Privacy Policy
David Rhoades Ministries — davidrhoades.org
Last updated: August 18, 2026
I keep this short and plain, because the honest version is short. I am David Rhoades, pastor of Broadview Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas. This site exists to make my sermons and teaching available and to send letters of encouragement to other pastors. I am not running an advertising business, and I do not sell anything about you.
What this site collects
Your email address, if you give it to me. When you subscribe to Letters to Fellow Pastors, your email address and any name you provide are stored by Kit (formerly ConvertKit), the email service I use to send the letters. That is the only reason I have it.
Basic visit statistics. This site is built on Squarespace, which records ordinary web analytics — pages viewed, approximate location, browser and device type, and how you arrived. I use this only to know which teaching is being read and watched.
Nothing else. I do not ask for, collect, or store payment details, phone numbers, mailing addresses, or any other personal information through this site.
How I use it
Your email address is used to send you the letters you subscribed to, and nothing else. I do not sell, rent, trade, or share my subscriber list with anyone, for any price, for any reason.
Every letter includes an unsubscribe link. It works immediately, and you never have to explain yourself. You can also write to me and I will remove you myself.
Services this site relies on
Squarespace hosts the site and provides its analytics.
Kit stores the subscriber list and sends the letters.
Vimeo and YouTube host the sermon videos embedded here. When a video loads, those services may set their own cookies and receive your IP address, under their own privacy policies rather than this one.
Cookies
This site uses cookies for ordinary functions — remembering that a page loaded correctly, and the analytics described above. Embedded video players set their own. You can block cookies in your browser; the site will still work, though embedded videos may not.
YouTube API Services
I publish my sermon recordings using a private tool of my own, which I call Sermon Factory. It uses YouTube API Services to upload my own original recordings, and the captions I generate from them, to my own YouTube channel.
This tool has no users other than me. It runs on my own computer, is not distributed, sold, or made available to anyone else, and has no website, login page, or user accounts. It cannot access anyone else's YouTube account, channel, or data.
By using it I am bound by the YouTube Terms of Service, which you can read at https://www.youtube.com/t/terms.
Google's own privacy practices are described in the Google Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
What is stored, and for how long
The only thing this tool stores is an authorization token for my own Google account, kept on my own computer so that I do not have to sign in every week. It is not transmitted anywhere, not backed up to any service, and not shared with anyone.
It collects no information whatsoever about visitors to this site, about subscribers, or about any other person. There is no user data to store, because there are no users.
Deletion and revoking access
I can revoke that authorization at any time through Google's security settings at https://myaccount.google.com/permissions. Revoking it immediately ends the tool's access to my YouTube account, and the stored token becomes useless and is deleted from my computer.
Because the tool holds no data belonging to anyone else, there is no other person's data to delete. If you believe otherwise, write to me and I will look into it and respond.
Children
This site is not directed at children, and I do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will be noted in a letter to subscribers.
Contact
Questions about anything here, or a request to see or delete what I hold about you:
David Rhoades — davidrhoades.org/contact