About This Site
Left to right: Aubrey Patsika, Christine Shaffer, Adrienne Lawrence, Joseph Poole, Mayuran Thurairatnam, Sharif Gaines. Not shown: Kristopher Reese.
This new E.U.C. site has been created in 2007 by Team Banana--Sharif Gaines, Adrienne Lawrence, Aubrey Patsika, Joseph Poole, Kristopher Reese, Christina Shaffer, and Mayuran Thurairatnam--as a course project under the supervision of Dr. Elizabeth Chang, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland.
The contents of this site, including all images and text, are copyright by the Evangelical Lutheran Church and may not be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Privacy Policy
When you visit twinspires.org, we do not track any information or use cookies.
We have several basic groups of people that might be listed or referred to; staff, adult members, and youth. Information of concern includes names, email addresses, phone numbers and photos. Home addresses are never posted.
- For Staff- We list names, email addresses (usually office emails), and office phone numbers. No home phones, etc. It is important that people be able to contact the staff and that access is primarily through ELC's church office.
- For Adult Members- We often list names when they are a contact for some group or activity that we are covering on the website. We do not list email addresses unless they have specifically given permission. We do not list phone numbers.
- For Youth and Children- We generally do not list full names, but at most the first name and initial of the last name. We also do not list email addresses or phone numbers. Photo captions do not include full names and often do not include names at all. This is more to protect them from the more dangerous types of people that can and do use the net to contact and take advantage of young people.
Some specific areas of our website which have additional guidelines.
- Any comments posted by visitors to the website in a Web Log or public forum section of our site may be published for public viewing. If any posts are made please use caution in providing any personal information. If you made a comment or posting you would like removed please contact ELC.
- When using photos of ELC events,
members, etc online, either directly on the website or in our
Web Log or photo albums we use the following guidelines.
- Including photos in our site is a privilege for us, and we intend to respect and honor it.
- Photos are almost always of people in public spaces, at public events.
- We try not to post anything that would be embarrassing, objectionable or hurtful to anyone in the photo. If we know someone is shy about such things, we ask them before posting the photo.
- Applying other parts of our general privacy policy, we don't put full names of children or youth as captions with photos, and we minimize how often we use full names of adults.
- We will gladly provide credit for who took a particular photo if desired by the photographer, and we would certainly honor any copyright wishes or restrictions.
- We will gladly remove any photo immediately upon request.
In any case, if you see a photo that includes you or your child and would like it removed from the site, we would be glad to do so. Just notify ELC with the details.
Please be aware, that while we never post home addresses, there are a number of websites that provide white pages, or extensive listings of mailing addresses. There are also a number of people-finder type sites that help in locating people and their names, phone numbers, email addresses, etc. These sites have many sources of data and you can probably assume that you're in there somewhere.
Third Party Links
This Website may contain links to third party Websites that are not controlled by Evangelical Lutheran Church. These third party links are made available to you as a convenience and you agree to use these links at your own risk. Please be aware that the ELC is not responsible for the content of third party Websites linked to twinspires.org or are we responsible for the privacy policy or practices of third party Websites linked to twinspires.org. If you should link to a third party Website from our website, we strongly encourage you to review and become familiar with that Website's privacy policy.
* Special thanks to Central Presbyterian Church for the format of this Privacy Policy