Privacy Policy

This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for epworthvilla.org. It applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared.
2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It 

We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including information: 

• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your age, gender and interests; how you came to the website (e.g., search engine, third-party website, media campaign or email); and the pages and features of the website you use. 

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address or telephone number (“personal information”). 

• About your Internet connection, the equipment you use to access our website, and your location. 

We collect this information: 

• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include IP addresses and information collected through cookies, Web beacons and other tracking technologies (see: “Usage Details, IP Addresses and Cookies and Other Technologies”). 

• Directly from you when you provide it to us (see: “Information You Provide to Us”). 

• From third parties, for example, our business partners. 

Usage Details, IP Addresses, and Cookies and Other Technologies 

As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. The information we collect is statistical data and does not identify any individual. It helps us improve our website and deliver better and more personalized future services by helping us: 

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns. 

• Analyze and develop the Company’s sales and marketing strategy, determine how visitors find the Company and its website, the user’s interest regarding the Company’s services, and how to improve the Company’s website. 

• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our website according to your individual interests. 

• Speed up your searches. 

• Recognize you when you return to our website. 

We do not collect personal Information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include: 

Cookies (or browser cookies). Cookies are a technology of Web browser software that allows Web servers to recognize the computer used to access a website. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website. 

Web Beacons. Pages of our website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count specific visitors who have visited certain pages or opened and clicked an e-mail. The information we collect from these beacons is sent to our marketing automation and email marketing service called

Use of Google and Other Marketing Services

This website utilizes Google services. Those may include Google Analytics, Google AdWords Conversion tracker, and other Google services that place cookies (pieces of data) on a browser across the website. These cookies help us increase the website’s effectiveness for our visitors. They are set and read by Google. To learn more, read the Google policy. If you want to opt out of Google tracking, click here.

We use Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve user experience. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of content and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

We may use AdWords remarketing to market our services and products across the web. We place a cookie on a browser, and then a third-party (Google) reads these cookies and may serve an ad on a third-party site. You may opt out of this ad serving.

In addition to using those employed by Google services, we may use other “cookies” on this site.  For example, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once should one be required, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site and record site visits.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us whenever you would like. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

• See what data we have about you, if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way; however, we are not encrypting personal information that you supply us with. You can verify encryption by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Links

This website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Surveys

From time to time, our site may request information via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name) and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site and helping us to provide you with appropriate information regarding our products and services.

Updates

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time, and all updates will be posted on this page.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at (405) 752-1200 or email us at info@epworthvilla.org.