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FREE WEBINAR: “Making Sure Your Virtual Church Meeting is Legally Valid”
“Making Sure Your Virtual Church Meeting is Legally Valid: Attorney Sarah E. Merkle offers step-by-step guidance on how to conduct virtual church business meetings in this on-demand webinar.” ChurchLaw&Tax hosted a webinar on May 5, 2020, a recording of which is available here.
“Nonprofit Cybersecurity: Donors, Data, and WISPs”
“Nonprofit Cybersecurity: Donors, Data, and WISPs” The Wagenmaker & Oberly blog has the post here.
1739 Website privacy policies
[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5778727/height/90/width/450/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/c30000/” height=”90″ width=”450″ placement=”top”]If your religious organization has a website, it should have at least a basic privacy statement informing users what information you collect on the site, who has access to it, what you do with it, and how you protect it.
“Can we monitor employees’ email?”
“Can we monitor employees’ email?” Clergy Financial Resources has this brief answer here. The first paragraph gives the general rule: Continue reading ““Can we monitor employees’ email?””
1737 Child Online Privacy Protection Act
[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5732543/height/90/width/450/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/c30000/” height=”90″ width=”450″ placement=”top”]Religious organizations and other nonprofits are not subject to the rules under the Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), but COPPA’s rules provide a good example of how to deal with information collected from children under 13. It requires verifiable parent consent, online privacy statements, and options for parents to control how providers use their children’s information. Since it sets the standard in the United States for protecting children online, Josh encourages religious organizations to follow its rules even when they aren’t required to do so.