Privacy Policy

Throughout the website, forms may ask for information that helps us respond in a directed way, such as when someone requests more information, asks about volunteering, registers interest in a program, or contacts Saint John with a question.

Form submissions are used to correspond with you and route your message to the person or team best able to help. Your form submission is not sold or distributed. Some submissions may pass through the website, email, spam prevention, or form-processing services that help us operate the site.

When you subscribe to Saint John updates or join a parish group through Flocknote, we collect the contact information you choose to provide, such as your email address, mobile phone number, name, and any optional information connected to the group or update list.

Saint John uses Flocknote for parish email and text updates, ministry communication, program communication, and requested parish announcements. You can ask us to remove your information from a list, or you can use the unsubscribe or preference options included in Flocknote messages.

Saint John may use RingCentral for one-to-one parish text messaging and phone communication with parishioners, visitors, callers, and people who contact the parish. If you text us first, ask us to text you, or provide your mobile number with consent, we use that information to respond to your request or continue the conversation.

No mobile opt-in or text message consent will be shared with third parties or affiliates. We do not sell, rent, or share your mobile phone number or SMS opt-in or consent information with any third party or affiliate for marketing or promotional purposes.

You can reply STOP to opt out of text messages and HELP for help. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies based on the conversation or parish communication you requested.

We use PostHog to understand how visitors use the website, which pages are useful, and where the site may need improvement. Analytics help us make practical decisions about content and navigation.

We do not use analytics to sell personal information. Where possible, analytics are configured to focus on site behavior and product improvement rather than identifying individual visitors.

We use Cloudflare and related security tools to help protect the website, reduce malicious traffic, and prevent spam submissions through forms. These tools may process technical information such as IP address, browser details, request metadata, and similar security signals.

This processing helps us keep the site available, reduce abuse, and protect the people who contact Saint John through the website.

We use Cloudflare Turnstile to help protect forms from spam, abuse, and automated submissions. Turnstile may process technical signals such as IP address, browser and request details, TLS fingerprint, sitekey, and website origin for bot detection and security purposes. Cloudflare describes this processing in its Turnstile Privacy Addendum.

The website may use cookies, local storage, or similar technologies for basic functionality, analytics, spam prevention, and security. These tools help the site work properly, help us understand site performance, and help distinguish legitimate form submissions from automated abuse.

You can usually adjust cookie settings through your browser. Some browser settings may affect how certain website features work.

Saint John keeps information for as long as needed to respond to inquiries, maintain records related to parish communication, operate email and text communications, protect the site, and meet administrative, legal, or security needs.

Flocknote subscription and group information is retained until you unsubscribe, update your preferences, or ask us to remove it where appropriate. Analytics, form, security, and text-message information may be retained according to the settings and policies of the services we use.

You may contact Saint John to ask about personal information you have shared with us, request corrections, or ask that we remove information where appropriate. We may need to retain certain records when required for administrative, legal, donation, security, or operational reasons.

You can unsubscribe from Flocknote emails or update your communication preferences using the links or controls included in those messages. You can opt out of RingCentral text messages by replying STOP.

This website includes links to social networks, partner websites, resources, organizations, giving platforms, and other third-party sites meant to guide visitors toward helpful information. When you leave the Saint John website, the privacy practices of those external sites apply.

We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies and terms of any outside website or platform they choose to use.

Saint John takes reasonable precautions and follows practical security practices to help protect personal information from inappropriate loss, misuse, access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

No website or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure, but we use site-security tools and operational practices intended to reduce risk.

Saint John may update this privacy policy from time to time. Changes and clarifications take effect when posted on the website. If we make material changes, we will update this page so visitors can understand what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we may share it.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church at [email protected].