A welcoming community for Christians across the San Francisco Bay Area
Effective Date: October 1, 2025
We are San Francisco/San Mateo Cursillo, part of the Catholic Cursillo movement in the Bay Area.
Our website address is: https://www.bayareacursillo.org.
We value your privacy and are committed to protecting any personal information you share with us through this website.
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images posted publicly on the site.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you do not have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies last for one year.
If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie will determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, several cookies are set up to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen option cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example, videos, images, or articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited those websites directly.
These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content, including tracking if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Please review the privacy policies of any linked sites before interacting with them.
Our website accepts donations through trusted third-party payment processors, PayPal and Tithe.ly.
When you make a donation, you may be asked to provide personal information such as your name, email address, and payment details.
We do not collect or store any credit card or bank account information on our website. All payment processing is securely handled on the servers of PayPal or Tithe.ly.
We receive limited information from these services—typically your name, contact information, and donation amount—which we use solely for donation tracking, acknowledgment, and required record-keeping.
For more information about how these services handle your data, please refer to their privacy policies:
We never sell, rent, or trade donor information and only use it as needed for communication or compliance with applicable laws.
If you contact us by email or complete an online form, we may keep your information to respond to your inquiry or provide updates related to your request or participation in Cursillo activities.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
You can unsubscribe from email communications at any time by following the instructions in the message or contacting us directly.
Our hosting provider and WordPress may automatically collect certain non-personal information, such as IP addresses, browser types, and pages visited. This information helps us monitor site performance, detect technical issues, and maintain security. It is not used to personally identify visitors.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username).
Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Information collected through donations or event registrations may be retained as required by law or for administrative purposes (typically up to two years).
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you may request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided.
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you.
This does not include any data we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
To make a request, please contact us at .
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service such as Akismet.
Some anonymized analytics data may also be processed by our hosting provider to improve site functionality and security.
We take reasonable administrative and technical measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, or disclosure.
While no online system is completely secure, we strive to protect your data in accordance with best practices for nonprofit and ministry websites.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Updates will be posted on this page with a new “Effective Date.”
Please review this policy occasionally to stay informed about how we protect your information.
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how your data is handled, please contact:
San Francisco/San Mateo Cursillo
Email:
Mailing Address: SF/SM Secretariat, PO Box 5615, San Mateo CA 94401
Website: https://www.bayareacursillo.org
