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Privacy policy
Covenant Presbyterian Church Website Privacy Policy
Respecting user privacy over the Internet is of utmost importance to us. This Privacy Policy describes the current policies and practices with regard to personal data collected by Covenant Presbyterian Church (collectively “we,” “us,” “our”) through our Website. The term “Personal Data” refers to personally identifiable information, including your name, birth date, email address, mailing address, social security number, and the last four digits of your credit card number. To see the privacy policy for Vanco, please visit their website.
In general, you can visit our Website without telling us who you are or providing any information about yourself. In some areas of our Website, programs have been designed to perform specific functions for you directly though our Website. Within these programs we may ask you to provide information that will enable us to process an order, offer services that require registration for a gathering or event or assist you with technical support issues or to follow up with you. In some instances, the information sought may include Personal Data.
This Privacy Policy applies to Personal Data submitted by you and/or collected online by us except through Vanco.
We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.
Your Consent
By using our Website, you consent to our use of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy. If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at info@covenantmadison.org or send us mail to: 326 S. Segoe Road, Madison, WI 53705.
Use of Personal Data Collected Through Our Websites
Information, including but not limited to Personal Data, that we collect will not be sold, rented, lent, exchanged or used by an individual or entity other than Covenant Presbyterian Church, and our denominational affiliate the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (“PC(USA)”) and its entities and governing bodies of the PC(USA) (including PMA and OGA) unless otherwise indicated. This includes, for example, the information you provide when you register for an event or conference, order resource materials, request other services, or when you send us your comments or requests for information.
We use the Personal Data you provide for the purposes for which it was originally collected, for example, to respond to your email or to provide the programs or services you requested; or for the purposes of subscribing to our email lists, which are used for marketing and distributing church news. We may also use Personal Data to help us improve the content and functionality of our Website, to better understand the needs and interests of the people and organizations that use our Website, and to improve our programs and services. This Personal Data may be used to contact you in the future to tell you about opportunities at Covenant Presbyterian Church, and its programs and services.
Unless we have your permission or are otherwise required by law to release, the Personal Data provided by you online will be shared only with other PC(USA) entities and governing bodies to enable them to contact you regarding services, benefits, or mission opportunities; with other third parties who act on our behalf to further process or analyze the data or protect the security or integrity of our databases or our Website; and with our successors in interest through corporate merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event. In the event of a release to a PC(USA) entity or third party described above, your Personal Data will not be released until the PC(USA) entity, governing body, or third party has agreed in writing to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We, and others with whom we share your Personal Data, may retain your Personal Data on file to better serve you. Any destruction of Personal Data will be done in a manner consistent with the intent of this policy.
Storing Personal Data
Our website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
Our email lists are hosted on the ConstantContact.com platform. Constant Contact allows us the ability to distribute emails to our subscribers. They also store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
Anonymous Data Collected Through Covenant Presbyterian Church Website
In addition to the Personal Data you provide when you use our Website, we use technology to collect anonymous information about the use of our Website. For example, we use technology to track how many visitors access our Website, the date and time of their visit, the length of their stay, and which pages they view. We also use technology to determine which web browsers our visitors use and the address from which they accessed the site.
This technology does not identify you personally. It simply enables us to compile statistics about our visitors and their use of our Website. We use this anonymous data and may share it with third parties for various reasons; for example, to improve the content and functionality of our Website, to better understand the needs and interests of our visitors, to improve our programs and services.
Cookies
To collect the anonymous data described in the preceding paragraph, we may use temporary “cookies” that collect the first level domain name of the user. For example, if your email address is “name@xyz.com,” the cookie collects the “xyz.com” portion of your email address and the date and time you accessed our Website. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to discover the identity of the user. A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies do not damage your computer. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. This enables you to decide if you want to accept it or not. Our Websites only use temporary or “session” cookies. These “session” cookies expire when your browser window is closed.
For certain applications on the covenantmadison.org Website to function properly, if at all, it is necessary for your computer to accept cookies.
Minors
We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from minors under the age of thirteen. If you are age thirteen or under, please do not give us any Personal Data. If you have reason to believe that a child has provided Personal Data on our Website, please contact us at info@covenantmadison.org and we will endeavor to delete that Personal Data. If you are a child age thirteen or under and using our Website, please do not give any Personal Data about yourself, such as your name, address, birth date, phone number, school or email address. As we develop online programs for children, we will adopt appropriate policies and practices to protect the privacy of children.
When we obtain photographs and images of minors, we notify their parents or guardians and ask for a written and signed release before we publish them on our Website (at some events with a large youth presence, we request signed permission forms as a part of the event registration process). When third parties send us photographs or images of minors, we ask that they do the same and have some form of permission to have taken those photographs and images and permission to use them. We ask users who send photographs and images of minors to our Website not to send images for which they do not have permission of the parents or guardian or send photographs or images in violation of local, state or federal law.
Links to Other Sites
This Privacy Policy applies only to our Website which is owned and administered by Covenant Presbyterian Church. This site contains many hyperlinks to websites that are not operated by us. These hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any endorsement of the activities of these third-party websites or any association with their operators. We do not control these websites and are not responsible for their data practices. We urge you to review the privacy policy posted on any site you visit before using the site or before providing any Personal Data about yourself.
Governing Law
This Privacy Policy forms part of our Website Terms of Use Agreement, which shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Wisconsin.
Questions About Our Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or concerns about the way we use Personal Data, please contact info@covenantmadison.org.
Notification of Changes to This Policy
We are continually improving and adding new functionality and features to our Website. Because of these ongoing changes, changes in the law, and the changing nature of technology, we may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. When the Policy changes, we will post a dated notice in this Policy informing you that a change has been made. The Privacy Policy was last updated on June 22, 2018.