PRIVACY POLICY

Mater Dei Seminary takes your privacy seriously and takes precautions to protect the personal information provided by users of our website, subscribers to our newsletter and all of our customers. We formulated this policy with a fundamental respect for our users’ right to privacy and to guide our relationships with our users.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

MATERDEISEMINARY.ORG collects a small amount of information from our website users and newsletter subscribers. We only collect information that we need that is related to your donation, newsletter subscription, or to reply to a contact form you have sent in. We do not share, sell or distribute this information with anyone.

Below, we will describe the type of information we collect and how we use it to provide better services to our customers.

WEBSITE

MATERDEISEMINARY.ORG is hosted by BlueHost.com. For information on BlueHost’s privacy policy related to encryption, confidentiality and the use of cookies, view Blue Host’s privacy policy.

When you visit our website we may automatically collect non-personally identifiable information, such as online behavior and information about your computer, mobile or other device. The information collected may include, without limitation, the make, model, settings, specifications (e.g., CPU speed, connection speed, browser type, operating system, device identifier) and geographic location of you and/or your computer, mobile or other device, as well as date/time stamp, IP address, pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, the site(s), application(s), destination(s), and/or service(s) you arrived from, and other clickstream data. We use this information to monitor and improve our websites and Services. This information is collected through a third party service, Google Analytics. View Google’s privacy policy.

CONTACT FORMS

When you submit a contact form to initiate email communication with us, we store your name, email address and message so that we can send you a reply. These emails may also stored for our internal administrative purposes, and to help us to better serve the users our web site. However, this information is not added to our emailing lists, nor is it shared with anyone. It is only accessible to those staff members who need to do so in order to fulfill their duties. We use a third party service, WPForms, to collect this data. View WPForms privacy policy for more information.

Personal messages such as requests for spiritual counsel or vocational inquiries for men interested in becoming priests or Brothers are handled by a priest or Vocations Director. Any requests for the prayers of the priests & seminarians at Mater Dei Seminary are shared with the seminary and may be posted on their Prayer Intention board.

PAYMENT INFORMATION

For our donation services that require online payment, we utilize a secure donation service, Paypal.com as a payment gateway. Paypal.com securely collects your credit card information and processes the donation. For more information on how they handle personal data, please visit their privacy policy. MATERDEISEMINARY.ORG does not collect credit card information (such as account name, number, expiration date, and verification code).

When you make a donation or payment, we may ask you to provide your name and mailing address, email address and phone number. This information is collected so that we can fulfill your order and contact you about your donation or payment. Again, your credit card or other payment information are processed, as explained in the paragraph above, through Paypal.com For more information, please see Paypal privacy policy.

NEWSLETTER

We use a third-party provider, WPForms, for anyone interested to signup for our mailed newsletters. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. For more information, please see WPForms privacy policy.

When you sign up for our free newsletters, which are available in print form, we may ask you to provide your name and address and/or email address. We use this information to solely so that we can provide the requested publication. We may use demographic information about our audience to improve our service, for marketing purposes and/or industry reporting purposes.

You can opt-out of our printed newsletter subscription at any time, by using our contact form, by emailing us at webmaster@materdeiseminary.org , by calling us at (402) 571-4404, or by writing to us at Mater Dei Seminary, 7745 Military Avenue, Omaha, NE 68134.

COOKIES

MATERDEISEMINARY.org uses Google Analytics to measure traffic on our site and to collect information in the form of “cookies” to “remember” how a user interacts with our content. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. They do not store any personal information about users on our site. View Google’s privacy policy for more information.

To prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, click here for the Google Universal Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website experience by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful. You can set your browser to accept or reject most cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is set. This can be done by visiting the relevant support page for your browser.

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Third-party Cookies Linked to Social Networks: If you have previously logged into a social network, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or LinkedIn, and remain logged in, your browser will send the social network information from the cookie they dropped when you visit websites that offer “Like” and/or “Share” buttons. This will occur even if you do not use these buttons. We have no control over the processes used by social networks and therefore ask you to consult the privacy policy on their websites.

DISCLOSURE

As stated in the beginning of this Privacy Policy, we do not share, sell or distribute this information with anyone apart from those acting as our agents in providing our products/services, and which agree to use it only for that purpose and to keep the information secure and confidential. (Examples of this would be WPforms.com, which handles our newsletter signup, and Paypal.com, which processes credit card information for us.)

We may, however, disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so, or in special cases when we have good reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property. Users should also be aware that courts of equity, such as U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, might have the authority under certain circumstances to permit personal information to be shared or transferred to third parties without permission.

Subsidiary and affiliate entities directly associated with Mater Dei Seminary, entities into which our company may be merged, or to which any of our assets, products, sites or operations may be transferred, may be able to use personal information, but this does not include adding your information to any mailing list without your permission. In the event your information is shared due to one of these reasons, we will notify you.

We may share aggregate information, which is not personally identifiable, with others. This information may include usage and demographic data, but it will not include personal information.

CORRECTING, UPDATING, AND ACCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will take reasonable measures to accurately record the personal information you provide to us as well as any subsequent updates. You are entitled to view or amend the personal information that we hold. To do this, please use our contact form or call us at (402) 571-4404.

You may also request that we delete personal information about you that is inaccurate, incomplete, or irrelevant for legitimate purposes, or are being processed in a way which infringes any applicable legal requirements, by using our contact form or calling us at (402) 571-4404. At our election, we may retain it with your comment or correction noted in our records instead of deleting it.

You may also contact us if you object to our further use of your personal information if you have compelling legitimate grounds (this may involve closing your account). We may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details before providing you with any information, correcting inaccuracies, or deleting any information. Your right to review, update, correct, and delete your personal information may be limited, subject to the law or your jurisdiction: (a) if your requests are abusive or unreasonably excessive, (b) where the rights or safety of another person or persons would be encroached upon, or (c) if the information or material you request relates to existing or anticipated legal proceedings between you and us, or providing access to you would prejudice negotiations between us or an investigation of possible unlawful activity.

PERMISSION

If your name is on our mailing list, it is there because you have requested to be added to our list at some time in the past. If you should ever decide you no longer wish to receive our mailings, you may unsubscribe by calling (402) 571-4404, by emailing us at newsletter@materdeiseminary.org or by writing to us at Mater Dei Seminary, 7745 Military Avenue, Omaha, NE 68134

CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE

Our website, products and services are all directed to persons who are at least 13 years old or older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13 years of age. If we determine that a user is under this age, we will not use or maintain this person’s personal Information without the consent of his or her parent/guardian.

LINKS

MATERDEISEMINARY.org contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other sites. Please be aware when you leave our site and read the privacy statements of each website to which we may link that may collect personally identifiable information.

NOTIFICATION AND CHANGES

Any changes we may make to this privacy policy will be posted on this page so our users are aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under which circumstances, if any, we disclose it. Users should check this policy frequently to keep abreast of any changes.

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to access, correct, or delete any personal information we have about you, submit a complaint, or simply want more information, contact our Privacy Compliance Officer using our contact form or by phone or direct mail at:

Mater Dei Seminary
7745 Military Avenue
Omaha, NE 68134
(402) 571-4404

Updated April 8, 2022