Privacy Policy StatementThis is the web site of The Catholic Communty Forum. Our postal address is or you can reach us by telephone at 636-394-7000 For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name (where possible) but not the e-mail address. We collect the e-mail addresses of those who post messages to our bulletin board, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages visitors access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations and E-Mail addresses of those who send or receive our Holy Cards. The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web page, used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor, used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site, used by us to contact consumers for marketing purposes. We send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site. We use cookies to store visitors preferences, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site, customize Web page content based on visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends and record session information, such as items that members have viewed in our message boards. From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys, polls or contests. Participation in these surveys, polls or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. We store this information for purpose of sending this one-time email and for very occasional mailings regarding this site and its services. If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address, writing to us at the above address or Using the automated unsubscribe link or unsubscribibg instructions included in certain messages.. If you supply us with your postal address on-line you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address or by writing to us at the above address. Please provide us with your exact name and address. We will be sure your name is removed from the list. Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed on-line. With respect to Ad Servers: We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies. From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically. Visitors may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by sending us e-mail at the above address or by writing us at the above address. Upon request we provide site visitors with access to all information [including proprietary information] that we maintain about them. Consumers can access this information by sending us e-mail at the above address, writing to us at the above address. Upon request we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information and unique identifiers. Consumers can have this information corrected by sending us e-mail at the above address or by writing to us at the above address. With respect to security: We always use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site, We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site. If members elect to meet or conduct a gathering in the physical world, the CCF will not facilitate such meetings or gatherings, and the CCF in no way approves, sanctions, endorses, sponsors or encourages such meetings or gatherings If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number, The DMA's Committee on Ethical Business Practices at mgoldberger@the-dma.org, state or local chapters of the Better Business Bureau, state or local consumer protection office, The Federal Trade Commission by phone at 202.FTC-HELP (202.382.4357) or electronically at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.htm. |