Our
privacy policy
Holy
Cross Lutheran Church (HCLC), the organization responsible for maintaining
this web site — respects your privacy. We have established this
website and we intend to give you as much control as possible over
your personal information.
In general, you can surf this site without telling us who you are
or revealing any information about yourself. There are times, however,
when we may need information from you, such as your name and e-mail
address. We will let you know before we collect personal information
from you on the Internet and will let you know the purpose for which
that information is collected.
Submissions
If you choose to give us personal information via the Internet, for
example — in order for us to reply to you or provide you with
information. We promise that you will know exactly how we intend to
use such information. We will not publish your name on this website
without your permission. We will not publish your e-mail address on
this website. We will not distribute this information to others except
as reasonably incidental to the purpose for which the information
is collected. For example, we may disclose your name and address to
an internal organization we use to deliver information requested through
the site to you. If you tell us that you do not wish to receive additional
information from us, we will respect your wishes.
Any and all information collected at this site (www.hclc.org) will
be kept strictly confidential and will not be sold, reused, rented,
leased, loaned, traded, or otherwise disclosed to a third party. Except
where that disclosure is reasonably incidental to the purpose for
which the information was collected (as explained above). Any information
you give on this site will be held with the utmost care, and will
not be used in ways to which you have not consented.
Unsolicited
information
By sending any unsolicited information or material to HCLC, you grant
HCLC an unrestricted, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display,
perform, modify, transmit and distribute those materials or information,
and you also agree that HCLC is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how
or techniques that you send us for any purpose.
Collecting
information
Some information about your IP address, web browser and computer operating
system are automatically transmitted to our web server as an integral
part of the operation of the Internet. Some of this information is
used for demographic purposes as a technical resource to help us better
serve our website visitors. We analyze this data for trends and statistics,
and then we discard it. Our website logs are not personally identifiable
and we make no attempt to link them with the individuals that actually
browse the site.
Use
of cookies
Other information may be sent to your computer in the form of an Internet
"cookie" to allow our web server to better serve files to
you. The cookie is stored on your hard drive, along with others sent
from other websites. Our server may request that your computer return
a cookie to it, so that it "remembers" you as a user, and
can better serve you. These return cookies, which may contain information
supplied by you, are never stored on our server. Your web browser
can be set to allow you to refuse cookies. This will not lessen your
ability to enjoy the www.hclc.org website in any way.
E-mail lists
Visitors may request to join a mailing list by completing a form on
this site. We maintain email lists for our members and interested
website visitors to inform them of new information on this website.
We do not sell, reuse, rent, lease, loan, trade or otherwise divulge
the addresses on our lists to anyone.
Children's
submissions
Features on this site are accessible to children under age 13. Collected
information will be used solely to directly respond to the child's
request and not to contact the child for other purposes. E-mail addresses
are only used for responses and are never sold, reused, rented, leased,
loaned, traded, or otherwise disclosed to a third party, regardless
of age. Names and e-mail addresses may be retained for legal purposes
only. We keep no other permanent record of children's names and e-mail
addresses.
Protection
HCLC will use all reasonable endeavors to protect all personal information
against loss, unauthorized access, use, modification, disclosure or
other misuse.
Some
Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable
information about you when you access or utilize those links. hclc.org
does not control the collection or use of such information, and the
practices of those Web sites are not covered by this Privacy Policy
Access
to personal information
HCLC will, at the request of an individual, provide the individual
with access to all personal information which HCLC holds and HCLC
will, at the request of the individual to whom the information relates,
make appropriate corrections, deletions or additions to ensure that
the information is accurate, relevant, up-to-date, and complete. This
website contains links to other websites. HCLC is not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Your
Consent
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of your
personal information by HCLC as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may change our Privacy Policy. We will post
those changes on this page so that our visitors will always be aware
of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances
we share the information with others.
If you have any concerns about our privacy practices, please contact
us via e-mail.
