Protecting your privacy is important to us.

The Dogwood Acres Privacy Policy is designed to safeguard and protect the identities, personal and financial information of campers, program participants, guests using our facilities, and visitors using our website.

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 2000 (COPPA) mandates that websites such as this obtain parental permission before collecting children's (under 13 years of age) personal information. In compliance with the Act, we provide the following:

Who is the operator/owner of the site?
Dogwood Acres
PO Box 369
Vernon, FL 32462
Phone: (850) 535-2695

Dogwood Acres is the Outdoor Ministry of:
The Presbytery of Florida, Inc.
PO Box 7
Chipley, FL 32428
Phone: (850) 638-2322

What information is collected on this site and how?
Information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses, and in some instances, personal history questionnaires, are collected as part of the summer camp enrollment process, the reservation process for facility usage, and in response to a request to join the Dogwood Acres Circle of Friends Mailing List.

Who has access to the personal information?
The information collected on this site is available only to the Dogwood Acres and Presbytery of Florida staff. Outside entities, such as businesses, creditors, mass marketers, and the like, cannot access this.

The Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 (also known as Gramm-Leach-Bliley), requires clear disclosure by all financial institutions of their privacy policy regarding the sharing of non-public personal information.

At Dogwood Acres, we collect name and address and credit card information in payment for summer camp services, year-round facilities rental, other ministry program fees, and in the receipt of financial contributions.

We share financial or identifying information with no one. Any information we gather from you is for the exclusive use of Dogwood Acres and the Presbytery of Florida, and will not be shared with or sold to any other person or organization. We will only share information when we have your permission to do so, or in response to a subpoena or court order. In the latter case, we will contact you immediately.

Dogwood Acres Privacy Conventions and Procedures
Dogwood Acres will not release personal information about any camper to any other party unless authorized by the parent or guardian. If we receive a request, for example, from another camper seeking your child's address, we will not provide it. Rather, we will notify you and let you make the contact.

We will not verify your child's enrollment in a summer camp program to any third party.

When parents or guardians sign a summer camp enrollment form, they are giving permission to use photos, video, and audio recordings of their child in promotional material and on the website. In most instances, Dogwood Acres will not identify any camper whose picture appears on our website, brochure or newsletter. However, in some instances, (for example, when quoting a camper's comments in a newsletter article or describing a camper's actions in a photo caption), we may choose to identify campers by grade level, hometown, home church, or first name.