Privacy Policy

Important Information for Parents

The SS. Peter & Paul website at www.sspeter-paul.net is a Catholic centered website with liturgy, sacrament, faith formation, ministry and organization pages designed to lead parishioners closer to Christ. The site combines faith formation program information with spiritually based educational and entertainment materials that reflect Catholic teachings and traditions, especially as they pertain to today’s culture.

In accessing certain areas of the site, your child may provide limited personal information. Because SS. Peter & Paul Church cares about the safety and privacy of children online, this privacy policy is provided to you as part of our voluntary compliance with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulation protects the safety and privacy of children under age 13 using the internet.

The SS. Peter & Paul website is a positive site for children and every effort has been made to protect your child’s identity and safety while browsing. You have a right to review your child’s personal information and restrict its use on the website. We encourage you to browse www.sspeter-paul.net. If you have any questions or comments regarding the SS. Peter & Paul website or this privacy policy, please contact:

Darcy Wharton
SS. Peter & Paul Church
4450 Granite Drive
Rocklin, CA 95677
(916) 624-5827 ext. 211 Telephone
(916) 624-9125 Facsimile
[email protected]

Resources for Children’s Online Privacy and Safety

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)
www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm

Federal Trade Commission Children’s Privacy
http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/privacyinitiatives/childrens.html

Get Net Wise
www.kids.getnetwise.org

Wired Kids
www.wiredkids.org

Cyber Angels
www.cyberangels.org

Diocese of Sacramento
www.diocese-sacramento.org/family_youth_young_adult/protecting_our_children.html

Privacy Policy

As a demonstration of SS. Peter & Paul Church’s firm commitment to the safety and privacy of children online, this privacy policy discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices of the SS. Peter & Paul website.

Membership

No membership account or login is required to access the SS. Peter & Paul website; therefore, there is no registration process where personally identifiable information is gathered and exchanged for a select username or password.

Surveys, Contests, Games and Event Registrations

The SS. Peter & Paul website provides users the opportunity to voluntarily participate in surveys, contests, games, or event registrations where limited personally identifiable contact or demographic information may be provided by users through the submission of an online form. Limited contact information may include a user’s name, telephone number, email address, or mailing address. Limited demographic information may include a user’s gender. The limited personally identifiable information provided is used by SS. Peter & Paul officials to identify or contact the participant only. The SS. Peter & Paul website only requests the limited personally identifiable contact or demographic information reasonably necessary for users to voluntarily participate in the survey, contest, game, or event registration.

Security

The SS. Peter & Paul website follows generally accepted industry security standards to protect the limited personal information submitted by users, to include a firewall and 24 hour monitoring of host site activity by our hosting service provider.

Uses of Information

From time to time, the SS. Peter & Paul website may display voluntarily submitted content from children under age 18 which may include select limited personally identifiable contact or demographic information. Select limited personally identifiable contact or demographic information displayed may include a user’s name (first name and last initial only), email address, or gender. Select limited personally identifiable contact information displayed will never include a user’s full name, telephone number or mailing address.

Message Boards and Chat Rooms

The SS. Peter & Paul website does not provide un-moderated message boards or online chat rooms where information, personally identifiable or otherwise, can inadvertently be shared or displayed by users.

Information Storage, Log Files and Cookies

No individual or aggregated contact or demographic personally identifiable information is stored on the SS. Peter & Paul website. The SS. Peter & Paul website does not gather information about visitors to the website to analyze trends or track users’ movements and store it in log files, such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, client computer operating system versions, timestamps, or click-stream data. The SS. Peter & Paul website does not deposit cookies on users’ computers for record-keeping purposes.

Information Sharing

No individual or aggregated contact or demographic personally identifiable information is sold, rented or shared with third parties, including partners, other ministry organizations, advertisers, or contractors. The SS. Peter & Paul website uses third-party providers of technological, software, and content services. These providers do not have access to users’ personally identifiable information.

Links to Other Sites

The SS. Peter & Paul website contains links to other websites and services that are not owned or controlled by SS. Peter & Paul Church. Please be aware that SS. Peter & Paul Church is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. Users are encouraged to use caution when providing personal information to other websites.

Opt-Out and Removal of Personally Identifiable Information

Users and their parents can choose to opt-out of having personally identifiable information displayed, or request that previously-displayed personally identifiable information be removed. Users can choose to opt-out by not participating in voluntary surveys, contests, games or event registrations. Parents can choose to opt-out of the SS. Peter & Paul website displaying any or further personally identifiable information submitted by their child, or request that any or all previously-submitted personally identifiable information be removed, by contacting Michaela Huntzinger at (916) 624-5827 ext. 212 or [email protected] SS. Peter & Paul website can generally comply with opt-out requests within 24 hours, while removal of personally identifiable information may take up to 72 hours due to the manual nature of the process.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

SS. Peter & Paul Church reserves the right to modify this privacy policy from time to time, so please review it frequently. Material changes to this policy will be shared by notice on the home page at www.sspeter-paul.net.

Updated November 2009