Bethanyblogs.com takes your privacy very seriously. This privacy policy is designed to assist you in understanding how your data is collected and how the personal information you provide to is used to assist you in making informed decisions when using this site and the products or services. Please review this Privacy Policy before you use this website or any of the services or features offered. By using this site and its services and features, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the BethanyBlogs.com site or its services and features.
Official Bethany Blogs Privacy Policy
This privacy policy covers all content found on BethanyBlogs.com and associated sites.
Information Collected
Bethanyblogs.com may collect certain personal information when you register to use the website or its services and features, such as any e-mail newsletter, including, but not limited to, your name, e-mail address, and location. Additional personal information, including your physical address to deliver products, may also be collected. Non-personally identifiable information from users of this site, such as their Internet protocol address, the type of browser and operating system they use, the domain name of their Internet service provider, and the web pages, content and advertisements they may have visited, viewed or clicked on may also be collected. This information is collected in the following ways:
- IP Address:
- 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. If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
- Cookies:
- Cookies are text files placed in your computer’s browsing history to store your preferences. They do not contain personal information. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website 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. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
- 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.
Who we share your data with
Bethany Blogs does not sell or rent your contact information to any third parties.
Unless otherwise disclosed to you, we will not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to third parties without notifying you of our intent to share the personal information in advance and giving you an opportunity to prevent your personal information from being shared.
We may use your personal information within BethanyBlogs.com and associated websites to:
- process transactions
- communicate with you (respond to comments, emails, newsletters, notification of changes)
- improve the site and services
- enforce legal terms that
- protect the website, services, systems, information, business partners, service providers, users, customers or others
- for any other purposes for which the information is collected and maintained.
Your non-personally identifiable information may be used to analyze the usage of this site, to improve the design and content, deliver appropriate marketing, personalize the website experience, and offer relevant products or services. Occasionally, your IP address may be used to identify you in order to enforce any legal terms that govern this site or to protect our site, services, systems, information, employees, business partners, service providers, users, customers or others from injury or harm.
How Information is Shared
We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy statement. Your personal information will not be sold to third parties.
At times we may disclose your personal information as required by law such as to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process. We may also be required to disclose information about you if we determine that for security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary.
We also may disclose user information when we have reason to believe that someone is causing injury to or interference with our rights or property. We may also share information if it becomes necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
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.
Information from Minors
Bethany Blogs does not knowingly collect any information from children under the age of 13, or information from any individual under the age of 18 without the consent of a parent or guardian. If you believe that your child has registered on our site or that we have collected information from your child, please contact us immediately so that we can remove that information from our database.
Termination
These terms and conditions are applicable to you upon your accessing this website. You may have the right to “opt in” and “opt out” of certain uses of your personal information. You may opt out of any email communications by clicking the opt-out link in our messages, or by sending us a message stating that you would like to be removed from a specific email list, or all communications entirely.
Additional Policies
Before using any page on this site, please review the additional policies posted on this site. Accessing BethanyBlogs.com indicates acceptance of these policies.