Privacy Policy

“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”–Jesus (Matthew 7:12 NIV)

The Golden Rule also sums up the Pleasant Hills Community Presbyterian Church web site Privacy Policy. Below are the details of how this Privacy Policy is implemented. If you have any questions, you can contact the web master, Rob Carr.

Protecting your private information is our priority. This statement of Privacy applies to PHCPC.COM, PLEASANTHILLSCHURCH.COM and Pleasant Hills Community Presbyterian Church and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of the Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Pleasant Hills Community Presbyterian Church include PHCPC.COM, PHCPC and PLEASANTHILLSCHURCH.COM. The PHCPC website is a news, information, communication and registration web site. By using the website you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

DATA COLLECTION:
We do not collect personally identifiable information from our users. Information about you computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by PHCPC. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the PHCPC website. Our web site is hosted by Pair Networks, and their Privacy Policy may be found at this Privacy Policy link.

ANALYTICS AND COOKIES:
Web site analytics enable us to learn what our users as a group want on the web site. When we saw that photographs were more popular, we started including more photographs. When we saw that the on-line calendar was a popular item, we improved the calendar. We use Google Analytics for our web site analytics. You can check out the Google Analytics Privacy Policy. To make Google Analytics (and certain customizable features of the web site like font size and whether you want our site to appear in a better form for mobile browsers), we use “cookies” to store this information on your computer. If you don’t want your system to accept cookies from PHCPC, you can change your browser settings to not use cookies.

If a governmental agency requires us by law to turn over any of this data, we will abide by the law and may not notify you that the information has been requested.

CONTACT FORMS:
On the PHCPC web site, to help you contact staff and volunteers at our church, we use contact forms. Think of the contact form as an email. If you give us your name and email address, we will only use it to contact you with a reply. For the PRAYER contact form, you have the option of not giving us an email address and name. If you don’t give us a name and email address, we have no way of contacting you. Your prayer may be added to our private Prayer Chain, but only at your request and only in the form you request.

COMMENTS:
When you leave a comment, we ask for your name, your personal web site and your email address. You can use a pseudonym and a fake email address and leave the web site area blank if you wish. The email address is never displayed. The system also records your IP address. Comments are only displayed after approval by a someone at PHCPC, and the decision to approve is solely at our discretion. Authors of comments retain copyright to their comments, but we retain the right to quote their comments in part or in full in a reply. Commenters are expected to behave politely. Inappropriate advertisements, profanity, or comments disruptive of civil discourse may be deleted at our discretion. If the software fails or we accidentally delete a comment, we apologize. We hope it will never come to this, but if a user is too disruptive, at our discretion, their IP address will be banned from leaving comments.

EXTERNAL LINKS
PHCPC encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from PHCPC so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share information.  PHCPC is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the PHCPC website.

PHCPC respects your privacy. Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent.

PHCPC.COM and PLEASANTHILLSCHURCH.COM are not secure web sites. You should not enter private personal information or credit card, debit card or bank account numbers on this (or any) unsecure web site.

Children Under 13

PHCPC does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from or about children under the age of thirteen. PHCPC does not publish the last names of children under the age of eighteen, except in special cases with written parental consent.  If you are under the age of thirteen you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Opt-Out and Unsubscribe

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. All email lists provide a simple method for opting out at any time. If you experience a problem using them to opt out or would simply prefer to have us do it, please contact us. Users may also opt-out of receiving any or all communications from PHCPC by contacting us here.

Opt-Out Page: PHCPC Web Site Opt-Out Page

E-Mail – moc.hcruhcsllihtnasaelpnull@snoitacinummoc

Phone – 412-655-2000 Ext. 147

Privacy Policy last updated 3/30/2012

If You Are Looking for a Church Web Site Privacy Policy

I’ve noticed a surprising number of hits on our privacy policy page from people searching for church or Presbyterian web site privacy policies. If you wish to use our privacy policy as the basis for your own privacy policy, please feel free to use it as a basis for your own policy (of course at your own risk). You will obviously need to make changes based on your own circumstances. If you are not the web site administrator, please check with that person about things like cookies and other features. Of course, you should have an appropriately qualified individual review your privacy policy once you have created it.