Privacy Policy

At Abington Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Abington Meeting) we collect different types of information about our users on this website for the following main reasons:
1. To provide a useful resource in the form of an online directory of users.
2. To provide an interactive website where email is used to communicate with the users.
3. To provide a security mechanism whereby we can restrict content to certain groups of users.
4. To help us to improve the service we offer.

Our principles
We are absolutely committed to protecting your privacy. Our policy can be summarized in one sentence:
We will not share your information with others (other organizations or with people who are not registered users on this site) without your consent.

We have established the following four principles:
1. We will respect your privacy. You can choose whether we send you news (e.g. weekly newsletters, monthly bulletins and occasional announcements) or not.
2. You can choose how we communicate with you (telephone, email or postal mail).
3. We will not share information about you (including your email address) with any third party without obtaining your prior consent.
4. We will only allow individuals to register on this site who are members or attenders of Abington Meeting or those we ask to help maintain or provide technical support for the website.

What information do we collect?

We collect information on our users through registration on our website.
The minimum information we need to register a user is your first and last name and a password. We also ask for some further, voluntary information so we can provide a richer, more useful address book.

Third party data collection
Our policy does not cover any information collected by third-parties, such as other websites, content, or applications that may link to or be accessible from or through our site.              
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

Cookie Policy
In common with most other websites, we use cookies. A cookie is a small piece of text sent from a website and stored in your web browser. The cookie can be retrieved by the website the next time you return to the website, so that the website can, for example, remember your saved preferences.
By continuing to use this website you agree to us placing cookies on your device. Most web browsers accept cookies by default, but you can change these settings to prevent this if you wish. You should consult the documentation of your web browser for advice on how to do this.

Cookies used on this website:

Who will have access to your information?
You have control over who is able to access specific items of information. By default, your personal information will be visible to other authenticated users of the website. You can change these settings from your personal profile page. Your information will be used to build the online address book.

Accessing and Correcting your Information:
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the website and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at amm@abingtonfriends.net to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.

What else you should know about privacy?
Remember to close your browser when you have finished your user session. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or internet cafe. You as an individual are responsible for the security of, and access to, your own computer.

Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information over the internet that this information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information in publicly accessible online forums, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your usernames and passwords and any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are using the internet.
Our pages may contain links to other websites, and you should be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices on other websites.

Data security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions and other information will be encrypted using SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website.

Changes to privacy policies
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the website homepage. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the website homepage. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of this page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Any Questions?
Contact us via email at amm@abingtonfriends.net
Last modified date: 10/01/2023