Terms and Conditions of Use

1. MWS Privacy Policy

   Welcome to the Methodist Welfare Services Website. We respect your privacy while you are visiting our site. MWS will not sell, lease or rent your confidential information to any outside organization or individual. However, we may need to disclose personal information as required by law, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, search warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request, to enforce our Terms of Service, or site rules, or to protect the safety and security of our visitors and our sites.

   We want your experience while visiting our site to be pleasant so we request that you take a few minutes to go through the following information.

2. Information collected

   MWS does not collect personal information without your knowledge on your visits to the website. However, we will ask for your personal information when you sign up as a "Member" of our site (see Member Policy), make donations, sign up as volunteers or sign up for updates from MWS.

   1. Limitations of Liability

      MWS will not be liable for any damages or injury that may result in the use of our site. This includes use of the site, use of any site which is linked from our site, computer virus or line failure.

   2. Links to other sites

      We may provide links to other websites from our site. This should not be seen as an endorsement, approval or agreement with the contents on those sites.

3. Online Postings

   MWS has the right to monitor and review the content of any:
   
   • Discussions,
   • Chats,
   • Forums,
   • Postings.
   
   

   We request visitors and users of our site to exercise decorum and respect for others. We do not allow any postings that are unlawful, threatening, libelous, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory or profane, indecent, lewd, abusive, illegal, political, racist, religious, blasphemous, false, infringing on any intellectual property rights of any third party or MWS. MWS shall have the right to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on the site that it determines to be in violation of these provisions or otherwise objectionable.

4. Member Policy

   By registering as a member of the MWS site, we respectfully request that you adhere to the rules and policies under "Terms and Conditions of Use". In addition, we would like to highlight the following member policies;
   

   1. User Name, Password, Personal information
      Your user name, password and personal information are for your personal use and will not be shared with other parties.
   2. Use of Member information
      By providing the information used for registration, you are agreeing to MWS using it for the following purposes:
      
      • To respond to your requests and queries,
      • To provide the information and updates to you,
      • To communicate with you,
      • For user profile and statistical analysis.
   3. Member Obligations
      As a member of the site, we request that you
      
      • Treat all users with respect and civility,
      • Not to harass, threaten, offend, insult, abuse, defame other users or the site,
      • Not to spam, send viruses, spyware, worms or any other damaging material to other users or the site,
      • Exercise respect when participating in any community feature on the site or anywhere on the site that permit uploading of user content.