General
EFC of Willmar (EFCW) respects the privacy of every individual who visits our site. This Privacy Policy was created to demonstrate our church's commitment to privacy. It outlines the information that EFCW may collect and how we may use that information. This Policy will also instruct you on what to do if you do not want your personal information collected or shared when you visit our site.
Information Gathering and Dissemination
The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website. EFCW will not collect any personally-identifiable information about you (e.g. your name, address, telephone number, or email address) through our site unless you have provided it to us voluntarily. If you do not want your personal data collected, please do not submit it to us.
When you do provide us with personal data, we may use that information in the following ways, unless stated otherwise: we may store and process that information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our services; and we may use that information to contact you. We do not now nor do we intend to sell, rent, or market personal data about you to third parties.
Information Collected Automatically
In some cases, we may automatically (i.e. not via registration) collect information about you that is not personally - identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the type of Internet Browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using and the domain name of the website from which you linked to our site. We use this to help diagnose problems and to better develop our web site. This site currently sets and accesses information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a "Cookie" or similar file and can help us in many ways. For example, Cookies allow us to tailor a website to better match your interests and veiwing preferences. With most Internet Browsers, you can erase Cookies from your computer hard drive, block all Cookies or receive a warning before a Cookie is stored. Please refer to your Browser instructions to learn more about these functions.
This policy will be updated if additional information is collected.
Information Collected Voluntarily
Our online forms request users to give us contact information (like their name, home address, and email address). This contact information is used to contact the members only when necessary and to update the church databases. No personal information from this web site is shared with any third party not directly associated with EFCW.
Our online registration form provides an option for receiving our church's publications either through email or direct postal methods. Users who have selected this option may at any time opt-out of receiving future publications or mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.
Links
This site contains links to other sites. EFCW is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Children/Direct Notice To Parents
In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, portions of our site requiring online registration should not be used by children under the age of 13 without parental permission. Children should ask parents and guardians before submitting any personal information online. Parents and guardians are encouraged to supervise their children's online activities. If children will be using the Web unsupervised, parents may want to consider third-party filtering software designed to provide a child-friendly online environment. Such filtering software may also prevent children from submitting personal information.
EFCW has no intention of collecting any personal data from individuals under thirteen years of age without parental consent. Where appropriate, we will specifically instruct children not to submit such information on our site and/or will take reasonable steps to ensure parental consent to such submission. In the event EFCW runs a program that requires submission of information from children, your consent is required. Notice may be provided in a number of ways, including sending an email message or a notice by postal mail. At any time you may write to the email address below to request a summary of any information we have retained or to ask that it be deleted.
Parents should be aware that EFCW's Privacy Policy will govern our use of personal data, but that information which is voluntarily given by children (or others) in chat sessions, email exchanges, bulletin boards or the like may be used by other parties to generate unsolicited mail. EFC of Willmar encourages all parents to instruct their children in the safe and responsible use of their personal data while using the Internet.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may edit this privacy policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our website.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you may contact Sue Kelly or Rob Taylor.
Choice/Opt-Out
This site gives users the option of removing their information from our database to not receive future communications. You can unsubscribe by emailing the EFCW Office and requesting to be removed from the mailing list.
Corrections/Update
This site gives users the option of changing and modifying information previously provided. You can email corrections/updates to the church office.
Evangelical Free Church of Willmar
1305 19th Avenue SW
Willmar, MN 56201
320/235-4317
