Privacy Policy – Faith Driven Stewardship

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 1, 2025
Last Updated: January 1, 2025

At Faith Driven Stewardship, we are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information with care and respect. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website or use our services.

1. Information We Collect

Personal Information

We may collect the following personal information:

Non-Personal Information

We automatically collect certain non-personal information:

2. How We Use Your Information

We use your information for the following purposes:

3. How We Share Your Information

We respect your privacy and do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your information only in the following circumstances:

4. Third-Party Services

Our website uses the following third-party services:

These services have their own privacy policies, and we encourage you to review them.

5. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information against:

However, please note that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.

6. Your Rights and Choices

You have the following rights regarding your personal information:

7. Cookies and Tracking

Our website may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to:

You can control cookies through your browser settings, but disabling cookies may affect website functionality.

8. Children’s Privacy

Our services are not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete such information.

9. International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your own. We ensure that such transfers comply with applicable data protection laws and that appropriate safeguards are in place.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We will notify you of any material changes by:

11. Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal information, please contact us:

Faith Driven Stewardship
Email: kevinriggs@faithdrivenstewardship.info
Website: https://faithdrivenstewardship.info

We will respond to your inquiry within 30 days of receipt.

12. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for processing your personal information includes:

13. California Privacy Rights (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):

This Privacy Policy is designed to comply with applicable privacy laws including GDPR, CCPA, and other regional regulations. By using our website and services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.

Faith Driven Stewardship
Committed to Biblical principles in healthcare professional development

Suggested text: Our website address is: http://faithdrivenstewardship.info.

Comments

Suggested text: 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

Suggested text: 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

Suggested text: 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

Suggested text: 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.

Who we share your data with

Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

Suggested text: 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

Suggested text: 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.

Where your data is sent

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