Introduction

We value protecting your personal information on the Baptist Union Baptist Church website (BUBC or Site). This privacy statement describes how BUBC collects and uses the personal information you provide on our website: bubconline.org. It also describes the choices available to you regarding BUBC's use of your personal information and the steps you can take to access this information and to request that we correct or delete it.

BUBC abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data.

If you have questions about this privacy statement, please send them to us by email to info@bubconline.org or write to us at the following address:

Baptist Union Baptist Church
PO Box 229
Dillwyn VA 23936

If you have technical difficulty using either of our websites, please contact issues@bubconline.org.

To return to the BUBC home page, click here.

For All Visitors to Our Site

Member's Area
If you sign up for the BUBC Member's Area on our home page, we will collect your information to fulfill your request. We will not share your information with third parties.

If you wish to change your email address for purposes of receiving the BUBC Member's Area, you may unsubscribe and then re-subscribe with a new email address.

Contact Us
If you submit personal information, such as your email address, to us by following the "Contact" link located throughout our Site, we will use that information to respond to your question or request for information. We will not share your information with third parties without your explicit permission.

You can also contact info@bubconline.org or by writing us at the following address:

Baptist Union Baptist Church
PO Box 229
Dillwyn VA 23936

Cookies
A "cookie" is a small text file that a website can place on your computer's hard drive in order, for example, to collect information about your activities on the Site or to make it easier to use certain Site functions. The cookie transmits this information back to the website's computer. Many users do not know that "cookies" are being placed on their computers when they visit a website. If you want to know when this happens, or prevent it from happening, you can set your browser to warn you when a website attempts to place a "cookie" on your computer.

We use cookies on our website in the following ways:

When you complete a BUBC Survey or respond to other surveys that BUBC posts from time to time, we use a cookie to make it easier for you to use the survey form, and to ensure that we do not receive duplicate survey responses from any one respondent.

When you utilize our contact form on our Contact page, we use a cookie to enable you to navigate easily through the submission process.

We also use cookies to analyze how visitors, in the aggregate, use our Site, in order to make our Site as useful as possible for them. We do not use cookies to collect or store personally identifiable information.

Website Analytics
We use a third party web analytics service provider that uses cookies and web beacons to help us analyze how users use this website and the effectiveness of our marketing search terms. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including, without limitation, your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by this service provider. They will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website and compiling aggregated reports for us. The information collected by our service provider and provided to us is not personally identifiable.

Information automatically collected by our Site
Our servers automatically collect certain non-personally identifying information, such as your computer's IP address, the type of browser in use, and pages viewed, when you visit our Site. We use this information to understand how visitors navigate through our Site, to enhance your experience while using our Site, and to make the materials we post as valuable to visitors as possible. We do not link this information to personally identifiable information.

Personal Information Sharing
We will share your personal information with third parties in the ways that are described above in this privacy statement. We will also share your personal information if we are required to do so by law, or if we believe that doing so is necessary in order to conform to the law, cooperate with law enforcement agencies, comply with legal process served on BUBC, or otherwise protect BUBC's legal rights. From time to time we employ service providers to perform various functions involving personal information on our behalf. These service providers are prohibited from using this personal information for any other purpose.

Access to your Personal Information
BUBC will provide you reasonable access to your personally identifiable information, at no cost to you, within 30 days of your access request. If we cannot provide access within the 30-day period, we will tell you when we will provide access. In the unlikely event that we cannot provide you access to this information, we will explain why we cannot do so. To request access to your personally identifying information, contact info@bubconline.org or by writing us at the following address:

Baptist Union Baptist Church
PO Box 229
Dillwyn VA 23936

Security
Providing security for the personal information you submit via our Site is a top priority for BUBC. Please be aware, however, that no transmission of information via the Internet can be entirely secure. You should, therefore, always use caution when submitting personal information online. We take reasonable steps to provide security for your information once we receive it.

Links to Other Websites
Our Site may include links to other website whose privacy practices may differ from those of BUBC. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is subject to their privacy statements. BUBC's privacy statement does not apply to information you may submit to those Sites. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any website you visit.

Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we change this privacy statement in ways that affect the personally identifying information we have collected through our Site, we will post those changes in this space and advise you of choices you may have as a result of those changes. We will also post a notice on our home page that this privacy statement has changed.

Privacy Statement Compliance
If you feel that BUBC has not complied with this privacy statement, please use the Contact form to submit your concerns to us.