Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, Bothell, which we will call "Emmanuel Presbyterian" or "this Site" from now on, is committed to protecting your privacy and using technology that gives you the safest online experience. This
Statement of Privacy applies to this Site and governs data collection and usage. By using Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, Bothell, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
This Site collects personally
identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work
address or telephone number, if you provide them to us. This 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 this Site. This information
can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and
referring Web site addresses. This information is used by this Site for
the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to
provide general statistics regarding use of the Emmanuel Presbyterian Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable
information or personally sensitive data through this Site's member
message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note:
Emmanuel Presbyterian does not read any of your private online communications.
Emmanuel Presbyterian encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites
you choose to link to from this Site so that you can understand how
those Web sites collect, use and share your information. This Site is
not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites
outside of this Site and the Emmanuel Presbyterian family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Emmanuel Presbyterian collects and uses your personal
information to operate the Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, Bothell Web site and deliver the services
you have requested. Emmanuel Presbyterian also uses your personally identifiable
information to inform you of other ministries and activities available from
Emmanuel Presbyterian and its affiliates. Emmanuel Presbyterian may also contact you
via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current ministries or of
potential new ministries that may be offered.
Emmanuel Presbyterian does not sell,
rent or lease its member lists to third parties. Emmanuel Presbyterian may, from
time to time, contact you on behalf of other organizations 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, Emmanuel Presbyterian may share
data with trusted partners, such as but not limited to the presbytery or synod, to help us perform statistical analysis, send you
email or postal mail or provide user support. All
such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except
to provide these services to this Site, and they are required to
maintain the confidentiality of your information.
This Site does not collect,
use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or
political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
This Site may keep
track of the Web sites and pages our members visit within this Site,
to determine what Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, Bothell services are the most popular.
This data may be used to deliver customized content within
Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, Bothell to user whose behavior indicates that they are
interested in a particular subject area.
Emmanuel Presbyterian 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
Emmanuel Presbyterian Church or the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of
Emmanuel Presbyterian Church; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the
personal safety of users of this Site, or the public.
Use of Cookies
This Site may use "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 Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, Bothell pages, or
register with the Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, Bothell site or its services, a cookie helps this Site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.
This simplifies the process of recording and recalling your personal information. When you return to this Site, the information you previously provided can be
retrieved, so you can easily use this Site's 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 this Site's services or those of other Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
This Site secures your personal information from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. This 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
This Site will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect
Emmanuel Presbyterian and user feedback. Emmanuel Presbyterian encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how this Site is protecting
your information.
Contact Information
Emmanuel Presbyterian welcomes your comments
regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that this Site has
not adhered to this Statement, please contact this Site at
webmaster@epcbothell.org. We
will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.