Your privacy
We want this website to serve you well, and we respect the trust you place in us. Here is what we collect and why, in plain words.
Messages, sign-ups and prayer requests
When you send a form on this site (a message, a prayer request, a Worker sign-up and so on), what you type is delivered to the church by email through our form service, Formspree. We use it only to respond to you and to serve you. Prayer requests marked confidential are shared only with the pastors and the prayer team.
Giving
Online gifts are made on PayPal’s secure pages. We never see or store your card or bank details. PayPal sends you a receipt, and we receive a record of the gift for our giving statements.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how the site is used: which pages are visited, roughly where visitors are (city or region), what kind of device they use, how they found us, and which buttons they tap (for example, “Give” or “Join on Zoom”). This helps us improve the site and reach more people. It does not tell us your name, and we don’t try to identify individual visitors.
Google Analytics uses cookies to do this. You can block or clear cookies in your browser, or install Google’s Analytics opt-out add-on. Learn more in how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
Ask Grace, our website assistant
Questions you type into Ask Grace are sent to an AI service so it can write an answer. Please don’t include private details such as health information or account numbers. If you want someone from the church to contact you, Ask Grace will help you send a message through the form service above.
Videos and podcasts
Videos play from YouTube in privacy-enhanced mode, so YouTube doesn’t set cookies until you press play. Sermons stream from our podcast host, Podbean.
Things saved on your own device
Some features remember things in your browser so they work the next time you visit: your Teens lesson progress, learning streak and trivia scores, where you stopped in a sermon, and announcements you’ve dismissed. This stays on your device. It isn’t sent to us, and clearing your browser data removes it.
What we don’t do
- We never sell or rent your information.
- We don’t show advertising on this site.
- We only use what you share to serve you and to run the church’s ministry.
Questions
If you have a question about your information, or want us to delete something you’ve sent us, email pastor@rccggracepavilion.org or call (309) 660-1015.
Last updated November 2026.