Terms and Conditions

Web Site Usage Agreement

The fumclv.org web site and any subdomains (ex.- store.fumclv.org) is a service provided by First United Methodist Church of Lawrenceville. It's mostly informational, but you should read these terms so you know where we stand on stuff like privacy, cookies, and whatnot...

This privacy policy covers www.fumclv.org and all subdomains. Because we want to demonstrate a commitment to our users’ privacy, we have agreeded to disclose this information. Isn't it nice of us? :

1. Personally identifiable information the Church collects
2. Personally identifiable information third parties collect through the Web site
3. How the Church uses the information.
4. With whom the Church may share user information.
5. Choices available to users regarding collection, use and distribution of the information.
6. Security procedures in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under the Church’s control.
7. How users can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

If users have questions or concerns about anything you see here, send us an email at webmaster@fumclv.org

Information Collection and Use

Information Collection

The Church is the sole owner of the information collected on www.fumclv.org. We collect information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

Registration

This site has features for registered and non-registered users. 

Forums / Social Area

Registration is required to post comments, and to participate in the Social Areas. A valid email address is required for registration. After registering, your email address won't appear on the site directly unless you choose to allow it.

Information Use

Profile

We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, and/or third parties to create a profile of our users. A profile is stored information that we keep on individual users that contains the information users enter when filling in their personal profile. This information is stored in a database on the web server.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We use both session ID cookies [and] persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user’s hard drive for an extended period of time.

By setting a cookie on our site, users would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If users reject the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site. For example, the user will not be able to post to a group forum.

Log Files

Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Communications from the Site

Response Notifications

Users who have posted to the site can choose to receive email when someone responds. Users can choose not to receive these emails, or opt out at any time.

Newsletters

If a user wishes to subscribe to one of our newsletters, we ask for an e-mail address. Out of respect for our users privacy we provide a way to opt-out of these communications.

Member Mailings

On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a Church attendee or service related announcement. Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications, though they can deactivate their account. However, these communications are not promotional in nature.

Sharing

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.

Links

This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they 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.

Surveys

From time-to-time our site may requests information from users via surveys. Participation in these surveys or contests will be completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site, or for use in activities relating to our mission (such as research for a message series). Users’ personally identifiable information is not shared with third parties unless we give prior notice and choice.

Tell-A-Friend

If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. The Church will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. The Church uses this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.

Security

This Web site takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the Web site, their information is protected both online and off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees or volunteers who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. Visitors with questions about the security at our Web site can contact us at webmaster@fumclv.org .

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. If, however, we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.

Photos

Professional photographs used on www.fumclv.org, brochures, and weekly publications are used only with permission from the copyright holder. All other photos were purchased or taken by, and belong to, First United Methodist Church Lawrenceville..

Images of attenders on our website, brochures, and weekly publications can be a great way to exemplify life at FUMC.  In order to protect the privacy and security of our youngest members and guests, most of the images of children featured on this site, brochures, and weekly publications are not photos of our current attenders. 

We realize the importance of maintaining the privacy of the individual(s) pictured on this site, so unless we have prior written permission, we will:

• Not publish the last name of a pictured individual as a caption to a photograph
• Publish only first names of people older than 21-years-old
• Not publish identifying information in a caption along with photographs like: address, e-mail address, telephone number, zip code, gender, and birthday
• Not disclose which individuals are standing where in group photos
• Immediately remove any photo upon request that includes the person making the request or their child

Thanks for reading this and enjoy the ride!