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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Notice

Thank you for visiting our web site. WELS Lutherans for Life, Metro-Milwaukee is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. This privacy policy tells you how we use personal information collected at every WELS Lutherans for Life, Metro-Milwaukee website. Please read this privacy policy before using the site or submitting any personal information. By using the site, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy.

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. These changes will only apply to activities and information going forward, not retroactively. You are encouraged to review the privacy policy whenever you visit the site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.

Note: the privacy practices set forth in this privacy policy are for every website owned by WELS Lutherans for Life, Metro-Milwaukee. If you link to other web sites, please review the privacy policies posted at those sites.

What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on our site, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form.

When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number or credit card information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

Google, as a third party vendor, may use cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
  • To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
  • To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
  • To process transactions (Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.)
  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
  • To send periodic emails (The email address you provide may be used to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.)

Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, simply click the "unsubscribe" link located at the bottom of any of our emails or contact us and let us know of your decision.

How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.

We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be kept on file for more than 60 days.

Do we use cookies?
Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information

We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Third party links
We may occasionally include or offer third party products or services on our website, at our discretion. These third party websites should have their own separate and independent privacy policies which you should check. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies whatsoever or the content and activities of these linked sites as we have no control over them. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.

Terms and Conditions
Please also visit our Site Terms of Use section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of all websites owned by WELS Lutherans for Life, Metro-Milwaukee.

Your Consent
By using our site you consent to our websites privacy policy. By using this site you consent to the collection and use of information as outlined in the above documentation. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Changes to our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to this policy. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date: This policy was last modified on March 1, 2013

Contacting Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our privacy policy you may go to our Contact Us page.

National organizations with which we are affiliated:
  • Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

  • Care Net logo

  • Heartbeat International

  • National Institute of Family and Life Advocates

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Friday: by appointment

8501 W Lincoln Ave
West Allis, Wisconsin 53227
Phone 414-727-8176
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