Privacy Policy
It is the policy of Houston First Church of God (hereinafter "HFCOG") to protect your personal privacy. Because your use of the church website www.hfcog.org (referred to as "Site" herein) indicates your acceptance of the Church Privacy Policy, please review this Privacy Policy carefully. HFCOG may change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting revisions to the Church Site. This Privacy Policy shall be applicable to any person or entity that directly or indirectly uses the Site or the Services ("Users").Terms defined in the Church Terms of Use shall have the same meaning in this Privacy Policy.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
HFCOG is the sole owner of the information collected on the Site. It uses collected information to provide or improve Services for Users, and as more particularly set forth below, it may use collected information to contact Users for a variety of reasons, including, without limitation, obtaining information from Users regarding their use of the Site and Services and ways HFCOG can improve them, and to send information to them regarding HFCOG, its Services, or its Partners, such as promotions and events. This information is used in ways HFCOG determines appropriate in its sole discretion, and it reserves the right to do so. HFCOG will not sell or rent personally identifiable information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.
HFCOG collects personally identifiable information when you register for a church account, when you use certain church products or services, and when you visit church pages. HFCOG may also receive personally identifiable information from its business partners.
When you register with HFCOG, we ask for personally identifiable information including, but not limited to, your name, email address, address, and zip code. Once you register with HFCOG and sign in to its services, you are not anonymous to us. HFCOG also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, HFCOG cookie information, and the page you requested.
COOKIES
HFCOG employs the use of Cookies to collect information about Users and their use of the Site. "Cookies" are small computer files that HFCOG transfers to your computer that allow HFCOG to know how often you visit the Site and the activities you conduct while on the Site. Third parties, such as advertisers, may also use Cookies when you select their advertisements or links from the Site. However, HFCOG has no access to or control over these Cookies.
INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
HFCOG will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. HFCOG may send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:
*we have your consent to share the information;
*we need to share your
information to provide the product or service you have requested;
*we need to
send the information to companies who work on behalf of HFCOG to provide a
product or service to you (unless we tell you differently, these companies do not
have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them
beyond what is necessary or appropriate in our discretion to assist us);
*we respond
to subpoenas, court orders or legal process;
*or we find that your actions on our Site
violate the Church Terms of Use or any of our usage guidelines for specific Services.
HFCOG may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
LINKS
This Site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that HFCOG is 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 site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this Site.
ACCESSING AND CHANGING YOUR INFORMATION
You can view and update your personal information at any time by signing in to your account on our Site and changing your profile.
OPT-OUT
HFCOG needs to be able to communicate at times with all Users and therefore, it reserves the right to contact Users. Users who no longer wish to receive HFCOG information or promotional materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by following the instructions in the emails.
SECURITY
Your registration or account information is password-protected for your privacy and security. The security of your HFCOG account relies on your protection of your HFCOG password. Any disclosure of your password to a third party may result in access to your registration or account information or execution of transactions. HFCOG uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions of financial and certain other information. Financial information is stored in encrypted form on computers that are not publicly accessible via the Internet.
HFCOG will never request your user name or password via any email message or over the telephone. If you receive such an email or call, please forward the entire message or information about any call immediately to webmaster@hfcog.org. Never provide your HFCOG username or password to anyone via email or phone.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
HFCOG may amend this policy from time to time. If it makes any substantial changes in the way it uses your personal information, HFCOG will notify you by posting an announcement on the Site.
CONTACTING THE WEBMASTER
If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, you may contact webmaster@hfcog.org.