Last updated: September 4, 2026
Catholic Gallery respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the information you provide when using our website, services, and mobile application.
This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit CatholicGallery.org, use our features, contact us, submit a prayer request, subscribe to our communications, post comments, or use the Catholic Gallery mobile application. It also explains how information may be used and the choices available to you.
1. About Catholic Gallery
Catholic Gallery is an independent Catholic resource website offering Daily Mass Readings, Catholic prayers, reflections, homilies, quotes, galleries, catechism resources, Lenten and seasonal resources, Saint of the Day, Bible-related resources, and other Catholic devotional and educational materials.
Most of the website can be accessed without creating an account or directly providing personal information.
2. Information We Collect
The information we collect depends on how you interact with Catholic Gallery.
2.1 Information You Provide
You may voluntarily provide personal information when you:
- Contact us through our contact form or email.
- Subscribe to our newsletter or email communications.
- Submit a prayer request.
- Post a comment or other content.
- Provide feedback or suggestions.
- Contact us regarding a website or service-related matter.
Depending on the feature, this information may include your name, email address, and the information contained in your message, comment, or submission.
Please avoid providing unnecessary sensitive or confidential information when using these features.
2.2 Information Collected Automatically
When you visit CatholicGallery.org, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting infrastructure, security services, analytics providers, advertising providers, and other technical services.
This may include:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type and operating system
- Date and time of access
- Pages and resources viewed
- Referring and exit pages
- Approximate geographic information
- Website usage and interaction information
- Technical information relating to website performance and security
This information may be used to operate, secure, maintain, analyze, and improve the website.
3. Comments
Catholic Gallery allows visitors to post comments on certain pages.
When you submit a comment, the information you provide may be stored along with technical information associated with the submission. Depending on the commenting system and settings, your name, website address, or other information you provide may be displayed publicly with your comment.
Please remember that comments are intended for public discussion. Do not include personal, confidential, financial, medical, or other sensitive information that you do not want to make publicly available.
Catholic Gallery may moderate, edit, decline to publish, or remove comments that are inappropriate, unlawful, spam, or otherwise unsuitable for the website.
4. Contact Forms and Email
When you contact Catholic Gallery through our contact form or email, we receive the information you choose to provide.
This may include your name, email address, and the contents of your message.
We use this information to respond to your enquiry, provide assistance, address feedback, and communicate with you regarding your request.
Information submitted through a general enquiry is not intentionally used for unrelated marketing purposes.
5. Prayer Requests
Catholic Gallery provides a prayer-request feature that allows visitors to submit prayer intentions.
Depending on the particular prayer-request feature, information submitted may be stored or displayed as part of the prayer-request service.
Please do not include unnecessary personal or sensitive information about yourself or another person in a prayer request.
If you provide information about another person, you should consider whether you have an appropriate basis to share that information.
Submission of a prayer request does not guarantee that it will be published, retained, or responded to personally.
Catholic Gallery may remove or moderate prayer requests where reasonably necessary.
6. Newsletter and Email Communications
Catholic Gallery may offer email newsletters or other subscription-based email communications from time to time.
At present, newsletter communications are not actively being sent. In the past, Catholic Gallery used Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to deliver email communications.
If newsletter or email subscriptions are resumed in the future, subscribers may be asked to provide information such as their email address and, where applicable, their name. This information may be used to send the requested communications and manage subscriptions.
Email delivery services may process information necessary to deliver and monitor email communications, including delivery status, opens, clicks, bounces, and unsubscribes, where such tracking is enabled.
Subscribers will be provided with an option to unsubscribe from future newsletter communications. We may update our email service provider in the future, and the applicable provider’s privacy practices will apply to information processed through that service.
7. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Catholic Gallery uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the website and support certain features.
Cookies may be used to:
- Maintain website functionality.
- Remember preferences.
- Improve website performance.
- Maintain security.
- Understand how visitors use the website.
- Support analytics.
- Deliver, measure, or personalize advertising where applicable.
Some cookies may be placed by third-party services used on Catholic Gallery.
You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Some website features may not function correctly if certain cookies are disabled.
8. Google Analytics
Catholic Gallery uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the website.
Google Analytics may collect information such as:
- Pages visited.
- Time spent on pages.
- Device and browser information.
- Approximate location.
- Referring sources.
- Interactions with website features.
- Technical and usage information.
This information helps us understand which resources are useful, identify technical issues, improve the website, and develop new features.
Google processes information collected through its services according to its applicable policies and terms.
9. Advertising
Catholic Gallery may display advertisements provided by third-party advertising networks and advertising partners.
These may include services such as Google AdSense, Ezoic, CatholicAdNet, and other advertising providers that may be used on the website from time to time.
Advertising providers may use cookies, advertising identifiers, pixels, or similar technologies to:
- Display advertisements.
- Measure advertising performance.
- Limit repeated advertisements.
- Personalize advertisements where applicable.
