Web Privacy Policy for the Diocese of Chicago
Our Privacy Policy
The Diocese of Chicago is committed to safeguarding the privacy of visitors
and customers to our website. To protect your privacy, we have set security
measures
in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under
our control, gathered from our website. Our SSL technology ensures the secure
identity of our customers’ computers, protecting your information when
you use our online registration, application, or product ordering features.
The Information We Collect
We require you to provide us with certain information about yourself when you
request or access certain features, products, and services from this site. We
also collect information from you when you participate in any surveys, or when
you respond to requests for feedback.
The information we collect may include information from which you may be
personally identified, such as name, mailing address, telephone numbers,
fax number, and
e-mail address. All credit card and e-check transactions are handled through
our payment gateway service, authorize.net, which means credit card numbers
and related information are not collected or stored on the Diocese of Chicago
site.
How We Use Your Information
If you do provide us with personal information, we will abide by any limitation
on the purposes for which it will be used that is expressed where it is
collected, and we will not sell, license, transmit or disclose this information
outside
of the Diocese of Chicago unless (1) you expressly authorize us to do so,
(2) it is necessary to allow our contractors or agents to provide services
for us,
(3) in order to provide products or services to you, or (4) otherwise as
required or permitted by law.
We publish an email newsletter Connect. Information collected in the process
of subscribing to the newsletter or other diocesan sponsored lists is
not shared with any other organization or individual except for the reasons
given above.
We restrict access to personal information collected about you at our
website to our employees, our affiliates' employees, or others who
need to know
that information to provide services to you or in the course of conducting
our
normal business operations. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural
safeguards
to protect personal information.
Links
For your convenience we may provide links to other websites and web
pages that we do not control. We cannot be responsible for the privacy
practices
of any
websites or pages not under our control and we do not endorse any
of these websites or pages, the services or products described or offered
on such
sites or pages,
or any of the content contained on those sites or pages.
Unsubscribing an Email Address
Should you, at any time, wish to unsubscribe from one of our email
lists, simply contact us either by phone at 312-751-4200 or by
email at diocese@episcopalchicago.org.
Summary
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We use the information
we collect about you to process orders, to improve our web page
and resource
content,
and to evaluate our ministry with you. If you should have questions
about our privacy
policy or want to have your name and address added to our do-not-share
list, please call, write, or send us an email with your exact
name, address, and
other applicable information.
To Contact Us
Office of Communication
Diocese of Chicago
65 E. Huron St.
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312-751-4200
Fax: 312-787-4534
Email: diocese@episcopalchicago.org