Privacy policy

In short

We don’t sell, share, or advertise with anything you give us, and this website has no tracking or analytics. The only personal details we keep are the ones you type in when you borrow a book from the church library.

Visiting this website

You don’t need an account to use this site, and it sets no advertising or tracking cookies. Like any website, our host (Netlify) keeps standard server records, such as your internet address, to run and protect the site.

The sermon player on the home page comes from SermonAudio, and our links to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Google Maps take you to those services, which have their own privacy policies. When you email us, the message goes through your own email app.

Borrowing from the church library

The library is open to everyone, on this website and on the library iPad at church. When you borrow a book we keep your name, a phone number or email if you choose to give one, which book you took, and when it’s due and returned. That lets the library know who has each book and remind you if one is late.

The church’s librarians can see these records. Anyone else at the borrowing desk sees only initials, and only when every copy of a book is out. The records are kept in the library’s database (run on Supabase) as the library’s history, including books already returned. Ask us and we’ll remove yours.

On this website, your name and contact are also remembered in your own browser so you don’t have to type them again. Choose “Not you?” at the borrowing desk to clear them. The library iPad forgets your name as soon as you’re done, or after a minute without use, so the next person starts fresh.

The camera on the library iPad

The library app uses the iPad’s camera only to read the barcode on a book. No pictures are saved or sent anywhere.

Looking up books

When a librarian adds a book, its ISBN (the number above the barcode) is sent to Open Library and Google Books to fill in the title, author, and cover. Book covers are shown from those services, so they can see your device’s internet address, as any website you load a picture from can.

Librarian accounts

For each librarian we keep a name, a username, a password stored in a scrambled form that can’t be read back, and when they last signed in. A cookie keeps a librarian signed in and is used for nothing else.

Questions, or removing your details

Email info@providencescottsdale.com or call (602) 980-2913. A parent can ask on behalf of a child who borrows books.

Last updated November 11, 2026.