Your choices

Optional analytics and OpenStreetMap street detail are separate choices. Both start off. Use Cookie choices in the footer to allow, reject or change either one. Rejecting them does not stop you reading the site, using the location pins and directory, or contacting the Mission.

Browser preferences

The site stores your chosen appearance, reading controls, minimised tools and privacy choices in this browser. These settings are not sent to the Mission and remain until you change them or clear site data. If storage is blocked, most settings work for the current page only.

  • aocm-theme-v1: Light, Dark or System appearance.
  • aocm-reading-v1: reading and motion preferences.
  • aocm-tools-v2: minimised accessibility and help controls; an older aocm-tools-v1 value may be read during migration.
  • aocm-consent-v1: your separate analytics and street-map choices, with the date recorded locally.

Private sessions

Saving a longer enquiry or returning to a saved draft sets aocm_session, a secure, HTTP-only cookie lasting up to eight hours. Owner sign-in sets aocm_owner, which lasts up to one hour. Using Clement sets aocm_chat, a secure, HTTP-only cookie for the current browser session. Ending or deleting a chat removes its conversation and clears the cookie. Leaving the page also attempts to delete it; if that request cannot complete, an abandoned chat is removed within a day. Opening Clement again begins a fresh conversation. Copies you explicitly email or hand over are handled separately under the Privacy Policy. These cookies are needed for those functions and are not used for advertising. The short contact form does not save a draft.

Required form security

Cloudflare Turnstile loads when you use a protected form and checks the browser and network for abuse. The site validates its token with Cloudflare before accepting a submission. This is required for protected forms and has no optional switch here. Cloudflare may use security identifiers or cookies according to its configuration. If the check does not work in your browser, please use our published contact details. Read Cloudflare’s privacy information.

Optional analytics

Google Analytics loads only after you allow analytics. It is disabled on private forms, return links and the owner workspace. We do not send form answers, messages, email addresses or private links. Google may set cookies whose names begin with _ga. Withdrawing permission stops further analytics requests after the page reloads and the site attempts to clear its first-party analytics cookies. You may also clear site data in your browser.

Location map and optional street detail

The map outline, location pins, filters and directory load from this website without optional consent. If you allow OpenStreetMap detail and then press “Load street map detail”, your browser requests map tiles from OpenStreetMap. That service receives your IP address and the map area viewed. Withdrawing the choice stops further tile requests but cannot undo earlier requests. Read OpenStreetMap’s privacy information.

The Federation and Mission map embed also works without external street tiles. Its English, German, Dutch or Polish language choice is held only in the page and is not saved. In the embedded version, street tiles remain off until you choose to load them in the privacy notice; declining leaves the map and location details available. Loading an embedded map requests its content from the Apostolic Old Catholic Mission website. The embedding website should explain this request in its own privacy information. The Mission’s Privacy Policy and Imprint and access-to-information contact identify the relevant contact routes.

Services you start yourself

Choosing a language other than English opens a public page through Google Translate. Google may receive your IP address and the page URL and apply its own cookies and terms. Forms and private services remain on the English website. Selecting Read aloud starts your browser’s speech service; the site does not send the page text to a speech provider, but a voice supplied by your browser or device may use a remote service. If you choose to download a high-quality voice, your browser requests model and voice files from Hugging Face, which may receive your IP address. Your browser may cache those files for later use. Speech using that voice is generated on your device; page text is not sent to Hugging Face. You can stop narration at any time.

When you send a form, the Mission uses Cloudflare to receive it and an email provider to send service messages. When you request a meeting, the booking service checks availability on the Mission’s connected calendars. After approval, it creates a calendar invitation and a meeting link through the chosen provider, currently Microsoft Teams or a supplied Zoom link. Your name, email address, requested time and meeting details are used to arrange the meeting; the invitation may be delivered to your own calendar or email provider. The booking service does not place analytics cookies for these steps.

Following a link to the Institute, Box, a donation provider or another external website takes you to that service’s own privacy and cookie arrangements. Read the Mission’s Privacy Policy for how we handle the information you provide to us.