Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 4, 2026

At Church in Miniature, we respect your privacy and are committed to being transparent about how information is collected and used when you visit our website.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, how we use it, how information may be shared with service providers and third parties, and the choices you may have regarding your information.

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the Church in Miniature website, online store, contact forms, email subscriptions, customer accounts, social-media interactions, and other services or features that link to this Privacy Policy.

By using Church in Miniature, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use our website.

Information You Provide

You may voluntarily provide information when you:

  • Create a customer account.
  • Place an order through our website.
  • Subscribe to our email list.
  • Contact us through a contact form.
  • Send us an email.
  • Submit a product review or comment.
  • Participate in a promotion, survey, or other activity.
  • Request information or resources.
  • Communicate with us through social media.

This information may include:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Mailing address
  • Shipping address
  • Billing address
  • Telephone number
  • Account information
  • Order information
  • Product preferences
  • Messages or other information you voluntarily provide

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through contact forms or other areas of our website unless specifically requested and necessary for the service involved.

2. Information Collected During Purchases

If you purchase a product through our website, we may collect information necessary to process and manage the transaction.

This may include your name, email address, billing information, shipping information, telephone number, items purchased, order amount, and other information necessary to fulfill your order.

Payment Information

Church in Miniature may use third-party payment processors, including PayPal and Stripe, to process payments.

Your payment information may be transmitted directly to the applicable payment processor for authorization and processing. We do not intend to store your complete credit-card number on our own website.

Payment processors may collect and process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.

WooCommerce’s documentation explains that payment gateways such as Stripe and PayPal may receive information needed to process or support payments, including customer billing information and purchase totals.

3. WooCommerce and Customer Accounts

Our website uses WooCommerce to provide online shopping functionality.

Depending on how you use our store, WooCommerce may store information associated with your order or account, including your name, email address, telephone number, billing address, shipping address, products purchased, order information, and information concerning the payment method used.

If customer accounts are enabled, you may be able to create an account to view orders, manage account information, and use other available account features.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials.

WooCommerce documentation indicates that store databases can retain information such as products ordered, customer name, email address, phone number, billing or shipping address, and payment-method information.

4. Products Fulfilled by Third Parties

Church in Miniature may offer products through third-party suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, dropshipping companies, and fulfillment providers.

At this time, Church in Miniature does not manufacture or maintain inventory for the products it offers through third-party fulfillment arrangements.

When necessary to fulfill an order, information such as your name, shipping address, contact information, and order details may be shared with the applicable supplier or fulfillment provider.

The third party may use this information to process, fulfill, ship, or support your order.

Because we may work with different suppliers and fulfillment companies, the specific third party receiving order information may vary depending on the product purchased.

Those companies may have their own privacy policies and terms governing their handling of personal information.

5. Products Purchased Through External Websites

Some pages on Church in Miniature may contain links to products that are purchased directly from another company’s website.

When you click one of these links and complete your purchase on an external website, that transaction is generally governed by the third party’s website terms and privacy policy.

Church in Miniature may receive information indicating that a referral or qualifying purchase occurred through an affiliate relationship, but the external company is responsible for processing the transaction and payment.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy and terms of any external website before providing personal information or making a purchase.

6. Affiliate Links

Church in Miniature may participate in affiliate programs operated by retailers, manufacturers, service providers, affiliate networks, and other companies.

Affiliate links may use cookies or other tracking technologies to determine that a visitor was referred from our website.

If you click an affiliate link and make a qualifying purchase or complete another qualifying action, Church in Miniature may receive a commission or other compensation.

Our affiliate relationships do not normally increase the price you pay.

For additional information, please see our Affiliate Disclosure.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Church in Miniature may use cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies.

Cookies may be used to:

  • Keep items in your shopping cart.
  • Maintain customer-account sessions.
  • Remember certain preferences.
  • Help our website function properly.
  • Understand website traffic.
  • Measure advertising and affiliate referrals.
  • Improve website performance.
  • Analyze how visitors use our website.

Some cookies may be placed by third-party services that operate on our website.

You can generally control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may cause portions of the website, including shopping or account features, to function improperly.

8. Google Analytics

Church in Miniature uses Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors interact with our website.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

  • Device and browser information
  • Approximate geographic information
  • Website interactions
  • Session information
  • Pages visited
  • Traffic sources
  • Cookie-based identifiers

Google states that its standard Analytics implementation collects information such as users, session statistics, approximate geolocation, and browser and device information. Google Analytics also uses first-party cookies and identifiers to distinguish users and sessions.

We use Analytics primarily to understand website traffic, improve our content, improve website functionality, and understand which resources are useful to our visitors.

We do not intentionally configure Google Analytics to collect information such as passwords, Social Security numbers, or complete payment-card information.

Google’s policies prohibit customers from sending personally identifiable information such as email addresses and other similar information to Google Analytics.

Where applicable, visitors may have choices concerning analytics cookies and related technologies through available browser or consent controls.

9. Email Subscriptions and MailPoet

Church in Miniature may use MailPoet to manage email subscriptions and send newsletters or other communications.

If you voluntarily subscribe to our email list, we may collect and use your email address and other subscription information necessary to provide the requested communications.

We may use email communications to provide:

  • Catholic articles and resources
  • Newsletters
  • Website updates
  • Product information
  • Promotions
  • Special offers
  • Other information related to Church in Miniature

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time by using the unsubscribe option included in our emails.

