Last Updated: 11-September, 2024
1. Introduction
Saint Lucy’s Home is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website (www.saintlucyshome.org).
2. Information We Collect
- Personal Information: We may collect personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, and any other information you provide when you contact us, subscribe to our newsletter, or register on our site.
- Non-Personal Information: We may collect non-personal information, including but not limited to your IP address, browser type, and browsing activity on our site.
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (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.
3. How We Use Your Information
- To Provide Services: We use your information to respond to your inquiries, provide updates, and improve our services.
- Communication: We may use your contact information to send newsletters, updates, or other communications that may be of interest to you.
- Analytics: We use non-personal information for website analytics and to improve the user experience on our site.
- 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.
4. Cookies
- General Use of Cookies: We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer’s hard drive and enable us to recognize your browser and capture certain information. You may choose to disable cookies through your browser settings.
- 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 you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
- Login: 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.
- Content Editing: 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.
5. 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.
6. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to third parties unless required by law or as part of a transaction (e.g., mailing services for newsletters).
7. Data Security
We implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal information. However, no online data transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data.
8. Children’s Privacy
Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us, and we will delete such information.
9. How Long We Retain Your Data
- Comments: 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.
- Registered Users: 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.
10. 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.
11. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
12. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these external sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with the updated date.
14. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.