2. How We Use Cookies
New Wine Church uses cookies to:
- Make our website work properly (essential functionality).
- Remember your preferences and form inputs.
- Understand how visitors use our site so we can improve it.
- Measure the effectiveness of our outreach and communications.
We do not sell information collected through cookies, and we do not use cookies to build advertising profiles for resale.
3. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for our website to function. They enable core features like page navigation, secure form submission, and load balancing. The site cannot work properly without them, so they cannot be turned off.
- Session cookies: maintain your session as you navigate between pages.
- Security cookies: protect against cross-site request forgery and other security threats.
- Hosting/CDN cookies: set by Vercel to route requests efficiently.
4. Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website — which pages are most visited, how people find us, where they spend time, and which content resonates. We use this information to improve our site, sermons, and ministry outreach.
We use Vercel Web Analytics, which is configured to respect privacy and does not track visitors across sites. If we add Google Analytics or similar third-party analytics in the future, we will update this section.
5. Marketing Cookies
We do not currently use marketing or advertising cookies. New Wine Church does not run paid advertising campaigns that depend on tracking visitors across other websites. If this changes, we will update this policy and provide a clear opt-in mechanism before activating any such cookies.
6. Third-Party Cookies
Some pages embed content from third-party services that may set their own cookies, including:
- YouTube: sermon videos and the live stream embed (we use a "facade" pattern that defers loading the YouTube iframe until you click play, minimizing cookies).
- Google Maps: the embedded map on our Visit and Contact pages.
- Zeffy: our donation form on the Give page.
- Social media: Facebook, Instagram, or X share buttons may set cookies if you click them.
These services are operated by third parties under their own privacy policies, and we do not control the cookies they set. Please review each provider's cookie and privacy policies for details.
7. Your Choices
You can control cookies in several ways:
- Browser settings: most browsers let you block all cookies, block third-party cookies, or delete existing cookies. See Section 8 for instructions.
- Skip embedded content: if you'd prefer not to load YouTube or Google Maps embeds, you can use the direct links we provide instead.
- Opt out of analytics: you can opt out of Vercel Web Analytics by enabling Do Not Track in your browser (see Section 9).
Note: blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the site (forms, the giving page, video embeds) from functioning correctly.
8. Browser Cookie Controls
Each browser handles cookies differently. Here are direct links to the cookie management pages for major browsers:
9. Do Not Track
Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal to indicate that you prefer not to be tracked across websites. Our website honors the DNT signal where technically feasible — when DNT is enabled, our analytics provider is configured to skip recording your visit. Some essential cookies remain active because they are required for the site to function.
10. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Settings policy as our website evolves or new services are added. When we make material changes, we will revise the "Last updated" date and, where appropriate, notify you through a prominent notice on our website.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or this policy, please contact us:
- Email: office@newwine.io
- Phone: +1 434-303-4040
- Mail: New Wine Church, 3135 Fort Ave., Lynchburg, VA 24502, USA
For broader data and privacy questions, see our Privacy Policy.