Privacy Policy
New Market Seventh-day Adventist Church
Last updated: November 5, 2026
The short version
We are a church, not a business. We collect personal information only when you choose to give it to us, such as when you fill in a form, contact the church office, sign up for something, or give online.
We do not sell your information. We do not share it with anyone outside the church except the service providers listed below who help us operate, and we do not use it to advertise to you.
If you would like us to delete anything we hold about you, email office62@newmarketadventist.org and we will.
The rest of this page explains all of that in more detail.
Who we are
New Market Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Seventh-day Adventist congregation located at 62 West Lee Highway, New Market, VA 22844. We are part of the Potomac Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
This policy covers www.newmarketadventist.org and any forms or services linked from it.
If you have any question about this policy or about information we hold, contact Pr. Reed Richardi, Senior Pastor, and Pr. Karl Camacho, Associate Pastor at office62@newmarketadventist.org or (540) 669-7692.
What we collect, and when
Information you give us directly
When you fill in a form on our site, contact the church office, or give online, we receive what you share with us. Depending on how you contact us, that may include:
• Your name
• Your email address
• Your phone number
• What you are asking about, or what you would like us to pray for
• Donation details such as the amount and how often you give
Information collected automatically
Like most websites, our site records basic technical information when you visit, such as the pages you view, roughly where in the world you are connecting from, and what kind of device and browser you are using. We use Google Analytics to understand this. It is not linked to your name, and we use it only to understand which parts of the site are useful. You can learn how Google uses this information at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
We do not collect payment information
Online giving is handled by AdventistGiving, and donations made through the donation form on our Give page are processed by Squarespace and its payment partners. They process card and bank details directly. We never see or store them.
What we do with it
We use the information you give us to:
• Reply to you
• Pray for the requests you send us
• Contact you about something you asked to hear about
• Keep a record of your involvement in church activities you have joined
• Understand how people find and use our website
We do not:
• Sell, rent or trade your information to anyone
• Share it with other organizations for their own use
• Use it to target advertising at you
• Send you email you did not ask for
Prayer requests and pastoral conversations
Our website does not currently have a prayer request form. Prayer requests shared with the church office or our pastors, by email, phone or in person, are passed to and read by our pastoral team.
If you ask that a request be kept confidential, it is seen only by the church office staff who receive it and our pastoral team, and is not shared with the wider prayer team or read aloud in any gathering.
We treat these with the same care as any pastoral conversation. There is one limit we are required by law to observe: if a request discloses abuse or neglect of a child or vulnerable adult, or an immediate risk to someone’s life, we may be legally obliged to report it to the appropriate authorities. We would tell you if that happened wherever it was safe to do so.
Children and young people
We take particular care with information about anyone under 18.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through our website. Registration for children’s programs, such as Pathfinders, is completed by a parent or guardian, and the information given is used only to run that program safely, including allergy, medical and emergency contact details where a parent has provided them.
Children’s information is not used for any other purpose, is not shared outside the ministry team running that program, and is kept only as long as needed.
If you believe a child has given us information without a parent’s involvement, contact us at office62@newmarketadventist.org and we will delete it.
Photographs and video
We sometimes take photographs or video during services and church events, and may use them on our website, on social media, on our YouTube channel, or in printed material to share what our church community is doing. Services in our sanctuary are streamed and broadcast online, and signs in the sanctuary let you know.
If you would prefer not to appear, tell the church office at office62@newmarketadventist.org and we will not use images of you. You can ask us to remove an image already published at any time, and we will.
For children, our Pathfinders club uses its own parent permission forms. If you would prefer that your child not appear in photos or video we publish from any church activity, tell the church office and we will not use images of your child, and we will remove any already published.
Who else sees your information
We use a small number of outside services to run the church’s website and ministries. They handle information on our behalf and only for the purposes we set. They are not permitted to use it for their own.
Service
What it does
Squarespace
Hosts our website and the forms on it, and processes donations made through our Give page
AdventistGiving
Processes online tithes and offerings
Instant Church Directory
Holds our member directory
Text messaging service
Sends church text updates to people who sign up by texting CHURCH to 540-276-1044
Google Analytics
Anonymous website usage statistics
We may also disclose information where we are required to by law.
Cookies
Our website uses small files called cookies, stored by your browser, to keep the site working properly and to understand how it is used, including through Google Analytics. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings; some parts of the site may not work as well if you do.
How long we keep things
We keep information only as long as we have a reason to. Prayer requests and contact form messages are kept only as long as we need them to respond and follow up. Membership and giving records are kept as long as required for church administration and tax reporting.
You can ask us to delete anything sooner.
Your choices
You can, at any time:
• Ask what we hold about you. Email us and we will tell you
• Ask us to correct it if something is wrong
• Ask us to delete it
• Unsubscribe from any email or text updates we send
• Ask us not to photograph you, as described above
We will not treat you any differently for asking.
Links to other sites
Our website links to other places, such as social media, giving platforms, and other Adventist organizations. Once you follow a link, you are on their site and their privacy policy applies, not ours.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top of the page. Material changes will be noted on the website.
Contact us
Questions about this policy, or about information we hold:
New Market Seventh-day Adventist Church
Pr. Reed Richardi, Senior Pastor, and Pr. Karl Camacho, Associate Pastor
62 West Lee Highway, New Market, VA 22844
office62@newmarketadventist.org
(540) 669-7692