Messiah Lutheran Church, Knoxville TN

User Agreement

These terms apply to your use of the Messiah Knoxville web site. Copyright © 2007 by Messiah Lutheran Church, Knoxville, Tennessee. All rights reserved. No part of this web site may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the copyright owner. Contact the author at the publisher’s address above.

Appropriate Use: You may use this web site for your personal use. You may not save the content, photographs or any other content to any other device, including your personal computer. You may not make multiple copies of any content for sharing with others. We suggest referring your friends and family to this site.

Acknowledgements: This web site may reference names and images that are copyrighted or trademarked by other companies. Those names and images are acknowledged as copyrights or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Privacy Information: The web server used on this site may place a cookie on your computer is order to use the registration and "Remember me" functions. Any information that you provide in your registration will be used only by the web site owner. We will not disclose this information to any third parties. We may send you email messages with web site updates and offers.

Privacy Policy

This site is owned and operated by Messiah Lutheran Church, Knoxville, Tennessee. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. We are committed to making your experience online satisfying and safe.

Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Messiah Knoxville. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Information Tracked and Used

Messiah Knoxville gathers two types of information about our visitors:

• Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to to receive electronic newsletters, to participate in message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys;
• Information gathered through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to visitors' and members' needs. Under no circumstances do we divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.

Optional Voluntary Information

• Online accounts: Guests may be able to register for online accounts. Users with online accounts can cancel their account at any time.
• Mailing lists: Guests may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the member management page.
• Message boards/forums: Any message board or forum on the web site is voluntarily submitted by our users. Users can request that any contribution be deleted at any time.
• Polls and surveys: We may offer interactive polls to users and/or members so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. We may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.

Important Note about Children: Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

Usage Tracking

• Visits: The web site tracks user traffic patterns throughout the sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. We may break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).

• Searches: We sometimes track and catalog the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

Cookies

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.

Use of Information

Unless your e-mail requests a response, we will not ordinarily retain your e-mail, postal or telephone information (if provided). Once we have responded to your e-mail, we will discard your contact information unless we advise you otherwise and give you the opportunity to refuse.

Security

Messiah Knoxville operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

Opt-Out Policy

We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

• Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.

• Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users