Privacy Policy

Saint Mark United Methodist Church takes the privacy of its web site visitors seriously. We have created this policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy and the protection of your information. We use security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data used by our system.

Please read this statement before using our web site so you will have a full understanding on how we use information you provide to us.

Questions or concerns can be directed to the church office; contact information can be found here.

Information Collection and Use

Saint Mark United Methodist Church is the sole owner of information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Saint Mark United Methodist Church may collect information from you at several different points on our web site.

E-mail Privacy

If you received an electronic mailing from us, (a) your e-mail address is either listed with us as someone who has expressly shared this address for the purpose of receiving information in the future ("opt-in"), or (b) you have registered or contributed or otherwise have an existing relationship with us. We respect your time and attention by controlling the frequency of our mailings.

Each e-mail sent contains an easy, automated way for you to cease receiving e-mail from us, or to change your expressed interests. If you wish to do this, simply follow the instructions at the end of any e-mail. If you have received unwanted, unsolicited e-mail sent via this system or purporting to be sent via this system, please forward a copy of that e-mail with your comments to office@stmarkumc.org for review.

Sharing and Usage

We will never share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone without your advance permission or unless ordered by a court of law. Information submitted to us is only available to Saint Mark United Methodist Church employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending you e-mails based on your request for information and to contracted service providers for purposes of providing services relating to our communications with you.

Links

This web site may at times contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Saint Mark United Methodist Church is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site.

Log Files

IP addresses can be used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather demographic information for analytical use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Cookies

Saint Mark United Methodist Church’s web site does not utilize cookies. Please note that future updates to the web site may require creation of user accounts and a login process. At such time cookies may be utilized. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the your hard drive containing information about you. The cookie could contain the users username so that the web site can recognize you on return visits.

Notification of Changes

Changes to our privacy policy will only be reflected in the privacy policy document.

Last update to policy: March 22, 2006