Memorial Episcopal Church Public Website Privacy Policy

Memorial Episcopal Church (MEC) has several basic groups of people that might be listed or referred to: staff, adult members, youth and children. Information of concern includes names, email addresses, personal phone numbers and photos. Home addresses are never posted.

1. For staff, we list names, office email addresses, and office phone numbers. No home phones, etc. It is important that people be able to contact the staff and that access is all through the office.
2. For adult members, we list names when they are a contact for some group or activity that we are covering on the website. We do not list email addresses unless there is a specific reason and the addressee has requested or given permission for the listing. We encourage using e-mail aliases that can easily be created on our hosting ISP. We do not list personal phone numbers. Parish members have the church directory or can call the office for phone numbers.
3. For youth and children, we do not list full names, but at most the first name and initial of the last name. We also do not list email addresses or phone numbers. Photo captions do not include full names and often do not include names at all. This is to protect them from the dangerous types of people that use the net to contact and take advantage of young people.
4. MEC has a printed directory with which is only available to members and friends of Memorial. It is periodically distributed in print at the church. To request a copy or to add your information to this directory contact the office. This directory is not available to the public online.
5. If we decide to publish our Prayer List on the web, we must be careful to not disclose
   information about others without their permission. If and when we do publish our Prayer List on the web, we must construct specific policies and procedures we follow and document them.
6. When using photos of MEC events, members, etc online, either directly on the website or in our photo albums we use the following guidelines:
   • Including photos in our site is a privilege for us, and we intend to respect and honor it.
   • Photos are almost always of people in public spaces, at public events.
   • We will not post anything that would be embarrassing, objectionable or hurtful to anyone in the photo. If we think someone might object, we ask them before posting the photo.
   • All policies apply to photo captions.
   • We will gladly provide credit for a particular photo if desired by the photographer, and we will honor copyright wishes or restrictions.
   • We will gladly remove any photo immediately upon request.

In any case, if you see a photo that includes you or your child and would like it removed from the site, we would be glad to do so. Just notify the church staff secretary, rector or webmaster with the details.

We'd like to thank Central Presbyterian Church for allowing us liberal use of their Information Privacy Policy to copy and use as MEC's template for our own Privacy Policy.