Double Rock Baptist Church Website Privacy Statement               Effective March 1, 2005

Article A


This notice is for members of Double Rock Baptist Church and applies to general information collected or submitted on the Double Rock Church Website.

 

A-1 Commitment To Your Privacy:

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our general online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information or your likeness is collected or used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our church website homepage via a link.

 

A-2 Our Commitment To Children's Privacy:

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we will never maintain information on our website from those we actually know are under 13 without the express consent of the child's parent and/or guardian.  If you would like to give you permission, please simply sign our Article C - The Double Rock Website Privacy Release Agreement for Minors.

 

A-3 Photos and Names:

Any Double Rock Member’s likeness and or full name may be used on the church website, solely at the Webmaster’s discretion or a member’s sir name may be used. If you do not wish to have your full name displayed or your likeness used in photos and or videos, you must sign and submit Article B. The Double Rock Website Privacy Policy Opt-Out Agreement Request Form:   

 

A-4 E-mail Addresses:

Various documents or forms on the church website may request your e-mail address.  We use this information to answer the e-mails we receive. This information is not used for any other purpose and is not shared with any outside parties.  We may however add you to our Double Rock Website mailing list to receive the "What’s New On The DBRC Website!"  This publication provides information regarding new postings to the Double Rock Church website. 

 

A-5 Our Commitment To Data Security

The Double Rock Church website does NOT seek to identify who you are; however, the webmaster has enabled “cookies" on our web site.   This programming allows our webmaster to gather statistical information for the purpose of designing a website environment that works best with the software and operating systems that access the church website.  Programming is also coded to allow the webmaster to count the number of visitors to our site.  This information is shared with third parties and te server of our Internet Service Provider may also collect statistical information.

 

A-6 How We Respond to Law Enforcement:

If at anytime Law Enforcement makes a request for information about our members by order or subpoena, the Double Rock Baptist Church Administrator will be contacted to assist and cooperate with law officials.

 

A-7 How We Securely Process Orders and Donations via the Church Website:

On designated pages, you may donate monetarily to this institution, order sermons or music on cassette tape, CD, video tape or DVD.  All monetary  purchases are processed via PayPal, our preferred merchant account.  PayPal is committed to a high standard of information security.  PayPal maintains expert physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with Federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information.  PayPal tests their security systems regularly and they also contract with outside companies to thoroughly audit their security systems and processes.

 

A-8 How We Process Online Forms, and/or Surveys

Various departments/ministries of the church may seek to obtain personally identifiable information through online application forms, online surveys, interest lists, inquiry forms, and e-mail subscription forms.  Any and all information gathered in this manner is solely for the purpose and express use of the department or ministry making the inquiry. 

 

NOTE:  The only private information maintained on the website may be due to the information freely provided by the individual via our "Share With Us" page which is and online guestbook.  A notice is displayed in the area to advise all visitors of this procedure.  The Double Rock webmaster, at her sole discretion may or may/not  purge or edit out personal information from the "Share With Us, guestbook page.

 

A-9 Our 'LIMITED" Partnership with Advertisers

We will only use non-identifying information to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website.  We will not provide e-mail lists or disclose anything that could be used to identify any visitor to advertisers.

 

A-10 - Disclaimer

The Double Rock Baptist Church as a whole or in part is not responsible for the unknown dissemination of any information or likeness of any kind that was obtained without the simultaneous written permission of the Double Rock Baptist Church Pastor and Webmaster.  Neither is the Double Rock website nor any of their associated ministries, departments or entities directly or indirectly responsible for the continued dissemination of any and all hard or soft copy materials associated with this website or church.  Neither will the Double Rock Baptist Church or any of their associated ministries, departments or affiliates be responsible for the continual use of your information or likeness that was pirated or taken from the church website or by any and all associated publications or by any and all electronic means.  The Double Rock Baptist Church and website in whole or in part and all of its associated ministries, departments and affiliates are here and forever released from any and all liabilities or implied liabilities.

 

A-11 Changes to the Privacy Policy:

This policy is reviewed periodically by the Double Rock Baptist Church Pastor, Webmaster and Ministry Chairperson and is subject to change. Any changes will be posted on the church website and a hard copy will be made available to the Double Rock membership, upon request.

 

A-12 How To Contact Us

Should you have other questions or concerns about our privacy policies, please contact our webmaster at: webmaster@doublerock.org