Privacy and cookies

Who we are

This website is run by the Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of Surrey. For anything to do with your personal information, write to the Provincial Grand Secretary through the contact page.

What we collect

We only hold personal information that you choose to send us through a form on this site.

• The joining enquiry form asks for your name, email address, your Craft lodge and a message.
• The contact form asks for your name, email address and a message.
• The Charity Ball interest form asks for your name, email address, the size of your party, whether you are a member and a message.
• The sponsorship form asks for your name, organisation, email address, phone number and a message.

Membership of a Masonic lodge may be treated as information about your beliefs, which the law protects more strongly. We use what you tell us about your lodge only to answer your enquiry.

Why we use it

We use the details you send to reply to you and, if you ask about joining, to introduce you to a lodge near you. That means passing your enquiry to the Provincial officers and the lodge secretary who can help. We do this because you have asked us to, and we do not use your details for anything else. We do not sell them or share them outside the Province.

How long we keep it

Enquiries are kept for as long as it takes to deal with them and for a reasonable period afterwards, then deleted. If you go on to join a lodge, your membership records are kept separately by that lodge and by Mark Masons' Hall under their own privacy notices.

Who processes it for us

The site is hosted by Netlify, which also receives form submissions and passes them to us by email. Netlify keeps standard server logs, including IP addresses, for a short period to keep the service secure. Netlify is based in the United States and processes this information under standard contractual safeguards.

Each form runs a short automatic check, provided by Cloudflare Turnstile, to keep out spam. When a form appears on your screen, Cloudflare receives your IP address and some technical details about your browser so that it can tell a person from an automated program. It uses them for that purpose only.

Cookies

This website does not set cookies and does not use advertising or tracking technology. Fonts and images are served from the site itself. The spam check on our forms, described above, is the one part loaded from another service.

We count visits with Plausible Analytics, which uses no cookies and collects no personal information. It tells us which pages are read and roughly where visitors come from, and nothing that identifies you.

Links to other websites, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Surrey Keystone and Mark Masons' Hall, take you to services with their own privacy and cookie policies.

Your rights

You can ask to see the information we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, or to stop us using it. Write to the Provincial Grand Secretary through the contact page and we will reply within one month. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Last updated November 2026.