Privacy Policy
Welcome to The Thoughtful Believer’s Privacy Policy. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website thethoughtfulbeliever.com, including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the site. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
1. Who we are
The Thoughtful Believer (thethoughtfulbeliever.com) is a personal development blog for Christians focused on the Kingdom of God. We also offer digital products through our Etsy shop.
2. What Personal Data We Collect and Why
a. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the blog, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
b. Newsletter Subscriptions
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address to send you updates and promotional content. You can unsubscribe at any time.
c. Contact Forms
When you use our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and any other information you provide in your message.
d. Cookies
We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit. For more information about cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
e. Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
– Provide, operate, and maintain our website
– Improve, personalize, and expand our website
– Understand and analyze how you use our website
– Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
– Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
– Send you emails
– Find and prevent fraud
– Respond to your comments, questions, and requests
4. Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell your personal information. We may share your data with:
– Our newsletter service provider (if we had one)
– Etsy, when you click through to our Etsy shop
– WordPress.com, our website host
– Automated spam detection services
5. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile.
6. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK, you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.
You have the following data protection rights:
– The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you
– The right of rectification: You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete
– The right to object: You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data
– The right of restriction: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information
– The right to data portability: You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format
– The right to withdraw consent: You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where we relied on your consent to process your personal information
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data.
7. Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Your email address may be shared with our newsletter service provider if you subscribe.
8. Additional Information
a. How we protect your data: We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. We use secure socket layer technology (SSL) to encrypt sensitive information during transmission.
b. Third-party links: Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
c. Changes to this privacy policy: We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time. You should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
8. Additional Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
[email protected]
This Privacy Policy was last updated September 2024
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