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 and more about cookies
Many web hosts, ours included, collect some anonymous analytics data as part of their standard services to their clients to have a website hosted by it.
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.
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 ourselves do not add cookies other than what are standard for normal operation of a website, including basic SEO, which are all to be in compliance to requirements.
SEO
We do use SEO (e.g. keywords) so that people can find our website easier when they search for it in a search engine. It might even be part of the reason that YOU found our website originally! But using SEO and similar things produces a bunch of analytics as well.
About GOOGLE ANALYTICS (GOOGLE LLC): Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
To reduce the amount of tracking that cookies and website analytics do on your web activities, you can try to delete your cookies in your browser or use an “in-private” setting. You may be able to refuse cookies on your computer too; however, some parts of the website may not function properly if you do. There are no guarantees these actions work sufficiently to increase your privacy to the level that you might desire it. But we’re supposed to tell you here how you can opt out of tracking and that is the best recommendation we can come up with. Just remember what my first computer professor told his class 20+ years ago – “When you’re online, think of it being as private as someone always peeking over your shoulder.” It’s just one of those realities in the technological world!
About Facebook and cookies:
We would like to set up a Facebook page soon for the purpose of using the content of The Word In Our Hearts website in social media as well. When that happens, there will be cookies that come with linking to and from Facebook – they track the activities and other information such as demographics of Facebook users, according to their terms. Facebook provides us analytics automatically too. (We have no control over this if we want to have a Facebook site but we put this in here so that you know about it clearly.)
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.
Compliance with children’s online privacy protection act: Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 16 years of age. If there has been an error, Parent(s)/Guardian(s) please let us know so we can delete such information. By the way, while we encourage parents/guardians to teach children/teens how to use a computer as a tool, we also encourage you to carefully monitor and greatly limit the length of time they spend on screen-time.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Otherwise, to our knowledge, the data is kept with our website host as well as in another off-site back-up service. Some of it may also be put into our administration files (in Canada). But in the world of the internet, the storage of visitor data could be anywhere in the world.
Comments placed on our public Facebook page would be an example of information going anywhere in the world too.
Additional Comments
By continuing to use this website, you signify your acceptance of this policy.
Any changes to this privacy policy will be posted here. You may contact us through this page for questions or concerns.