Privacy Policy
Overview
The following Privacy Policy explains how Diocese of San Jose (DSJ), mostly referring to its web site, www.dsj.org, gathers and uses personal information that is provided by our site visitors. Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and DSJ reserves the right to change or modify our Privacy Policy.
DSJ is committed to protecting your privacy. We do not rent or sell information from our customer database or newsletter subscribers to third parties. If you have any questions or concerns about the Diocese of San Jose’s Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact the webmaster@dsj.org.
By accessing a DSJ web site publication, filling webforms, or by subscribing to one of DSJ’s newsletters, you agree to our current Terms of Use.
Terms of Use
Site Registration
DSJ’s registration forms may require users to provide basic contact and demographic information. We may use your contact information (such as email address) from registration forms to send you newsletters, information about our news and events, or to personalize your experience with DSJ. We may also use information you provide us via email or telephone to pursue the matter for which you contacted us.
Newsletters
Individual user activity on DSJ newsletters may be tracked to allow us to send content, which closely matches your interests. Demographic and profile data may be used to customize your experience on our web site or in our newsletters. If you register for DSJ events via webforms, DSJ will not share your information with advertisers, partners, and other third parties.
Data Sharing
We may share overall demographic information with advertisers, partners, and other third parties. The data is not linked to any personal information that can identify any single person. DSJ will share personally identifiable information about you when one or more of the following conditions apply:
• We have your consent to share the information.
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process.
• We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, such as processing credit card payments. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
Online Surveys, and Webforms
DSJ occasionally hosts online surveys, or uses webforms on our web site in which we ask for contact and demographic information. Participation of surveys and usage of webforms is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. We may use your contact information (such as email address) from survey registration, or webforms to inform you of important news related to the Catholic Community, personalize your experience with DSJ, send you newsletters (should you opt-in for these newsletters) and occasional information about our news and events.
Demographic and profile data may be used to customize your experience on our site. This information is shared with advertisers, partners, and other third parties on a whole user group basis only.
Minor Under 18 Years Old
DSJ and its affiliated sites do not knowingly collect, maintain or use personal information from our web sites about minors under age 18. Minors under age 18 may only participate in online activities on DSJ’s web site with parental/guardian consent. If a minor whom we know to be under age 18 sends personal information to us online, we will only use that information to respond directly to that child(ren) and parent/guardian.
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IP Addresses
DSJ uses IP addresses to analyze trends, administer our web site, and help diagnose problems with our servers. IP addresses are also used to gather broad demographic information and to prevent, investigate, and take actions in the case of suspected problems.
Web Analytics
DSJ uses Google Web Analytics to track and generate reports on visitor use of www.dsj.org and email newsletters. We use the web analytics to analyze visitor activity so that we may better understand how visitors make use of www.dsj.org and newsletters. This data may include individual visitor click behavior. However, no personally identifiable information is shared with Google. Although our web analytics company logs the information coming from DSJ on our behalf, we control how that data may and may not be used. Visitors who wish to opt-out of this web site analysis tool may do so.
Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that a web server places on a user's computer. DSJ employs the use of cookies to ensure to customize and personalize your experience at www.dsj.org. Most web browsers provide users the ability to limit the use of cookies by allowing users to adjust privacy settings. If a user has their cookies disabled, www.dsj.org will still be accessible, however some sections of the web site will not perform as well as they normally would with cookies enabled.
Links to Other Sites
www.dsj.org contains links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security, Fraud, and Abuse
Occasionally information may be provided to DSJ fraudulently or by an individual unauthorized to provide such information. DSJ may use all information it collects for reasonable investigation and prosecution of suspected crimes and criminal acts. DSJ may provide all information it collects to third parties if necessary to comply with law enforcement requests or other legal requirements.
Opting Out of Further Communications and Updating Personal Information
Diocese of San Jose.com subscribers may opt out of receiving future www.dsj.org communications or update their personal information using any of the following methods:
* Email: webmaster@dsj.org
* Mail: Attention: Webmaster, Diocese of San Jose, 1150 North 1st Street, Suite 100, San Jose, California 95112-4966
Notification of Changes
If at any point we find the need to share personally identifiable information to advertisers, partners, and other third parties for reasons not outlined in this privacy policy, we will notify our users by way of an email, so that users are made aware. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.
Diocese of San Jose Web Site
www.dsj.org is a product managed by the DSJ. DSJ from time to time may compare, merge or append information collected on www.dsj.org with data from other sites managed by DSJ.
Business Assets
As part of operations, Diocese of San Jose may sell, transfer or merge particular businesses and/or other assets to a third party. As part of such a transaction, personal information users have provided to Diocese of San Jose may be given to a third party. Diocese of San Jose attempts to comply with all legislative and judicial orders. These orders will take precedence over the details stated in the policy above. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your dealings with the Diocese of San Jose, please contact:
Webmaster
Diocese of San Jose
1150 North 1st Street, Suite 100
San Jose, California 95112-4966
Email: webmaster@dsj.org