Good Shepherd Parish 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 Good Shepherd Parish Web
site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Good Shepherd Parish
website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Good Shepherd Parish collects personally
identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work
address or telephone number. Good Shepherd Parish 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 Good Shepherd Parish. This information
can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and
referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Good Shepherd Parish for
the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to
provide general statistics regarding use of the Good Shepherd Parish Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable
information or personally sensitive data through Good Shepherd Parish public
message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note:
Good Shepherd Parish does not read any of your private online communications.
Good Shepherd Parish encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites
you choose to link to from Good Shepherd Parish so that you can understand how
those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Good Shepherd Parish is
not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites
outside of the Good Shepherd Parish and Good Shepherd Parish family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Good Shepherd Parish collects and uses your personal
information to operate the Good Shepherd Parish Web site and deliver the services
you have requested. Good Shepherd Parish also uses your personally identifiable
information to inform you of other products or services available from
Good Shepherd Parish and its affiliates. Good Shepherd Parish may also contact you
via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of
potential new services that may be offered.
Good Shepherd Parish does not sell,
rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Good Shepherd Parish 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, Good Shepherd Parish 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 Good Shepherd Parish, and they are required to
maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Good Shepherd Parish does not
use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or
political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Good Shepherd Parish keeps
track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Good Shepherd Parish,
in order to determine what Good Shepherd Parish services are the most popular.
This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within
Good Shepherd Parish to customers whose behavior indicates that they are
interested in a particular subject area.
Good Shepherd Parish 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
Good Shepherd Parish or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of
Good Shepherd Parish; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the
personal safety of users of Good Shepherd Parish, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Good Shepherd Parish 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 Good Shepherd Parish pages, or
register with Good Shepherd Parish site or services, a cookie helps
Good Shepherd Parish 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
Good Shepherd Parish Web site, the information you previously provided can be
retrieved, so you can easily use the Good Shepherd Parish 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
Good Shepherd Parish services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Good Shepherd Parish secures your personal information from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Good Shepherd Parish 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
Good Shepherd Parish will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect
company and customer feedback. Good Shepherd Parish encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how Good Shepherd Parish is protecting
your information.
Contact Information
Good Shepherd Parish welcomes your comments
regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Good Shepherd Parish has
not adhered to this Statement, please contact Good Shepherd Parish at
parish@goodshepherdcommunity.org. We
will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.