To demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting the privacy of our visitors and the privacy of the members of our youth group, we have created this privacy statement in order to disclose our information-gathering and dissemination practices for this website. This website is hosted on a server which is operated by Interland, Inc. for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington (Washington, DC). This statement applies to the youth group website found at http://stjamespotomac.org/youth.

This site contains explicit hyperlinks to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those other websites. When visiting such sites, we urge you to be an informed surfer and use caution when providing any personal data. These links are provided for your convenience only. We don't own the listed sites, and we make no promises as to the accuracy of their content or the quality of their services or products.

This site makes a message board and a guestbook available to its users. These are hosted by Bravenet.com. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Information provided to the message board and the guestbook is subject to the privacy policy of Bravenet.com, which you can view at http://www.bravenet.com/global/terms.php.

This website employs the following design features and conventions:

1. This website does not place cookies on your hard drive.
2. This website does not invoke any client-side applications (applets) with the intent of copying any data from your computer memory or hard drive(s), or of altering any data in your computer. (We do use Java applets for some display functions such as the scrolling marquee and the main menu. Alternative displays are provided for readers who do not have a Java environment on their machines.)
3. This website does not collect any data about its visitors other than for statistical purposes. For site management, statistical information is collected in order to assess what information is of most and least interest, to determine technical design specifications, and to identify system performance or problem areas. Data collected may include the pages visited on the site, the date and time of the visit, the internet address (URL or IP address) of the referring site, the domain name and IP address from which the access occurred, the version of browser used, the capabilities of the browser, and search terms used on search engines. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. We do not sell or otherwise provide the identity of our visitors to anyone. Because we utilize a visit counter provided by Bravenet.com, their web server sees who visits our site so that it can build the statistical summaries. Bravenet's privacy policy is explained at http://www.bravenet.com/global/terms.php.
4. This website relies on internet security mechanisms operated by Interland, Inc. and the Episcopal Diocese of Washington for protection from malicious alteration of its operation. Attempts to upload or change information on this website without authorization or to download and copy with the intent to defraud are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. Interland's privacy/security policy is found at http://www.interland.com/legal/privacy/ and their Acceptable Use Policy is at http://www.interland.com/legal/acceptableuse/default.asp.
5. Directory data about group members posted on this website is posted only with the permission of the individual members.
6. This website will not associate names of individual members under the age of 18 with their photos. To achieve this, this website avoids the following practices, amongst others:
   a. Use of mouse-over text to show the name of a person in a picture.
   b. Use of persons' names in filenames.
   c. Identifying people under the age of 18 by name in captions.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact the youth group webmaster. (See email address under "Contact Us" on the youth group main menu.)