Privacy Policy

Saint Edward Church recognizes the importance of maintaining the privacy of your personal and sensitive information. The features and functionality of this website do require us to collect such information and we have a responsibility to protect this information for as long as it is in our possession. The vision of Saint Edward Church is to create lifetime customer relationships. At Saint Edward Church, we understand that relationships are based on trust and respect; and we promise to treat you and your information in a respectful and ethical manner.

To support these obligations, Saint Edward Church has established a set of data privacy principles. We respect your privacy by:

Offering privacy notices that explain how and why we handle personal information.
Respecting your choices about our collection, use, and sharing of information, where appropriate.
Collecting, using, and retaining only personal information that is relevant and useful to our business interactions.
Using reasonable efforts to keep personal information accurate and up to date.
Using safeguards to protect personal information.
Limiting access to, and disclosure of, personal information.
Retaining only the personal information that is needed to fill our legal and business obligations.
Offering you the ability to view and update your personal information where appropriate.
Providing you with an opportunity to ask questions and register complaints about privacy.

Saint Edward Church cares about the privacy of our customers and website visitors. This notice contains information about how we handle your personal information. We collect and process your personal information for the following purposes where necessary:

To maintain our contractual or business relationship with you.
For employment-related services where applicable.
To tell you about the products and services we offer.
To contact and correspond with you.
For the management and defense of legal claims and actions, compliance with court orders and other legal obligations, and regulatory requirements, and as otherwise permitted by law.

Saint Edward Church collects, processes, and discloses sensitive personal information only if required to comply with legal obligations, or if there is a compelling business reason to do so, or with your consent. If you would like more information about Saint Edward Church’s privacy practices, please contact us.

Automatically Collected Information

Like many other websites, this website automatically collects certain non-identifiable information regarding website users, such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer, the IP address of your Internet Service Provider, the date and time you access the website, the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to the website, the operating system you are using, the sections of the website you visit, the website pages accessed and information viewed, and the materials you post to, or download from the website. This non-identifiable information is used for websites and system administration purposes and to improve the website. Your non-identifiable information may be disclosed to others and permanently archived for future use.

This website uses “cookies,” a technology that installs information on a website user’s computer to permit the website to recognize future visits using that computer. Cookies enhance the convenience and use of the website. For example, the information provided through cookies is used to recognize you as a previous user of the website, to track your activity at the website in order to respond to your needs, to offer personalized Web page content and information for your use, to automatically populate online forms with your personal information for your convenience, and to otherwise facilitate your website experience.

Advertisements displayed on the website may also contain cookies or other technologies. Those advertisements may be provided by third-party advertising companies, and Saint Edward Church does not have any control over, or any responsibility or liability for, the cookies or other technologies used in the advertisements or for use and disclosure of information collected through advertisement cookies. You may choose to decline cookies if your browser permits, but doing so may affect your use of this website and your ability to access or use certain website features.

Data You Provide

When you use this site, you may do things like complete your personal profile, send messages, create content, collaborate about content, and post comments. We collect this information so that we can provide you these services and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily return to your favorite church.

You post content on the website at your own risk. Although we allow you to set preferences and permissions that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We are not responsible for circumvention of any preferences or permissions or security measures contained on the website. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of Individual Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other individuals have copied or stored your Individual Content.

Profile information is used by Saint Edward Church primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to other registered users permitted to view that information by your preferences and permissions.

Saint Edward Church may send you service-related announcements from time to time on the services Saint Edward Church offers its customers. Generally, you may opt out of such e-mails from the preferences and permissions page, though Saint Edward Church reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary e-mail notifications.

Links

Saint Edward Church may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage our individuals to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Notice applies solely to information collected on Saint Edward Church’s websites.

Third-Party Business Partners and Advertising

Advertisements or information from our business sponsors who support your communities and churches may appear on our website and are sometimes delivered (or “served”) directly to individuals by third-party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third-party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer or use other technologies such as JavaScript and “web beacons” (also known as “1×1 gifs”) to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. Saint Edward Church does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on Saint Edward Church unless you choose to share it with them.

This privacy notice covers the use of cookies by Saint Edward Church and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

From time to time, Saint Edward Church may send you advertisements from our business sponsors. You may opt-out of such e-mails from the Preferences and Permissions Page.

Our Use and Disclosure of Information

Internal Uses

We collect, store, and process your personal information on servers located in the United States. We use the information we collect about you in order 1) to provide our services and process your transactions, 2) to provide customer service, 3) to improve our products and services.

We give access to individually identifiable information about our users only to those employees who require it to fulfill customer service requests.

Saint Edward Church may use non-personal information to create aggregate tracking information reports regarding website user demographics and the use of this website, and then provide those reports to others. None of the tracking information in the reports is connected to the identities or other personal information of individual users.

Other Matters

Security—Saint Edward Church works to keep our servers, applications, and databases secure and free from unauthorized access and use by using physical, administrative, and technological measures to protect the information we maintain. Unfortunately, no one can guarantee 100% security. If you have particular security concerns about certain personal information, please do not transmit that information over the Internet.

Other websites—This website may contain links to other websites or Internet resources. When you click on one of those links, you are contacting another website or Internet resource that may collect information about you voluntarily or through cookies or other technologies. Saint Edward Church has no responsibility, liability for, or control over those other websites or Internet resources or their collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information. You should review the privacy policies of those other websites and Internet resources to understand how they collect and use information.

Privacy Notice Changes—Saint Edward Church may change, supplement, or amend this notice as it relates to your future use of this website from time to time, for any reason. This notice was last updated on 28 December 2008.

Children Under the Age of 14

Saint Edward Church does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 14 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 14, please do not attempt to register on this site or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address. No one under age 14 may provide any personal information to Saint Edward Church or on this site. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 14 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 14, please contact us .