This site is owned and operated by Sukiukie
Productions. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance
to us. At Stmarysuoc.org, we want to make your experience online satisfying
and safe. Because we gather certain types of information about our users,
we feel you should fully understand 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.
INFORMATION Stmarysuoc.org GATHERS
AND TRACKS
Stmarysuoc.org gathers two types of information
about users:
· Information that users provide
through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions
to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards
or forums, to email
a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:
· Information Stmarysuoc.org gathers
through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page
views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor
our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors
better understand the demographics of our audience. Because Stmarysuoc.org
derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing
such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free
to users. Under no circumstances does Stmarysuoc.org divulge any information
about an individual user to a third party.
Stmarysuoc.org gathers user Information
In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services,
which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information
by users:
1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Stmarysuoc.org gathers
the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove
themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every
newsletter that points users to the subscription management page. Users
can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.
2. Message boards/forums
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register separately
for these services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages,
although they needn't register to visit the site.
During registration the user is required to supply a username, password,
and email address.
3. E-mail this to a friend
Service
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents
to someone else by clicking e-mail this to a friend. The user
must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This
information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course,
to let the recipient know who sent the email.
The information is not used for any other purpose.
4. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users 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. Stmarysuoc.org 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.
5. Surveys
Stmarysuoc.org may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target
our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic
information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners.
We never share any of this information about specific individuals with
any third party.
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
Stmarysuoc.org tracks user traffic patterns
throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information
with data about individual users. Stmarysuoc.org does 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).
Stmarysuoc.org sometimes tracks and catalogs
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. Stmarysuoc.org uses cookies to track
user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers
a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
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
Stmarysuoc.org uses any information voluntarily
given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites,
whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or
to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that
users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters
and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards,
and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule
(depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions
when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something
we are doing. Stmarysuoc.org never shares newsletter mailing lists with
any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors
or partners.
When 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. We track search
terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests
our users. But we don't track which terms
a particular user enters.
Stmarysuoc.org creates aggregate reports
on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and
partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and
allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their
needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual users,
an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked
their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user
except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect
the personal safety of our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Stmarysuoc.org uses the above-described
information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help
our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. This is
essential to keeping our service free.
We will not share information about individual users with any third party,
except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect
the personal safety of our users or
the public.
SECURITY
Stmarysuoc.org 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
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information
by Stmarysuoc.org. 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.