This Privacy Policy describes the current policies and practices with regard to personal data collected by the The First Presbyterian Church in Goshen (NY) through its website (http://fpgoshen.org; “FPG Website”, “the Website”). The term “Personal Data” refers to personally identifiable information, including your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number. In general, you can visit the FPG Website without telling us who you are or providing any information about yourself. In some areas of the FPG Website, programs have been designed to perform specific functions for you. Within these programs we may ask you to provide information that will enable us to offer services that require online registration for a First Presbyterian Church in Goshen (NY) program, meeting, gathering, or event. In some instances, the information sought may include Personal Data. This Privacy Policy applies to Personal Data submitted by you and collected online by the FPG Website.
Our Privacy Policy applies when you use the FPG Website. It does not govern or apply to information collected or used by other websites through other means. The Privacy Policy also does not apply to websites maintained by other companies or organizations to which we may link or who may link to us. We are not responsible for the actions and privacy policies of third-party websites.
By using the FPG Website, you are accepting the practices described in our Privacy Policy, including our use of cookies and similar online tools. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the FPG Website. We reserve the right to modify or amend the terms of our privacy policy from time to time without notice. Your continued use of the FPG Website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
Please note that the FPG Website is under constant development. This Privacy Policy may therefore be modified and updated on an ongoing basis. Please check back to this page regularly.
Your Consent
By using the FPG Website, you consent to our use of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the FPG Website.
Use of Personal Data Collected Through the FPG Website
Information, including, but not limited to, Personal Data, that we collect will not be sold, rented, lent, exchanged or used by an individual or entity other than The First Presbyterian Church in Goshen (NY) and its governing body unless otherwise indicated. This includes, for example, the information you provide when you register for Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, Friday Night Friends, a Fellowship or Fundraising event or conference, requesting of services, or when you send us your comments or requests for information via the FPG Website.
We use the Personal Data you provide for the purposes for which it was originally collected, for example, to respond to your email or to provide the programs or services you requested. We may also use Personal Data to help us improve the content and functionality of the FPG Website, to better understand the needs and interests of the people and organizations that use the FPG Website, and to improve our programs and services. This Personal Data may be used to contact you in the future to tell you about future or pending meetings, programs and services.
Unless we have your permission or are otherwise required by law to release, the Personal Data provided by you online will be shared only within The First Presbyterian Church in Goshen (NY) organization to enable them to contact you regarding services, meetings, or mission opportunities; with other third parties who act on our behalf to further process or analyze the data or protect the security or integrity of our databases or the FPG Website; and with our successors in interest through reorganization, dissolution or similar event. In the event of a release to The First Presbyterian Church in Goshen (NY) entity or third-party described above, your Personal Data will not be released until The First Presbyterian Church in Goshen (NY) entity, governing body, or third-party has agreed in writing to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy.
If you have an account on the FPG Website, or have left comments on the FPG Website, you can also request that we erase any Personal Data stored about you on the FPG Website. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
We, and others with whom we share your Personal Data, may retain your Personal Data on file to better serve you. Any destruction of Personal Data will be done in a manner consistent with the intent of this policy.
Data Protection, Retention, Usage, and Third-Party Tracking
Activity Log
Data Used: To deliver this functionality and record activities around site management, the following information is captured: user email address, user role, user login, user display name, WordPress.com and local user IDs, the activity to be recorded, the WordPress.com-connected site ID of the site on which the activity takes place, the site’s Jetpack version, and the timestamp of the activity. Some activities may also include the actor’s IP address (login attempts, for example) and user agent.
Activity Tracked: Login attempts/actions, post and page update and publish actions, comment/pingback submission and management actions, plugin and theme management actions, widget updates, user management actions, and the modification of other various site settings and options. Retention duration of activity data depends on the site’s plan and activity type. See the complete list of currently-recorded activities (along with retention information).
Data Synced (?): Successful and failed login attempts, which will include the actor’s IP address and user agent.
Contact Form
Data Used: If Akismet is enabled on the site, the contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.
Data Synced (?): Post and post meta data associated with a user’s contact form submission. If Akismet is enabled on the site, the IP address and user agent originally submitted with the comment are synced, as well, as they are stored in post meta.
Mobile Theme
Data Used: A visitor’s preference on viewing the mobile version of a site.
