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PRIVACY POLICY


Most Recent Update: 2024/03/25

SMS Terms of Service at bottom of page. 


This Privacy Policy explains how St. Paul Lutheran Church collects,

uses and discloses personal information of its customers, prospective

customers, and visitors to its website at www.stpaulmonroe.org.


COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION


Information collected directly from you: We may collect personal information directly

from you, for example through a web form, during an online or in-person registration, while making a reservation, while setting up a Churchtrac account with us, or when you contact us for help.

Personal information we collect directly from you may include first and last name, address, email address, and phone number.


Information collected from

your device: Our website may use tracking technologies such as cookies, web

beacons, pixels, and other similar technologies to automatically collect

certain information from your device, including for example your IP address,

browser and operating system information, geographic location, referring

website address, and other information about how you interact with the website.

Our website may also use cookies to personalize your experience and enable

certain features.  You may disable cookies in your web browser however parts of our website may not function properly. More information about blocking and deleting cookies is available at http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Our email campaigns may also use tracking technologies such as web beacons,

pixels and other similar technologies to automatically collect certain

information such as your IP address, browser type and version, and email

engagement statistics.


USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION


We use information collected directly from you to provide

you with our events and services, support, and other relevant information.  We may also use this

information to market our products and services to you, including by email and

text message subject to your consent.


We use information collected automatically

from your device to provide our website to you, to optimize our website, and to

assist with our advertising efforts.


DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION


We may use third-party service providers to assist us with

providing and advertising our products and services to you and we may share

your information with such third parties for these limited purposes.


 


    

We use Churchtrac for

our email marketing, email and text message communications, and web presence.

For more information about how we may use your information with Churchtrac and the information that may be collected

through our email campaigns, see Churchtrac's

Customer Data Notice available at https://www.churchtrac.com/privacy_policy


    

We use Twilio for our text message

communications. For more information about how we may use your information with

Twilio and the information that may be collected through our text message campaigns,

see Twilio s privacy policy https://www.twilio.com/en-us/privacy


    

We use Vanco and Venmo as our payment processors.  Venmo uses and processes your payment

information in accordance with its privacy policy available at https://venmo.com/legal/us-user-agreement/

.  Vanco uses and processes your payment

information in accordance with its privacy policy available at https://www.vancopayments.com/privacy


 


We may also share your personal

information if necessary to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to

respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information

we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.


EMAIL AND TEXT MESSAGE COMMUNICATIONS


If you wish to unsubscribe from our email campaigns, please

click on the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing email sent from

us. 


If you wish to stop receiving text messages from us, reply

STOP, QUIT, CANCEL, OPT-OUT, or


UNSUBSCRIBE to any text message sent from us. For more

information, see our Mobile Messaging Terms and Conditions available at https://stpaulmonroe.churchtrac.com/card/136


We use SMS for notification of upcoming events, event

registration, and reminders. 


YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS


You may have the right to request access to the personal

information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, or to request that

your personal information be corrected or deleted. To exercise any of these

rights, please contact us at church@stpaulmonroe.org


CHANGES TO THE THIS PRIVACY POLICY


We may update this Privacy Policy at any time. Please

review it frequently.


CONTACT INFORMATION


If you have any questions about this policy or our privacy

practices, please contact us at church@stpaulmonroe.org 


SMS Terms of Service

When opted-in, you will receive text messages (SMS/MMS) to your mobile number. These kinds of messages may include event notifications, reminders, or other information.

You can opt-out of this service at any time. Just text “STOP” to the phone number. After you text “STOP” to us, we may send you an SMS reply to confirm that you have been unsubscribed. After this, you will no longer receive SMS messages from us. If you want to join again, just sign up as you did the first time or text “START” and we will start sending SMS messages to you again.

If you are experiencing any issues, you can reply with the keyword “HELP”. Or, you can get help directly from us, by emailing church@stpaulmonroe.org, or calling 845-782-5600. 

Carriers, such as AT&T, are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

Message and data rates may apply for any messages sent to you from us and to us from you. You should expect to receive approximately 10 messages per month from us.

If you have any questions about your text plan or data plan, please contact your wireless provider.

If you have any questions regarding privacy, please read our privacy policy, listed above.