Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains what information the Outdoor Crusade website may receive, why it may be used, and the choices available to visitors.
Outdoor Crusade respects the privacy of its visitors. This policy is written to describe the public website’s current features without claiming that information is collected when a feature is not enabled.
This is a starter policy and does not constitute legal advice. It should be reviewed whenever the website adds analytics, advertising, user accounts, payment processing, new integrations, or other data-collection features.
Scope of This Policy
This Privacy Policy applies primarily to the public Outdoor Crusade website at outdoorcrusade.com.
The participant app and Group Leader app are separate web experiences and may include additional privacy notices or device-based data practices. Visitors should review any notice presented within those apps.
This policy does not control the privacy practices of unrelated third-party websites, social-media services, email providers, analytics providers, hosting companies, or external links.
Information You Choose to Provide
The website may receive information when you complete the contact form, send an email, submit feedback, request technical support, or communicate with the ministry.
This information may include:
- Your name.
- Your email address.
- The reason for contacting the ministry.
- Your message subject and message content.
- Your privacy-consent confirmation.
- Information you voluntarily include in a testimony or feedback message.
- Technical details you provide while requesting app support.
Please do not send unnecessary sensitive information. Do not submit passwords, financial-account information, government identification numbers, complete medical records, or private information about another person unless there is a clear and appropriate reason.
Information That May Be Collected Automatically
Like most websites, the site’s hosting, security, anti-spam, content-delivery, or server systems may automatically process limited technical information.
This information may include:
- Internet Protocol address.
- Browser and device type.
- Operating system.
- Date and time of a request.
- Pages requested or referring page.
- General error, security, and server-log information.
- Information used to identify automated spam or malicious activity.
This information is generally used to operate, protect, troubleshoot, and understand the technical performance of the website.
How Information May Be Used
Outdoor Crusade may use information to:
- Respond to questions and messages.
- Provide participant-app or Group Leader app support.
- Respond to church and small-group inquiries.
- Review feedback and improve ministry resources.
- Investigate technical problems.
- Protect the website from spam, abuse, fraud, or security threats.
- Maintain necessary ministry, legal, security, or administrative records.
- Comply with applicable legal obligations.
Outdoor Crusade does not use contact-form information to create a public user profile.
Outdoor Crusade does not sell personal information submitted through the website.
Contact Form Information
The website uses Contact Form 7 to receive contact messages. A submission may include the form fields you complete and technical information configured for spam protection, troubleshooting, or message delivery.
Messages are normally delivered to the ministry’s email account. The basic Contact Form 7 plugin does not intentionally create a permanent WordPress database record of each submitted message.
However, copies may still be retained by:
- The ministry’s email service.
- The website host or mail server.
- Security or anti-spam services.
- Website or email backups.
- A message-storage plugin if one is later installed and enabled.
If a storage plugin or customer-relationship system is added, this policy should be updated to describe that storage.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
The website may use essential cookies, browser storage, or similar technologies when needed for security, site operation, preferences, consent management, or other enabled WordPress features.
The public ministry website does not require advertising cookies as part of its core purpose.
If nonessential analytics or tracking tools are enabled, the website owner should evaluate whether a consent banner or other privacy control is required for the visitor’s location.
Visitors can control many cookies through their browser settings. Disabling essential cookies may affect some website functions.
Analytics and Tracking
Outdoor Crusade may use analytics only when the website owner enables an analytics or measurement service.
Possible services may include:
- Google Analytics.
- Google Tag Manager.
- Microsoft Clarity.
- Privacy-conscious server or hosting statistics.
If enabled, those services may process information such as pages viewed, approximate location, device type, browser, session activity, referral source, and outbound clicks to the participant or leader apps.
The site owner should remove this section or revise it to name the exact providers that are active. Do not state that an analytics provider is used until it has actually been enabled.
When Information May Be Shared
Outdoor Crusade may share limited information with service providers when reasonably necessary to operate the website or respond to a request.
These providers may include:
- Website hosting and domain providers.
- Email and mail-delivery providers.
- Security, firewall, backup, and anti-spam providers.
- Analytics providers, but only when enabled.
- Technical professionals helping maintain the website.
Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to valid legal process, protect a person from immediate harm, investigate abuse, or defend the rights and security of the ministry and its users.
Outdoor Crusade does not sell contact-form information to advertisers.
Apps, Embedded Content, and External Links
The website links to the Outdoor Crusade participant app and Group Leader app. Those apps may use browser storage, device storage, or other technology necessary to provide their functions.
The website may also link to or embed content from social-media platforms, video providers, Bible resources, maps, or other external services.
An external provider may collect information under its own privacy policy when you interact with its content or leave the Outdoor Crusade website.
Outdoor Crusade is not responsible for the independent privacy practices of an unrelated third party.
Data Retention
Information is retained only for as long as reasonably needed to respond to a message, provide support, maintain appropriate records, protect the website, resolve disputes, or meet legal and administrative obligations.
Retention periods may differ depending on the type of information and where it is stored.
- Contact messages
- May remain in ministry email records until no longer needed for communication or documentation.
- Server and security logs
- May be retained temporarily according to the host, firewall, or security provider’s settings.
- Backups
- Deleted information may remain in protected backups until those backups are rotated or expire.
Your Choices and Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to ask whether Outdoor Crusade holds personal information about you and to request access, correction, or deletion.
Outdoor Crusade may need to verify the request before releasing, changing, or deleting information.
Some information may need to be retained for security, legal, recordkeeping, or dispute-resolution purposes.
To make a privacy request, email:
Children’s Privacy
The public website is intended for a general Christian audience and is not designed to collect personal information directly from children under 13.
A child under 13 should not submit the contact form or send personal information without the involvement and permission of a parent or legal guardian.
Families using Outdoor Crusade resources should supervise and adapt the content according to a child’s age, maturity, safety, and individual circumstances.
If a parent or guardian believes that a child has submitted personal information, contact Outdoor Crusade so the request can be reviewed.
Information Security
Outdoor Crusade uses reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect the website and information under its control.
These measures may include secure hosting, software updates, access controls, spam protection, backups, encryption in transit, and security monitoring.
No website, email system, internet transmission, device, or storage method can be guaranteed completely secure.
Visitors should use care when deciding what information to send through an online form or email.
Policy Changes and Contact Information
This Privacy Policy may be updated when the website, apps, service providers, analytics settings, ministry practices, or legal requirements change.
The “Last updated” date at the top of this page identifies the most recent revision.
Questions or requests concerning this policy may be sent to:
Outdoor Crusade
outdoorcrusade@gmail.com
Contact Outdoor Crusade
Contact the ministry with a privacy question, correction request, or request concerning information submitted through the website.
This starter document does not constitute legal advice. Update it whenever the website adds or removes analytics, storage, forms, accounts, integrations, or other data-processing features.