts for online donations
C. Updating you on ministry projects and activities, if you so desire
D. Providing you with offers and additional information, opportunities, and services that may be of interest to you, if you so desire
The Family Church provides you with a number of choices about the collection, use, and distribution of your personal information. You must affirmatively request to receive e-mail from us. You are also given the opportunity to opt-out of receiving e-mail from the Family Church and from the gathering of your personally identifiable information in accordance with the section entitled "Correcting or Changing Your Information" below.
The Family Church is very concerned about the accuracy, currency, and completeness of the information we collect. We make efforts to ensure that the information we have is accurate and up-to-date. If you wish to amend, correct, update, or delete any information which you have previously provided, if you wish to review the information we have collected about you, or if you wish to be removed from our e-mail list, please contact us at either the e-mail address, mailing address, or telephone number provided in the "Contact Us" section below. We will attend to your request and make any necessary revisions. In addition, you may select "unsubscribe" in any e-mail you receive from us, and we will remove your name from our e-mail list serve.
The Family Church never sells, rents, leases, or exchanges your personal information with other organizations except to the extent necessary to provide you with information and/or transactions you have requested.
We are concerned about the privacy of young children and do not knowingly collect any personal information from a child under 13. We encourage you to become involved with your child's online activities in order to ensure that his or her privacy is well protected. To read more about online safety and how to become more involved in your child's online experience, visit the Federal Trade Commission web site, www.ftc.gov. You may also benefit from the information and resources available on www.ProtectKids.com.
The Family Church is committed to ensuring the security of your personal information. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the proper use of information, we have established and implemented appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. The Family Church uses PayPal, Inc. when collecting or transferring credit card information. The Family Church will not have access to your credit card information.
The Family Church may occasionally send a "cookie" to your computer. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and is then stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by other web sites. Cookies have become standard in the Internet industry, especially at web sites that provide any kind of personalized service.
We may use cookies to analyze traffic on our web site, to personalize web site features, and to make improvements to the web site based on the data we collect. We do not save passwords or other sensitive information in cookies. You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. Your browser can refuse all cookies, or show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at our web site and at other web sites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.
This web site may link to, or receive links from, web sites maintained by other organizations or individuals. Once you access a link to another web site, please be aware that the Family Church is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. You will need to review the privacy policies of such web sites. The Family Church shall have no liability for the privacy policies or practices of third party web sites.
By using our web site and providing personally identifiable information about yourself, you consent to the following:
A. Our collection and use of data as described in the above sections of this Privacy Policy to the extent that you have opted-in to any such collection and/or use through the methods described in this Privacy Policy
B. The notice, choice, access, and security we are providing
C. The Terms of Use of this web site
If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact the Family Church via one of the following methods:
A. E-mail us at
info@slfc.org
B. Write to us at:
St. Louis Family Church
P.O. Box 568
Chesterfield, MO 63006
C. Call us at (636) 532-3446.
