Privacy
Reading the Mass of the day here needs no account, and nothing tracks you. The only things kept on your device are the choices you make. If you order a calendar, your details go to the companies that take the payment, print it and post it.
Who we are
GA Systems Ltd runs thedailymissal.com and is responsible for the personal data described here. Write to [email protected] with any question or request about it.
- Company
- GA Systems Ltd, a private limited company
- Registered in
- England and Wales
- Company number
- 17453969
- Registered office
- 2 Perry Street, Gateshead, NE9 5DX, United Kingdom
- [email protected]
Reading the site
There is no analytics, no advertising and nothing loaded from other companies: the fonts come from our own server. We do not use cookies to recognise you or to follow you around the web, so there is no cookie banner. The site remembers only the choices you make, on your own device:
| Name | What it holds | Set | Kept |
|---|---|---|---|
calCookie | The calendar you chose from the menu, such as “England”. | Only when you choose a calendar. | One year, or until you choose again. |
cal_guessCookie | The calendar your device’s time zone points to, so that someone in Dublin sees the Irish calendar. Your browser works this out; only the calendar’s name is sent to us, never the time zone. | On your first visit, if you have not chosen a calendar. | Until you close your browser. |
tdm-theme, tdm-sizeBrowser storage | The theme (light or dark) and the text size you chose for the readings. | Only when you change them. | Until you change them back or clear your browser’s data for this site. |
tdm-cal-guessedBrowser storage | A note that the time-zone guess has already been made, so it happens only once. | On your first visit. | Until you close the tab. |
These are needed for the features you use and are never shared. To forget them, choose again in the menu, or clear this site’s data in your browser’s settings.
Like every web server, ours records each request it receives (your IP address, the page and your browser) so that we can keep the site running and protect it from abuse. These logs are deleted after about two weeks. The calendar previews in the shop also count requests per IP address for ten minutes, to stop anyone overloading them.
Ordering a calendar
When you order, we need your name, email address and delivery address, and the choices you made for your calendar, including any cover dedication. We use them to make, post and support your order and to send you emails about it, and we keep the records that tax and accounting law requires. Payment is taken on Stripe’s own page: we never see your card details.
These companies receive your details to do their part:
- Stripe takes the payment and collects your name, email and address at checkout.
- Gelato prints your calendar and posts it, so it receives your name, delivery address and the calendar itself, dedication included.
- Amazon Web Services sends our order emails.
- Hetzner, in the European Union, hosts our server and its database of orders.
Some of them work outside the UK and the European Union; they do so under the safeguards data protection law requires, such as standard contractual clauses. Stripe and Gelato keep their own records of your order under their own privacy policies.
We keep our record of your order for as long as we need it to deliver your calendar and deal with any problem with it, and then for as long as tax and accounting rules require us to keep sales records. After that we delete your name, email and address from it.
The legal grounds: we use your details to carry out your order (a contract), we keep sales records because the law requires it, and we keep server logs because we have a legitimate interest in running a safe and reliable site.
Your rights
You can ask to see the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to have its use restricted, to object to its use, or to receive a copy to take elsewhere. Write to [email protected] and we will answer within a month. Some records we must keep by law, and we will say so if that applies. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the data protection authority where you live; in the United Kingdom that is the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Last updated 7 October 2026.