Privacy Policy

This website (https://www.uufbr.org) is owned and operated by The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton (referred to in this policy as “UUFBR”, “us”, “we”, or “our”).. We recognize that visitors to our site may be concerned about the information they provide to us, and how we treat that information. This privacy policy attempts to address those concerns.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or how we may store any of your information, you can email us.
We are available to answer your questions or hear your concerns.
The first principle of Unitarian Universalism is to covenant to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. We believe that this principle impels us to protect the privacy of visitors.

What Personally Identifiable Information is Collected

This website does not host any advertising, nor does it link to any pages that sell products outright. We do not place any cookies of our own on the website. However, having said that, we do use WordPress and host the site on a commercial web hosting service. We do have a Facebook icon on some of our pages which links to our Facebook page. We do have forms you may choose to fill out and thereby voluntarily provide us with personal information.
You may voluntarily fill out a form on our website to reserve seating at an event, to order from a fundraiser (such as a bakesale), or to respond to a questionnaire submitted by one of our members. Information from the first two samples is kept only as long as is needed, and is not shared with anyone outside the organization. Information from the third example may be kept by the sponsor of the questionnaire, and questions regarding such should be referred to that individual.
Payments made through this website are not handled directly by UUFBR, but are processed through Donorbox. We use secure and certified 3rd party processors to manage and retain credit card information. Actual payment info is processed by Paypal or Stripe (credit cards and bank transfers).
UUFBR does not collect any account numbers or IDs, and no transaction information other than name, date and amount is ever stored onsite at UUFBR. .

IP addresses

Our webhost, Hostgator, uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer https://www.uufbr.org/, and for statistical metrics used to track website visitor traffic. This information may also be used by Sitelock, the company that provides security for our website.

Cookies

WordPress uses “cookie” messages to automatically help provide better services. They remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you’ve done and told us before. They allow you to move back and forth in the website. The “cookie” is placed in your computer and is read when you move around in our website. Cookies let us take you to the information and features you’re particularly interested in. They also let us track your usage of https://www.uufbr.org/, so we know which parts of our sites are most popular. You can reject cookies or cancel them by instructing your Web browser accordingly. Most of these cookies are session IDs that disappear when you close your browser. There are some longer-term cookies that are implemented if you log into the website. These are related to the logged-in status, and can be deleted from your browser after you log out.

How Your Information May Be Used

We use your personal information to provide you with personalized service; to send e-mail alerts to you; to answer your requests; to process your request for membership information; etc. You may choose to opt out at any time, which will cease all communications from us. We may also use collective information to track visitors to our website. This lets us see which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our users’ needs.

How We Share Information

We do not sell our users’ private personal information.
We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:
Third-party vendors: We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you. This group includes vendors that help us provide our services to you like payment providers that process your credit and debit card information, fraud prevention services that allow us to analyze fraudulent payment transactions, postal and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, customer chat and email support services that help us communicate with you, registrars, registries, and data escrow services that allow our website to function, our hosting provider to troubleshoot website problems, those that help us understand and enhance our services (like analytics providers). We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them.
Legal requests: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests.
To protect rights, property, and others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
With your consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with third parties with which you authorize us to do so, such as the social media services that allow you to post comments in our blog by logging into your social media account.

Email Privacy

UUFBR does not sell or rent email addresses to anyone outside the organization. With your permission, the email address you provide to us may be added to our Constant Contact account (so that you can receive the twice-weekly e-blast and monthly Unicorn) and/or to the membership directory we maintain in EmpowerCHMS (which is not connected to https://www.uufbr.org/).

Social Media

UUFBR maintains a presence on Facebook and on NextDoor. The privacy policy on those social media sites is not covered under this policy, and UUFBR cannot be responsible for the privacy of those sites. UUFBR does post videos of Sunday services on Facebook. While we do not ‘tag’ anyone in these videos, various individuals may be recognizable in those videos. Anyone with a concern in this regard should email us .

External Links

This website (https://www.uufbr.org) includes links to external websites. These links do not fall under the https://www.uufbr.org domain, and UUFBR is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk.

Modifications

We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this privacy policy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of our website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.

Providers mentioned in this policy and their Privacy Polices.

Note: Most of the privacy policies cited below refer to the privacy of UUFBR as their customer. Where both customer and customer’s-client policies could be found, both are listed.
Constant Contact
https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/privacy-notice
https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/customer-contact-data-notice
Empower
https://www.powerchurch.com/company/privacy.php
https://empowerchms.com/Privacy
Donorbox
https://donorbox.org/privacy
Stripe
https://stripe.com/privacy
WordPress
https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/cookies/
Hostgator (owned by Newfold Digital)
https://newfold.com/privacy-center
SiteLock
https://www.sitelock.com/privacy-policy/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/?entry_point=data_policy_redirect&entry=0
NextDoor
https://legal.nextdoor.com/us-privacy-policy-2021/