1.    Acceptance of Terms
The Place Website (“TPW”) provides a collection of online resources, including prayer requests, audio of sermons, members directory, photo albums, classified ads, and other services, (referred to hereafter as the “Service”) subject to the following Terms of Use (“Terms”).  The Service has been created to be easily accessible to all users, but it also has limitations and risks that you must be aware of before using and/or participating.  By using the Service in any way, you agree to comply with the Terms.  In addition, when using a particular Service, you agree to abide by any applicable posted guidelines for all TPW services, which may change from time to time.  Should you object to any term or condition of the Terms, any guidelines, or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with TPW in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of TPW.  TPW has the right, but is not obligated, to strictly enforce the Terms through self-help, active investigation, litigation and prosecution.

2.    Modifications to this Agreement
TPW reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter these Terms at any time.  Such modifications shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof.  You must review this agreement on a regular basis to keep yourself apprised of any changes. 

3.    Content
You understand that all postings, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, audio, or other materials (“Content”) posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the TPW and/or the Service, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated.  More specifically, you are entirely responsible for each individual item (“Item”) of Content that you post, email or otherwise make available via the Service, especially those related to the member directory service and classified ad service at TPW.  You acknowledge that TPW does pre-screen or approve Content, and that TPW shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse, delete or remove any Content that is available via the Service, including the ones posted by you, which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any person, if they are inconsistent with TPW stated values, or for any other reason.  Although TPW has a strict policy of checking all Content made available at TPW and the Services, you understand that TPW is not responsible for any accuracy, authenticity, completeness, quality or availability of items of the Content posted by third parties, including you, at both member directory service and classified ad service.  Furthermore, the Content available through the Service may contain links to other websites, which are completely independent of TPW.  TPW makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained in any such site.  Your linking to any other websites is at your own risk.  You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, that you may not rely on said Content, and that under no circumstances will TPW be liable in any way for any Content posted by third parties, including you, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise made available via the Service.

4.    Privacy and Information Disclosure
By using TPW or the Service you acknowledge and agree with TPW Privacy Policy, which is located on this page.

5.    Conduct
You are entirely responsible and liable for all information you post to TPW.  You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content that, intentionally or unintentionally: a) is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, or is harmful to minors in any way; b) impersonates any person or entity, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity; c) includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person’s explicit consent; d) is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative, or constitutes “bait and switch”; e) infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party, or Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; f) advertises any illegal service or the sale of any items the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by any applicable law, including without limitation items the sale of which is prohibited or regulated by California law; g) employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content transmitted through the Service.  Additionally, you agree not to: h) contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted, or make unsolicited contact with anyone for any commercial purpose; i) “stalk” or otherwise harass anyone; j) collect personal data about other users for commercial or unlawful purposes; k) use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Service.

6.    Access to the Service
TPW grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access the Service for your own personal use.  This license does not include any collection, aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use of the Service nor any use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and extraction tools for any purpose unless expressly permitted by TPW.  A limited exception to such restriction is provided to general purpose internet search engines and non-commercial public archives that use such tools to gather information for the sole purpose of displaying hyperlinks to the Service, provided they each do so from a stable IP address or range of IP addresses using an easily identifiable agent.  TPW permits you to display on your website, or create a hyperlink on your website to, individual postings on the Service so long as such use is for noncommercial and/or news reporting purposes only (e.g., for use in personal web blogs or personal online media).  You may also create a hyperlink to the home page of TPW so long as the link does not portray TPW or its affiliates in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter.  Use of the Service beyond the scope of authorized access granted to you by TPW immediately terminates said permission or license.

7.    Termination of Service
You agree that TPW, in its sole discretion, has the right (but not the obligation) to delete or deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Service (or any part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, if TPW believes that you have acted inconsistently with TPW stated values.  Further, you agree that TPW shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service.  Further, you agree not to attempt to use the Service after said termination.  Sections 2, 4, 8 and 9 shall survive termination of the Terms.

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1.    Privacy

The trust of our users is crucial to The Place Website (“TPW”) and TPW is serious to regard the privacy of Internet users.  If you have any concern about TPW and/or any of TPW online resources, including prayer requests, audio of sermons, members directory, photo albums, classified ads, and other services, (referred to hereafter as the “Service”), please contact us.  We read every message submitted and try to reply to everyone promptly.  This Privacy Policy describes how TPW treats the personal information that TPW collects and receives.  Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.  By your use of TPW, you expressly consent to our disclosure and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.  TPW collects personal information from our users at several different points on our website.  TPW won’t collect any personally-identifiable information about you, such as your name, address, phone number or email address from this web site without your knowledge, and will take measures to protect your privacy.  TPW reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Statement at any time and for any reason, and we will post any new versions on this page.  This includes when you conduct certain activities on the website.

2.    A Special Note About Children

Children (persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use some of the Service, especially member directory service and classified ads service, unsupervised and we ask that children do not submit any personal information to us.  If you are under the age of 18, you may only make any information available to and at the Service only in conjunction with, under the supervision of, and with the authorization of a parent or legal guardian.

3.    IP Address and Domain Name

When a visitor requests pages from TPW, our Web servers automatically recognize the Internet Protocol (IP) address as well as the browser’s domain name, i.e., the name of the ISP computer through which you access the web.  We collect the domain names and IP addresses in order to aggregate information on the pages users access or visit.  This information is collected solely for statistical purposes and is not used to identify individuals.  TPW logs these IP addresses and domain names and uses them for system administration and to monitor the use of our site.  This information is used to measure the number of visits to TPW, the average time spent by visitors and to generate other site use statistics.  This monitoring helps us to evaluate how TPW is used and continuously improve the content we provide.  TPW does not link IP addresses or domain names with any personally identifiable information, which means that a visitor’s session will be logged on TPW servers, but the visitor will always remain anonymous.

4.    Contact Us

TPW also collects and maintains some information which cannot identify you when you complete the “Contact Us” online form.  The only personal information collected that can identify you is your name and e-mail address.  This information is collected and maintained by TPW.  We use the information you provide TPW through our “Contact Us” form to contact you in response to any message sent to TPW.  Under no circumstances will the information provided through TPW be shared with third parties.

5.    Information Sharing and Disclosure

TPW will not rent, sell or share your personal information with anyone except under the following circumstances: (a) we may disclose user information in response to subpoenas, court orders or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; (b) we may disclose user information when we believe such disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of TPW Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.  On account of the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.  Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information will always remain private.

6.    Personal Information Posted on TPW

You understand that all TPW postings, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, audio, or other materials (“Content”) posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the TPW and/or the Service, especially those related to the member directory service and the classified ads service, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated.  More specifically, you are entirely responsible for each individual item (“Item”) of Content that you post, email or otherwise make available via the Service, especially those related to the member directory service and classified ad service at TPW.  These Contents and Items will be available at TPW to third parties and TPW has no control of the extension of such disclosure.  You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the posting of any Item, as well as the posting of any personal information on any Item, and that TPW will not be liable for the disclosure of personal information contained in any Content and/or Item to third parties in breach of this Privacy Policy and/or the TPW Terms of Use.

7.    Links

TPW contains links to other sites.  Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.  We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.  This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.

8.    Your Responsibilities

TPW goes to great lengths to protect all of your information.  Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online – for example through email – that information can be collected and used by others.  By disclosing personal information online, especially by making it available through the Service, you may receive unsolicited communication from other parties in return.  Therefore, you should exercise caution and common sense in such disclosures.