Privacy Policy

Protecting the privacy of our visitors to USAChurches.org is important to us.

At USAChurches.org, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use visit USAChurches.org, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files
As with most other websites, USAChurches.org collects and uses data contained in log files. Information in log files includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL), the browser you used to visit our website (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our website, and which webpages you visited throughout our website. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons
USAChurches.org does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which webpages the user accesses or visits, customize webpage content based on visitors' browser types or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

We also use third party advertisements on USAChurches.org to support our website. Third party advertisers on this website write their own ad copy, and we cannot be held responsible for inappropriate ad copy. Please bring it to our attention if you notice any inappropriate advertisement on this website. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Columbus real estate ads to someone in Columbus, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking websites).

We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google's DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests ("interest based targeting"). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (for example, if you have been viewing sites about Columbus area churches, you may see Columbus church advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about football). DART uses "non personally identifiable information". It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google advertising and privacy center.

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

External Links
This site contains links to other websites. USAChurches.org is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of websites that do not belong to USAChurches.org.

Updates to Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Please check this page periodically for changes. We will notify you about any changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice on our website.

The Privacy Policy posted on this website was updated on or about April 1, 2009.

How to Contact Us
USAChurches.org welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this website, or your experience with this website, please contact us.