Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Statement
Effective Date: February 21, 2008

Overview

The First Baptist Church of Roanoke has created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate to our visitors and members our committment to providing quality service and responsible use of all information stored and presented through our website. The following statements outline our current policies governing our information gathering and dissemination practices. If you have any questions about policies, please be sure to contact us by one of the methods provided on our Contact Us page.

Information Collection and Use

When you visit any page within our site, our Web server will automatically recognize the domain name through which you visit our site as well as any referring url that was used to reach us. In addition, aggregate information related to what pages visitors and members access and the frequency with which they are accessed will also be collected by our Web Server.

The information we collect automatically through our Web server is used by our staff to analyze the overall traffic our site receives in order to identify areas of improvement and ensure an uninterrupted level of service to all of our visitors and members. If you are interested in learning more about how this information is used, please feel free to send an email to support@fbroanoke.org.

From time to time, visitors and members will have the ability to provide personal information (name, email address, phone, etc.) in order to register for online benefits such as email updates and newsletters, or contact us for job opportunities, prayer requests and other reasons. In regards to this user-provided information, FBC Roanoke does not and will not ever sell, share or in any way distribute this information to the public. This information is used for internal purposes only in order to improve the content of our site, customize the visitor's/member's experience on the site, and notify them of updated information related to our site and the First Baptist Church of Roanoke in general.

Cookies/Session Data

"Cookies/Session Data" refers to any information temporarily created and stored on your computer for the purpose of allowing you to better communicate and interact with various features within our site. Cookies are required for members wishing to access pages available only to logged in users, but in the case of other public pages, cookies may potentially be used to store settings customized to fit your needs and used to enhance your interaction with our site. However, on such publicly accessible pages, cookies will not be required

FBC Roanoke will never use cookies to capture any information not related to our website. If you would like to disallow cookies, be sure to check within your browser's settings for the appropriate method of disabling them.

Security

We at the First Baptist Church of Roanoke take very seriously the security of all personal information maintained through our site and have taken steps to ensure that appropriate procedures are in place to safeguard this information from unauthorized access. If you would like more information on how your personal information is secured, please contact us at support@fbroanoke.org.

Email Opt-Out

Our site offers visitors and members a variety of ways to stay informed of the latest news relevant to FBC Roanoke that can be registered for by providing a valid email address. If at any time you would like to opt-out of receiving such notifications, please let us know either by contacting us at support@fbroanoke.org or by following the on-screen instructions here.

Policy Updates

From time to time, we may use your information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this privacy notice. However, if our information practices change at some time in the future, we will contact you before we use your data for these new purposes in order to notify you of the policy change and to provide you with the ability to opt-out of these new uses (please refer back to the section on "Email Opt-Out" for details on how to do this).

Information Disclosure to Users

Members wishing to view their current information as it is stored on our site may visit the Members Area by logging in with the username and password they provided during registration, and then clicking the link for "My Profile". From here, members can edit or remove any information they choose in accordance with the terms of use to which they agreed when registering.

Questions, Comments and Concerns

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about any of the policies outlined here, please feel free to contact us by one of the methods available on our Contact Us page.