Privacy Policy
Effective Date: October 1, 2026
Costa Mesa Seventh-Day Adventist Church respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, and protected when you visit www.costamesasda.org or interact with our church through the website.
1. Information We May Collect
Depending on how you use our website, we may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including:
- Your name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Mailing address
- Information submitted through contact forms
- Prayer requests
- Event registrations
- Ministry or volunteer inquiries
- Newsletter or email subscription information
- Donation-related information
- Other information you choose to provide
You are not required to provide personal information simply to browse most portions of our website.
2. Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website provider or other service providers.
This information may include:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages visited
- Approximate geographic location
- Referring website
- Date and time of visits
This information may be used to maintain the website, understand website usage, improve our services, and protect the website from misuse or security threats.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies or similar technologies to provide website functionality and understand how visitors use the site.
Third-party services embedded in the website may also place cookies on your device. These services may include website analytics, video platforms, social media services, maps, or donation-processing services.
You can generally control or disable cookies through your web browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the operation of some website features.
4. How We Use Information
Information collected through the website may be used to:
- Respond to inquiries
- Communicate with church members and visitors
- Process event registrations
- Respond to prayer requests
- Provide information about services, ministries, and events
- Coordinate volunteers
- Send newsletters or church communications
- Process donations
- Maintain and improve the website
- Protect the security of our website and systems
- Comply with legal obligations
We do not sell personal information to third parties.
5. Prayer Requests
If you submit a prayer request, please be aware that the information you provide may be shared with pastors, church staff, prayer teams, or ministry leaders when reasonably necessary to respond to your request.
If our website provides an option to mark a prayer request as private or confidential, we will make reasonable efforts to respect that designation.
Please avoid submitting highly sensitive personal information about another person without their permission.
6. Donations and Payment Information
Online donations may be processed by a third-party payment processor.
Payment card numbers and other financial information may be submitted directly to the payment processor rather than stored by Costa Mesa Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
Payment processors maintain their own privacy and security practices, and their handling of your information is governed by their respective privacy policies.
The Church may receive information regarding your donation, such as your name, contact information, donation amount, date of contribution, and transaction details necessary for church accounting and donor records.
7. Email and Church Communications
If you sign up to receive church emails, newsletters, ministry announcements, or similar communications, we may use your contact information for those purposes.
You may unsubscribe from nonessential electronic communications by using the unsubscribe instructions contained in the message or by contacting the Church.
Certain administrative communications relating to donations, registrations, volunteer activities, or requests you have made may still be sent when necessary.
8. Third-Party Services
Our website may use or link to third-party services, including services for:
- Online donations
- Website hosting
- Website analytics
- Email communications
- Event registration
- Video hosting and livestreaming
- Social media
- Online forms
- Maps and directions
These companies may collect information according to their own privacy policies.
Costa Mesa Seventh-Day Adventist Church is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites or services operated by third parties.
9. Information About Children
Our church provides ministries and activities for children and families. However, this website is primarily intended to provide information to parents, guardians, church members, and the general public.
Parents or legal guardians should submit registration information for children when participation in a ministry, program, or event requires such information.
We encourage parents and guardians to supervise children’s online activities and to contact us if they believe a child has submitted personal information through our website without appropriate permission.
10. Information Security
We take reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect personal information submitted through our website.
However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information submitted through the website.
11. Information Retention
We may retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, maintain church records, satisfy accounting or legal requirements, resolve disputes, or support legitimate church operations.
12. Requests Regarding Your Information
You may contact us if you would like to:
- Ask what personal information we have about you.
- Correct inaccurate information.
- Request that certain information be deleted.
- Unsubscribe from church communications.
- Ask questions about how your information is being used.
Certain information may need to be retained for legal, accounting, donation-recordkeeping, safeguarding, or administrative purposes.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our website, church practices, technology, or legal requirements.
The latest version will be posted on this page along with its effective date.
14. Contact Us
Questions or requests concerning this Privacy Policy may be directed to:
Costa Mesa Seventh-Day Adventist Church
271 Avocado St
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
949.209.9591
cmsdachurch@me.com
www.costamesasda.org