Sacyouth.com (the "Site") is operated and maintained by Sacramento News & Review, in partnership with Sacramento Area Congregations Together. The following privacy policy discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Site (the "Privacy Policy").

By visiting our Site, you are accepting the practices described in our Privacy Policy. Your use of our Site is also subject to our Terms of Use. Please read our Terms of Use linked to here. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site and exit immediately. This Privacy Policy is effective December 1, 2005. We reserve the right to modify or amend the terms of our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use from time to time without notice. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

Information About You and Your Organization That We Collect

When you post activities on the Site, you may provide us with information about yourself, your faith organization and your activities Some of this information may be used in the listings you are posting, and we may use this information to get in touch when necessary.

If you choose to correspond with us through e-mail, we may retain the content of your e-mail messages together with your e-mail address and our response.

Through the use of the Site, we may also gather certain anonymous information about your visit, such as the Internet Protocol address, operating system, and browser through which you access the Internet, as well as the pages visited, search words used, referred links, file types, and file sizes (collectively, "Anonymous Information"). Generally, this information is collected through "traffic data" and may involve the use of "cookies," Internet Protocol addresses, or other numeric codes used to identify a computer.

Please note that if you post any of your Personal Information on the Site, such information may be collected and used by others over whom we have no control. We are not responsible for the use by third parties of information you post or otherwise make public.

Use of Information

The information we collect is used in reports to help improve and administer the Site and analyze trends. We do not sell, rent or trade Personal Information to any third parties. We may use Anonymous Information (or other information other than Personal Information) in any other manner that we deem appropriate or necessary.

We may disclose Personal Information if we determine that a listing violates our Terms of Use or the rights of a third party; if required to do so by law; or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or the Site; (b) protect or defend our rights or property, the Site or our users; or (c) act under urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of us, the users of the Site or the public.

Communication from the Site

From time to time, the Sacramento News & Review or Sacramento Area Congregations Together may send you information with announcements and updates about the Site or related projects. You may elect to opt-out of ongoing e-mail communication from us by using a simple "opt out" procedure. However, if you opt-out of receiving our announcements and updates about your account, you may no longer have access to areas restricted to account members.

Correction/Update of Personal Information

If your Personal Information or information you have provided us about your organization changes, you may review/correct/update your Personal Information previously provided at any time by sending us an email at . You may also have your organization’s data deleted from our database by sending us an email to .

Cookies

"Cookies" are small text files that allow Web sites to differentiate you from other users. We may use cookies to calculate the number of people visiting our Site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to improve our Site and better serve our community. But we do not use cookies in order to retrieve any information from your computer other than information originally sent in a Site cookie, such as a user code.

We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Site.

Children

We do not knowingly solicit or collect personally identifiable information online from children under the age of 13. If we learn that a child under the age of 13 has submitted personally identifiable information online, in contravention of our policies, we will take all reasonable measures to delete such information from our databases and to not use such information for any purpose (except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or as required by law).

Links to Other sites

This Site provides links and pointers to Web sites maintained by other organizations. We provide these links as a convenience to users, but we do not operate, control or endorse such sites. We also disclaim any responsibility for the information on those sites and any products or services offered there, and cannot vouch for the privacy policies of such sites. We do not make any warranties or representations that any linked sites will function without error or interruption, that defects will be corrected, or that the sites and their servers are free of viruses and other problems that can harm your computer.

Assignment

We may change ownership or corporate organization while providing the Site and services. As a result, please be aware that we may transfer your information to another company that is affiliated with us or with which we have merged. Any new company will also follow this Privacy Policy.

Disclaimer

Unfortunately, no data protection method can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. We take reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information as described in this policy, but we cannot ensure or warrant our ability to do so. As a result, you use our content and services at your own risk. We will not be liable for disclosures of your Personal Information due to errors in transmission, unauthorized acts of third parties or other events outside our reasonable control.

More Questions?

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, e-mail them to , and be sure to indicate the nature of your question or concern.