Who we are
Our website address is: http://lightandunderstanding.org. If you have privacy concerns after reading this policy you may contact us at 9576 Shadybrook Drive, #202, Boynton Beach FL 33437.
What personal data we DO NOT collect
We do not use cookies on our web sites to collect your information. If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in a cookie. These are for your convenience. A cookie will add your name and email address to future comments so that you do not have to type them in again. These cookies last for one year.
We do not use tracking software, such as Google Analytics, on our web sites. We do not track or analyze our visitors.
We do want to know your questions and comments, which leads to what we do collect.
What personal data we DO collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our web pages we collect the data shown in the comments form.
We also use a spam detection service to filter out spam and remove vulgar messages. This software also protects against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activities. It uses the visitor?s IP address and browser user agent string to aid spam detection. This information is kept only long enough to perform this function, unless there are legal and regulatory requirements. These requirements do not apply to most users. For more information click the link to their privacy policy under the comment form.
We may provide an anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: Gravatar Privacy Policy. After their comment is approved, those with a Gravatar profile will see their profile picture in the context of their comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website or our social media pages, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to these websites can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
The Contact form on the Contact page sends us an email with your name, email address and comments. This information is only used to reply to your request. It will never be used for marketing purposes or shared with others.
Notification forms
The sign-up form to be notified of new content asks for your first name and email address. This information is only used to notify you of new content on our website. It is never be used for marketing purposes, and never shared with others.
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 had visited their 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.
Affiliate Marketing
We only share and promote products, services, or businesses that we have found useful and could be beneficial to you, regardless of whether we have a financial relationship with the provider.
We may receive a small percentage when you follow a link from our pages to a bookseller or other entity and make a purchase. This does not result in additional charges to you or additional costs. This does help defray the cost of maintaining our web site.
These other websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with their site.
At present this site is an affiliate of Christianbook.com and Amazon.com.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments more quickly.
For visitors that register for notifications on our website, their personal information is stored in their user profile. Any registered user can request to have their personal information deleted at any time. Website administrators may be able to 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. This will include 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 we send your data
As noted above, visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We may contact Gravatar to see if you have an image for public display.
We do not send anyone’s data to anyone else, unless faced with valid requests from the courts or law enforcement.
How we protect your data
The biggest way we protect your data is by not collecting it. What information you do provide is kept only as long as necessary. Our websites are hosted by a top-tier hosting service with excellent security.
What data breach procedures we have in place
If we determine there has been a data breach involving your data you will be notified.
What third parties we receive data from
None.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
None.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
We do not collect the data that triggers disclosure requirements beyond what is disclosed in this policy.