Privacy Policy

Last Updated March 19, 2019

It is Naval Lodge No. 4’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.naval-lodge.org (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "https://www.naval-lodge.org"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.This Privacy Policy sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Naval Lodge No. 4 member’s personally-identifying information is entered into our website from your membership petition. This information is used to track your membership history, dues payment, and for contact purposes. Once you establish a personal account, encrypted passwords are also stored and used for authentication and account access.

Additionally, other visitors to Naval Lodge No. 4’s websites choose to interact with Naval Lodge No. 4 in ways that require Naval Lodge No. 4 to gather personally-identifying information. Naval Lodge No. 4 ask visitors who sign up for our email list at https://join.naval-lodge.org to provide your name, email address, and Masonic Lodge you are affiliated with.

Social Network

Naval Lodge No. 4 makes use of social networks to promote our events and share our accomplishments. With the except of Facebook, we do not make use of Social Networks plugins to share or post. For Facebook, see Facebook Permissions below.

Facebook Permissions

Naval Lodge No. 4 by default access your Facebook basic account information, including your name, email, gender, birthday, current city, and profile picture URL, as well as other information that you choose to make public. For more information regarding Facebook permissions, refer to the Facebook Permissions Reference page. We also use Facebook social plugins for sharing and posting.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links To External Sites

Our Site may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Naval Lodge No. 4 discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its members and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Naval Lodge No. 4’s behalf or to provide services available at Naval Lodge No. 4’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others; by using Naval Lodge No. 4’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Naval Lodge No. 4 will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its members and affiliated organizations, as described above, Naval Lodge No. 4 discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Naval Lodge No. 4 believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Naval Lodge No. 4, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://www.naval-lodge.org and have supplied your email address, Naval Lodge No. 4 may occasionally send you an email to keep you up to date with what’s going on with Naval Lodge No. 4. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to help other members. Naval Lodge No. 4 takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

If you would like to stop receiving emails from Naval Lodge No. 4, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button in the email.

Aggregated Statistics

Naval Lodge No. 4 may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Naval Lodge No. 4 may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Naval Lodge No. 4 does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Naval Lodge No. 4 uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Naval Lodge No. 4 uses cookies to help Naval Lodge No. 4 identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.naval-lodge.org, and their website access preferences. Naval Lodge No. 4 visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Naval Lodge No. 4’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Naval Lodge No. 4’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Naval Lodge No. 4's use of cookies.

E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with Naval Lodge No. 4 – by purchasing Naval Lodge No. 4's services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required, in addition to that required by PayPal, to process those transactions. In each case, Naval Lodge No. 4 collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Naval Lodge No. 4. Naval Lodge No. 4 does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Naval Lodge No. 4 may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Naval Lodge No. 4’s sole discretion. Naval Lodge No. 4 encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at [email protected] or by post to:

Naval Lodge No. 4
330 Pennsylvania Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20003