Information Collection, Consent and Use. When you create an LDS Account, register on a Church Web site, add profile information, or take other similar actions, we may collect or obtain from you or your membership records (if applicable), information including, but not limited to, your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, contact or profile preferences, and Church unit information. We will use such information to allow us to contact you, to fulfill your requests, to seek your voluntary feedback on Web site features or content, and to help fulfill the mission of the Church. We may also use your personal information for internal purposes, including auditing, data analysis, and research. We will use your information for no other purposes unless we specifically inform you otherwise and obtain your prior consent if legally required. We will also make you aware of options to opt-out of or opt-in (as required by law) to certain features. Moreover, we grant individuals the opportunity to object to certain uses of their information.
If you are a member of the Church, it is understood that membership information, including contact details, are shared on a limited and restricted basis between Church members for internal Church purposes, including over the Internet (with your prior consent if required by law). With respect to the privacy of your personal information, as a Church member you have given your implied or actual consent (as required by law) for the Church to use your personal information for Church purposes. If personal information is to be used for any other purpose, it will only be used with your prior consent.
Content Submissions. When you submit additional content through any Church Web site, such as, but not limited to, sending messages, engaging in on-line chats, replying to surveys, uploading photos, uploading video clips, making personal on-line notes, writing in an on-line journal, or similar feature, your information will be stored on our system. While we intend that certain submissions using features on Church Web sites are to remain private (for example, personal on-line notes, journaling, and so forth), we cannot guarantee the complete privacy of such submissions and may in some instances choose, or be legally required, to disclose such information to third parties as outlined in this policy. Some information you provide to the Church Web sites will be submitted with your express agreement that the submission is to be shared publicly. In such instances, others will have access to any personal information within such submission. We recommend caution in selecting which information you choose to include in such submissions to avoid causing harm or injury, or risk of harm or injury, to yourself or others.
We are under no obligation to monitor such content, but reserve the right to do so in our sole discretion and are authorized to block or remove content we deem inappropriate or objectionable. We prohibit postings or submissions in any form and using any available tool on any Church Web site, whether intended to be private to you or shared with the public, that are obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, defamatory, libelous, tortious, illegal, threatening, or otherwise inappropriate or objectionable. As we do not review all content submitted through every feature on each Church Web site, we are unable to take protective measures in the event you provide content disclosing information about a person that is a victim of harm or abuse or is at risk of becoming a victim of harm or abuse.
Retention. We retain collected personal information for a reasonable period of time to fulfill the collection purpose and then delete it from our records, with the exception of limited historical data and membership information retained as part of a permanent genealogical or Church historical record.
Access. We endeavor to maintain personal information accurately and rely on you to ensure your personal information is complete and accurate. You may verify, correct, or remove your personal information through your Web site specific registration, your profile, or through LDS Account, where applicable. For information taken from your Church membership record, your personal information can only be updated by making changes to your Church membership record. Such changes must be done by contacting the clerk in your Church unit and requesting the change. If you experience problems with modifying your personal information or other requests to update your personal information, you can contact us by sending an email to DataPrivacyOfficer@ldschurch.org.