This Privacy Policy describes important information regarding your rights and rules for your use of The Lovely Lane United Methodist Church website at https://www.lovelylane.org and our other websites, micro-sites, social media platforms, membership directories, and other online and digital properties, content, products, services, software, and applications (the “Sites”). By browsing, accessing, or using our Sites, you agree to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use found at the church website, which are incorporated into this Privacy Policy by this reference.
Last revised: November 15, 2024
Membership Information Privacy Policy
This Policy explains how we collect, use and protect the personal information of our members and regular attendees (for the purpose of this Policy, “members”) through our online church information management system, including member profiles, the membership directory, giving tools, and other components. This policy applies to all members who have provided their personal information to us for inclusion in the church information management system.
Collection of Personal Information
Member profiles, member giving records, and membership directory contains personal information such as photos, names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, birthdays and anniversary dates of members and their families. This information is collected directly from persons who have voluntarily provided this information to be included.
Use of Personal Information
The personal information collected in the church information management system is used solely for the purpose of communicating with members and facilitating member connections. This includes sending newsletters, event invitations, prayer requests, financial information, and other important updates related to the activities and ministries of The Lovely Lane United Methodist Church.
Protection of Personal Information
We take the protection of personal information very seriously. All personal information collected is stored on secure servers, and access to this information is limited to authorized individuals who require access to perform their duties. Additionally, all access to the church information management system is controlled by the church administrators.
Access to Personal Information
Members may access their own personal information in the church information management system through a mobile app or members’ website through which they create a unique login. Only members and regular attendees who have been authorized by the administrators will be granted access. Access to the church information management system may be removed by the directory administrators for any reason or no reason, at any time.
Rules of Use
You agree to use your access to the church information management system in a manner that is lawful, ethical, and in accordance with this Policy and the Terms of Use.
You agree not to:
- Use such access for any illegal or unauthorized purpose.
- Use such access to harm or defraud any person or entity.
- Use such access to spam, harass, or abuse any person or entity.
- Use such access to upload or distribute any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.
- Use such access to impersonate any person or entity.
User Generated Content
Some of the content on the church information management system may be generated by users, such as reviews and comments. You agree that you are solely responsible for any user generated content that you submit. We do not endorse or guarantee the accuracy or quality of any user generated content.
Sharing of Personal Information
We will not share any personal information collected in the church information management system with any third parties without the explicit consent of the individual member.
Retention of Personal Information
Personal information collected in the church information management system will be retained for as long as the individual remains a member, and for a reasonable period thereafter, as may be required or recommended by United Methodist Church rules and policies..
Other personal data we collect and why we collect it.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
We use information collected in contact forms to follow up with requests from site users.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Our site uses Google Analytics and Clicky Analytics which use cookies to collect data that helps us measure traffic and provide better information for our visitors. See how Google uses the data here. See how Clicky uses the data here.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice. Members will be notified of any changes made to the policy via posting on this website, email or other appropriate means.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact:
The Lovely Lane United Methodist Church
2424 42nd St NE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
shellyt@lovelylane.org
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username) with the assistance of the Administrators. Website administrators can also see and edit that information, except for user-created passwords for the church information management system.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.