Web Site Privacy Policy
Forest Grove Reformed Church is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Forest Grove Reformed Church Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Forest Grove Reformed Church Web site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information
If you have provided personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name or telephone number, on this Web site, Forest Grove Reformed Church may collect it. Forest Grove Reformed Church may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Forest Grove Reformed Church. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Forest Grove Reformed Church for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Forest Grove Reformed Church Web site.

Use of your Personal Information
Forest Grove Reformed Church collects and uses your personal information to operate the Forest Grove Reformed Church Web site and deliver the services you have requested (such as e-mail notifications). Forest Grove Reformed Church also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other information or services available from Forest Grove Reformed Church.

Forest Grove Reformed Church does not sell, rent or lease its member/visitor/subscriber lists to third parties. Forest Grove Reformed Church may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external third parties about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.

Forest Grove Reformed Church does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations.

Forest Grove Reformed Church keeps track of the Web sites and pages our visitors view within Forest Grove Reformed Church, in order to determine what Forest Grove Reformed Church services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content within Forest Grove Reformed Church to visitors.

Forest Grove Reformed Church Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Forest Grove Reformed Church or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Forest Grove Reformed Church; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Forest Grove Reformed Church, or the public.

Security of your Personal Information
Forest Grove Reformed Church secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Forest Grove Reformed Church secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

How You Can Access Your Information
You can access all your personal identifiable information that we collect online and maintain via the “Edit Your Subscription” link displayed in the footer of each and every email notification you receive.

Use of Cookies
The Forest Grove Reformed Church Web site uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. When you return to the same Forest Grove Reformed Church Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Forest Grove Reformed Church Web site features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Forest Grove Reformed Church Web site.

Changes to this Statement
Forest Grove Reformed Church will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect user feedback. Forest Grove Reformed Church encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Forest Grove Reformed Church is protecting your information.