Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television Web Privacy Statement

You can visit Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television on the Web without telling us who you are or revealing any other personal information. We collect personal information about you only when you knowingly provide it, for example when you complete the site registration form or provide survey information. By accessing Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television’s Web site, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of the information you provide.

This privacy statement deals only with personal information collected through Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television’s Web site. Any changes to this statement will be incorporated into a revised statement posted here, so that you will always have access to information on our current Web site information-handling practices.

1. Information Collection and Use

If you request information, products, or services through Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television’s Web site, you will be asked to provide personal information. For example, you need to register with us if you want to buy something through our Online Store. When you register, Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television will ask for your name and contact details, as well as a username and password that you will use to log in during future visits. You may also want to provide credit card information to pay for items from the Online Store. We collect this information to enable us to set up your account, process your order, and supply any items you purchase. We send your credit card information to the bank to complete the transaction. We do not store credit card information in our database.

Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television may decide to use your account information and transaction history to generate statistics and reports for internal use as well as to offer you products and services by telephone, regular mail, or e-mail.

There are a number of areas on our Web site other than the Online Store where you can provide personal information that allows you to benefit from our programs and services. In addition to managing your account and maintaining responsible commercial relations with you, Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television collects and uses your personal information

• to provide information, products, services, and programs that respond to your interests and needs;
• to answer your questions and address your concerns;
• to meet legal and regulatory requirements.

The purposes for which personal information is being collected, used, and disclosed are stated on every Web page where personal information is collected.

2. Information That Does Not Identify You

Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television logs certain technical information from your computer’s Web browser when you visit us on the Internet. This information includes your Internet address, the address of the Web site you are coming from, the amount of time you spend visiting our Web site, the pages visited, the operating system and Web browser software you use, and, if you link to us through a search engine, the keywords you use to find our Web site.

The logs do not record personal information, can be accessed only by Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television, and are used solely to track visits to our site and improve its content and layout. Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television never attempts to tie this information to particular individuals visiting our Web site, unless that is necessary for investigating a security breach.

When you visit our Web site, you are assigned a temporary text file called a cookie through your Web browser. It is placed on your computer for programming purposes only and enhances your use of the site by providing a unique identifier as you move from page to page. If you visit the Online Store, for example, it ensures that you have properly logged in and can add items to your shopping cart. If you use the search engine, it remembers the keywords you enter. The cookie is destroyed as soon as you close your browser, and is never redirected to servers outside Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television.

3. Disclosure and Retention of Your Information

The personal information you provide through our site is never disclosed to third parties without your consent. We do not sell or trade your personal information to other organizations or companies, and it is shared with others only in the ways explained in the online form that you use to supply it.

The account information you provide when registering with us is stored in our secure databases as long as you are a Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television customer. Please tell us if you no longer want your information to be kept by us.

4. Accuracy of Your Information

Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television relies exclusively on you for its information about you, except for obtaining independent verification of credit card information.

5. How Your Information Is Kept Safe during Transmission

Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television strives to provide a secure online environment for the transmission of personal information such as credit card details, usernames, and passwords. For Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television’s Online Store security is provided by internationally recognized encryption protocols. When you make a purchase all of your information is collected within a secure page and encrypted while being transmitted to Catholic Media Foundation / Salt + Light Television’s Internet servers.

Information collected anywhere else on our site is transmitted in an unencrypted form, which does create a risk of interception.

6. Comments

Please contact us with any comments or concerns at info@saltandlighttv.org.