Privacy Policy

At NorthernChristian.org, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This Privacy Policy document outlines the types of information received and collected by NorthernChristian.org and also how such information is used.

Account and Profile Information

Users of NorthernChristian.org supply us with their name, e-mail address, and other personally-identifiable information upon registering an account with this website.  We will not intentionally share lists of the names, e-mail addresses, and/or other personally-identifiable information of our users with third-parties. Profile information, group information, and content contributions to this site are public and might be visible to all visitors and users, registered or unregistered.  E-mail addresses of our users will never intentionally be made public, and should only appear publicly if users explicitly add contact information in their profile or other content contributions.

Registered users of our website will be able to send personal messages of various forms to other registered users, which might generate e-mail notifications depending upon the recipient’s notification settings, but e-mail addresses will not be exposed to senders.  The personal message features of this website are very useful for networking between users without users having to worry about exposing their e-mail addresses to the general public.  Group administrators are able to post updates to groups and send announcements to all group members, which might generate e-mail notifications depending upon the recipient’s notification settings, but, again, recipient e-mail addresses are not exposed to group administrators during this process.

Some or all website administrators might have access to view actual user e-mail addresses.  Administrators may send website updates/announcements to any or all website users, either in the form of a personal message through the website or in the form of an e-mail.  We will try to limit any such correspondence so as to not be a nuisance.  Furthermore, some or all website administrators might selectively and individually refer certain website users to other website users for networking purposes when we believe there is a shared common interest or mutual benefit, but we will, in general, try to either refer through website personal messages (which do not reveal user e-mail addresses) or try to ask users individually for their permission first prior to connecting them with other users.

Feed Subscription

For feed management and feed e-mail subscription, we utilize the third-party Feed Burner service.  Google’s general privacy policy applies to the use of this information, which can be consulted at the following link:

For more information regarding how Feed Burner respects your privacy and uses this information, please contact Google using one of the following options:

Log Files

Like many other websites, NorthernChristian.org makes use of log files on its servers. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, and gather technical demographic information.  Access to this information is limited to very few administrators and editors, as well as our web hosting provider.

Cookies and Web Beacons

NorthernChristian.org does use cookies to store information about visitor login sessions, to store information about visitor preferences, and to customize web page content based on the type of browser a visitor is using.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on NorthernChristian.org. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to NorthernChristian.org and other sites on the Internet. Users can find more information about the DART cookie and may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following link:

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Currently, our advertising partners only include Google Adsense. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use cookies and web beacons in the advertisements and advertisement links that appear on NorthernChristian.org sent directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as JavaScript) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.  This information contains no personally-identifiable information, according to Google’s ad and content network privacy policy at the above link at the time of this document’s writing.

NorthernChristian.org has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. NorthernChristian.org’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.  We will not knowingly supply third-party advertisers with your name, e-mail address, or other personally-identifiable information that you have provided to us. All information gathered by third-parties will be the result of their own research.

If you wish to adjust cookie storage settings, you may do so through your individual browser options.  Please consult your browser’s documentation for more information.

Google Analytics

For the purposes of website administration and improvement, we make use of the Google Analytics service. Google Analytics code on this website gathers from all visitors certain general information always shared by their web browsers, including type of user agent (web browser) used, operating system, web browser add-on versions, IP address (can identify originating country, city, state, and region), host name, date/time of visit, referring website information, pages visited, and time spent on each page of the website. This data is shared with a third-party (Google Analytics); however, this data shared is in no way linked to any personally-identifiable information (e.g. name, e-mail address, telephone number, or mailing address).  Google’s general privacy policy applies to the use of this information, which can be consulted at the following link:

For more information regarding how Google Analytics respects your privacy and uses this information, please contact Google using one of the following options:

Applicability

This Privacy Policy applies to all website use and use of any of the features/services provided by this website, by registered or unregistered users, logged in or not.

If you require any more information or have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please feel free to Contact Us (at the Editor e-mail address).

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