Privacy Policy
(1) Introductory Language
Saint Sebastian Church recognizes the importance of safeguarding personal
information in our possession from theft, inappropriate use, or improper
distribution. It should, however, be recognized that no organization
can perfectly protect personal information.
Our Internet privacy policy is:
- You do not have to give us personal information
to visit our site.
- We collect personally identifiable information
(name, email address, etc.) only if specifically and knowingly provided
by you.
- Personally identifying information you provide
will be used only in communications between you and Saint Sebastian
Church, or for such other purposes as are described at the point of
collection.
- Information is collected for statistical purposes
and Saint Sebastian Church sometimes performs analyses of user behavior
in order to measure user interest in the various areas of our site.
- We do not give, sell or transfer any personal information
to a third party.
- The only cookies in use are Session cookies, which
are encrypted information about the SessionID of the user. Only
this piece of information is stored on the browser. Every other
value stored in the Session will remain at the server.
- We employ SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates
on our online forms to assure the user we are the official Saint Sebastian
Church website and to encrypt the transmission of data to/from the browser
and server for security.
(2) Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site,
read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain
information about your visit automatically. This information does
not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store
only the following information about your visit:
- The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private
Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's
domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically
assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which
you access our website;
- The type of browser and operating system used to
access our site;
- The date and time you access our site;
- The pages you visit; and
- If you linked to the Saint Sebastian Church web
site from another web site, the address of that web site.
We use this information to help us make our site
more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to
our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track
or record information about individuals and their visits.
Below is an example of the information collected based on a standard
request for a World Wide Web document:
xxx.yyy.com - - [28/Jan/1997:00:00:01 -0500]
"GET /sitename/news/nr012797.html HTTP/1.0" 200 16704
Mozilla 3.0/www.altavista.digital.com
xxx.yyy.com (or 123.123.23.12) -- this is the host name (or IP address)
associated with the requester (you as the visitor). In this case,
(....com) the requester is coming from a commercial address. Depending
on the requestor's method of network connection, the host name (or IP
address) may or may not identify a specific computer. Connections
via many Internet Service Providers assign different IP addresses for
each session, so the host name identifies only the ISP. The host
name (or IP address) will identify a specific computer if that computer
has a fixed IP address.
[28/Jan/1997:00:00:01 -0500] -- this is the date and time of the request
"GET /sitename/news/nr012797.html HTTP/1.0" -- this is the location
of the requested file
200 -- this is the status code - 200 is OK - the request was filled
16704 -- this is the size of the requested file in bytes
Mozilla 3.0 -- this identifies the type of browser used to access the
page, which indicates what design parameters to use in constructing
the pages
www.altavista.digital.com -- this indicates the
last site the person visited, which indicates how people find this site
Requests for other types of documents use similar information.
No other user-identifying information is collected.
(3) Information Collected From E-Mails and Web Forms
The Saint Sebastian Church web site provides online forms. The information
is only used for the purposes provided and the information will be destroyed
after the purpose is fulfilled.
(4) Outside Links
This site contains links to third party sites not controlled by Saint
Sebastian Church or covered by this Privacy Statement. We recommend
that you check the Privacy Statement of other sites you visit before
providing any personal information.
(5) Changes
We retain the right to change this Privacy Statement. We will
post changes to this page in a timely manner.
This statement is effective as of 01/20/2008.
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