Privacy · Made New in Kissimmee

The short version

We collect as little as we can. We never sell it, and we never use it for advertising.
Prayer and connect requests are private. Only our small response team reads them.
Lights on the map are public: a first name, an area and one word.
We count visits without cookies and without building a profile of you.
You can ask us to delete anything you sent: madenew@kissimmeesda.com.

Add your light (the light map)

What we collect: Your first name, the area you choose, and one word for what you hope God makes new.
Who sees it: Everyone who visits. Lights are public, placed by area and never by address.
How we keep it kind: A word filter checks every light, and our church team can hide any light.
How long: A light stays on the map until we hide it or you ask us to remove it. A hidden light stays in our database until we delete it, and we delete it for good if you ask.
On your device: Your browser keeps a note of the lights you added, so a new light shows up for you right away. If the map cannot be reached, your light is saved in your browser only, and the page tells you so.

Talk to a person (the connect form)

What we collect: What you would like (a question, prayer, or to meet someone), your name, how you want us to reach you, your phone number or email, and anything you choose to write.
Who sees it: Only our response team: our pastor, the members who answer requests, and the volunteer who looks after this site. They sign in with their church accounts to read requests. Your request is never posted anywhere, and never shared with anyone else, including the wider prayer team, without your permission.
Where it goes: Into our own database on Cloudflare (encrypted at rest). A short alert with your request is also emailed to the team’s private inbox (Google Workspace), sent through Resend. We never write what you send into our server logs.
How long: When your conversation is closed, we erase your phone number or email from our database, and the team deletes their copies of the alert email within a week. Closed requests are deleted after 90 days. If you ask, we delete your request for good straight away, and the team deletes their copies of the alert email the same day.

These forms are not watched around the clock. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline). In an emergency, call 911.

Emails and calls

If you write to madenew@kissimmeesda.com or call (321) 492-0900, your message reaches our church’s inbox (Google Workspace), which only the team can read.

7 Days of Hope

Your progress (which day you are on and which days you finished) stays in your browser. We never see it, and clearing your browser data resets it. So we know whether 7 Days is helping, your browser tells us, without your name or any identifier, that someone started, and which day number was completed.

Counting visits without tracking

We count a few actions: starting 7 Days, finishing a day, playing a story, adding a light, sending a request (and which kind), and scanning one of our QR codes. The counts are kept in Cloudflare’s Analytics Engine for about three months, with no cookies, no advertising and no profile of you. A few year-long totals, such as how many people started 7 Days, are kept as single numbers. We do not use cookies for analytics, advertising or tracking.

Your IP address

Every website receives your IP address in order to work. We never store it. To stop floods of spam, and to count each network’s 7 Days start once a day, we keep a scrambled, one-way code made from it (a hash, with a key that changes every day) and erase it after about a week. It is used for nothing else.

Spam protection (Cloudflare Turnstile)

When you start filling in a form, the page loads Cloudflare Turnstile from challenges.cloudflare.com to check that a real person is sending it. Cloudflare uses technical information from your browser for that check only. Cloudflare’s Turnstile privacy addendum.

Videos (YouTube)

Our story videos are hosted on YouTube. Until you press play, you see only a still picture, which your browser loads from YouTube’s image server (i.ytimg.com). Pressing play loads the player from youtube-nocookie.com; from then on, Google’s privacy policy applies to that video.

Fonts and hosting

The site is hosted on Cloudflare, and its typefaces come from Google Fonts. Like any web server, these services see your IP address when they deliver the page. Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Children

This site is meant for adults. If you are under 18, please ask a parent or guardian before sending a request. If a young person writes to us, our pastor is involved, and we speak with a parent or guardian where appropriate.

Ask us to delete something

Email madenew@kissimmeesda.com or call (321) 492-0900. Tell us what to remove: for a light, the first name, area and word; for a request, your name and the way we were to reach you. We will delete it from our database for good (for a request, the team deletes their copies of the alert email too) and let you know when it is done. You can also ask us what we hold about you.

Who we are

Made New in Kissimmee is a ministry of Kissimmee Seventh-day Adventist Church, 2391 Fortune Rd, Kissimmee, FL 34744. Questions about this page: madenew@kissimmeesda.com.