If you are a California resident, we collect personal information to provide ministry services, process donations and registrations, communicate with you, improve our website, maintain security, and comply with applicable legal obligations.

The categories of personal information we may collect include:

• Identifiers (such as your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, IP address, and device identifiers)
• Internet or electronic activity information (such as pages visited, browser information, and interactions with our website)
• Approximate location information derived from your IP address
• Financial information necessary to process donations or purchases
• Information you voluntarily provide through forms, registrations, event sign-ups, prayer requests, or other communications

We do not sell your personal information and do not knowingly share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

You may voluntarily provide information when you:

• Contact the church
• Submit a prayer request
• Register for an event
• Sign up to volunteer
• Register children or students for ministry activities
• Subscribe to newsletters
• Complete online forms
• Make a donation
• Purchase event registrations or other items

This information may include:

• Name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Mailing address
• Payment information necessary to process donations or registrations
• Any additional information you choose to provide

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically, including:

• IP address
• Browser type
• Device identifiers
• Operating system
• Pages visited
• Date and time of visits
• Referring website
• Approximate geographic location
• Website usage information

This information helps us improve our website, maintain security, diagnose technical issues, and better understand how visitors use our online resources.

Our website and trusted service providers may use:

• Cookies
• Web beacons
• Pixels
• Tags
• Local storage
• Similar technologies

These technologies help:

• Operate the website
• Maintain website security
• Improve website functionality
• Analyze website traffic
• Support embedded media
• Remember visitor preferences
• Measure engagement with content

Some embedded services, including video players, online forms, and social media content, may place their own cookies or collect information according to their own privacy policies.

Most web browsers allow you to manage or disable cookies through browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect certain website features.

We use personal information to:

• Process donations
• Register individuals for ministries and events
• Respond to inquiries
• Respond to prayer requests
• Communicate about church ministries and events
• Send newsletters or ministry updates when requested
• Improve our website
• Maintain website security
• Comply with legal and financial obligations

Online donations and certain payments are processed through trusted third-party payment providers.

Calvary Chapel Old Towne does not store complete payment card numbers on its own servers.

To operate our ministries and website, we may use trusted third-party providers, including:

• Clover People
• Clover Give
• Jotform
• Cognito Forms
• Google services
• Google Forms
• YouTube
• Canva
• Rebrandly
• SignUpGenius
• Linktree
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest

These providers may collect information as necessary to provide their services. Their use of your information is governed by their respective privacy policies.

We do not sell personal information

We may share personal information only:

• With service providers assisting our ministries or website operations
• To process donations or registrations
• When required by law
• To protect the safety, rights, or property of the church or others

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill ministry, operational, accounting, legal, and administrative purposes.

Certain information, including financial and donation records, may be retained longer when required by law or for legitimate organizational purposes.

When information is no longer needed, we take reasonable steps to securely delete or dispose of it.

Many of our ministries serve children and students.

Information regarding minors may be collected only with the involvement of a parent, legal guardian, or authorized adult and is used solely for ministry participation, registration, communication, safety, and related church purposes.

If you believe personal information regarding a child has been submitted inappropriately, please contact us so we may review the request.

California residents may request, subject to applicable law:

• Information about the categories of personal information we collect
• Access to personal information we maintain about them
• Correction of inaccurate personal information
• Deletion of personal information, subject to legal exceptions
• Information regarding our data retention practices

We will not discriminate against individuals who exercise applicable privacy rights.

To submit a privacy request, please contact us using the information below.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

However, no method of transmitting information over the Internet or storing electronic information is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Our website contains links to websites and services operated by third parties.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those websites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing personal information.

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements.

The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised Effective Date.