The 4marks Privacy Policy covers how 4marks treats personal information that is obtained from its users.
1. Information Collected By 4marks
4marks gathers two types of information: that which users submit to us and that which is not directly submitted by user.
2. Information Submitted To 4marks
Your personal contact information submitted such as email, phone number or other contact information can be displayed depending on what privacy settings you have chosen. First and Last name is always displayed on your FOLIO as it acts as an online extension of your real identity. You control your privacy and you can chooose to share information such as email, phone number, address, photos, videos etc. with anyone or with just your family and friends. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to connect with Catholics and share the information and content YOU CHOOSE!.
*Update
In an effort to improve the social networking aspect of 4marks.com we have decided to bring your FOLIO identity into conformity with other leading social networking websites. Your 4marks FOLIO should be an online extension of real identity and is not meant to be a way to use the website anonymously.
- You will be known by your real full name instead of a member id — your last name will be visible to other members.
- Your parish will be visible to other members within the same parish and/or diocese.
Please keep in the mind the words of John Paul II which are the words that motivated the creation and growth of 4marks.com
"It is important, therefore, that the Christian community think of very practical ways of helping those who first make contact through the Internet to move from the virtual world of cyberspace to the real world of Christian community."
3. Information Not Directly Submitted to 4marks
a) Aggregate: This is information we collect that is not personally identifiable, such as browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all users to the site.
4. Sharing of the Information this Website Gathers
Except where you are expressly informed otherwise or as described immediately below, we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information except to the financial institution that processes your credit card, unless required by law or for the protection of your membership.
If you register with 4marks your registration and profile information may be shared with organizations or people that you choose to network with by joining their network.
In the event 4marks is acquired or merged by another company, this privacy policy would lapse and be superseded by the policy of the new ownership. In the event of such a transaction, you are to be notified at the e-mail address registered with 4marks.
5. Targeted Advertisements
4marks may deliver targeted advertising based on personal information, however 4marks does not provide personal information to the advertiser. By interacting with the vendor, however, the advertiser may assume you meet the targeting criteria and send you future advertisements based on this.It is possible that we will serve ads from a third party that may set a cookie on your browser.
6. 4marks Affiliate Partners
Information submitted by the Partner is used for establishing and maintaining a business relationship. No personal or business information is shared outside the relationship between 4marks and the Partner. Partners may not view or access private information on 4marks' subscribers.
7. Use of Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. If a user does not enable cookies to be set on their browser, they will not be able to use our website. We occasionally use cookies to anonymously track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site to allow enhanced capabilities, such as chat. We do not and will not, use cookies to collect private information from any user.
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to, or control over these cookies. We may also use a third-party advertising company to serve ads externally to the site on the behalf of 4marks and our partners.
8. Editing & Deleting Your Account Information
You can edit your 4marks account information at any time. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the 4marks service, without allowing you to opt out of them. You can remove your 4marks account by visiting our unsubscribe page.
9. Changes To The Privacy Policy
If we change our privacy policy, we will notify our members in some form. Our members are always made aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point, we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an e-mail. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner, and we will then use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
10. Contacting 4marks
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact the help desk.