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The Diocese of Washington is committed to protecting
the privacy of visitors to the diocesan Web site. This privacy statement
provides information about information gathering and disclosure practices
for visitors to www.edow.org. The diocesan Web site and other sites hosted
by the Diocese of Washington are hosted on a server operated by Interland for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington (Washington, DC).
This site contains explicit hyperlinks to other sites. The Diocese of Washington is not responsible for the practices of those other Web sites. When visiting such sites, we urge you to be an informed surfer and use caution when providing any personal data. These links are provided for your convenience only. We don't own the listed sites, and we make no promises as to the accuracy of their content or the quality of their services or products.
This website employs the following design features and conventions:
- This Web site does not place cookies on your hard drive.
- This Web site does not invoke any client-side applications (applets) with the intent of copying any data from your computer memory or hard drive(s), or of altering any data in your computer. (We do use Java applets for some display functions such as the scrolling marquee and the main menu. Alternative displays are provided for readers who do not have a Java environment on their machines.)
- This Web site does not collect any data about its visitors other than for statistical purposes. For site management, statistical information is collected in order to assess what information is of most and least interest, to determine technical design specifications, and to identify system performance or problem areas. Data collected may include the pages visited on the site, the date and time of the visit, the internet address (URL or IP address) of the referring site, the domain name and IP address from which the access occurred, the version of browser used, the capabilities of the browser, and search terms used on search engines. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. We do not sell or otherwise provide the identity of our visitors to anyone.
- This website relies on internet security mechanisms operated by Interland, Inc. and the Episcopal Diocese of Washington for protection from malicious alteration of its operation. Attempts to upload or change information on this website without authorization or to download and copy with the intent to defraud are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. Interland's privacy/security policy is found at http://www.interland.com/legal/privacy/ and their Acceptable Use Policy is at http://www.interland.com/legal/acceptableuse/default.asp .
- Directory data about group members posted on this Web site is posted only with the permission of the individual members.
- This Web site will not associate names of individual members under the age of 18 with their photos. To achieve this, this Web site avoids the following practices, amongst others:
a. Use of mouse-over text to show the name of a person in a picture.
b. Use of persons' names in filenames.
c. Identifying people under the age of 18 by name in captions.
Information Voluntarily Provided by You
In the course of using this web site, you may choose to provide us with information to help us serve your needs. For example, you may send us electronic mail (through a mailer or a web form) to request information, you may sign up for a mailing list, or you may send us your address so we may send you some printed material. Any personally identifiable information you send us will be used only for the purpose indicated. Requests for information will be directed to the appropriate staff to respond to the request, and may be recorded to help us update our site to better respond to similar requests. We will not sell, exchange or otherwise distribute your personally identifiable information without your consent, except to the extent required by law. Each web page requesting information discloses the purpose of that information. If you do not wish to have the information used in that manner, you are not required to provide it. If you have any questions about this privacy statement
or the practices of this site, contact the site
administrator.
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