Privacy Policy
Last updated: 17 October 2026
RomanCatholic.co.uk ("we", "our", "us") is a directory of Roman Catholic churches in England, Wales and Scotland. This policy explains what information we handle when you visit the site, why, and what rights you have over it.
We are the data controller for the purposes of the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
The short version
This site is a static directory. It has no accounts, no login, no comment forms and no newsletter. The only personal information we ever hold is what you choose to put in an email to us.
Information you give us
The only way to send us information is by email. If you write to us — to correct a Mass time, to ask for a church to be listed, or to submit an event — we hold your email address and whatever you put in the message, for as long as it takes to deal with it and to keep a record of why a listing was changed.
We do not sell, rent or trade this information, and we do not use it to market anything to you.
Information collected automatically
The site is served by Cloudflare Pages. Like every web host, Cloudflare records technical details of each request — IP address, browser and operating system, the page requested and the referring page — in order to serve the site, guard against attacks and produce aggregate traffic counts. We see only aggregate figures, not individual visitor records. Cloudflare's privacy policy explains what it does with that data as our processor.
Finding nearby churches
If you choose Use my location, your browser asks whether to share your device location. The finder uses those coordinates in your browser to calculate distances; it does not send them to our server or save them in browser storage.
If you search by full postcode, your browser sends that postcode to Postcodes.io to look up its location. That service also receives your IP address and ordinary connection details. We do not send device coordinates to Postcodes.io. You can browse by town or area without using either location option. Directions links open Google Maps, where Google's privacy policy applies.
Optional church maps
The map on a church page loads when you select Show map. Your browser then requests mapping software from UNPKG and map images from OpenStreetMap. These requests share your IP address and ordinary browser request details with those services. See the OpenStreetMap Foundation privacy policy for information about its handling of map requests. Browsing or scrolling a church page without selecting Show map does not load these map resources.
Cookies
This site uses Google Analytics 4 on every page. Google may set analytics cookies or otherwise store an identifier in your browser to provide full traffic measurement. The optional church map described above makes additional third-party requests only after you select Show map. The site is served through Cloudflare, which may set operational cookies for security and network purposes; those are outside our control and are described in Cloudflare's cookie policy.
Analytics
The site uses Google Analytics 4 to understand traffic, including pages viewed, referrers, approximate location, and device and browser type. Google processes that information on our behalf. You can block the analytics script without affecting the directory, or use the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
Advertising
We may use Google AdSense to display advertising. Google and its advertising partners may set cookies and read identifiers on your device, and may process your IP address, the page you are viewing and your browser details to deliver and measure ads. You can control ad personalisation in Google's ad settings and read how Google uses data from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Information about churches
The directory itself contains information about churches, not about you: addresses, phone numbers, parish websites, Mass times and the names of clergy as published by parishes and dioceses themselves. All of it is drawn from sources that are already public, and every record cites where it came from.
Clergy names appear only where a parish, diocese or other official body has published them in a public directory, in connection with a public role. If you are named on a page and would like that changed or removed, email us and we will deal with it.
Where information comes from
Church listings are compiled from published sources including OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory and boundary data (Open Government Licence v3.0), national heritage bodies, and the official directories of dioceses and parishes. Each church page names its own sources.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you have the right to ask us for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, and to object to or restrict what we do with it. In practice, for almost every visitor, the answer is that we hold nothing.
To exercise any of these rights, email us at the address below. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk), the UK's data protection regulator.
Links to other sites
Church pages link to parish and diocesan websites, and to mapping and heritage services. We are not responsible for those sites or for what they do with your information. Their own privacy policies apply once you leave this one.
Children
This site is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. Any change is posted on this page with a new "last updated" date.
Contact
Email: [email protected] Contact page: romancatholic.co.uk/contact