Privacy Policy

Overview


This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for http://SpiritView.net

Because SpiritView wants to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, we disclose our information practices to the public. Upon reading this privacy statement, you will know:

  • What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally identifiable is collected from you through the web site
  • The organization collecting the information
  • How the information is used
  • With whom the information may be shared
  • What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information
  • The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under SpiritView’s control
  • How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Who we are

Our website address is: http://SpiritView.net. The SpiritView website is solely owned by Evan Mehlenbacher, a Christian Science practitioner and teacher.  This site is dedicated to sharing spiritual insights on a regular basis through the pages and posts on SpiritView.net.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Evan Mehlenbacher/Spirit View is the sole owner of the information collected on our site, SpiritView.net.  We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. The SpiritView Website collects information from our users at several different points on our website.

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.

Contact forms

All visitors to SpiritView.net have the option of completing a contact form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (such as name and email address). This information will be used to communicate with the user in the future and tailor information to them.

Newsletter

If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. A user may choose to opt-out of receiving future emails by unsubscribing to the emails sent.

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.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Who we share your data with

In the future, we may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

Links


This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we [SpiritView] are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site.

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 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Security

This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our website so that our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Contact information

If you feel that http://SpiritView.net is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, you should contact Evan Mehlenbacher by calling (509) 374-3800 or sending an email to [email protected].