Privacy Policy

The Student Ministry at Fellowship of The Woodlands (TSMFOTW) is committed to helping you make the most of your free time on the Internet within a trusted environment. This privacy policy discloses how we collect, protect, use and share information gathered about you on our web site. Once you have registered with us. We hope that this disclosure will help increase your confidence in our site and enhance your experience on the Internet.
What do you do with the information you collect?

All of the information collected on this site is used internally. We use your e-mail address to notify you of upcoming events, notify you if you won a prize, or to respond to your request. TSMFOTW does not provide any information about you to anyone outside of TSMFOTW.

Cookies and other technologies

As is standard practice on many websites, The Student Ministry at Fellowship of The Woodlands website uses “cookies” and other technologies to help us understand which parts of our websites are the most popular, where our visitors are going, and how much time they spend there. We use cookies and other technologies to study traffic patterns on our website, to make it even more rewarding as well as to study the effectiveness of our communications. And we use cookies to customize your experience and provide greater convenience each time you interact with us.

If, however, you prefer not to enable cookies, you can disable cookies. Please note that certain features of the The Student Ministry website will not be available once cookies are disabled.
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The
Student Ministry at Fellowship of The Woodlands will not use the information collected to market directly to that person.

In some of our email messages we use a “click-through URL” linked to content on the The Student Ministry at Fellowship of The Woodlands website. When a user clicks one of these URLs, they pass through our web server before arriving at the destination web page. We track this click-through data to help us determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our user communications. If you prefer not to be tracked simply avoid clicking text or graphic links in the email.

In addition we use pixel tags — tiny graphic images — to tell us what parts of our website users have visited.
Pixel tags also enable us to send email messages in a format customers can read. And they tell us whether emails have been opened to assure that we’re only sending messages that are of interest to our customers. We store all of this information in a secure database located in Houston, Texas, in the United States.

Last updated May 24, 2006