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WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER recognizes that respecting user privacy over the Internet is of utmost importance. This privacy statement is designed to provide information about the privacy and data collection practices for the site: https://wwme-chicagoland.org. The Site is operated by WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us by clicking this link

Identifying Information. In general, you can visit the Site without telling us who you are or providing any information about yourself. In some areas of the Site, we ask you to provide information that will enable us to offer services that require registration, assist you with technical support issues or to follow up with you. Generally, WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER requests identifying information when you:

• Apply for a WWME Weekend on our web site.
• Provide feedback to an online survey or tell us about an idea or suggestion.
• Request a special service
• Request information or files from support or service staff.

In these instances, WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER will ask for your name, address, e-mail address, phone number and/or other appropriate information needed to provide you with these services. In all instances, if you receive a newsletter or other mailing from us, you will always be able to "unsubscribe" to these mailings at any time.

What WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER May Do With Your Information. If you choose to give us personal information for any of the purposes above, this information is retained by WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER and will only be used by WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER to support your relationship with us. Worldwide Marriage Encounter uses email to facilitate WWME Weekends and Community events. This includes sending email to communicate WWME news, coordinate volunteers as well as to send updates and notifications to attendees of events.

What Others May Do With Your Information. WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER does not share, rent, or sell any personally identifying information provided through our Site (such as your name or email address) to any outside organization for use in its marketing or solicitations. From time to time WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER may use agents or contractors who will have access to your personal information to perform services for WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER (such as DATABASE MAINTENANCE), however, they are required by us to keep the information confidential and may not use it for any purpose other than to carry out the services for WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER. In addition, WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER may share aggregate information about its web site visitors to advertisers, business partners, and other third parties. For example, we might share that our users are x percent PCs users and y percent Macintosh users. None of this information, however, will contain personal, identifying information about our users.

Third Party Links. This site provides links to other sites. Other Internet sites and services have separate privacy and data collection practices. Once you leave this site, WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER cannot control, and has no responsibility for, the privacy policies or data collection activities at another site.

Cookies. At times, we will use a feature on your web browser to send your computer a "cookie". We do not use cookies to retrieve any personal information from your computer. We only use cookies to learn ways to enhance our Site, and to give you better, more personalized service while in our web site. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is sent. However, some functions of the Sites will not function if you refuse cookies. These areas of our web site will have information posted about cookies, and when a cookie will be uploaded to your computer.

Children's Privacy Protection. WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER is sensitive to the heightened need to protect the privacy of children under the age of 13. The vast majority of the material on our web site is intended for family. We do not knowingly collect data from children and, if we learn that we have received personal data from a child, we will remove this information from our database.

Changes to this Policy. WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER may, from time to time, revise its privacy policy. You should therefore periodically visit this page, so you are aware of any such revisions. We will not, however, use your existing information in a manner not previously disclosed. You will be advised and have the opportunity to opt out of any new use of your information.

Contacting Us. If you have any questions about our privacy policy and/or the practices of our web site, please click here.