About this site
Technical information
The site first went live in January 2000, and has evolved steadily since then as information which was found to be valuable has been added. There was a major re-write during March 2001 and the site was re-launched just before Easter in that year. Another re-design was necessary in May 2002 following a re-working of other printed matter and publicity styles, and with the closer collaboration with S Philip’s starting in December 2006 further minor cosmetic changes were made. The site was re-launched again in February 2007 in a frame-free version which will help accessibility. It is coded in-house, entirely by hand, as this is the only way to ensure that what you see is as near as possible to what is intended.
The Parish’s “house style” is to use fonts Iowan Old Style (from Bitstream) and Scala Sans, and the site will use these if you have them installed, or if you use Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or above. This software can use Embedded OpenType fonts, which are downloaded from our server. The default Windows fonts of Georgia or Times New Roman and Arial (or Times and Helvetica on the Mac) will be used if you don’t have or use our standard fonts or your browser has difficulty with CSS1 or EOT.All the graphics were prepared using Jasc’s Paintshop Pro 7, which can handle the anti-aliasing required for small sizes. The favicon, which you may be able to see in the address bar of your browser, and may appear if you bookmark the site, was prepared using IconForge from CursorArts.
The search engine is provided by Atomz, who host the index from which the search results are compiled. We’re grateful to Atomz Support for enabling a feature on our account which allows us to provide the search feedback form at the bottom of the results page.
Cookies and personal data
If you use Internet Explorer, you will have had to make a choice about using our downloaded fonts or your browser’s default fonts. This choice is stored by your browser in a cookie in order that each page can follow what you chose. At present we don’t track this choice.Other pages — such as those dealing with the Stations of the Cross — make use of JavaScript and cookies to store details of data you enter from page to page. Cookies in this site store a small amount of data on your local hard disk. We do not transmit cookies from our server, and cookies are not transmitted back to us. All the data which is stored is entered by you on the pages in question, and no data is transmitted to us except with your explicit instruction (clicking the “Send” button). Unless you specify otherwise, the data is lost when you close your browser, and is not carried forward from session to session.
By submitting the form, the personal details you supply are forwarded by e-mail to Beverley Barr, Illustrator, and the Parish of Christ Church, Eastbourne UK. The UK Data Protection Act 1998 applies. We will only use your data to supply you with the details you request and will not pass any of your data to any other person.
Data you supply using the mail form are forwarded by e-mail either to the named recipient or to the Secretary of the Parochial Church Council for passing to the named recipient. The UK Data Protection Act 1998 applies. We will only use your data to supply you with the details you request and will not pass any of your data to any other person.
The site has a P3P privacy policy for users of Internet Explorer 6. View the policy
Copyright on this site
Just because the information and graphics on this site are published in a form which can easily be copied or downloaded and manipulated, it doesn’t mean that this is legal. Images and text don’t have to be explicitly marked as “copyright” (although most are), and it is illegal to copy information from these pages without permission. However, the site exists to provide information about the parish, and permission need not be explicitly sought for making private use of any information here. We would ask that any material you print includes the background image on each page and the page URL. Most browsers are set up by default to do this.Where we have used images to link to other sites, these images are the copyright property of the proprietors of those sites. This is acknowleged here.
In particular, the weekly news-sheet contains the text of the lessons used following the Revised Common Lectionary. The Lectionary itself is copyright © The Consultation on Common Texts 1992, and can be reproduced for use within the parish; the text of the lessons as reproduced on the weekly news-sheet is reproduced from the New International Version of the Bible, copyright © The International Bible Society. The news-sheet is published solely for use within the parish and by those who would worship at Christ Church but are prevented from doing so by distance or infirmity.
The Chi-Rho logo used by The Parish of Christ Church is a trademark and is the copyright property of its proprietor. The Parochial Church Council is currently the sole licensee. If you would like to link to this site from elsewhere, please ask for a version of the logo which is suitable for your particular application. We can also put a link to your site on this one.
The programs included on this site in the Resources section are the copyright property of the developer, and should not be further disseminated without permission: instead you should refer interested parties to this site. Under no circumstances may a charge be made for supplying them.
Beverley Barr, Illustrator, retains the copyright in all her works and images may not be copied.
If you have any query about the content of this site, please e-mail us.
Copyright subsists in all images and text on this site.
The Chi-Rho logo is a trademark. All the photographs are copyright.
The Church of England logo is the copyright property of the Archbishops’ Council.
The “Get Adobe Acrobat” button is the copyright property of Adobe.
The Ordnance Survey logo is the registered trademark of the Ordnance Survey in the UK.
The image of the arms of the Diocese of Chichester is the copyright property of the Bishop’s Council and DBF.
The Eastbourne Borough Council logo is the trademark and copyright property of the Borough Council.
The Eastbourne Net logo is the copyright property of the Project’s proprietors.
The Walsingham logo is the copyright property of the Guardians of the Shrine.
Interception of website data
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000; Computer Misuse Act 1990; Data Protection Act 1998
Some ISPs are using a system called Phorm or Webwise, which involves the interception of pages from sites and either altering the data shown to end users or/and making use of intercepted data to vary advertising and search results. This is of dubious legality. For the avoidance of doubt, the Vicar, Churchwardens and Parochial Church Council have not given the consent required by various Acts of Parliament to the interception of data. The Phorm/Webwise system is not under the control of end users (except that they can opt out) and end users of this site viewing pages in a browser are not affected by this notice. A similar notice is automatically included in the HTML code of each page served.Email policy
All the email addresses published on this site are personal, and in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and Privacy & Electronic Communications Directive 2003, and the US Controlling the Assault of Non-solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act 2003, we do not give permission for their use for unsolicited commercial emails and advertising. You may use them to request help and information about Christ Church, and for non-commercial use.Unsolicited email (“spam”)
The parish welcomes genuine enquiries from anywhere in the world. Enquiries should usually use the email form we provide and be sent to our general enquiries address, ask@xpeastbourne.org; occasionally specific enquiries are better sent to the most appropriate recipient.Spam — unsolicited email of a blatantly commercial nature or unrelated to the Parish of Christ Church or sent to more than one address on the domain* — is not tolerated and will result in the sender being blacklisted without further notice.
Email wrongly identified as spam
Occasionally our mail server rules wrongly identify mail as spam and it’s returned to the sender. If this has happened to you and you believe this to be a mistake, please let us know. You need to send another email explaining the circumstances, preferably using the same method as the one which failed, towebmaster@xpeastbourne.org
with a subject line of
Spam report
It’s important that the same email method is used, if at all possible, as this provides information which allows the mail server rules to be examined and adjusted if necessary. In order to bypass the rules, you must send the mail with the above subject and recipient, or your mail will simply be rejected again. You can also include any message, which will be passed on to the correct recipient for you.
We are sorry for any inconvenience resulting from our email protection.
* That is, any address ending in @xpeastbourne.org. These criteria are not exhaustive and we reserve the right to class any incoming email as spam.