Who we are
This website is operated by Authorstock.com LLC.
Beyond a central purpose of all Apostolic believers, to help lost souls receive a saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the site’s primary function is to facilitate evangelism by providing church websites to UPCI churches in West Virginia and western Maryland. The website address used for this purpose is: https://wvupci.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Church websites
Whenever one of our local churches posts updates of any kind or edits the content on their website that we facilitate, then obviously we collect all the data in such postings or edits. This is necessary for the function of the site according to its purpose.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
While we may utilize tools, potentially including third party tools, to collect information so as to analyze our visitor traffic, that collected data does not ever contain personally identifiable information about our visitors.
Who we share your data with
We never sell or give away your personally identifiable information to any other organization for any reason. We use the collected data within our own organization expressly in the direct fulfillment of the stated purposes of the website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Any personally identifiable information you share with our site may be maintained in our records, and can be deleted upon your request, accompanied by a link to where your personally identifiable information is being displayed. The site administrator can be reached by email at: namwv@wvupci.com.
Additional information
How we protect your data:
We have installed a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate (of “wildcard” type) that uses industrial strength encryption to protect logins and data transfers for both the parent domain name and all subdomains of the parent domain. While we claim no responsibility for securing custom domains obtained by churches for their sites, to the extent that we are able, we try to secure SSL certificates for those sites as well.
What data breach procedures we have in place
In the event of a data breach, we would notify the church or churches known to be affected, and work with them to mitigate the problem. However, whereas the churches are intentionally sharing their info publicly, there is very little in the way of private data that could be obtained in a breach. The most likely private data to be affected by a breach would be passwords, in which case changing the password would be the first step to take, and in fact a weak password will likely have been how the breach was incurred in the first place. We strongly recommend pastors / church volunteers use strong, complex passwords containing a mixture of upper and lower case letters, as well as numbers and special characters, avoiding easy to guess phrases and eschewing the use of whole words found in a common dictionary.
What third parties we receive data from
We do not receive data from third parties except website traffic analysis, and in any case no third party provides any data that would be personally identifiable to anyone.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
None.