MailPoet may process information necessary to operate our email subscription and delivery services. MailPoet also provides its own privacy documentation concerning information associated with its services.

10. Contact Forms and WPForms

Church in Miniature may use WPForms to provide contact forms and other forms on our website.

When you submit a form, we may receive information such as your name, email address, telephone number, message, or other information you choose to provide.

We use this information to respond to your inquiry, provide customer service, address website issues, or otherwise respond to the reason you contacted us.

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through a general contact form.

11. Social Media

Church in Miniature may maintain or use social-media accounts and links associated with platforms including:

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest

If you interact with Church in Miniature through these platforms, the applicable social-media company may collect information about your interaction according to its own privacy policy and terms.

Clicking a social-media link may also take you away from the Church in Miniature website.

We do not control the privacy practices of these third-party platforms.

12. Hosting and Website Infrastructure

Church in Miniature uses Hostinger for website hosting and related infrastructure.

Information submitted through our website may be stored or processed through our hosting environment and associated technical systems.

Hosting providers may process information such as IP addresses, server logs, technical information, and other information necessary to maintain website security, reliability, and performance.

13. WooCommerce Tax Services

Our website may use WooCommerce Tax or related WooCommerce tax functionality to help calculate applicable taxes on purchases.

Depending on the configuration of these services, information related to an order, customer location, product, or transaction may be processed to determine applicable tax amounts.

14. Payment Processors

Church in Miniature may use payment services including:

  • PayPal
  • Stripe
  • Other payment processors that may be added in the future

These companies may receive information necessary to process payments, verify transactions, prevent fraud, and provide payment-related services.

The information shared may include your name, email address, billing information, shipping information, order amount, transaction information, and payment-related identifiers.

Each payment provider may have its own privacy policy governing its use of information.

15. Information We Share

We may share personal information when reasonably necessary to operate our website and provide requested services.

Depending on your interaction with Church in Miniature, information may be shared with:

  • WooCommerce and related website services
  • PayPal
  • Stripe
  • Tax and payment service providers
  • Hostinger
  • Email service providers
  • MailPoet
  • Form and customer-support services
  • Dropshipping and fulfillment suppliers
  • Shipping companies
  • Affiliate networks
  • Analytics providers
  • Advertising and social-media platforms
  • Website security providers
  • Professional advisers
  • Government authorities or law-enforcement agencies when legally required

We do not sell personal information simply for the purpose of selling personal information to third parties.

We may share information as necessary to provide products or services, operate the website, process transactions, protect our business, comply with legal requirements, or perform other legitimate business functions.

16. Advertising and Marketing

Church in Miniature may use advertising, social-media, affiliate, or marketing technologies in the future.

These services may use cookies, pixels, tags, or similar technologies to measure advertising performance, understand website activity, or provide more relevant advertising.

The specific information collected will depend on the services and technologies actually implemented on our website.

17. Children’s Privacy

Church in Miniature is intended for families and general audiences.

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under the age of 13 without appropriate authorization.

If you believe that a child has submitted personal information to us without appropriate consent, please contact us so that we can investigate and take appropriate steps.

18. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect information maintained through our website.

These measures may include website security tools, access controls, secure connections, authentication procedures, software updates, and other reasonable safeguards.

However, no website or electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You should therefore understand that providing information over the internet involves some degree of risk.

19. How Long We Keep Information

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

This may include retaining information as necessary to:

  • Complete transactions.
  • Provide customer service.
  • Maintain customer accounts.
  • Maintain business and financial records.
  • Comply with legal obligations.
  • Resolve disputes.
  • Prevent fraud.
  • Enforce our agreements.
  • Maintain appropriate business records.

The length of time information is retained may vary depending on the type of information and why it was collected.

20. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have certain rights concerning your personal information.

These may include the ability to:

  • Request information about personal data we maintain about you.
  • Request correction of inaccurate information.
  • Request deletion of certain information.
  • Unsubscribe from marketing emails.
  • Ask questions about how your information is collected or used.
  • Request other privacy-related actions provided by applicable law.

Certain information may need to be retained because of legal, accounting, security, fraud-prevention, or other legitimate requirements.

To make a privacy request, please contact us using the information provided below.

21. State Privacy Rights

Certain U.S. states provide residents with specific privacy rights.

Depending on where you live and whether a particular law applies to Church in Miniature, you may have additional rights concerning your personal information.

If you believe you have rights under applicable state privacy law, you may contact us using the information below.

We will review and respond to qualifying requests as required by applicable law.

22. Third-Party Websites

Church in Miniature contains links to external websites.

These may include:

  • Product retailers
  • Catholic organizations
  • Affiliate partners
  • Suppliers
  • Social-media websites
  • Payment providers
  • Other resources

Once you leave our website, the privacy practices of the external website apply.

We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites.

23. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

Changes may be necessary because of changes to our website, services, technology, business practices, third-party providers, or applicable laws.

When changes are made, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.

We encourage you to review this page periodically.

24. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to make a privacy-related request, please contact us:

Church in Miniature
ctperlin@gmail.com

We will make reasonable efforts to respond to privacy inquiries in accordance with applicable law.

Thank you for visiting Church in Miniature and for allowing us to be part of your family’s journey of faith.

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