Liturgical Publications Inc (“LPi”) recognizes the importance of maintaining the privacy of your personal and sensitive information. The features and functionality of this Web Site do require us to collect such information and we have a responsibility to protect this information for as long as it is in our possession. The vision of LPi is to create lifetime customer relationships. At LPi, we understand that relationships are based on trust and respect and we promise to treat you and your information in a respectful and ethical manner.

To support these obligations, LPi has established a set of data privacy principles. We respect your privacy by:

• Offering privacy notices that explain how and why we handle personal information.
• Respecting your choices about our collection, use and sharing of information, where appropriate.
• Collecting, using and retaining only personal information that is relevant and useful to our business interactions.
• Using reasonable efforts to keep personal information accurate and up-to-date.
• Using safeguards to protect personal information.
• Limiting access to and disclosure of personal information.
• Retaining only the personal information that is needed to fill our legal and business obligations.
• Offering you the ability to view and update your personal information, where appropriate.
• Providing you with an opportunity to ask questions and register complaints about privacy.

Liturgical Publications Inc cares about the privacy of our customers and Web Site visitors. This notice contains information about how we handle your personal information. We collect and process your personal information for the following purposes where necessary:

• to maintain our contractual or business relationship with you,
• for employment-related services where applicable,
• to tell you about the products and services we offer,
• to contact and correspond with you,
• for the management and defense of legal claims and actions, compliance with court orders and other legal obligations and regulatory requirements, and as otherwise permitted by law.

LPi collects, processes and discloses sensitive personal information only if required to comply with legal obligations or if there is a compelling business reason to do so, or with your consent. If you would like more information about LPi’s privacy practices, please contact us by e-mailing us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATION Non-Identifiable Information – Like many other Web sites, this Web site automatically collects certain non-identifiable information regarding Web site users, such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer, the IP address of your Internet Service Provider, the date and time you access the Web site, the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to the Web site, the operating system you are using, the sections of the Web site you visit, the Web site pages accessed and information viewed, and the materials you post to or download from the Web site. This non-identifiable information is used for Web sites and system administration purposes and to improve the Web site. Your non-identifiable information may be disclosed to others and permanently archived for future use.

Cookies – This Web site uses “cookies”, a technology that installs information on a Web site user’s computer to permit the Web site to recognize future visits using that computer. Cookies enhance the convenience and use of the Web site. For example, the information provided through cookies is used to recognize you as a previous user of the Web site, to track your activity at the Web site in order to respond to your needs, to offer personalized Web page content and information for your use, to automatically populate online forms with your personal information for your convenience, and to otherwise facilitate your Web site experience.

Advertisements displayed on the Web site may also contain cookies or other technologies. Those advertisements may be provided by third party advertising companies, and LPi does not have any control over, or any responsibility or liability for, the cookies or other technologies used in the advertisements or for use and disclosure of information collected through advertisement cookies. You may choose to decline cookies if your browser permits, but doing so may affect your use of this Web site and your ability to access or use certain Web site features.

DATA YOU PROVIDE

When you use this site you may do things like complete your personal profile, send messages, create content, collaborate about content, and post comments. We collect this information so that we can provide you these services and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily return to your favorite church.

You post content on the Web Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set preferences and permissions that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We are not responsible for circumvention of any preferences or permissions or security measures contained on the Web Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of individual Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Individuals have copied or stored your Individual Content.

Profile information is used by LPi primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to other registered users permitted to view that information by your preferences and permissions.

LPi may send you service-related announcements from time to time on the services LPi offers its customers. Generally, you may opt out of such emails from the preferences and permissions page, though LPi reserves the right to send you notice about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.

Links

LPi may contain links to other Web Sites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other Web sites. We encourage our individuals to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Notice applies solely to information collected on LPi’s Web site.

Third Party Business Partners and Advertising

Advertisements or information from our business sponsors who support your communities and churches may appear on our web site and are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to individuals by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. LPi does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on LPi unless you choose to share it with them.

This privacy notice covers the use of cookies by LPi and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

LPi may also send you from time to time advertisements from our business sponsors. You may opt out of such emails from the preferences and permissions page.

INFORMATION USED Tracking Information – LPi may use non-personal information to create aggregate tracking information reports regarding Web site user demographics and the use of this Web site, and then provide those reports to others. None of the tracking information in the reports is connected to the identities or other personal information of individual users.

OTHER MATTERS

Security – LPi works to keep our servers, applications and databases secure and free from unauthorized access and use, by using physical, administrative and technological measure to protect the information we maintain. Unfortunately, no one can guarantee 100% security. If you have particular security concerns about certain personal information, please do not transmit that information over the Internet.

Other Web Sites – This Web site may contain links to other Web sites or Internet resources. When you click on one of those links you are contacting another Web site or Internet resource that may collect information about you voluntarily or through cookies or other technologies. LPi has no responsibility, liability for, or control over those other web sites or Internet resources or their collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. You should review the privacy policies of those other web sites and Internet resources to understand how they collect and use information.

Privacy Notice Changes – LPi may change, supplement or amend this Notice as it relates to your future use of this Web Site from time to time, for any reason. This notice was last updated on 28 December 2008.

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 14

LPi does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 14 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 14, please do not attempt to register on this site or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 14 may provide any personal information to LPi or on this site. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 14 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 14, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on our Web Site is a violation of our Terms & Conditions and should be reported to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .