Who we are
Echo Zoe Ministries is a religious non-profit organization registered in the state of Minnesota, United States of America. Our website address is: https://www.echozoe.org.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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
At the time of this writing (August, 2019) Echo Zoe Ministries does not allow visitors to upload media to this website. However, if that should change at any time in the future, and 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
The contact forms on this website require a name and email address be provided. Names of comment posters are displayed with their comments, but email addresses are not.
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 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
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.
Other websites from which we embed content may include, but are not limited to the following: Youtube, and Libsyn.
Analytics
General website analytics are provided by Google Analytics. Podcast download statistics are provided by Blubrry and Libsyn. We do not store or share this information with anyone.
Who we share your data with
If you register for email newsletters and/or podcast alerts, your name and email address are stored by MailChimp for the purpose of sending you the emails you sign up for. Echo Zoe Ministries does not store or share this information with anyone. All emails include an unsubscribe link, which MailChimp uses to remove you from the list so you no longer receive alerts or newsletters from us via their service.
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, 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 we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Additional information
This site includes code furnished by Google that provides analytics information. Information we receive is generalized in nature and anonymous. Google does not provide personal information to us.
Podcast analytics is provided by Blubrry (RawVoice, Inc.) Blubrry provides us generalized information related to the number of podcast downloads we receive, and general locality information (downloads by country.)