Welcome to Seeker of Christ. Your privacy is very important to us. This policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal information when you use our website https://seekerofchrist.com/ (“Site”).
1. Who We Are
- Name: Seeker of Christ
- Website: seekerofchrist.com
- Contact Email: eric@seekerofchrist.com
2. What Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
- Personal Information:
- Name
- Email address
- Other contact information (phone number, address) when you voluntarily provide it (e.g. newsletter signup, contacting us, event registration).
- Technical / Usage Data:
- IP address
- Device type and browser version
- Pages you visit on the Site
- Time and date of your visit
- Referring website (where you came from)
- Cookies, pixels, or similar tracking technologies
3. How We Use the Information
We use the information we collect for purposes including:
- To provide, maintain, and optimize the Site and its features.
- To respond to your inquiries, messages, or support requests.
- To send you newsletters or other communications (only if you opt-in).
- To analyze usage patterns to improve content, layout, and user experience.
- To comply with legal obligations.
4. Cookies and Tracking
- We use cookies (small data files stored in your browser) to help track activity on our Site and remember your preferences.
- We may also use web analytics tools (such as Google Analytics or similar) to see how our users navigate and use the Site. These tools may collect technical data as listed above.
- You can typically opt-out of cookies via your browser settings. Some browser tools or plugins may also allow you to limit tracking.
5. Sharing and Disclosure of Information
- We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
- We may share data with third-party service providers who help us operate our Site (e.g. hosting, email service providers, analytics tools), under terms that require them to protect your data.
- We may disclose information if required by law or court order, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Seeker of Christ, our users, or others.
6. Data Retention
- We retain your personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected (e.g. if you unsubscribe, we will remove your email from newsletters, unless needed for legal reasons).
- Technical or usage data may be retained as aggregate or anonymized data for analytic purposes.
7. Security
- We take reasonable measures to protect your information, including using secure (HTTPS) connections.
- Access to personal data is restricted to those who need it to perform their duties.
- However, no data transmission over the Internet or storage system is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
8. Your Rights
Depending on where you are, you may have certain rights over your data. These may include:
- Accessing the personal data we hold about you.
- Correcting or updating your data.
- Deleting your data.
- Opting out of certain data collection or communications.
- (If applicable) Requesting restrictions on how your data is used.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [Insert Contact Email].
9. Children
- If you are under [13 / the age applicable in your country], please get parental or guardian consent before using the Site or providing us with any personal information.
- We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the applicable age without consent.
10. International Transfers
- If we transfer your personal data across borders (for example, to service providers in other countries), we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your information in accordance with applicable law.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will:
- Post the new version here with a revised “Last updated” date.
- Notify users via email or via a notice on the Site, if the changes are significant.
12. How to Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this policy, or want to exercise your rights, you can contact us at:
- Email: eric@seekerofchrist.com
Thank you for trusting Seeker of Christ. We are committed to honoring your privacy and being transparent about how we manage your information.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
For users that register on our 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.
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, 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.