Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. It is CalmingGrace.com’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, https://www.calminggrace.com.

Your continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, feel free to contact us at [email protected].

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Your contact information

You may choose to provide your name and email address in order to subscribe to the blog by email, complete a contact form, or make a comment.

We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used.

For questions regarding your data and how we use it, you can reach us at [email protected]. You can also email us here if you would like an extract of all of your personal information stored on our website or to request that we delete all of your information stored on our website.

You are free to refuse our request for your personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services.

Subscription and opt-in forms

When you fill out a newsletter subscription form on CalmingGrace.com we only collect the information you enter into the form. If the form asks for your name, email address, or any other personal information, then that information is added to our email subscription list. We only retain that information for as long as necessary in order to send you the newsletter by email.

We never sell information from subscription forms to any third parties for any purpose.

If you have previously subscribed to CalmingGrace.com but would like to modify your subscription preferences, you can do so by replying to any email you receive from CalmingGrace.com and explaining what you would like to modify. You can also modify the types of emails you want to receive by clicking on the “Update Preferences” link in the footer of any email you receive from CalmingGrace.com.

If you have previously subscribed to CalmingGrace.com but would like to unsubscribe, you can do so using the “Unsubscribe” link in the footer of any email you receive from CalmingGrace.com.

Contact forms

When you fill out a contact form on CalmingGrace.com we only collect the information you enter into the form. If the form asks for your name, email address, or any other personal information, then that information is sent to us via email. We only retain that information—including your email address—for as long as necessary to address your purpose in contacting us.

Email addresses provided in contact forms are not ever used for any purpose other than to reply to you in regards to your reason for contacting us. We never sell information from contact forms to any third parties for any purpose.

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.

We do not collect your email address from the comments form for use in any email list. We also never sell email addresses to third parties.

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.

Media

In general, users are not able to upload images or other media files to this website. However, 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.

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.

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.

Analytics

As you use this Website, we use automatic data collection technology (Google Analytics) to collect certain information about your device, browsing actions, and patterns. This generally includes information about where you are, how you use our website, and any communications between your computer and this site. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.

We collect this data for statistical purposes and we don’t collect personal information. The purpose of this data is to improve our Website and offerings.

If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics so that none of your personal information is collected and stored by Google Analytics, you can download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on here. For more information on how Google collects and uses your data, you can access the Google Privacy Policy here.

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.

We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. What data we store, we’ll protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments on this site, or have subscribed to this site by email, 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.

Who we share your data with

We don’t sell or share your data with anyone. We do use a third-party email provider called MailerLite to store your name, email address, and subscription preferences if you voluntarily subscribe to get the email newsletter. The MailerLite Privacy Policy can be found here.

We don’t share any personally identifying information publicly or with third-parties, except when required to by law.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service called Akismet. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

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