Friendship Church Privacy Policy

Friendship Church of Prior Lake and Shakopee, MN (Friendship Church) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This statement explains our policies and practices regarding the use and disclosure of your personal information by Friendship Church.

Because your use of websites owned by Friendship Church indicates your acceptance of the Friendship Church Privacy Policy, please review this Privacy Policy carefully. Please note that Friendship Church reviews and updates this Privacy Policy from time to time as needed without notice. Therefore, you should review the terms of this policy periodically to make sure that you are aware of how Friendship Church collects and uses personal information. By using this website, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by Friendship Church as outlined below.

Note that Friendship Church cannot accept or create account information, or accept credit card payments, from individuals who are under 18 years of age. Parents and/or Guardians must create an account first, and then add family members under the age of 18 to their family account profile.

Information Collection and Use

Friendship Church is the sole owner of the information collected on this website. Friendship Church provides the application, forms, and programs to collect and manage this information.

We will not sell, rent, or trade personally identifiable information to anyone, and we will not disclose any collected information to others in ways other than what is disclosed in this statement.

We receive personally identifiable information including, but not limited to, your name, address, phone number, and email address. Once you register for an account and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us and we may receive and record information about your browser including IP address, cookie information and the page you requested.

Financial Transaction Information

Friendship Church does not accept or store any credit card information or bank account information. Friendship Church uses a third party intermediary to perform any financial information collection and transaction processing. If you, as a User, perform a financial transaction with us or our intermediary, the intermediary must request information from you. This information includes, but is not limited to credit card information or bank account information. 

Our intermediary is solely a link in the distribution chain, and uses the information provided for the sole purpose of processing the transaction. We recommend Users read the Privacy Policy of this intermediary which can also be found on the payment page of a Friendship Church website.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Friendship Church does not sell, rent, trade or transfer User Information to third parties. However, we may share User Information with our business partners for product/service offering purposes.

Friendship Church may send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:

1. We have your consent to share the information;
2. We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
3. We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Friendship Church to provide a product or service to you. Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary or appropriate in our discretion to assist us in providing your product or service;
4. We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process; or
5. We find that your actions on our website violate the Friendship Church Terms of Use or any of our usage guidelines for specific services.

We may share aggregated demographic information with our customers, business partners, and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

Video and Photography

Friendship Church regularly utilizes digital media primarily in the form of video and photography on its website and across many social media platforms. We believe digital media enhances our objective of sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others and fulfilling Friendship’s mission to Love, Live and Serve like Jesus.

When you enter Friendship Church, you are in an active recording environment and your likeness may be captured in photos and videos. By entering the premises, you acknowledge giving consent to Friendship Church to take, own and use images containing your likeness, at its sole discretion, in perpetuity.

If you do not wish to convey this consent, please print and submit this form to Friendship Church.

SMS Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

By subscribing, you have provided us with consent to send you text messages regarding Friendship Church alerts, event reminders, new content, and requests for volunteer support. Message frequency varies by events/preference. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undeliverable messages. If your phone does not support MMS, you’ll receive SMS instead.

OPT-OUT OR STOP

If you wish to stop receiving text messages from Friendship Church, reply to any text message and in the reply, text STOP. You may also stop text messages by calling us at 952-447-0521 or emailing us at webmaster@friendshipmn.org.

HELP OR SUPPORT

If at any time you need our contact information on how to stop text messages, reply to any text message and in the reply, text HELP. Upon receiving your text message, we will send you a text message with our contact information. In general, the messages we send provide you with information about our upcoming events, new content, and other announcements. Some of the text messages we send may include links to websites. To access these websites, you will need a web browser and internet access.

SUPPORTED CARRIERS

This program is supported by Alltel, AT&T, Boost, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile, MetroPCS, T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular. T-Mobile is not liable for delayed or undeliverable messages. Products and services are compatible with AT&T handsets.

PRIVACY POLICY

We respect your privacy and will not distribute your mobile phone number to any third parties. Service provided by Powered By Text, LLC, or other service providers.

Links

This website contains links to other third party websites. Even if the third party is affiliated with Friendship Church through a business partnership or otherwise, Friendship Church is not responsible for the privacy policies, practices or the content of such external links. We encourage our Users to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by sites owned by Friendship Church.

Security

Usernames and Passwords

Access to certain content on this website requires a username and password. Your registration and/or account information is password-protected for your privacy and security. In some cases, failure to provide personal information may prevent you from accessing parts of this website containing certain confidential information.

Any disclosure of your password to a third party may result in access to your registration and/or account information or execution of transactions. By accessing and using our protected and secured Site, you agree to maintain the confidentiality of the username, site number and password you selected to access such site and consent to our Terms of Use.

Friendship Church uses industry-standard SSL-encryption through third party providers to protect your data transmissions of financial and personally identifiable information.

Accessing and Changing Your Information

You can view and update your personal information at any time by signing in to your account on our website and changing your profile information.

Contacting the Privacy Administrator

If you have questions regarding our Privacy Policy, the practices of this website, or your dealings with this website, you may email webmaster@friendshipmn.org or contact us at:

Friendship Church
17741 Fairlawn Avenue
Prior Lake, MN  55372
952-447-8282

Event Refund Policy

You may request a refund by emailing webmaster@friendshipmn.org. Approval of a refund will be determined on a case by case basis.

Friendship Church Terms of Use

Trademarks and Copyrights; All Rights Reserved

Friendship Church reserves all of its rights under and does not grant any express or implied rights to you or any other user of the websites under any trademark, copyright, trade secret, or other intellectual property law. The websites and all of the text, graphics, pictures, audio messages, video materials, downloadable materials, and all other materials and content on the websites are copyrighted by and are the property of Friendship Church.

Submissions

A “response” is any comment, picture, or other item or information submitted or posted to, on, or through a Friendship Church website.

By submitting a response you are agreeing that the response complies with and that you agree to these Terms and Conditions. You are also agreeing that if Friendship Church has any legal liability because your response didn’t comply with the Term and Conditions, you will be financially and legally responsible to Friendship Church for all the costs and expenses that result.

Responses must not use course language, be defamatory, obscene, or otherwise harmful or inappropriate. They must not violate or infringe upon intellectual property rights or other rights.

Children under 13 years old cannot submit responses to this website.

We may review responses, but we are not obligated to review them. We have the right to edit any and all submissions at any time and for any reason and without any notice.

We have the right to publish any responses and to use any part of a submitted response in any way we deem appropriate, such as in promotional and marketing-related materials or in products or materials that we sell. We also have the right not to publish or use any responses and to remove or delete any response at any time and for any reason and without notice.

Friendship Church expressly disclaims any responsibility or liability for any response or any other material posted by someone outside the church staff. Responses do not necessarily reflect the views of Friendship Church.

Disclaimer of Warranties

All materials and other content of Friendship Church websites or accessible from the websites are provided on an "as is" basis. Friendship Church expressly disclaims any express or implied warranties or conditions of any kind, including without limitation any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or use, title or non-infringement.

Limitation of Liability

By using a Friendship Church website you agree that Friendship Church and the Church’s directors, officers, managers, employees, agents, and members shall not be liable to you for any damage of any kind arising from or related to the use of a Site or of any website for which a link is provided on any website.