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 Privacy Policy
INTRODUCTION |
This statement sets out
The Gospel and Our Culture Network 's policies relating to the collection and use
of your personal information. It applies to your
conduct in the community. Before disclosing your
personal information to any third party site
that are linked with
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
you should read their respective privacy policy
and/or terms of service.
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Your personal information is important to
us |
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
recognises that your privacy is very important
to you and thus you have the right to control
all information that pertains to you. We understand
your willingness to give out your personal
information requires trust and that is extremely
important to us. Unless we are given explicit
permission to do otherwise all information
given to
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
remains private and you have the choice who that
information is given to and how it is used.
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2.
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
Membership |
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
has implemented a membership system, designed
to offer users a more rewarding and personalised
customer experience ("Membership"). To obtain
the full benefits of Membership, users are
required to register with
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
and login as members. However, even if you don't
you sign up for Membership or log onto the site
you are still able to access some of the
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
content.
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3.
Collecting your personal information |
There are two
main ways we collect information about you:
If you do not log in as a member
Whenever you visit the site, the servers automatically
record non-personal information about your
usage the pages you visited and the time spent
viewing the site. This is to help us understand
what interests you and enables us to provide
information that is most relevant to you.
If you do not want us to retain any information
at all, even in an anonymous form, you can
use the Preferences on your browser program
to remove all cookies and set the browser not
to accept cookies in the future.
If you log in as a member
Once you have become a Member, we collect personal
information about you in order to provide you
with the full benefits of a Member. When you
first register we collect information from
you directly and also from time to time thereafter
if you provide us additional information.
Once you have logged on as a member, we keep
a record of how you use the Network. This helps
us to build a profile of what interests you,
so that we can personalise your experience
of the Network and publish information that
is directly relevant to your interests.
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4.
Preserving your privacy |
Surveys show that
most internet users are concerned about their
privacy, want to keep control of their personal
information, and do not trust many of the web
sites which they visit. In fact, research shows
around a third of internet users give false information
online rather than saying who they really are.
Although we take seriously your privacy, we understand
some people do not feel comfortable disclosing
the personal information on the internet. If
you don't want to disclose your real identity
your can use a pseudonym - or a different name.
There for you can choose a different name and
that is what we will call you.
We will not know who you really are, but we will
still be able to find out what you like most
on our site and therefore give you the most enjoyable
and customised experience possible.
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Our use of cookies and IP Addresses |
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's
hard drive containing information about the
user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked
to any personally identifiable information
while on our site. Cookies are files that your
Web browser places on your computer's hard
drive for record-keeping purposes.
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
creates and then uses these cookie files to track
your clicks as you go through the site. The use
of cookies is an industry standard and you will
find them at most major Web sites. The information
we retrieve from the cookie files helps us track
user trends and patterns. We use the information
from cookies to provide services that better
fit our users' needs.
Use of IP Addresses
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
uses IP addresses to analyse trends, administer
the site, track user's movement, and gather broad
demographic information for aggregate use. IP
addresses are not linked to personally identifiable
information.
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
uses internet analysis software that provides
information from across the community site and
gives the following information.
* The number of page views (or page impressions)
that occur on the site;
* The number of unique visitors to the site;
* How long these unique visitors (on average)
spend on the site when they do visit; and
* Common entry and exit points into the site.
This information is collated by and used to analyse
the usage of the site and provide non-personal
information to enable the community to grow and
change.
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Using and disclosing your personal information |
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
will not use or disclose any information about
you without your consent, unless:
* Required by law.
* To implement our terms of use.
* To protect the rights or property of
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
, any
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
user, or any member of the public.
* To lessen a serious threat to a person's health
or safety.
We will not give any of your personal information
to advertisers or any other organisation without
your express consent.
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7. "Spam" |
We will not send
you "spam"
(advertising information) without first asking
you whether you wish to have promotional information
sent to you. You have the option in your account
information to specify whether you would like
to receive correspondence from this site and
also if you want to receive information from
third-party organisations or companies you can
check and uncheck these options at anytime.
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Security of your personal information |
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
takes every precaution to protect our users'
information. When users submit sensitive information
via the website, your information is protected
both online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to
enter sensitive information (such as credit card
number), that information is encrypted and is
protected with the best encryption software in
the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such
as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom
of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and
Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as
opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just
'surfing'.
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive
information online, we also do everything in
our power to protect user-information off-line.
All of our users' information, not just the sensitive
information mentioned above, is restricted in
our offices. Only employees who need the information
to perform a specific job (for example, our billing
clerk or a customer service representative) are
granted access to personally identifiable information.
Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date
on our security and privacy practices. Finally,
the servers that we store personally identifiable
information on are kept in a secure environment.
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9.
You can access the information we keep about
you |
As indicated above
in section 3, if you do not log on as a member,
we do not collect information that identifies
you personally. If, however, you log on as a
member, you are able to access, change and update
your Account Information at any time. You can
also create a profile that enables you to upload
information about yourself that others can view
(this is optional and is not required to enjoy
all the benefits of the site).
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10.
Links to other websites |
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
provides links to third party websites. These
linked sites are not under the control of
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
, and we cannot accept responsibility for the
conduct of any company or group linked to our
website. Before disclosing your personal information
on any other website, we advise you to examine
the terms and conditions of the respective sites.
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What to do if you have a problem or question |
If you have any concerns
about information gathered from the site or wish
to know any more information about our privacy
you can email us: judy.bos@gocn.org
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12.
Future upgrades to the site |
Our commitment to
make
The Gospel and Our Culture Network
the best site possible we will endeavour to add
new features to the site regularly. We reserve
the right to make changes to the Terms of Service
and Privacy Policy at any stage so it is recommended
you view the Terms & Privacy Policy regularly.
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