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Forms and Content

If you contribute content, your contribution may be publicly displayed including personally identifiable information. For example, if you as a user enter in your real name or a picture, that information will be publicly available when you post a comment.

Each time you submit a comment, it may also send pings or feeds to sites that index or track newly updated articles. These sites may publicly display a hyperlink to your comment and the time that you updated it. Content from or links to your comment may be publicly displayed on third party sites.

IP Addresses and Referrers

We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to tailor site content and to format the site and software to user needs, and to generate aggregate statistical reports. We may use aggregate visitor data to prepare publicly displayed reports regarding the traffic on individual blogs, site popularity rankings, and referrers that visitors use to access individual blogs.

Cookies

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Disclosure of Information to Law Enforcement

Available log records, and all data stored on our servers may be accessed by our system administrators. The system administrators may produce these records and data to the Press board of directors and/or staff, upon request or suspected violation of our terms of use. It is our policy to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the detection, investigation, and prosecution of unlawful activity. If we receive a warrant or subpoena for user information, we may disclose requested records to law enforcement authorities or outside parties seeking information through the legal process.

Links to Independent Websites

Articles posted here may link to independently run web sites outside of the Free Will Baptist Press domain. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such web sites.

Children’s Privacy

The Free Will Baptist Press site we will not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years old. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a child under age 13 who has become a member of this site, please notify us of a suspected violation.

Contacting Us

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