Pursuant to the publishing of our web site, St. Stephen Church strives to provide to our parish members, their families, and visitors, an information portal or focal point for quality information and references about our church and Catholicism. Our goal is to become a valued information portal by providing access to specific quality information located on our site and by linking to other quality sites that provide experience, expertise, and information in various areas of Catholicism and many religious special interest groups.   We understand the power and impact the Internet can have on your personal and spiritual life. These benefits are at risk if people are not concerned about their personal privacy. We are committed to providing you with a pleasant Internet experience that respects and protects your personal privacy choices and concerns, however it is you who decides what is appropriate or not for yourself and your family. To this end, our privacy policy and practices are detailed below:

1. We do not share personally identifiable information (name, address, phone numbers, and/or email address) about you with others except when authorized by you to do so in support of special interest groups, events and activities, when specifically requested by you, or by any other legal process that has this requirement. Personal information may be stored within our server and used internally to provide the services you have expressly requested.

2. We use log files to track trends, visitors to specific pages, and solicit feedback from our parish staff, members, visitors, and other webmasters and sites in a continual effort to work to improve the user experience. This data is not linked to personally identifiable information. We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law or protect the rights, property, or safety of St. Stephen Church, our users, or others.

3. St. Stephen Church  may provide recommendations and links to chat rooms, forums, message boards, online religious stores, and/or news groups that are available as an online service to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. Personal issues should not be shared with or on these sites. Statements or opinions expressed within these areas may or may not be approved or sanctioned by the church. Use these at your own risk with this understanding.

4. You can direct your privacy questions and concerns to us by emailing these issues to  PrivacyPolicy, so that we may respond.

5. St. Stephen Church reserves the right to change or update this privacy policy at any time by posting notice of the change or update on this site.

6. St. Stephen Church reserves the right to edit, change, update, or delete any portion of this web site or any information provided to us in an effort to protect your privacy and may do so at anytime without notice .