Maintaining privacy of personal information of visitors to the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento (UUSS) website and respecting the privacy of our members and friends is of the utmost importance. Procedures are defined and will be enforced to ensure privacy for adults and children.
Photographs of church activities will be posted on our website. It is our intent that personal identification information (such as names) will not be associated with any photograph unless identification is warranted and written permission of the person or parent (guardian) of the person being photographed has been obtained. Permission must be granted in writing for the use of all photographs of children and youth under the age of 18 years.
The names of some members and friends will be posted on the website. Personal identification information, such as phone number, home address, or email address will not be published on the public portions of the website without that person’s (parent or guardian if under 18 years of age) explicit written permission.
Anyone who desires to have some or all of their personal information removed from the website do the following:
UUSS will comply with requests to have specific personal information removed in a timely manner.
The UUSS website may be visited without submitting any personal identification information. Users may voluntarily submit email addresses or other personal identifying information to take part in an activity via the website, such as to sign up for a mailing list, to request information or to update their contact information. UUSS will not sell or rent personal information collected via the website to any organization, including UU organizations. UUSS will not share our contact lists with other organizations.
We accept payments for donations through a link to PayPal.com from our web site. We do not collect credit card information directly on this website, though you may use your credit card for online donations via PayPal.com.
Some personal information will be automatically gathered and used to determine trends in peak activity, determine the number of visitors, track the frequency that individual pages are accessed, and to ensure our links are working properly. For each visitor to our website, our website hosting server automatically recognizes the visitor’s domain name, IP (Internet Protocol) address, and browser software. It may also recognize the operating system and the site from which the visitor linked to us. It does not harvest email addresses or other personal information. This tracking information is not shared with other organizations.
UUSS encourages parents (or guardians) to assume responsibility for ensuring that children under age 13 have permission to access the website and have permission to send personal information (for example: name, address, email address, etc.) via our website. UUSS will abide by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). For more information click on this link, COPPA.
This website will not place cookies on a user’s computer with one exception — a cookie is used when a member has signed into the website to access member only or the administrative sections of the website. This cookie holds a temporary encrypted system variable used to keep track of who's signed to that specific computer. This cookie is removed when the individual signs out.
The UUSS website will not place any spyware on a user’s computer for any purpose and will not covertly gathering user personal information.
Please direct questions or comments regarding this policy to the Website Committee.