Privacy Policy
Last updated: 4 September 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.
Cookies
This site does not set any cookies. There is no analytics tag, no advertising tag and no tracking pixel on any page.
If that changes — we may add website analytics or advertising in future — this page will be updated to name the service, describe the cookies it sets and explain how to opt out, and the "last updated" date above will change with it. Where UK law requires your consent before a cookie is set, you will be asked for it first.
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: hello@romancatholic.co.uk Contact page: romancatholic.co.uk/contact