Website Use Policies

Website Use By Registered Users

If you log into this website, you can gain access to additional content and services not available to the public.  Your registered user access is for your own use.  Do not share your password or your access with anyone.  Keep any and all content you are able to access via your registered user access confidential.  Do not post it anywhere else; do not make it available for others to find; and ensure that your own access of that content is adequately secure. 

Registered user access may provide you with the ability to contribute to the content of the website. Be sure that all your contributions fully comply with all policies on this page.  

Website Use - Social Media

This website may offer tools for sharing links to and/or commenting on the content of this website.  Furthermore, users may share links and/or comment on the content of this website through tools provided by social media and related sites. Neither the provision of such tools by this website, nor the ability to effect such sharing and commenting outside of provision of such tools by this website, constitutes any endorsement by the website or the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading (UUCR) of the tools, the social media service, nor the comments made.  All social media content is exclusively the responsibility of the person who posted it. 

If you chose to engage in any social media activity with regard to the website content, you agree to clearly identify yourself using your full, real name; reveal any applicable affiliations; be honest, fair, and respectful in your comments; and comply with all the policies on this page. Do not reveal any information you are not explicitly authorized to reveal; do not breach confidentiality or privacy; do not post anything with regard to the content of this website that these policies preclude from our website, regardless of where you post your comments. 

Website Use By Children

If you are a minor, be sure to obtain your parent’s or guardian’s permission before you send any personal information (for example, your name, address, e-mail address, photos, etc.) to us or anyone else over the Internet. We encourage parents to get involved with their children’s online usage and to be aware of the activities in which they are participating.

Personal Information Policy

This policy governs the use of personal information of members, friends and visitors by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading in regular operations, on our website at uureading.org, and for purposes of publicity both online and in print.

Personal identifying information about our members and friends, such as email addresses and other contact information, is collected on a voluntary basis. Any information that we collect and that you provide is strictly used to extend the ministry of our church. We do not knowingly sell, lease, or distribute any part of your information to any commercial entities.

If you are, or become, a member of our congregation, your contact information will be shared with the Unitarian Universalist Association to enable your free subscription to UUWorld magazine. You may opt out by informing the Membership Committee.

Our website, uureading.org, may be visited without submitting any personal identification information. Users may voluntarily submit email addresses or other personal identifying information to take part in an activity via the website, such as to sign up for a mailing list or request information. We will not knowingly sell or rent personal information collected via the website to any organization, including UU organizations, without providing advance notification and the opportunity to opt-out.

The names of members and friends may be mentioned on the website and in promotional materials, particularly in articles in the newsletter. In order to protect privacy, personal information, such as phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, or any part of your name may be reserved. If you want your contact information to be reserved, contact the webmasters.

Use of Photographs Policy

Photographs of church activities will be posted on our website and used occasionally in our newsletter or other promotional materials. Personal identification information such as names of those photographed may be reserved. Furthermore, permission of the parent or guardian of minors photographed will been obtained prior to posting on the website. If you see a photograph of yourself or your child that you prefer not to be included on the website, please contact the webmasters and we will remove the photograph. Also, please contact the webmasters if you would like to register your durable preference that no photo of you or your child is used for these purposes; we will do our best to comply with your preferences whenever practical.

Other Policies

Tracking Website Use

Our website software automatically gathers information from your browser and may set a cookie to track user sessions, to determine trends in peak activity, determine the number of visitors, track the frequency that individual pages are accessed, and to ensure our links are working properly. For each visitor to our website, our website hosting server automatically recognizes the visitor’s domain name, IP (Internet Protocol) address, and browser software. It may also recognize the operating system and the site from which the visitor linked to us. It does not harvest email addresses or other personal information. This tracking information is not shared with other organizations.  We do not employ spyware or adware of any kind.

Links to Third Party Sites

This web site contains some hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading, for your reference only. The inclusion of hyperlinks to other websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on these websites or any association with their operators.

Information Accuracy

The Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading will make every effort to ensure that the information presented on our website is accurate. If inaccuracies occur, we will make every effort to correct them in a timely manner. To report any web site inaccuracies or for questions about these policies, please contact the webmasters.

Deadlines

Articles for the newsletter should be submitted to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as soon as they are ready for publication. Submissions should be either plain text or basic rich text (such as what an email client might provide); submissions must not be copied-and-pasted from word processing programs, such as Microsoft Word, since those programs generally inject excessive formatting mark-up.

Submissions will published online as soon as possible after submission.  

An archive copy of the printer-friendly version of the newsletter is created every week (during the church year; monthly over the summer). It includes whatever articles which are already published online at that time (but have not yet expired).  

Orders of Service information is due every Wednesday at 9:00 AM for the following Sunday.  If you have an attribution, dedication, or celebration for altar flowers please email the church administrator by Wednesday morning for the following Sunday.

Ownership

This website is owned and operated by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading, which is responsible for its content except as outlined above.

Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

These policies constitute a living document and may be changed or updated from time to time.

If you have any questions about our Website Policies, you can contact the webmasters.