The privacy of my visitors to DefendingTheLord.com is important to me.
At DefendingTheLord.com, I recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information I receive and collect when you use and visit DefendingTheLord.com, and how I safeguard your information. First of all, I never sell your personal information to third parties.
Who I am:
My website address is: http://defendingthelord.com. I am 1 guy who loves the Lord Jesus Christ, and loves sharing about Him with others. If you would like to learn more about me, please feel free to read my About page.
What personal data I collect and why I collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, the data shown in the comments form is automatically collected, as well as 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.
Media
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Log Files
As with most other websites, I collect the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider), the browser you used to visit this site, the time you visited my site, and which pages you visited throughout my site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
I do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit my site. I also use third party advertisements (such as Google Adsense) on DefendingTheLord.com to (attempt to help) support my site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on my site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google, through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit my site, and in some cases, etc. for geotargeting purposes, based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
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 have an account and you log in to this site (though I don’t currently offer that ability), 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.
DoubleClick DART cookies
I may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted, based on your previous browsing history (for example, if you’ve been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can also opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting here.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security (or by clicking the notification at the top of your browser when first visiting my site). However, this can affect your ability to interact with my site, as well as other websites.
Notice, deleting cookies does NOT mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
How long I 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 this 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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.