St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church Online Privacy Policy
St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church of Washington, DC (“St. Mark Church”) is
committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy explains data
collection and use practices of the St. Mark Church Web site (www.stmarkdc.org)
and applies to the suite of other St. Mark Church Web sites including but not
limited to www.orthodoxsermons.org and www.orthodoxbookstore.org (the “Sites”).
By accessing the Sites, you are consenting to the information collection and use
practices described in this privacy policy.
What information do we collect about you?
St. Mark Church or our service providers collect personal information about
you that you voluntarily provide on the Sites, including but not limited to:
your name, address, phone number, email address, ministry interests, and
financial information in connection with online purchases and donations. We or
our service providers may also collect and store information with regard to your
user logs and IP address. In addition, we or our service providers may store
email and other communications delivered to or by our systems as a necessary
incident to the transmission and delivery of such communications and in order to
comply with international, federal, state and local laws. As described below, we
also use cookies to collect and store information, including personal
information, about you and your use of the Sites.
We require that children under 13 years of age not submit personal
information. In accordance with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998 (COPPA), St. Mark Church does not knowingly collect personal
information from children under 13. St. Mark Church encourages parents to
participate actively in their children’s Internet experience.
How do we use this information and share it with others?
We will use the contact information you submit and other information we or
our service providers collect, such as user logs, to communicate with you and to
provide or enhance our service to you in the normal course of providing service.
We or our service providers may also use your information to provide you with
additional information about the Sites and their services, St. Mark Church, and
activities and announcements related to St. Mark Church.
St. Mark Church may disclose your personal information and other information
we or our service providers collect about you, if we believe in good faith that
such disclosure is necessary (a) to comply with the law or in response to a
subpoena, court order, government request, or other legal process; (b) to
protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of St. Mark Church or others;
(c) to enforce any terms of service on the Sites; (d) to provide you with the
services or announcements requested by you; or (e) to operate St. Mark Church’s
systems properly.
We may also share your personal information or other information we collect
about you with partners, affiliates, and/or sister organizations interested in
serving you or informing you about their organizations. Further use and/or
disclosure of your information by such partners, affiliates, and/or sister
organizations is governed by the privacy policies of those partners, affiliates,
and/or sister organizations.
Use of Cookies
To enhance your experience on the Sites, St. Mark Church or its service
provider uses “cookies.” Cookies are messages sent between our servers or the
servers of our service providers and your browser that are saved as text files
on your computer. Cookies collect information about your use of the Sites, such
as the Web pages visited. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email
address or other personal information about you unless you choose to provide
this information to us. Once you choose to furnish the Sites with personal
information, this information may be stored in the cookie and/or linked to other
information about you collected by the cookies or that you have provided to us.
We may contract with a third-party Web analytics service to analyze the
traffic patterns on the Sites, the data for which may have been collected
through the use of cookies, such as the frequency with which our users visit
various parts of the Sites. These technical methods may involve the transmission
of information either directly to us or to another party authorized by us to
collect information on our behalf. We also may use these technical methods in
HTML e-mails that we send our users to determine whether our users have opened
those e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails. The information
generated by these technical methods may include personal information about the
user.
You may customize your Web browsers to not accept cookies. If you choose to
not have your browser accept cookies from the Sites, it is possible that some
parts of the Sites will not function properly.
Security
We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities or
the facilities of our service providers to protect against the loss or misuse of
your personal information that has been collected via the Sites. Only St. Mark
Church personnel and authorized volunteers or authorized personnel of its
service providers will have access to your personal information.
Links to Other Web Sites
The Sites may provide links to third-party Web sites. Since we do not control
those sites, we encourage you to read the privacy policies on those Web sites
before providing any of your personal information on such Web sites.
Changes to Privacy Policy
St. Mark Church reserves the right to change this policy at any time by
posting revisions on this Web page. Changes to this privacy policy will be
effective at the time they are posted.
Questions
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this privacy policy or
would like to be removed from our database, please feel free to contact us any
time at info@stmarkdc.org or at Website Privacy Matters, c/o St. Mark Coptic
Church of Washington, D.C., 11911 Braddock Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030.
Date: May 29, 2008
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Fr. Anthony Messeh has been serving as a priest in St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church since 2001. However, his ministry to the church goes back much further than that. Before his ordination to the priesthood, Fr. Anthony served in the youth ministry for many years with the middle school, high school, and college groups. He is now married to Marianne and is the proud father of Michael Timothy and Elizabeth Theresa. At this point in time, there is still no evidence to the rumor that Michael was named after a very famous basketball player who wore the #23; it is merely a coincidence.
Fr. Anthony earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Virginia in 1998. He was ordained as a priest by His Holiness Pope Shenouda III on November 14, 2001, on the 30th anniversary of His Holiness' ordination as the Patriarch of the See of St. Mark and the Church of Alexandria.
Fr. Anthony now leads the youth and young adult ministry at St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church. He loves serving youth and reaching out to the community around us. In addition, he is also a certified marriage counselor. When Fr. Anthony is not praying Liturgies, delivering powerful sermons, visiting the poor and the sick and those imprisoned, or comforting those in distress, he can be found on the basketball court at St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church where he has developed quite a mean jump shot. He can't go between his legs anymore, but he can still take it to the rim and is deceptively quick (although, you could say he might get the benefit of a few calls, but we're not bitter).
We pray that God would continue to bless his ministry and give him wisdom and guidance to shepherd His flock in peace.
Fr. Bishoy Andrawes has been serving the congregation at St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church of Washington, DC, since 1997. He was born and raised in Egypt and graduated from the University of Alexandria with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering (don't worry, Fr. Bishoy is not into technology or anything). He was ordained priest by His Holiness Pope Shenouda III on November 14, 1995. He served at Virgin Mary and St. Athanasius Coptic Orthodox Church in Mississauga, Canada, for less than two years before coming to St. Mark's. Before moving to Canada, he lived in Alexandria and served as a deacon at St. Mary & St. John the Beloved Coptic Orthodox Church in Janakleese, Alexandria.
Fr. Bishoy is truly a father to us all as someone we can speak with about any problem or topic. As a certified marriage counselor, he has a gift of dealing with couples and family issues. When he is not serving those in need, outreaching the lost, praying a liturgy, or delivering a Bible study, you might find him in the electronics department at Best Buy!
Fr. Bishoy is married to Irinie and is the proud father of Meshach and Daniel. Young Meshach has already taken after Fr. Bishoy by scheduling his feeding and play times in his palm pilot!
We pray that God would continue to bless the service of Fr. Bishoy and give him wisdom and guidance to serve God's people.
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