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Privacy Policy:

The policies below are applicable to This Website, and all sites, owned, operated or under control of The Reaching the Community Sunday Class Website Designer and Webmaster.  This policy does not apply to any links that may be provided to any other sites not owned, operated or under control of The Website Designer and Webmaster.  This website and the its continents are designed, published, hosted, and maintained by an individual member of Higher Ground Baptist Church and the Reaching the Community Sunday School Class, and as such said member is solely responsible for it's content.  Views expressed on this site are those of the website owner, designer and webmaster of this site and do not necessarily express the views of Higher Ground Baptist Church Inc; its staff, deacons, Board of Directors, or other members.
  1. General
  2. Security
  3. Personally-Identifiable Information
  4. Children
  5. Non-Personally-Identifiable Information Collected Automatically
  6. Use of Cookies
  7. Declining Email Offers
  8. Who to Contact

I. General


The  Website Designer and Webmaster respects the privacy of every individual who visits our Web sites, responds to advertisements or sends us e-mail. This Privacy Statement outlines the information The Website Designer and Webmaster will collect and how we will use that information. This Statement will also instruct you on what to do if you do not want your personal information collected or shared when you visit The Reaching The Community Websites, respond to any Web-based advertisements or send us email.

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II. Security


Any order forms on the  web site is a PDF Form which must be printed and filed out  and sent by US Postal Mail and  will arrive privately and unaltered at the Higher Ground Baptist Church Office. This security prohibits other companies and Web users from being able to access your information.

The Prayer Request form does not use any form handlers or SSL technology and is sent via ordinary email and is therefore no more or less secure than any other email you may send.  The only difference is that this form is sent to us as an attachment which requires additional freely available software to open and read but is not considered any safer or more secure than any other email.

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III. Personally-Identifiable Information


The  Website Designer and Webmaster will not collect any personally-identifiable information about you (that is, your name, address, telephone number, or email address) unless you provide it to us voluntarily.

The following are some examples of when The Website Designer and Webmaster may require that you provide personally-identifiable information:

  • To complete an online order for a product (when and if online ordering become available) if you do not wish to complete an online order form, we will always provide an option for you to complete an order by printing and mailing the form as we do now or calling us.)
  • When requesting a user name and password to access a protected area of the web site or participate in discussions when and if they become available
  • To honor your request for more information about the Prayer Ministry, Higher Ground Baptist Church, or other ministry.
  • To Personally respond to your request for prayer if a personal response is requested.

If you do not want your personally-identifiable information collected, please do not submit it to us. You do not have to provide personal information to us to submit a prayer request. If you have already submitted this information and would like for us to remove it from our records, please contact us at the email address listed at the bottom of this Statement. We will use reasonable efforts to delete your information from our existing files.

When you do provide us with personally-identifiable information, we may use that information in the following ways, unless stated otherwise:

  • we may store and process that information to better understand all visitors needs and how we can improve our website for all visitors.
  • we may use that information to contact you with Newsletters, prayer request and announcements if you have previously provided your permission and if a promotions or announcements are in your interest.
  • we may contact you if we have questions about a request you made.
  • Prayer Request that are received are routinely published in our Weekly Watchmen Newsletter which is mailed to all Watchmen Members and is downloadable from this website and will include your name and the nature of your prayer request only. (telephone numbers, addresses or other personally identifiable information provided for personal response are given to Watchmen Members only and deleted from the newsletters available from the website for your security and privacy)  If you do not want your prayer request published in the newsletter please let us know and we will honor your request

The Website Designer and Webmaster will not sell personally-identifiable information to third parties, use your information for marketing purposes, or share information with anyone other than other watchmen  or Church members as needed to fulfill your request.
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IV. Children


The Website Designer and Webmaster has no intention of collecting any personally-identifiable information (that is, name, address, telephone number, or email address) from individuals under 18 years of age. Where appropriate, The  Website Designer and Webmaster will specifically instruct children not to submit such information on our Web site. If a child has provided us with personally-identifiable information without the consent of a parent or guardian, a parent or guardian of that child should contact us at the email address listed at the bottom of this Statement if they would like this information deleted from our records. We will use reasonable efforts to delete the child's information from our existing files.

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V. Non-Personally-Identifiable Information Collected Automatically


In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally-identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the type of Internet Browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using, and the domain name of the Web site and/or Internet Service Provider from which you linked to our site.

Similar to personally identifiable information, we will not sell non-personally-identifiable information to third parties. We may share non-personally identifiable information with security or internet service providers.

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IV. Use of Cookies


When you view one of our Web sites or advertisements, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a "Cookie" or similar file and will be used to determine ways to improve our Web sites, advertisements, products or services. For example, Cookies allow us to tailor a Web site to better match your interests and preferences. With most Internet Browsers, you can erase Cookies from your computer hard drive, block all Cookies, or receive a warning before a Cookie is stored. Please refer to your Browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.

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VII. Declining E-mail Offers


As outlined in Section III. of this Statement, we will only send email Newsletters or announcements to you if you have previously provided your permission for us to do so. Although many visitors tell us they appreciate receiving notice of these carefully designed Newsletters and announcements, we recognize the importance of providing you with choices. At any time, you may unsubscribe from our e-mail list simply sending us an email to ReachingtheCommunity@charter.net. informing us you no longer wish to receive email from us and we will honor your request immediately.

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VIII. Who to Contact


If you have submitted personally-identifiable information through The website, (such as through an order form or Prayer Request Form or request for access to a password protected site), and would like that information deleted from our records, please contact us at our email address, ReachingtheCommunity@charter.net. We will use reasonable efforts to delete this information from our existing files ASAP.

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