Cookie Policy

One-line custom excerpt for Ghost: What cookies Love Church sets in your browser, and why.

Last updated: 28 April 2026

This page explains what cookies and similar storage technologies the site uses. For the broader picture of how we handle personal data see our Privacy Policy.

A cookie is a small text file your browser stores when you visit a website. Cookies let a site remember things between page loads - for example, that you're signed in. Some cookies are essential; some are for analytics; some are for advertising. We do not set advertising cookies.

Cookies we set

Essential - sign-in and member access

| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Expires | |--------|--------|---------|---------| | ghost-members-ssr | Ghost Pro | Tells the site whether you are a signed-in member, so the right paywall and content appears. | Session / 184 days | | ghost-members-ssr.sig | Ghost Pro | Signature for the cookie above (security). | Session / 184 days |

These are required for the site to work. Without them, sign-in and member-only content cannot function. They contain a session identifier - not your password and not your email.

Functional - search overlay state

The theme stores a small piece of local data (localStorage) when you choose between Sodo Search and DuckDuckGo, so we remember your choice on the next visit. This is in your own browser and never sent to us.

Analytics - none by default

We do not run Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Plausible, Fathom, or any third-party analytics on this site at the time this policy was last updated. Ghost Pro provides anonymous server-side aggregate metrics (page views, country, referrer) which never use cookies and never identify you.

If we add an analytics provider in future, this page will be updated and the addition announced.

Advertising - none

We do not run third-party advertising. We do not sell ad space. We do not set advertising cookies.

Third-party cookies

Two third parties may set their own cookies when you interact with their features on our site:

  • Stripe (payment processor) sets cookies on the checkout page when you become a paying member. These are essential to fraud prevention and required by Stripe to process the payment. See Stripe's cookie policy.
  • Ghost Portal (the sign-in / sign-up overlay) is a Ghost-hosted iframe that may set its own functional cookies for sign-in flow. These are first-party from the user's perspective.

We do not control these cookies. If you block them, payment and sign-in won't work.

How to control cookies

You can clear or block cookies from your browser settings. Doing so will sign you out and may prevent member access. Browser-specific instructions:

You can also use private/incognito browsing if you don't want any cookies kept between sessions.

Do Not Track

We honour Do Not Track in spirit by not running tracking. We do not currently have a way to detect the DNT header automatically, but the absence of advertising or analytics cookies means a DNT-respecting visit is essentially the same as a normal visit.

Changes

If we change this policy, the "Last updated" date above changes. Material changes will be announced in a teaching email.

Contact

Questions: lovechurchgroup@gmail.com.