Terms of Service

The Benedictine Way (“We”, “Our”, “Us”) is a ministry of The Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska. Contact information is available here. This page explains our terms of service and privacy policy for thebenedictineway.org. By using The Benedictine Way’s website and services, you confirm you have agreed to these terms and policies.

Copyright Act Notice

Please notify The Benedictine Way’s copyright agent, as set forth in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), if you believe that any of your intellectual property rights have been infringed. To be effective, the notification should include: (i) a physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right being infringed; (ii) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at the site; (iii) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; (iv) information sufficient to allow us to contact the complaining party; (v) a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, agent, or the law; and (vi) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right being infringed. If you fail to comply with all of these requirements, your DMCA notification may not be valid. The above information must be submitted to:

Attn: DMCA notice
The Benedictine Way
3020 Belvedere Boulevard
Omaha, NE 68111.

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets forth the privacy practices of The Benedictine Way and only applies to information collected from thebenedictineway.org.

Personal information that you have entered into our various webforms (name, email, address, phone number, date of birth, allergies/dietary restrictions, pledge) is collected in order to track and respond to your submissions, prayer requests, retreat requests, and applications. Information sharing policies for each of our forms are detailed below. All forms share information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

  • Unless you indicate otherwise, prayer requests submitted online are read aloud at our public prayer hours. We do not include the email associated with the request.

  • Information entered into the Young Adult Residency form, both retreat forms, and our contact form, is shared with our Deans and relevant ministry leaders.

  • Information entered into the Pledge Form* is shared with the Prior, Deans, Treasurer, and Director of Finance.

    • *Note: The exact amount of your pledge is recorded in the diocesan office and shared only with the Prior, Treasurer, and Director of Finance.

The Benedictine Way collects your information when you provide consent; for purposes which are required by law; and for the purposes of responding to requests by government, a court of law or law enforcement authorities conducting an investigation. The Benedictine Way uses your information where it is necessary to fulfill our legitimate interests, which include operating our website, providing information and services described on our website, communicating with you via newsletters to which you subscribe, responding to your applications, requests, and questions, and informing you of areas of interest available.

If you no longer want The Benedictine Way to use your personal information, you may request that we remove you from our mailing lists and other internal lists by contacting azimmerman@episcopal-ne.org. However, The Benedictine Way may retain your personal information for as long as is necessary for our legitimate business interests and to comply with legal obligations.

Some functions on our website are managed by third parties which have their own data privacy policies (Google, PayPal). The Benedictine Way encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from thebenedictineway.org so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. The Benedictine Way is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of thebenedictinway.org.

The Benedictine Way website is hosted by Squarespace. This website collects personal data when you visit, including: Information about your browser, network, and device, Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, Web pages you view while on this website, and Your IP address. Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

  • Squarespace site analytics may also collect information about your use of this website to learn about site traffic and activity, including: Clicks, Internal links, Pages visited, Scrolling, Searches, and Timestamps.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses. These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including: Information about your browser, network, or device, Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it, and Your IP address.

For more information about Squarespace’s website policies, you may view their privacy policy or terms of service.