Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets forth the privacy practices of the Parish of St. John’s Protestant Episcopal Church (“St. John’s”). This policy only applies to information we collect from visitors to stjohns-stamford.org and explains how we treat your personal information.

St. John’s may collect the personal information that you make available via our website, including first and last name, email address, phone number, other contact details, and cookie data. We also collect some information automatically about your computer hardware and software, which can include IP address, browser type, domain name, access times, and referring website addresses. The information that we automatically collect does not by itself identify specific individuals and is statistical data typically aggregated with other data to help us improve our website. St. John’s collects your information when you provide consent; for purposes which are required by law; and for the purposes of responding to requests by government, a court of law or law enforcement authorities conducting an investigation.

St. John’s uses your information where it is necessary to fulfill our legitimate interests, which include operating our websites, providing information and services described on our website, communicating with you via newsletters to which you subscribe, fulfilling contracts made with you, responding to your comments or questions, and informing you of areas of interest or services available.

St. John’s retains your personal information for as long as is necessary to provide the services to you and to comply with legal obligations. If you no longer want St. John’s to use your personal information, you can request that we erase your personal information by contacting office@stjohns-stamford.org; however, St. John’s will retain information as is necessary for our legitimate business interests.

St. John’s does not share any personal information, including names, addresses, email addresses, SMS consent, and phone numbers with any third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes. If you consent to receive SMS from St. John’s by sharing your phone number, you agree to receive occasional pastoral communications via SMS from us. Reply STOP to opt-out; reply HELP for support; message and data rates may apply; messaging frequency may vary. Visit stjohns-stamford.org/terms-of-service to see our privacy policy and terms and conditions.

Some functions on our website are managed by third parties, which have their own data privacy policies. St. John’s encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from stjohns-stamford.org so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. St. John’s is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of St. John’s or the websites to which we provide a link.