PRIVACY STATEMENT

Ohio Faith United Against Tobacco has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website and describe the information-gathering and dissemination practices for our website.

Personal Information

Visitors can access some sections of these websites without registering or providing any personal information, and many visitors do just that. Regarding visitors who do register to take action (e.g., through the online action network) or otherwise provide us with personal information, we require certain personal information (such as name and email address) so that we are able to respond and otherwise communicate with them. We may share the provided personal information with companies we have contracted with to assist us with the operation of our website, but solely for website operation purposes. We will not provide any personal contact information to any other organization or individual, other than organizations working with Ohio Faith United Against Tobacco on public health or tobacco control efforts (such as the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund), without the visitor's express consent unless we are required by law or where we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process. We may sometimes use visitors' Internet Provider (IP) addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, and we use them, as necessary, to administer our website.

Demographic and profile data (such as zip code, age, or occupation) are also collected through our site. We use this information to guide our general efforts to supplement, revise, and otherwise improve the content of this website to better address visitor concerns and interests.

Cookies

We may use cookies (an electronic place - holder on visitors' personal computers) to enable us to send registered visitors' information and other content specific to their expressed interests, and to save a visitor's personal password so s/he does not have to re-enter it each time the password-required sections of the website are visited. We offer visitors the choice to have us save their passwords, and visitors can accept or reject any cookies from our website by taking advantage of the related settings and tools on their own computers.

This Privacy Statement applies only to information collected by this site. Ohio Faith United Against Tobacco is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other website. Because our site contain links to other sites, we encourage visitors to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of other sites.

Security We strive to keep security measures in place to protect visitors against the loss, misuse, or alteration of any visitor information under our control. This includes the use of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for processing donations and financial information.

Ohio Faith United Against Tobacco's Commitment to Children's Privacy

Ohio Faith United Against Tobacco's mission is to help protect kids from tobacco, and we are equally committed to making children's on-line experience with us as safe, constructive, and enjoyable as possible. We do our best NOT to collect any online contact information from children under the age of thirteen without taking steps to provide prior parental notification or obtain prior parental consent (in which we offer an opportunity for parents to prevent use of their children's information or stop their participation in the activity). Unless we receive a communication providing prior parental consent, online information will be used only to respond directly to the child's request and not for other purposes.

More specifically, with regard to visitors under the age of thirteen our website:

• Does NOT collect personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental notification;

• Does NOT distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information without prior parental consent;

• Does NOT give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent;

• Does NOT entice by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity;

• Does ALLOW parents to review, change and/or delete their child's personal information given to the Campaign;

• Does NOTIFY parents if we change the purpose for which we use a child's information (e.g. if we were to begin a chat room).

Unfortunately, given technological and resource limitations, it may be possible for some children under thirteen to evade our efforts to notify parents or obtain prior parental consent - especially if their parents do not supervise or monitor their Internet use at home.

To Opt-Out or Stop Receiving Communications

We provide visitors submitting personal information the opportunity to opt-out of receiving additional communications from us, and we also provide instructions in our email correspondence to website visitors who submit contact information on how to opt- out of receiving future correspondence.

If visitors wish to remove their information from our database, stop all future, direct communications from us, or stop any other direct services we provide through this website, we may be contacted in the following ways:

• Send email to dstickley@wocumc.org

• Send mail to the following postal address:
  

  Rev. Dee Stickley-Miner, Director of Mission and Justice
  West Ohio Conference, United Methodist Church
  32 Wesley Boulevard
  Worthington, Ohio 43085

• Email dstickley@wocumc.org to update or remove provided contact information.

To Correct or Update Provided Information

We give users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.

• Email dstickley@wocumc.org to update or change provided contact information.

• Send mail to the following postal address:

  Rev. Dee Stickley-Miner, Director of Mission and Justice
  West Ohio Conference, United Methodist Church
  32 Wesley Boulevard
  Worthington, Ohio 43085

  To Contact the website

  If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of our sites, or your interactions with our website, please contact:

  Rev. Dee Stickley-Miner, Director of Mission and Justice
  West Ohio Conference, United Methodist Church
  32 Wesley Boulevard
  Worthington, Ohio 43085

  dstickley@wocumc.org

  Changes to this Privacy Policy

  If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate so visitors can readily determine what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.