This is the web site of:
The Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan.
Our postal address is:
2600 Vincent Avenue
Portage, MI 49024
or you can reach us by telephone at 269-381-2710
The Diocese of Western Michigan is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to this website.
This privacy statement is intended to provide an overview of information
gathering and disclosure practices for visitors to www.edwm.org.
Information posted about affliated groups on this website has been done with
the permission of each individual group, through their voluntary submission.
This website will not identify people under the age of 18 by name in photos,
filenames, or mouse-over text associated with their images. .
Location of server:
The diocesan
Web site and other sites hosted by the Diocese of Western Michigan are
hosted on a server operated by ipowerweb.com.
External Site Links:
- This site contains explicit hyperlinks to 3rd party sites. The Diocese of Western Michigan is not responsible for the privacy policies (or content) of those other Web sites. We will do our best to mark these as "external links" (see the use of an asterik in the menu to the left of this paragraph).
- When visiting such sites, we urge you to exercise caution when providing any personal data. These links are provided for your convenience only. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of content or quality of services and/or products at these external locations, and assume no responsbility for them.
Information collection and dissemination:
- This website does not collect any data about its visitors other than for statistical purposes.
- For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name and / or IP 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; the e-mail addresses of those who make postings to our chat areas; and information volunteered by the visitor, such as survey information and/or site registrations.
- The information we collect is used for strictly for internal review to improve the content of our Web site and is not shared with other organizations under any circumstances (excluding law enforcement requirements).
- With respect to cookies: We do not set any cookies.
- This Web site does not invoke any client-side applications to copy any data from your computer or hard drive(s), or to alter any data in your computer.
Contact:
If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future,
please let us know by:
- sending us e-mail
- calling us at the above telephone number
- writing to us at the above address.
Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding new services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such telephone calls, please let us know by:
- sending us e-mail
- calling us at the above telephone number
- writing to us at the above address.
- Please provide us with your name and phone number. We will be sure your name is removed.
Ad Servers:
To try and bring you offers that are of interest
to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place
ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies
may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream
information. For further information, consult the privacy policies of:
With respect to security: We have appropriate security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.
Attempts to upload or change information on this website without authorization or to download and copy with the intent to defraud are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of this site, contact the site administrator.