Privacy Policy

Who are we?

First Parish in Cambridge is a website operated by First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts. First Parish is a Unitarian Universalist congregation, founded in 1632, as well as a 501c3 nonprofit organization chartered in Massachusetts.

Mailing address: First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church Street, Cambridge MA 02138. Phone: (508) 982-3405. Email: info@firstparishcambridge.org.

What information do we gather about you?

This site collects personal data about you when you visit the site and when you interact with its features. This site also invites you to provide personal information in order to make financial gifts to support First Parish in Cambridge.

This privacy policy describes what data we collect and why, and provides instructions that will help you manage what data is collected about you.

Information we collect about your visit. This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

This website also collects personal data to power our site analytics, which we use to monitor the site’s performance, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

We also use third party services that support features of the website, including fonts and videos. These third party services also receive some information about you. See “What information do site partners gather about you?” below for details.

Information you may voluntarily provide. We collect other kinds of personal information that you choose to provide when you take actions on this site, such as subscribing to email updates or making a financial contribution. These actions involve third parties that we use to manage email newsletters and financial transactions. See “What information do site partners gather about you?” below for details.

Cookies. This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. Learn more about the cookies Squarespace uses.

What information do site partners gather about you?

Fonts. This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

Learn more about Google Fonts privacy policies. Learn more about Adobe Fonts privacy policies.

Videos. This website features embedded videos that are hosted on YouTube. In order to show you a video, YouTube (a Google affiliate) collects information about your browser, network, and device, information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it, and your IP address. YouTube also places a cookie on your device that helps it track videos accessed from your device, and to enable YouTube and Google to show you relevant advertising in videos that include ads.

You may manage the way Google and YouTube use your information. Learn more about YouTube’s privacy policies and user settings. Learn more about Google’s privacy policies and user settings.

Payments and Donations. This website accepts financial contributions using Breeze Church Management Software (Breeze ChMS). To process your donation, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Personal Identifiers: Such as name, Business Name, Address, Phone Number, Email, IP address, Device Information, Information collected from cookies or other tracking technologies, other information necessary to establish an account or profile

  • Records and Financial Information: Such as, bank account and routing numbers, credit and debit card information, amount you send or request, other financial information

  • Commercial Information: Such as online shopping cart information, shopping activity on merchant sites, purchase history, and order tracking and product information

  • Geolocation: We may collect IP-based geolocation data and Global Positioning System (GPS) with your consent during your user experience or based on your mobile application settings.

  • Internet or network activity: interactions with our Services, Information about response time for web pages, download errors, date and time when you used the service, Location Information, such as your IP address, statistics regarding how pages are loaded or viewed, the websites you visited before coming to the Sites and other usage and browsing information collected through Cookies (“Technical Usage Data”)

Learn more about Breeze ChMS’s privacy policies.