Activity Tracked: A cookie (akm_mobile) is stored for 3.5 days to remember whether or not a visitor of the site wishes to view its mobile version. Learn more about this cookie.
Notifications
This feature is only accessible to APPROVED REGISTERED USERS of the FPG Website who are logged into WordPress.com.
Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Some visitor-related information or activity may be sent to the site owner via this feature. This may include: email address, WordPress.com username, site URL, email address, comment content, follow actions, etc.
Activity Tracked: Sending notifications (i.e. when we send a notification to a particular user), opening notifications (i.e. when a user opens a notification that they receive), performing an action from within the notification panel (e.g. liking a comment or marking a comment as spam), and clicking on any link from within the notification panel/interface.
Protection
Data Used: In order to check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts, the following information is used: attempting user’s IP address, attempting user’s email address/username (i.e. according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user.
Activity Tracked: Failed login attempts (these include IP address and user agent). We also set a cookie (jpp_math_pass) for 1 day to remember if/when a user has successfully completed a math captcha to prove that they’re a real human. Learn more about this cookie.
Data Synced (?): Failed login attempts, which contain the user’s IP address, attempted username or email address, and user agent information.
Sharing
Data Used: When sharing content via email (this option is only available if Akismet is active on the site), the following information is used: sharing party’s name and email address (if the user is logged into the FPG Website, this information will be pulled directly from their account), IP address (for spam checking), user agent (for spam checking), and email body/content. This content will be sent to Akismet (also owned by Automattic) so that a spam check can be performed. Additionally, if reCAPTCHA (by Google) is enabled by the site owner, the sharing party’s IP address will be shared with that service. You can find Google’s privacy policy here.
WordPress.com Statistics
Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.
Activity Tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. When this module is enabled, Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner has the ability to force this feature to honor DNT settings of visitors. By default, DNT is currently not honored.
Posted Comments and Anonymous Data Collected Through the FPG Website
When visitors leave comments on the FPG Website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
In addition to the Personal Data you provide when you use the FPG Website, we use technology to collect anonymous information about the use of the FPG Website. For example, we track how many visitors access the FPG Website, the date and time of their visit, the length of their stay, and which pages are viewed. We also determine which web browsers visitors use and the address from which they accessed the site.
This technology does not identify you personally. It simply enables us to compile statistics about our visitors and their use of the FPG Website. We use this anonymous data and may share it with third parties for various reasons; for example, to improve the content and functionality of the FPG Website, to better understand the needs and interests of our visitors, to improve our programs and services.
Cookies
To collect the anonymous data described in the preceding paragraph, we may use temporary “cookies” that collect the first level domain name of the user. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to discover the identity of the user. A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies do not damage your computer. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. This enables you to decide if you want to accept it or not. For certain applications on the FPG Website to function properly, if at all, it is necessary for your computer to accept cookies.
Photographs, Images and Other Media
If you upload images to the FPG Website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the FPG Website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
When we obtain physical or electronic photographs and images, we will ask for a written and signed release before we publish them on the FPG Website. For church events with a large youth presence, we will request a signed permission form as a part of the event registration process. When third parties send us photographs or images, we ask that they do the same and have some form of permission to have taken those photographs and images and permission to use them. We ask all users who may send photographs and images to the FPG Website not to send images for which they do not have permission, or send photographs or images in violation of local, state or federal law.
Embedded Content And Links To Other Websites
This Privacy Policy applies only to the FPG Website which is owned and administered by The First Presbyterian Church in Goshen (NY).
This site contains many hyperlinks to websites that are not operated by The First Presbyterian Church in Goshen (NY). These hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any endorsement of the activities of the third-party websites or any association with their operators. We do not control these websites and are not responsible for their data practices. We urge you to review the privacy policy posted on any site you visit before using the site or before providing any Personal Data about yourself.
Articles on the FPG Website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited another website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Governing Law
This Privacy Policy forms part of the FPG Website’s Terms of Use Agreement, which shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
Questions About Our Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or concerns about the way we use Personal Data, please contact fpgoshen@gmail.com.
Notification of Changes to This Policy
We are continually improving and adding new functionality and features to the FPG Website. Because of these ongoing changes, changes in the law, and the changing nature of technology, we may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. When the Policy changes, we will post a dated notice in this Policy informing you that a change has been made. The Privacy Policy was last updated on Friday, May 14, 2021.