Privacy Policy

Abide Women’s Retreat (“Abide,” “we,” “us”) runs this website to share information about our annual women’s retreat in northern Indiana. This policy explains what information the site collects, how we use it, and the services that help us run it.

Information you give us

Contact form

When you send us a message, we receive your name, email address, phone number (if you include it), the topic you choose, and your message. We use this only to reply to you and to help with your question.

Messages are delivered to our committee by email. A record of each submission (what you entered, plus basic technical details such as your approximate location, browser, and language) is kept for up to 90 days so we can follow up and keep the form free of spam, and is then deleted automatically. Submissions may be checked by an automated spam filter before they reach us.

Registration

Registration for the retreat is handled by JotForm, an online form service. The information you enter there (such as attendee details, workshop choices, and payment) is collected by JotForm and shared with us so we can organize the retreat. Payments are processed by the payment provider connected to the form. We do not see or store your full card details. JotForm’s own privacy policy applies to information you enter on their form.

Donations

Gifts made through the “Support Abide” and “Give online” links are handled by PayPal. PayPal’s privacy statement applies to those transactions. We receive a record of your gift from PayPal.

Information collected automatically

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how many people visit the site and which pages are useful. It only loads after you start interacting with a page (scrolling, clicking, or typing). Google Analytics uses cookies and collects information such as the pages you view, how you arrived at the site, your general location, and your device and browser type. We use this information only in summary form, to improve the site. You can learn more in Google’s privacy policy, and you can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Spam protection

The contact form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to check that messages are sent by a person rather than an automated program. Turnstile looks at technical signals from your browser to do this. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy for details.

Hosting

This website is hosted on Cloudflare, which processes standard technical information (such as your IP address and browser type) to deliver pages securely and protect the site from abuse.

Photos and recordings

Photos taken at our retreats and recordings of retreat sessions are shared on this site so attendees and others can enjoy and benefit from them. If you appear in a photo and would like it removed, please send us a message and we will take it down.

How we use and share information

We use the information described above to respond to you, organize the retreat, and improve this website. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it with anyone except the service providers named in this policy, who help us run the site and the retreat, or when required by law.

Children

This website is intended for adults, and the retreat is for women ages 15 and older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through this site.

Your choices

You can ask us to see, correct, or delete information you have sent us through the contact form by sending us a message. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser’s settings.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will change the “Last updated” date above.

Contact us

If you have questions about this policy, please send us a message.