Privacy notice

Who we are

This website belongs to St Pius X Catholic Church, Plumstead (“the parish”), part of the Archdiocese of Cape Town, at 136 Lympleigh Road, Plumstead, Cape Town, 7801. The parish is the responsible party for personal information processed through this website.

Our Information Officer under the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA) is the parish priest, Fr Diego Arias. Contact him through the parish office at stpiusxplumstead@gmail.com or +27 71 713 0336.

What this website collects

The website has no forms, no accounts and no comments. It does not ask for your name, email or any other personal information.

It does use a small amount of technical information:

Your cookie choice. One necessary cookie, andes_consent, remembers whether you accepted or rejected analytics, for 6 months. When you make or change a choice, an anonymous record of that choice (which categories you chose and when, never your name) is sent to our consent provider so we can show that we asked.
Analytics, only if you accept. With your permission we use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages are used. Google signals and advertising features are switched off, and the cookies (_ga, _ga_*) last 13 months. If you reject analytics, Google receives only cookieless signals that do not identify you.
The church map. The map you see first is an image on our own site (map data © OpenStreetMap contributors). Only if you press “Show interactive map” does your browser load Google Maps, and Google may then set its own cookies under Google’s privacy policy.

What we never put on the website

We do not publish Mass intentions, the prayer list or the Mortuary List, or the personal phone numbers of volunteers. The weekly notices on this site leave them out.

If you contact us

If you email or phone the parish office, we use your details only to answer you and to arrange what you asked for (for example a baptism, marriage or Mass intention). The parish keeps sacramental records as Church law requires.

Your rights

Under POPIA you may ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, and object to its processing. Contact the Information Officer as above. If you are not satisfied, you may complain to the Information Regulator of South Africa (inforegulator.org.za).

Use “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page to change or withdraw your consent at any time.

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