Privacy Policy

St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church Online Privacy Policy

St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church of Washington, DC (“St. Mark Church”) is
committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy explains data
collection and use practices of the St. Mark Church Web site (www.stmarkdc.org)
and applies to the suite of other St. Mark Church Web sites including but not
limited to www.orthodoxsermons.org and www.orthodoxbookstore.org (the “Sites”).
By accessing the Sites, you are consenting to the information collection and use
practices described in this privacy policy.

What information do we collect about you?

St. Mark Church or our service providers collect personal information about
you that you voluntarily provide on the Sites, including but not limited to:
your name, address, phone number, email address, ministry interests, and
financial information in connection with online purchases and donations. We or
our service providers may also collect and store information with regard to your
user logs and IP address. In addition, we or our service providers may store
email and other communications delivered to or by our systems as a necessary
incident to the transmission and delivery of such communications and in order to
comply with international, federal, state and local laws. As described below, we
also use cookies to collect and store information, including personal
information, about you and your use of the Sites.

We require that children under 13 years of age not submit personal
information. In accordance with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998 (COPPA), St. Mark Church does not knowingly collect personal
information from children under 13. St. Mark Church encourages parents to
participate actively in their children’s Internet experience.

How do we use this information and share it with others?

We will use the contact information you submit and other information we or
our service providers collect, such as user logs, to communicate with you and to
provide or enhance our service to you in the normal course of providing service.
We or our service providers may also use your information to provide you with
additional information about the Sites and their services, St. Mark Church, and
activities and announcements related to St. Mark Church.

St. Mark Church may disclose your personal information and other information
we or our service providers collect about you, if we believe in good faith that
such disclosure is necessary (a) to comply with the law or in response to a
subpoena, court order, government request, or other legal process; (b) to
protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of St. Mark Church or others;
(c) to enforce any terms of service on the Sites; (d) to provide you with the
services or announcements requested by you; or (e) to operate St. Mark Church’s
systems properly.

We may also share your personal information or other information we collect
about you with partners, affiliates, and/or sister organizations interested in
serving you or informing you about their organizations. Further use and/or
disclosure of your information by such partners, affiliates, and/or sister
organizations is governed by the privacy policies of those partners, affiliates,
and/or sister organizations.

Use of Cookies

To enhance your experience on the Sites, St. Mark Church or its service
provider uses “cookies.” Cookies are messages sent between our servers or the
servers of our service providers and your browser that are saved as text files
on your computer. Cookies collect information about your use of the Sites, such
as the Web pages visited. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email
address or other personal information about you unless you choose to provide
this information to us. Once you choose to furnish the Sites with personal
information, this information may be stored in the cookie and/or linked to other
information about you collected by the cookies or that you have provided to us.

We may contract with a third-party Web analytics service to analyze the
traffic patterns on the Sites, the data for which may have been collected
through the use of cookies, such as the frequency with which our users visit
various parts of the Sites. These technical methods may involve the transmission
of information either directly to us or to another party authorized by us to
collect information on our behalf. We also may use these technical methods in
HTML e-mails that we send our users to determine whether our users have opened
those e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails. The information
generated by these technical methods may include personal information about the
user.

You may customize your Web browsers to not accept cookies. If you choose to
not have your browser accept cookies from the Sites, it is possible that some
parts of the Sites will not function properly.

Security

We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities or
the facilities of our service providers to protect against the loss or misuse of
your personal information that has been collected via the Sites. Only St. Mark
Church personnel and authorized volunteers or authorized personnel of its
service providers will have access to your personal information.

Links to Other Web Sites

The Sites may provide links to third-party Web sites. Since we do not control
those sites, we encourage you to read the privacy policies on those Web sites
before providing any of your personal information on such Web sites.

Changes to Privacy Policy

St. Mark Church reserves the right to change this policy at any time by
posting revisions on this Web page. Changes to this privacy policy will be
effective at the time they are posted.

Questions

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this privacy policy or
would like to be removed from our database, please feel free to contact us any
time at info@stmarkdc.org or at Website Privacy Matters, c/o St. Mark Coptic
Church of Washington, D.C., 11911 Braddock Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030.

Date: May 29, 2008