Privacy

The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safest online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number and also 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 the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists website. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists public message boards or blogs, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists does not read any of your private online communications.

The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists website so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists website and family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists collects and uses your personal information to operate the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists Web site and deliver the services you have requested. The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists and its affiliates. The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists does not sell, rent or lease its visitor lists to third parties but may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide support, or other arrangements. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists, in order to determine which of the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists website services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists to visitors whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists 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 the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists Web site uses “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 convenient 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 the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists pages, or register with the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists site or services, a cookie helps the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists website to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as home addresses, billing addresses, and so on. When you return to the same St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists 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 St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect organization and visitor feedback. The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists is protecting your information.

Contact Information

The St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists has not adhered to this Statement, please contact the St. Lucia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists at info[at sign]stluciaadventist.org. We will use reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

Updated: February 17, 2014

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