Privacy Policy
Effective date
July 1, 2026
Introduction
Your Catholic Journey respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit this website, watch a video, select a link, or contact us or a participating parish through the contact information provided on the site.
Your Catholic Journey is a Catholic outreach initiative serving Ozaukee County, Wisconsin.
Information You Choose to Provide
The website may provide email addresses, telephone numbers, and links that allow you to contact Your Catholic Journey, St. Joseph Parish, or another website directly.
If you choose to send an email or contact a parish, you may provide information such as your name, email address, phone number, and any message or question you choose to share.
Information sent by email is transmitted through your email provider and received by the listed recipient. Information submitted on an outside website is handled according to that website’s privacy practices.
Please do not send Social Security numbers, financial account information, detailed medical records, or other highly sensitive information by email.
This website and the listed contact methods are not monitored as an emergency service. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the website, certain information may be collected automatically by the website, hosting provider, analytics services, security tools, or embedded media providers.
· Internet protocol address
· Browser and device type
· Operating system
· General geographic area
· Referring website or campaign
· Pages viewed
· Time spent on the site
· Links or buttons selected
· Video starts, progress, and completions
· Date and time of the visit
· Technical information used to protect the website from abuse or security threats
Cookies and Similar Technologies
The website may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, or similar technologies.
These technologies may help us operate the website, remember preferences, understand which pages and resources are useful, measure visits from outreach campaigns, understand how visitors interact with videos, improve performance, and prevent abuse or malicious activity.
You can limit or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect how some parts of the website work.
Where required or appropriate, the website may provide a privacy preference tool that allows you to manage optional analytics or advertising technologies.
Analytics
We may use services such as Google Analytics to understand how people use the website.
Analytics information may include page views, approximate location, device information, referral source, and interactions with website content. We use this information in aggregate to improve the site and evaluate whether outreach efforts are helping people find relevant information.
We do not intentionally send the contents of emails or private communications to analytics platforms.
Video and Embedded Content
Videos on this website are delivered through a third-party video-hosting service.
When you play or interact with a video, the video provider may receive information about your device, browser, internet protocol address, viewing activity, and interactions with the player.
The provider’s collection and use of information are governed by its own privacy policy.
Advertising and Campaign Measurement
We may use analytics and advertising measurement tools provided by companies such as Google and Meta to understand how visitors reach and use the website.
These services may use cookies, pixels, tags, or similar technologies to measure visits, video engagement, button selections, and other website activity.
We do not intentionally send the contents of emails or private communications to analytics or advertising platforms, and we do not use the contents of a private communication to create an advertising audience.
Optional analytics and advertising technologies will be managed through the website’s privacy and consent settings where required.
How We Use Information
· Operate, maintain, and secure the website
· Improve the website and its content
· Understand which videos and topics are most useful
· Measure the effectiveness of outreach campaigns
· Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, or malicious activity
· Respond to an email or other communication sent directly to Your Catholic Journey
· Meet legal or administrative obligations
How Information May Be Shared
Information collected through the website may be shared with website hosting, analytics, video, security, advertising-measurement, email, or technical service providers as needed to operate and improve the website.
Information may also be disclosed to professional advisers, government authorities, or other parties when required by law or when reasonably necessary to protect a person, the website, or its users from harm or misuse.
If you contact St. Joseph Parish or another organization directly, that organization will receive the information you choose to provide and will handle it according to its own practices.
We do not sell personal information. We do not rent contact information to outside organizations.
Data Retention
Analytics, video-viewing, security, and technical information may be retained according to the settings and policies of the services used.
Emails sent directly to Your Catholic Journey may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond, maintain appropriate records, protect the website and its users, or meet legal obligations.
Information sent directly to St. Joseph Parish or another outside organization is retained according to that organization’s practices.
Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, or disclosure.
No website, email system, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Please use care when deciding what information to send online.
Children’s Privacy
The website is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically to children under 13.
We do not knowingly request personal information directly from children under 13 without the involvement of a parent or legal guardian.
Parents or guardians who believe a child has provided personal information directly to Your Catholic Journey may contact us to request that it be reviewed or deleted.
Links to Other Websites
The website may link to parish websites, maps, Scripture resources, social media platforms, or other third-party websites.
Once you leave Your Catholic Journey, the privacy policy and practices of the other website apply. We are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices of outside websites.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as the website, parish partnerships, technology, or legal requirements change.
The effective date at the top of the page will be updated when material changes are made.
Contact Us
Questions about this Privacy Policy or the website’s handling of information may be directed to: info@yourcatholicjourney.com