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St. Martins Episcopal Church 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 St. Martins Episcopal Church Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the St. Martins Episcopal Church website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

St. Martins Episcopal Church collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. St. Martins Episcopal Church 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 St. Martins Episcopal Church. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by St. Martins Episcopal Church for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the St. Martins Episcopal Church Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through St. Martins Episcopal Church public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: St. Martins Episcopal Church does not read any of your private online communications.

St. Martins Episcopal Church encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from St. Martins Episcopal Church so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. St. Martins Episcopal Church is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the St. Martins Episcopal Church and St. Martins Episcopal Church family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

St. Martins Episcopal Church collects and uses your personal information to operate the St. Martins Episcopal Church Web site and deliver the services you have requested. St. Martins Episcopal Church also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from St. Martins Episcopal Church and its affiliates. St. Martins Episcopal Church may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

St. Martins Episcopal Church does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. St. Martins Episcopal Church 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, St. Martins Episcopal Church 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 St. Martins Episcopal Church, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

St. Martins Episcopal Church does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

St. Martins Episcopal Church keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within St. Martins Episcopal Church, in order to determine what St. Martins Episcopal Church services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within St. Martins Episcopal Church to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

St. Martins Episcopal 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 St. Martins Episcopal Church or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of St. Martins Episcopal Church; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of St. Martins Episcopal Church, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The St. Martins Episcopal Church Web site 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 St. Martins Episcopal Church pages, or register with St. Martins Episcopal Church site or services, a cookie helps St. Martins Episcopal Church 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 St. Martins Episcopal Church Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the St. Martins Episcopal Church 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 St. Martins Episcopal Church services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

St. Martins Episcopal Church secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. St. Martins Episcopal Church 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

St. Martins Episcopal Church will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. St. Martins Episcopal Church encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how St. Martins Episcopal Church is protecting your information.

Contact Information

St. Martins Episcopal Church welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that St. Martins Episcopal Church has not adhered to this Statement, please contact St. Martins Episcopal Church at golsombe@gmail.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.


  

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