Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At St John’s Church we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Website Visitors

St John’s Church collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. St John’s Church’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to understand better how St John’s Church’s visitors use its website. From time to time, St John’s Church may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to St John’s Church’s website choose to interact with St John’s Church in ways that require St John’s Church to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that St John’s Church gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who make contact to provide a username and email address. St John’s Church collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with St John’s Church. St John’s Church does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

St John’s Church may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, St John’s Church may monitor the most popular pages or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. St John’s Church does not disclose personally-identifying information.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

St John’s Church takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. St John’s Church uses cookies to help St John’s Church identify and track visitors, their usage of St John’s Church website, and their website access preferences. St John’s Church visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using St John’s Church’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of St John’s Church’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. Cookie settings can be adjusted using the Cookie Policy

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, St John’s Church may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in St John’s Church’s sole discretion. St John’s Church encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

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