Introduction
SpringsChurches.net wants to help you make the most of your visit to our Web site, and that includes helping to protect your personal privacy. Most of the features on our Web site are offered without collecting any personal information from you. You can surf SpringsChurches.net and view much of our content anonymously. For those areas of our Web site and services that do require us to collect personal information, this Privacy Policy will tell you what you need to know to make good decisions for yourself and your family.

This Privacy Policy discloses when and how we collect, use, share, and safeguard information from this Web site. The personal information we collect depends on what you do when you visit our sites or use the various products or services we offer. This Privacy Policy also explains what to do if you do not want to provide personal information when you visit our Web site, and how to correct or change information you have already provided to us.

By using this Web site, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy, as posted in this area of the site. If you do not agree with any terms or practices described in this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Web site.

As used in this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means personally identifiable information, such as your name, street address, telephone number, date of birth and e-mail address. When personal information is collected, you will know because you will have to fill out a form on the Web site. When you make a purchase, or sign up for a paid service, we may also collect your credit card information and additional personal information. We will use credit card information only to complete the transactions you have requested.

Children
SpringsChurches.net is committed to providing special protection for the privacy of children who may visit our Web site. SpringsChurches.net is also committed to fully complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). We encourage parents to spend time online with their children, become familiar with the features of our Web site and participate in the activities offered on our websites. Our protections for the privacy of children include the following:

Special Note to Parents
If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information on our Web site, we invite you to notify us so that we may delete the information from our records and discontinue any related features or services (see Opt-Out below). We appreciate your cooperation in assisting us to provide a safe and enjoyable online experience for your children.

Collection of Personal Information
SpringsChurches.net collects personal information from visitors to our Web site in the following ways:

The use of any of these services is entirely optional and voluntary; however, if you do not provide the personal information requested, we may elect to not make the related services available for your use. If you send us an e-mail in which you disclose personal information, we will use it to address the subject of your correspondence; and we may contact you to inform you of other matters that we fell will be of interest to you.

If you send us an e-mail, you should know that e-mail is not necessarily secure against interception. So, if your communication needs to include sensitive information like a bank account or credit card number, please contact us by postal mail or telephone (see Contact Us, below) rather than e-mail.

Cookies
In order to track your use of the site, "cookies" may be employed. Cookies are pieces of information that are sent by websites and stored in your computer's hard drive, which provide you a service by allowing us to recognize your computer to save you from having to re-enter the same data every time you visit our web sites. They also allows us to learn how visitors use our web sites. This user data is aggregated for tracking purposes primarily by tallying pages viewed throughout our web sites and logging Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses and browser types.

Aggregated usage data enables us to tailor our content to our visitors’. This information does not reveal your identity although, in some cases, we may have to combine this non-identifiable information with personal information to enforce compliance with our Terms of Service or to protect our service, websites, visitors or others.

In the course of serving advertisements to the site, our third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.

If you do not want to receive cookies, you may set your browser to reject them. However, if you turn cookies off, you will not have access to some SpringsChurches.net features and services.

Visitors From Outside the United States
All Personal Information collected at our web sites is collected and stored in the United States. By submitting personal information to this Web site, you are consenting to the storage of your personal information in the United States.

How We Use Your Information
We limit the manner in which your personal information is used. We use personal information to provide you the services you want, to better understand and serve the needs of our customers, and to provide news and information to community members on new content, features of the website via direct e-mail. If you have registered with us and do not want to be contacted in the future by SpringsChurches.net or our partners, please see Opt-Out below.
Finally, please note that we will release your personal information if required to do so by law, or by search warrant, subpoena or court order.

Links to Third Party Web Sites
Please be advised that this Web site contains hyperlinks to other Web sites, some of which may display SpringsChurches.net logos or other SpringsChurches.net content. These Web sites may have privacy policies; however, all of these Web sites and their privacy policies are independent of our Web site or this Privacy Policy. SpringsChurches.net is not responsible for compliance with other Web sites’ privacy policies or data collection practices. You should review these privacy policies carefully before providing any personal information to these Web sites.

Third Party Ad Servers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to you by either by our server or by Google AdSense, or in certain instances, by other third party advertising companies, our Web advertising partners. Information about your visit to this site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad, date/time at which the ads were shown, the advertisers' cookies, and IP address (but not your, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you on this site. In addition, we share Web site usage information about visitors to our sites with these companies for the purposes of managing and targeting advertisements, measuring their effectiveness, and for market research analysis on our Web site and other Web site. For these purposes, we and our third-party advertising company may note some of the pages you visit on our site through the use of 1x1 pixel tags (also called clear gifs).

Limitations on Use of Personal Information
We will only use or retain your personal information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, and only for so long as is needed to fulfill your requests, support the services you have requested, process your orders, or comply with the law.

Opt-Out
Any feature on our Web site requiring registration allows you to opt-out from receiving any newsletters, service offers, or other correspondence from either us or our business affiliates. In addition, if after registering, you would no longer like to receive any such materials or correspondence, please login to your account and uncheck the box corresponding to the item you wish to remove your name from. You may also send an e-mail to webmaster@springschurches.net indicating your preference to “unsubscribe,” and we will promptly remove you from our list. Please be sure to include your username and e-mail address in the e-mail. You will need to send separate e-mails if you are registered for more than one of our features or services.

If you believe your child (age 12 or younger) has provided us with Personal Information and/or marketing communications, we invite you to notify us at webmaster@springschurches.net so that we may delete such personal information and/or discontinue your child’s access to the related feature.

Changes in This Privacy Policy
SpringsChurches.net reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here and we will change the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to visit this area frequently to stay informed.

Contact Us
If you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy, please send an e-mail to webmaster@springschurches.net.