Introduction

The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.

Who we are

Our website address is: http://www.rosarycongressusa.org.

Diocesan Rosary Congresses is a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization, dedicated to bringing honor and glory to Our Savior and Our Lady, and healing to our world through the coordination of Diocesan Rosary Congresses throughout the United States. We are entirely staffed by volunteers who work tirelessly, together with our diocesan coordinators, to support this apostolate and usher in the reign of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

The Rosary Congress is the impetus to unleash the Divine Mercy upon us. It was the Rosary Congress that preceded the Communist government’s miraculous withdrawal of their restrictions on Pope John Paul II’s visit to Poland in 1979. The nine days that followed his arrival in his homeland, changed the world. We have that ability to unleash the power of Divine Mercy upon our country and subsequently upon the world through the Rosary Congress.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.  Any information you provide in a public area of the website is available to all visitors, including webcrawlers – we cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

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

Any information you leave via contact forms is not shared with anyone.  The information will be used to contact you in the event you have requested contact.  If you opt in to email updates, information you provide will be used to provide updates to you.

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.

You may always use your browser’s privacy settings to block, expire, or erase cookies.  Please check the Help section on your browser to determine how to do this. Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one, and you may not be able to use all features of this website.

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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. We have no control over the information these sites may collect, or how they may use it.  More information should be available by accessing the privacy policy on those sites.

Analytics

We may use your personal information to track website analytics, including the location of your IP address.  We may also use this information to improve the website’s usability, analyze the use of the website, administer the website, prevent fraud and improve the security of the website, and personalize the website for each user.

Who we share your data with

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, partners, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.  As noted below some data may be shared with spam detection services, for all users’ protection, to check to make sure the website is being used appropriately.

We may disclose your personal information:

  • to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  • in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
  • in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
  • to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
  • to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

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, 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. The fact is, we don’t hold any personal information unless you specifically provide it.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service, which requires exchanging data with the service.

Your contact information

May be shared with our partners.  Our partners may include other organizations with similar Missions.

How we protect your data

We have safety features in place, but recommend you don’t enter private information in a public forum. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

  • We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
  • All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
  • You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
  • You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

What data breach procedures we have in place

If we have your contact information, we will notify you if your information is known to have been accessed.  If we don’t have your information, we have no way of notifying you.  We will secure any information, change the locks on the front door and the back door, etc.

What third parties we receive data from

We may receive data from our partners in furtherance of our shared Missions.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

None.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

None.

Your Rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the payment of a fee to be determined based on the cost to provide the data. We will also need to confirm your identify, so you will need to supply appropriate evidence of your identity. We will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address.

We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.