Privacy Policy

As site owner and operators, we’ll promise to be fully transparent about how we use your data, which you voluntarily consent to give us by your own choice to freely interact with the website. We will not ever sell your data or use it in way not outlined below.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

If you leave a comment or register as a forum user, we will have:

• your username
• your email address
• your name (optional)
• your location (optional)

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.

Contact forms

If you fill one out, we will have your data that you send with the form. We will only use it to respond to you via email regarding your inquiry or comments, and perhaps add your suggestions to the website. If this worries you, don’t fill out the form.

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 will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

Analytics

Your session data, including the times and dates of your visit, along with which pages you visited are stored and analyzed to help us grow the reader base and understand how users interact with the site. However, no personally identifiable information (name, address, etc) is ever collected in our analytics platform (Google Analytics).

Who we share your data with

Nobody. Only the site admins have access to your name and email address, which we collect in order to let visitors subscribe, leave comments or join the forum.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely unless you delete them yourself. 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, 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

You can always request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated 3rd party spam detection plugin, to ensure your activities don’t match common spam activities across the web.

Your contact information

Only used to authorize comments and forum activity, as well as to email you (if you are subscribed) with new content updates.

How to delete your personal data

To allow for easier account creation for commenting. we allow Facebook, Google and WordPress authentication. These services allow you the option to sign into one of those accounts securely with your own password, authenticate with the service and use the email address, name and profile picture associated with that account on the Doctrine of Christ website.

If you’d like us to delete any information we have about you, simply contact us and let us know. Please include your email address associated with this website and your name, and we will process that request as soon as possible and confirm with you that your information has been deleted from our records.