TMCYouth.com is an activity of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and its standard of privacy protection is based on the Golden Rule. Read below to see how this idea plays out in the world of online privacy.
TMCYouth.com respects and protects the privacy of our friends and users. The TMCYouth.com website collects personal information about you only when submitted by the user such as through its registration pages. Please read carefully to understand what personal information TMCYouth.com might collect and how it might be used. The site takes every precaution to protect your registered personal information from unauthorized access or modification, improper use or accidental loss. The personal information that will be collected by TMCYouth.com at registration will include:
To protect site visitors and the general welfare, TMCYouth.com will release personal information about its users when the law requires us to do so.
We do collect anonymous, aggregated data for statistical purposes. We may use such information to help determine ways to improve our site and may share this unidentifiable information with our affiliates. If you submit your e-mail address, we will use it to send you information about TMC Youth activities. Also, personal information submitted for use in your Public Profile and on the CSO Directory virtual map is available to be seen by all internet users.
If you have any worries or questions about what we are doing with your information or would like us to delete your information from our records, please e-mail us at tmcyouth@christianscience.com.
The TMCYouth.com website and forums (or fora for you Latin scholars) are for students of Christian Science of all ages. During the registration process you are asked to tell us your age so that we can: 1. have content for everyone and 2. be sure that we have permission from the parents of site users who are under 13.
A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from TMCYouth.com’s Web server and is stored on your computer’s hard drive. TMCYouth.com uses cookies to keep and sometimes track information about you in order to deliver better and more personalized services. Cookies will allow us to access your TMCYouth.com information, which is stored on our computers, to anonymously identify which areas of our site you have visited. Once you log out of the TMCYouth.com forums, the cookie will be deleted and another cookie will be used at your next session. As discussed earlier, our site sponsors, advertisers or linked websites may use cookies, too. TMC Youth does not own or control these entities or websites, and this statement of policy does not cover how these companies use their cookies.
We take every precaution to protect our visitors’ information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification, and unlawful destruction or accidental loss.
Definitely! In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (Also known as COPPA. For more information, please visit http://www.ftc.gov/coppa), TMCYouth.com does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 without permission from his or her parent(s). If it is learned that such information has been collected without parental consent, that information will be deleted from our database as quickly as practical or the child’s parent(s) will be contacted to obtain consent for the collection of the information.
Once permission has been given, a parent may also contact the site to find out what information the site has collected from the child. We strongly encourage parents to get involved with their children’s online usage and to be aware of activities in which they are participating.
This Web site contains links to other sites, which have their own privacy policies. This privacy policy applies only to information collected by TMCYouth.com.
Questions regarding TMCYouth.com’s privacy statement should be directed to the tmcyouth@christianscience.com or by writing to:
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