This web site is owned and operated by First Lutheran Church of Birmingham, Alabama which reserves all of its rights under the laws of the United States of America and the applicable laws of other nations.

All text or images contained in the web site are the property of First Lutheran Church or are used by permission of the author or owner of said text or images and may not be used by others, copied, duplicated or reproduced in any form without the prior written permission of First Lutheran Church. Permission requests may be sent to our webmaster.

HOW YOU MAY USE OUR MATERIALS

You may use, copy and distribute the materials found on First Lutheran Church Web Sites for personal, noncommercial, informational purposes only. All copies that you make of the material must bear any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice located on the site which pertain to the material being copied. Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right in the material or the products, services, processes or technology described therein. All such rights are retained by First Lutheran Church, its subsidiaries and/or any third party owner of such rights.

HOW YOU MAY USE OUR MARKS

The First Lutheran Church names and logos and all related product and service names, design marks and slogans are trademarks and service marks owned by First Lutheran Church. All other trademarks and service marks herein are the property of their respective owners. You are not authorized to use any First Lutheran Church name or mark in any advertising, publicity or in any other commercial manner without the prior written consent of First Lutheran Church. Requests for authorization should be made to First Lutheran Church's webmaster.

HOW WE MAY USE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

Do not send us any confidential or proprietary information. Any feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas or the like, which you send to us will be treated as being nonconfidential and nonproprietary. We assume no obligation to protect such information from disclosure and will be free to reproduce, and use such information without restriction. We will also be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in information that you send us for any purpose whatsoever.

ENDORSEMENTS

All product and service marks contained herein that are not First Lutheran Church marks are the trademarks of their respective owners. References that we make to any names, marks, products or services of third parties or hypertext links to third party sites or information do not necessarily constitute or imply our endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation of the third party, information, product or service.

CONTENT AND LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

Material on First Lutheran Church Web Sites may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes may be periodically incorporated into this material. First Lutheran Church may make improvements and/or changes in the products, services and/or programs described in these materials at any time without notice. The materials on First Lutheran Church Web Sites are provided "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

IN NO EVENT SHALL First Lutheran Church BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES OR DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, USE, OR DATA WHETHER BROUGHT IN CONTRACT OR TORT, ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH ANY First Lutheran Church WEB SITE OR THE USE, RELIANCE UPON OR PERFORMANCE OF ANY MATERIAL CONTAINED IN OR ACCESSED FROM ANY First Lutheran Church WEB SITE.

For further information on intellectual property matters contact First Lutheran Church's webmaster.

First Lutheran Church may make use of a technology called cookies, in order to provide you with tailored information. A cookie is a tiny element of data that a web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive so we can recognize you when you return. You may set your browser to notify you or decline the receipt of a cookie. At times we conduct on-line surveys to better understand the needs and profile of our visitors. When we conduct a survey, we will let you know how we will use the information at the time it is collected from you.

The First Lutheran Church web site may contain links to other sites such as community service organizations. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by other sites.

Because of the evolving nature of the technologies that we use and the way that we conduct business, we may amend this policy from time to time. We will post any revisions on this site.