Effective Date: October 17, 2021

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is part of the Terms and Conditions of Use for christiansciencenlr.com (the “site”), owned and operated by First Church of Christ, Scientist, North Little Rock-Sherwood, Arkansas (“FCCSNS”, “we”, “our”). By using the site, you consent to the collection and usage of information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Our Commitment to Privacy

This Privacy Policy is designed to advise you about how we collect, use, and protect the Personally Identifiable Information you provide. By visiting this site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

What Information is Collected

Information You Provide to Us: We collect the Personally Identifiable Information you choose to enter on various pages of our site, or that you may choose to give us in some other way (such as by email, physical mail, or by telephone). For example, you will be asked to provide Personally Identifiable Information when you sign up for newsletters or mailings. The categories of Personally Identifiable Information we collect are your first and last name, e-mail address, physical address, and telephone number. You can choose not to provide certain information, but this may hinder you receiving the requested information.

Automatic Information: When you visit a website, you disclose certain information, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and the time of your visit. This site, like many other sites, records this basic information about visits to our site.

"Cookies": Cookies are pieces of information that are transferred to your computer from a web server. We use cookies to store visitor preferences, record session information (such as signing up for a newsletter or requesting some other information) record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, alert visitors to new areas that we think might be of interest to them when they return to our site, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site, and to customize site content based on visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Most browsers are set up to accept cookies, but you can change your settings to have your browser notify you when you receive a new cookie or you can change your settings to refuse to accept cookies.

How and When the Information is Used

The information we collect is used for administering our site activities as follows:

  1. to customize the content and/or layout of site pages for each individual visitor;

  2. to improve the content of our site;

  3. used to notify visitors about updates to our site;

  4. used by us to contact visitors for newsletter or other requested information purposes;

  5. to provide and maintain the functionality of the site;

  6. to allow you to interact with the features provided on our site when you choose to do so;

  7. to provide customer care and support.

  8. to watch the usage of the site;

  9. to provide maintenance of the site in prevention and detection of technical issues.

How We Protect Your Information

The privacy and protection of your information is important to us. We offer clickable links to other websites (third party sites). The third party sites may have different privacy practices, and we encourage you to read their privacy policies. As a safety measure, your access to some services and content is password protected. We advise that you do not disclose your password to anyone. In addition, we recommend you sign out of password-protected services at the end of your session. You should also be aware that if you voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on message boards or in chat areas, that information can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond our control and this policy.

If you, the user, click on a third party link, we does not assume any responsibility or liability regarding any third party site’s privacy policy, subject matter or site services. We have no control over other users or other websites.

Our Privacy Policy applies only to the collected information on this site.

Who Has Access to the Information

Information about our users is important to us. Access to your information may be provided to third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our site. We may also disclose your information in response to a court order and we may disclose your information when we believe we are required to do so by law. We may disclose your information in connection to prevent or investigate possible misconduct with our site, to protect against legal liability, defend the rights or property of FCCSNS, protect personal safety of user/public and to engage law enforcement authorities whenever we deem it appropriate or necessary. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure.

Methods We Use to Protect Your Information

Your Personally Identifiable Information security is important to us but the user must remember that there is no 100% secure means of transmission nor electronic storage. Although the FCCSNS site strives to protect your Personally Identifiable Information we cannot offer an absolute guarantee on security.

United States Hosting

For users outside of the United States this site is hosted in the United States and is accountable under United States law. Visiting this site you acknowledge that you are aware that your Personally Identifiable Information is being transmitted to, kept and processed by the servers and databases in the United States. Be aware that the data protection laws and other laws governing the United States and other countries may not be as all-inclusive as your country’s laws.

Children’s Privacy

This website does not provide services or sell products to children under the age of 18. If we discover we have received any information from a child under the age of 18 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe we have received any information from or about anyone under the age of 18, please contact us.

Consent

By using our site, you consent to the collection and use of your Personally Identifiable Information as described in this Privacy Policy

Changes to Privacy Policy

If our Privacy Policy or procedures change, FCCSNS will post notice on this page. Any such changes will be effective 7 days after they are posted on this page unless noted differently. As a user to this site, you acknowledge it is your responsibility to check this page periodically for changes.