Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 2025

Introduction

Zion United Church, Cedar Hill ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or interact with our church. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the site includes:

• Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, and telephone number that you voluntarily give to us when you contact us through our website or other means.
• Prayer Requests: Information you share when submitting prayer requests, which may include personal or sensitive information about yourself or others.
• Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed.

Use of Your Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you to:

• Respond to your inquiries and prayer requests
• Send you information about church events and activities
• Improve our website and services
• Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience
• Fulfill and manage any orders, payments, or other transactions
• Compile anonymous statistical data for our internal use

Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

• By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate potential policy violations, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others.
• Church Staff and Volunteers: We may share your information with church staff and volunteers who need access to perform their duties, such as pastoral care.
• With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

Cookies and Tracking

Our website may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.

Third-Party Services

Our website may contain links to third-party websites or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit. This privacy policy applies only to our website and does not govern any third-party sites or services.

Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If we learn that personal information from users less than 13 years of age has been collected, we will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy.

Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

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