Privacy

This website is run by Palatine Masonic Lodge 314. We keep as little about you as we can, we do not sell anything about you to anybody, and we do not track you around the internet.

When you write to us

The enquiry form, the contact form and the trestleboard form all do the same thing: they send an email to the Secretary at palatinemasons@gmail.com. Your name, your email address, anything you type, and a telephone number if you give one, travel in that email. They are not saved in a database on this website.

That email then sits in the Secretary’s mailbox for as long as it is useful, the same as a letter would sit in a file. If you would like it deleted, ask, and it will be.

The forms record the moment the page was opened and carry one hidden field, both used only to tell a person from an automated script. Neither identifies you.

The trestleboard

Asking for the trestleboard adds your name and email to a list the Secretary keeps, for the purpose of sending you the trestleboard. It is used for nothing else and shared with nobody. Ask to be taken off and you will be, without being asked why.

Member accounts

Brethren who sign in have an account holding a name, an email address and a role. Signing in sets cookies so the site remembers you between pages; they are cleared when you sign out. Some pages and some events are visible only to signed-in members, which is the reason the accounts exist.

Photographs

The photographs on the gallery page are stored in a Google Drive folder belonging to the lodge, and your browser fetches them from Google rather than from this website. Google may therefore see that a request was made. We do not tag or name anyone in them.

If you appear in a photograph and would rather not, tell the Secretary and it will be taken down.

The calendar

The calendar lists meetings and events. It holds nothing about visitors. Part of it is read from the calendar published by the Palatine Masonic Temple, which is a separate body with its own arrangements.

If you buy something

Ordering from the shop means giving a name, an address and contact details so the order can be sent to you, and those are kept as the lodge needs to keep its accounts. Payment is handled by the payment provider on their own systems: card numbers are never seen by, or stored on, this website.

Maps

Pages showing where the temple is embed a Google map. Loading it tells Google that a map was requested. If you would rather it did not, the address is written out in text on the same page and the map can be ignored.

Cookies

This site sets no advertising or analytics cookies. The only cookies are the ones WordPress uses to keep you signed in, and, if you use the shop, the one that remembers what is in your basket.

Who else sees any of this

Nobody outside the lodge, except the companies that make the website work at all: the firm hosting it, the service carrying our email, and the providers named above. We do not sell, rent or trade anything about you, and we do not send marketing on anyone else’s behalf.

What you can ask for

You may ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted. Write to the Secretary and say what you would like. We will not make it difficult.

Children

This site is meant for adults and we do not knowingly collect anything from children. If you believe a child has sent us something, tell us and it will be removed.

Asking us about any of this

Last updated September 12, 2026. If the lodge changes how the website works, this page is changed with it.