Who we are
Our website address is: thewordinourhearts dot com. The Word in Our Hearts is owned by Rob and Joy Delmore of Nova Scotia, Canada and since it is also an educational website for families, it is an extension/ministry of Peppermint Stick Learning Company Inc., our other educational website which can be seen at peppermintsticklearningco dot com.
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 and if such an option is activated on our website. (For now, we are choosing not to activate that service on our website.) 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.
Cookies
Comments
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 are to last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
There may be a small amount of embedded content (e.g. videos) on this website. 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.
(We also have linked some Bible references to Faithlife Reftagger to make it easier to view Bible verses in a pop-up. Clicking on those links go to that website.)
We ourselves do not add cookies other than what are standard for normal operation of a website, which are in compliance to requirements.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can easily recognize and approve any follow-up comments.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any comment 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.