Privacy
Your privacy
We’ll keep this short and honest, the same way we’d talk to you in person.
What we collect
When you sign up for the newsletter or use a form, we receive what you choose to send — such as your name, email, question, or message. Separately, the site records cookie-free pageview and engagement counts so we can see which pages and links are useful. Those usage events do not include your name, email, or the full page you came from. We also estimate how many different people visit — without cookies — using the method described below.
A small security and counting record
To protect the site from abuse and to estimate how many different people visit, we keep two short, salted, one-way hashes derived from connection details — the IP address, and for visitor counting the browser type too. One lives in a Cloudflare rate-limit table; the other only records that someone was here on a given day. We do not store raw IP addresses, neither hash is joined to what you did on the site, and both are cleaned up automatically — rate-limit entries after about a day, visitor-day entries after about ninety days. Changing the server-side secret at any time unlinks every previously stored hash.
Why we use it
We use submitted information to do the thing you asked us to do — send the newsletter, reply to your note, or answer your question. We use aggregate site activity and the visitor estimate to improve the website, and the rate-limit record to protect it from abuse.
Who helps provide the service
Cloudflare hosts and protects the site and stores its cookieless metrics. Formsubmit delivers newsletter and form messages. Sanity hosts website content. If you choose to give, your bank or Zeffy handles the payment. YouTube and Google may receive normal connection information when you load their videos or map. We do not sell or rent your information, and we do not disclose it for unrelated advertising.
Your choices
Every newsletter email has an unsubscribe link. You can also email us to ask what we have on file or request deletion. The site honors browser Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals for engagement metrics.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, or you’d like to know what we have on file, email us anytime at church@victoryfaith.ca. A real person will answer.
Last updated: August 2026