New Bethesda Baptist Church is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the New Bethesda Baptist Church Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the New Bethesda Baptist Church Web site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

New Bethesda Baptist Church will only collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number when it is supplied by you. New Bethesda Baptist Church may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by New Bethesda Baptist Church. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by New Bethesda Baptist Church solely for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the New Bethesda Baptist Church Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through New Bethesda Baptist Church public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: New Bethesda Baptist Church does not read any of your private online communications.

New Bethesda Baptist Church encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from New Bethesda Baptist Church so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. New Bethesda Baptist Church is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the New Bethesda Baptist Church and New Bethesda Baptist Church family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

New Bethesda Baptist Church collects and uses your personal information to operate the New Bethesda Baptist Church Web site and deliver the services you have requested.

New Bethesda Baptist Church does not sell, rent or lease its member lists to third parties.

New Bethesda Baptist Church does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

New Bethesda Baptist Church keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within New Bethesda Baptist Church, in order to determine what New Bethesda Baptist Church services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content within New Bethesda Baptist Church to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. These statistics are not traced to individuals.

New Bethesda Baptist Church Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on New Bethesda Baptist Church or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of New Bethesda Baptist Church; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of New Bethesda Baptist Church, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The New Bethesda Baptist Church Web site may use"cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize New Bethesda Baptist Church's pages, or register with New Bethesda Baptist Church site services, a cookie helps New Bethesda Baptist Church to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same New Bethesda Baptist Church Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the New Bethesda Baptist Church features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the New Bethesda Baptist Church services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

New Bethesda Baptist Church secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. New Bethesda Baptist Church secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

Changes to this Statement

New Bethesda Baptist Church will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. New Bethesda Baptist Church encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how New Bethesda Baptist Church is protecting your information.

Contact Information

New Bethesda Baptist Church welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that New Bethesda Baptist Church has not adhered to this Statement, please contact New Bethesda Baptist Church at NBBC@NewBethesda.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

Rev. 03/2006