- Understand advertising interactions.
The advertising providers used by Catholic Gallery may change from time to time.
Each advertising provider may process information according to its own privacy policy and applicable choices or controls.
The appearance of an advertisement on Catholic Gallery does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of the advertised product, service, organization, or company.
10. Cloudflare and Website Security
Catholic Gallery uses Cloudflare and other security and infrastructure services to help protect and operate the website.
These services may process technical information such as IP addresses, browser information, device information, requested resources, and security-related information.
Such information may be used to:
- Detect and prevent malicious activity.
- Protect against automated abuse and attacks.
- Improve website security.
- Maintain website availability and performance.
- Diagnose technical problems.
Security services may process information in accordance with their respective policies and terms.
11. Server Logs
Our hosting and website infrastructure may automatically maintain server logs.
These logs may include information such as IP addresses, browser and device information, timestamps, requested pages or resources, referring pages, and other technical information.
Server logs may be used for website operation, security, troubleshooting, abuse prevention, performance monitoring, and investigation of security incidents.
12. Third-Party Services and Embedded Content
Catholic Gallery may use or display content and services provided by third parties.
These may include:
- Videos and media.
- External websites.
- Social-media content.
- Analytics services.
- Advertising services.
- Security services.
- Content-delivery and infrastructure services.
- Other technical services.
When you interact with third-party content or services, those providers may collect information about your interaction in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Following a link to an external website takes you outside CatholicGallery.org, and the privacy policy of the external website will then apply.
13. How We Use Information
Depending on how you interact with Catholic Gallery, information may be used to:
- Provide and maintain the website and its features.
- Respond to enquiries.
- Process comments, prayer requests, and other submissions.
- Deliver newsletters and requested communications.
- Improve Catholic Gallery and its resources.
- Understand website usage and visitor preferences.
- Maintain website security.
- Detect and prevent spam, abuse, fraud, and malicious activity.
- Troubleshoot technical problems.
- Display and measure advertising.
- Comply with applicable legal obligations.
- Protect the rights, property, and security of Catholic Gallery and its users.
14. How We Share Information
Catholic Gallery may share or allow access to information with third-party service providers that help us operate the website and provide its features.
These may include providers of:
- Hosting and infrastructure.
- Security and spam prevention.
- Analytics.
- Advertising.
- Email and newsletter delivery.
- Website performance.
- Content delivery.
- Other services necessary to operate specific website features.
These providers may process information on our behalf or independently according to their own terms and privacy policies.
We may also disclose information where reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, legal process, governmental requests, investigate security or abuse issues, or protect the rights and safety of Catholic Gallery and others.
We do not sell personal information to third parties.
15. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, to provide the relevant service, maintain appropriate records, resolve disputes, enforce our policies, prevent abuse, maintain security, or comply with applicable legal obligations.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
Information collected by third-party services may be retained according to their respective policies.
16. Children’s Privacy
Catholic Gallery provides Catholic devotional and educational resources for a general audience.
The website is not specifically designed to collect personal information from children.
We do not knowingly request or intentionally collect personal information from children where such collection is not appropriate or permitted by applicable law.
Parents or guardians who believe that a child has provided personal information to us may contact us so that we can review the matter and take appropriate action.
17. Catholic Gallery Mobile Application
Catholic Gallery also provides a mobile application offering Catholic resources and features.
The application may process limited technical and usage information through third-party services used to operate, maintain, secure, and improve the application.
Depending on the version of the application and the services enabled, this may include:
- Device type and operating system.
- Application version.
- Crash and diagnostic information.
- Anonymous or aggregated usage information.
- Advertising and advertisement-interaction information.
The application may use services including Firebase for analytics, diagnostics, crash reporting, and related application services, and Google AdMob for advertising.
These services may process information according to their respective privacy policies.
Basic reading and devotional features of the application do not require you to provide your name, email address, telephone number, or precise location unless a particular feature specifically requests such information.
The application may store selected content locally on your device to support offline functionality.
18. International Data Processing
Some third-party service providers used by Catholic Gallery may process or store information on servers located outside India or outside your country of residence.
Where applicable, such processing may be subject to the laws and privacy requirements of the relevant jurisdiction.
19. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect information handled through Catholic Gallery against unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
However, no website, internet transmission, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
We therefore cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted over the internet.
20. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including rights to:
- Request information about personal data we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate information.
- Request deletion of personal information where applicable.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Opt out of certain communications.
- Raise a question or complaint regarding our handling of personal information.
To exercise an applicable privacy right, please contact us through our Contact Us page.
We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
Some requests may be subject to limitations or exceptions under applicable law.
21. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to Catholic Gallery, the services we use, our privacy practices, or applicable legal requirements.
When changes are made, the updated policy will be published on this page together with the date of the latest revision.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
22. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or the information we handle, please contact us through our Contact Us page.
Catholic Gallery
https://www.catholicgallery.org/
Last updated: September 4, 2026
