Privacy Policy for RedLetterChristians.org
Last updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2024
1. Introduction
Red Letter Christians (“RLC,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors and members. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, redletterchristians.org, or participate in official RLC online events or activities that we publicly host.
2. Information We Collect
2.1. Personal Information:
We may collect personal information that you provide directly to us, such as:
- Name
- Email address
- Mailing address
- Phone number
- Donation information
2.2. Automatically Collected Information:
We may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage of our website, including:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Pages visited
- Time spent on pages
2.3. Comments:
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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 at https://automattic.com/privacy/.
2.4. Media:
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- Providing and maintaining our website and services
- Communicating with you about our activities and initiatives
- Processing donations
- Sending newsletters and updates (with your consent)
- Improving our website and services
- Complying with legal obligations
4. Cookies
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 could last for up to two years.
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 set up cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. These cookies could last for up to two years. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for up to two years. If you log out, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, additional cookies will be saved in your browser. These cookies could last for up to two years.
5. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles). 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 the embedded content.
6. Sharing of Information
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your information with:
- Service providers who assist us in operating our website and services
- Legal and regulatory authorities, as required by law
7. Security
We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.
8. Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it and to comply with legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely. For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profiles.
9. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Access, correct, or delete your personal information
- Opt-out of marketing communications
- Request restriction of processing of your personal data
- Data portability: receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you
10. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [mailto email=”[email protected]”] or visit our Contact Us page.