This website is designed to collect as little information as practical. It does not use advertising trackers, customer accounts, or an onsite shopping cart.
Hosting information
The hosting provider may process ordinary request information, such as IP address, browser information, requested page, and time of access, to operate, secure, and diagnose the service. Manualist Press does not use that information to build advertising profiles.
Contact
No contact-form provider is currently configured. If you choose to email us, your email provider and ours will process the address, message, and any information you include so that we can respond. Do not send sensitive personal information.
Reported mistakes
If you report a mistake on a page, we keep the page, the passage and the correction you write. The form asks for no name or email address. To limit repeated posts, we keep a one-way code made from your connection's address and the date, not the address itself.
Names of the dead
If you write a name in at Remember your dead, we keep the name, the words you add about them, and the time it was written in. Names are never shown on the site, to other readers or to search engines; the page shows only how many have been written in. Your browser keeps the names you wrote, so you see them again on this device, and taking a name out there deletes it from ours as well. You may also ask us by email to delete a name. Marking a prayer as prayed adds one to the day's count and keeps nothing about you. To limit repeated posts, we keep a one-way code made from your connection's address and the date, not the address itself.
Spiritual bouquets
If you offer a prayer for someone, we keep their first name, the occasion, your first name and the prayer, under an address only those you send it to will know. Friends who pray add their first name and the prayer they said. Bouquet pages are kept out of search engines. Your browser keeps your first name, so you are asked for it once, and a private key to each bouquet you start, with which you can take a name out or close it; you may also ask us by email to delete one. To limit repeated posts, we keep a one-way code made from your connection's address and the date, not the address itself. The site also keeps a mark in your browser that it has been visited before, with no identifier, to count the readers a shared link brings for the first time.
Newsletter
No newsletter signup is currently enabled. Before the form becomes public, this policy will name the provider and explain how it handles each subscriber's email address.
Novena reminders
Novena reminders are currently available. Asking for them, by entering your email address and pressing Remind me on a named novena, is the only consent we take, and nothing is sent until you confirm from the email that follows. If you request them, we store your email address, time zone, selected novena, enrollment status, and the source that brought you to the signup. Our delivery provider processes the email to send transactional reminders and delivery-status records. Each reminder includes a signed management link to cancel that novena or unsubscribe from reminders. These reminders are separate from the optional Manualist newsletter, which requires its own consent. Reminder records are retained to operate the service, honor cancellations, suppress unwanted mail, and investigate delivery issues.
Before each novena
If you ask to hear before each novena, we store your email address and time zone. When you ask from the Manualist app or a form on this site, we also store where you asked and when you confirmed, and nothing is sent until you confirm from the email we send you. Our delivery provider then sends one email the evening before each novena begins, each with a link to stop them. A request that is never confirmed is deleted after 30 days.
Calendar downloads
Calendar files are generated in your browser from the dates and options you choose. The site does not require an account or store a download-access record in your browser.
External retailer links
Book pages contain clearly disclosed Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Following an external link takes you to Amazon’s site and privacy practices; using an affiliate link does not change the price you pay. A link may use an Amazon Attribution URL for an identified outreach campaign. Manualist Press can measure the outbound click and may later import campaign-level results supplied by Amazon, but the website does not observe or infer an individual purchase.
Cookies and analytics
This site does not intentionally set analytics or advertising cookies. Because no consent-requiring tracking is enabled, no cookie banner is shown.
The site also records aggregate usage events in its own database: which resource or book page was viewed, which tool was used, and whether a retailer link was followed, together with the campaign fields described below and a coarse device category. These records contain no name, email address, account, or persistent identifier, set no cookie, and are used only to see which pages and outreach efforts lead readers to the books.
Attribution storage and retention
When a tracked link is used, the site keeps only approved campaign fields and opaque outreach IDs in browser session storage so later actions in the same visit can be attributed. It does not store the full query string or referrer path, and the stored context expires within 24 hours or when the browser session ends. The opaque outreach IDs alone are also kept in browser local storage for 30 days, so a later download or reminder sign-up can be credited to the parish or link that brought it. Newsletter and reminder email addresses remain in their delivery systems and are not added to analytics events. Operational redirect logs and analytics exports should be retained only as long as needed for aggregate reporting and security review, then deleted or aggregated.
The Manualist app
The app has its own privacy policy and support page. The site's terms of use are on their own page.
Questions
Questions about this policy may be sent to hello@manualistpress.com.