Privacy Who we are We are A Life in Faith. Our website address is: https://alifeinfaith.com. You can send us an email at info@alifeinfaith.com. Further contact information can be found on this website’s Contact page. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site 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. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. Donations This site accepts donations to offset the cost of hosting and maintenance and in support of the mission of A Life in Faith. If you make a donation, we use a Third-party plug-in called GiveWP which is connected to Paypal and Venmo – see the terms and conditions link on the donation form for the specific policies of your donation. Your information is safe but we do not directly process it. GiveWP does not retain any of your information and the gateway services (Paypal) only does as required by law (Paypal privacy statement) . We capture your name and email and the amount you donated, and any comment you leave (even if you make an anonymous donation). If your donation is anonymous, we will not show your information publicly. If your donation is not anonymous, we may, at our discretion, display recent donations if they include comments to encourage others to donate. However, at this time we do not intend to display non-anonymous donation comments. Cookies If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name and email address in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. Our website saves various cookies to ensure it performs correctly and to provide the various functions we provide. You can view our opt-out page HERE for more information. Embedded content from other websites 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, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. If you follow a link to an external website, you should review that websites Privacy policy which will govern your interactions with their site. How long we retain your data If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Likewise, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will retain your name and email address indefinitely. What rights you have over your data If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Where your data is sent Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. This website uses the Privacy Suite for WordPress by Complianz to collect and record Browser and Device-based Consent. For this functionality, your IP address is anonymized and stored in our database. This service does not process any personally identifiable information and does not share any data with the service provider. For more information, see the Complianz Privacy Statement. We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet Anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself). This website uses Burst Statistics, a Privacy-Friendly Statistics Tool to analyze visitor behavior. For this functionality we (this website) collect anonymized data, stored locally without sharing it with other parties. For more information, please read the Privacy Statement from Burst.