First Evangelical Lutheran Church
Privacy Statement
The First Evangelical Lutheran Church
web site is committed to protecting your privacy and developing
technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online
experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the First Evangelical Lutheran Church website and governs data collection
and usage. By using the First Evangelical Lutheran Church
web site, you consent to the data practices described in this
statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site collects personally
identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name,
home or work address or telephone number. The First Evangelical
Lutheran Church web site also collects anonymous demographic
information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code,
age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and
software that is automatically collected by the First Evangelical
Lutheran Church web site. This information can include: your IP
address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring
Web site addresses. This information is used by the First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site for the operation of the
service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide
general statistics regarding use of the First Evangelical
Lutheran Church web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally
identifiable information or personally sensitive data through
the First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site public message
boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
Note: The First Evangleical Lutheran Church web site does not read
any of your private online communications.
The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site encourages you to
review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to
from the First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site so that you
can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your
information. The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site is not
responsible for the privacy statements or other content on web
sites outside of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site
and the First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site family of web
sites.
Use of your Personal Information
The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site collects and uses
your personal information to operate the First Evangelical
Lutheran Church web site and deliver the services you
have requested. The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site
also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you
of other products or services available from the First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site and its affiliates. The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site may also contact you via
surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current
services or of potential new services that may be offered.
The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site does not sell, rent
or lease its customer lists to third parties. The First
Evangelical Lutheran Church web site may, from time to time,
contact you on behalf of external business partners about a
particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those
cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail,
name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third
party. In addition, the First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site
may share data with trusted partners to help us perform
statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide
customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third
parties are prohibited from using your personal information
except to provide these services to the First Evangelical
Lutheran Church web site, and they are required to maintain the
confidentiality of your information.
The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site does not use or
disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion,
or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
The First Evangelical Lutheran Church website keeps track of the
web sites and pages our customers visit within the First
Evangelical Lutheran Church web site, in order to determine what
website services are the most popular. This data is used to
deliver customized content and advertising within the First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site to customers whose behavior
indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web sites will
disclose your personal information, without notice, only if
required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such
action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or
comply with legal process served on the First Evangelical
Lutheran Church web site; (b) protect and defend the
rights or property of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church
web site; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the
personal safety of users of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church
web site, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site uses
"cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A
cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web
page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver
viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you,
and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued
the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a
convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is
to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific
page. For example, if you personalize the First Evangelical
Lutheran Church web site pages, or register with the First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site or services, a cookie
helps the First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site to recall
your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies
the process of recording your personal information, such as
billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you
return to the same the First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site, the information you previously provided can be
retrieved, so you can easily use the First Evangelical Lutheran
Church web site features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web
browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually
modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If
you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully
experience the interactive features of the First Evangelical
Lutheran Church web site services or web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site secures your
personal information from unauthorized access, use or
disclosure. The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site secures
the personally identifiable information you provide on computer
servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal
information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to
other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption,
such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site will occasionally
update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer
feedback. The First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site
encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be
informed of how the First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site is
protecting your information.
Contact Information
The First Evangelical Lutheran Church welcomes your
comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe
that the First Evangelical Lutheran Church web site has not
adhered to this Statement, please contact the First Evangelical
Lutheran Church web site at
1stluth@charter.net. We will use reasonable efforts to
promptly determine and remedy the problem.
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