Privacy
This site collects what it needs to make and deliver a guide. It shows no advertising. It counts visits to its public pages with Google Analytics, and never on the page of a Snapshot, an order, or a guide.
What we collect
- When you run a Snapshot: the address you enter. It is saved so the Snapshot page can be shown again. We do not ask who you are.
- When you order: the church name, your name, your email address, the address for the guide, and anything you write in the notes.
- When you pay: Stripe collects your card details. We never see or store your card number. Stripe tells us that you paid, how much, and the email address you used.
- When you visit: the companies that host and deliver the site keep ordinary server logs, which include IP addresses, for a short time.
- When you read a public page: Google Analytics records the page, how you arrived, what you clicked, the kind of device and browser you use, and roughly where you are, which it works out from your IP address. It records that a form was started or sent. It does not receive what you type into a form, and it does not run on the page of a Snapshot, an order, or a guide.
Cookies
The site itself sets one cookie. It keeps your form secure and remembers your order while you pay. It is not used to track you, and it holds no personal details.
Google Analytics sets two cookies of its own on the public pages. One is named "_ga" and the other has a name that starts with "_ga_". They let it tell one visitor from another, and they can last for up to two years. You can refuse them with the Google Analytics opt-out add-on or in your browser's settings. The site works the same without them.
Who else sees it
- Stripe handles payment.
- Google receives the visit records described above through Google Analytics. Its page on how Google uses information from sites that use its services says what it does with them.
- Our hosting, network, and email providers store and deliver the data on our behalf.
- Public data services receive the address or its coordinates so they can return data about the area. These are the Census Bureau, the National Center for Education Statistics, Census Reporter, and OpenStreetMap. They are not told who asked.
We do not sell or rent your details, and we do not share them with anyone else.
Your guide
Your guide is not published. It lives at a private link that we send only to you. Anyone you give the link to can read it.
Keeping and deleting
We keep order records for our accounts. Ask us to delete your order details or your guide at hello@churchfieldguide.app, and we will, except for the payment records the law requires us to keep.
Last updated November 11, 2026.