[Note the the policy below is a draft statement subject to revision by Piperton UMC and its agents until final ratification by the Piperton UMC Church Council. While the statement below reflects the general intent and purpose of Piperton UMC with regard to privacy, it is not yet a binding document. It is posted here for the purpose of revision and drafting. --Web Mgr.]
Piperton United Methodist Church intends to provide you with news, information, and services to further your discipleship. Sharing your personal information does not help us to meet that goal, so we won't do it. Our commitment to privacy is stated below.
We respect the privacy of our newsletter subscribers, members, visitors, those who answer our surveys, and those who fill out our questionnaires. We will not use information in any way that is not in keeping with the stated purpose provided at the time of collecting the information.
1. Choice and consent. We respect the purpose for which our website visitors gave us information. We give users choice and consent over how their personal information is used, and remove site users immediately upon request.
2. Third party use. We do not sell, rent, or loan our subscriber or customer lists to third parties for e-mail marketing. We never allow third parties any other use of these subscriber lists. If a third party requests access to our list AND church leaders find their purpose to be in keeping with our purposes THEN we will send an invitation to our list to join their list, but we will never simply hand over your information.
3. Unsubscriptions. We send our newsletters, visitor packs, and other promotional materials only to those who request them (that is, opt-in). We make use of "user control" software which allows the end-user to unsubscribe immediately upon request. There is, ostensibly, no waiting period for unsubscribing to become effective. Our welcome message to subscribers, prayer chain e-mails, and every issue of our eNewsletter clearly provide contact information that may be used to unsubscribe. Further, if a user is unable or even unwilling to unsubscribe himself or herself, we pledge to manually remove any subscriber upon request in a timely manner.
4. Cookies. Our website uses cookies (small packets of information stored on user computers) in a responsible manner to help our visitors, not snoop on them. We use cookies to allow website users to store passwords in cookies if they desire. We do NOT collect or use information from cookies to develop a profile about our visitors.
If you have any concerns or questions about our privacy policy or information collected on our sites, please contact the church offices.
Piperton UMC
Attn: Privacy Policy
785 Highway 57
Piperton, TN 38017
Church Office Phone
901 853-2654