PRIVACY POLICY

YOUR PRIVACY IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO US.

It is Providence Church’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://providencecharleston.org/ (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "https://providencecharleston.org/"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

WEBSITE VISITORS

Like most website operators, Providence 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. Providence Church’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Providence Church's visitors use its website. From time to time, Providence Church may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Providence Church also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://providencecharleston.org/ blog posts. Providence Church only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

GATHERING OF PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

Certain visitors to Providence Church websites choose to interact with Providence Church in ways that require Providence Church to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Providence Church gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at https://providencecharleston.org/ to provide a username and email address.

SECURITY

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

LINKS TO EXTERNAL SITES

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

PROTECTION OF CERTAIN PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

Providence Church discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Providence Church’s behalf or to provide services/products available at Providence Church’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Providence Church’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Providence Church will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Providence Church discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Providence Church believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Providence Church, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://providencecharleston.org/ and have supplied your email address, Providence Church may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new products or features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Providence Church. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Providence Church takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

AGGREGATED STATISTICS

Providence Church may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Providence Church may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Providence Church does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

COOKIES

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Providence Church uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

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. Providence Church uses cookies to help Providence Church identify and track visitors, their usage of https://providencecharleston.org/, and their website access preferences. Providence Church visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Providence Church’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Providence Church's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Providence Church's use of cookies.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Providence Church may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Providence Church’s sole discretion. Providence 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.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email.