Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2026

THE AMERICAN LUTHERAN CONGREGATION (organization number 971525614), referred to in this Privacy Policy as “ALC,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly.

This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit our website, how we use it, and the services involved in operating the website.

1. Website Hosting

This website is hosted by Squarespace.

When you visit the website, Squarespace may collect information necessary to operate, secure, and improve the website and its services. This may include:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Your IP address

  • Web pages you visited before coming to this website

  • Pages you view while using this website

Squarespace processes this information as our website hosting provider and may also process certain information for its own purposes in accordance with its Privacy Policy.

2. Analytics

We use Squarespace Analytics to understand how visitors use our website and to help us improve its content and performance.

Information collected for analytics may include:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Your IP address

  • The website or page you visited before coming to our website

  • Pages you visit on our website

  • Clicks and internal links

  • Scrolling and searches

  • Dates and times of visits

We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to understand website traffic and activity.

We do not use any additional third-party analytics services.

3. Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small files or pieces of text stored on your device when you visit a website.

Squarespace uses necessary cookies to securely operate and provide this website. The website may also use analytics and performance cookies to help us understand website traffic and activity.

Where required, non-essential analytics and performance cookies are used only after you have provided your consent through our cookie banner.

You can manage your cookie preferences through the cookie banner where available and through your browser settings.

4. Email Communications

If you choose to subscribe to or otherwise request email communications from ALC, we may collect information such as your name and email address.

We use Squarespace Email Campaigns to manage and send these communications. Your contact information is therefore provided to Squarespace so that it can send emails on our behalf and help us manage our communications with you.

You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included at the bottom of our emails.

We do not sell your email address or other personal information.

5. Links to Facebook and Instagram

Our website includes links to ALC's pages or profiles on Facebook and Instagram.

These are external websites operated by Meta Platforms and are not controlled by ALC. When you click one of these links, you leave our website. Meta may collect or process information about you in accordance with its own privacy policies and practices.

We encourage you to review the privacy information provided by Facebook and Instagram if you use those services.

6. How We Use Information

We use information collected through the website only as necessary to:

  • Operate and maintain the website

  • Keep the website secure

  • Understand website traffic and how visitors use the site

  • Improve the website and its content

  • Send email communications that visitors have requested or consented to receive

  • Respond to communications where applicable

We do not sell personal information collected through this website.

7. Service Providers

Our principal website service provider is Squarespace, which provides our website hosting, website analytics, and email campaign services.

Squarespace processes information in accordance with its own privacy practices and applicable data protection requirements.

Our links to Facebook and Instagram direct visitors to third-party services. ALC does not control how those services process personal information once a visitor leaves our website.

8. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we hold about you.

You may also withdraw your consent to marketing communications at any time by unsubscribing from our emails.

To exercise your privacy rights or ask a question about how we handle personal information, please contact us at office@alcoslo.org.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services, or legal requirements.

The date at the top of this page indicates when the Privacy Policy was last updated.

10. Contact

The organization responsible for this website and the processing of personal information described in this Privacy Policy is:
THE AMERICAN LUTHERAN CONGREGATION
Organization number: 971525614
Email: office@alcoslo.org

For questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, or your privacy rights, please contact us at office@alcoslo.org.