Lutheran Life Communities Privacy Policy.

Our website address is: LutheranLifeLiving.org.

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.

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 and similar technologies.

Lutheran Life Communities uses cookies, pixels and similar technologies to operate our website, understand how visitors use it and measure the effectiveness of our communications and advertising.

Cookies are small data files placed on your device when you visit a website. Some cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. Other cookies help us understand website activity, improve website performance and evaluate our marketing efforts.
We may use the following categories of technologies:

Essential cookies
These cookies are necessary for website functionality, security and navigation. They cannot be disabled through our cookie preference tool.

Analytics cookies
We use analytics technologies, including Google Analytics, to understand how visitors interact with our website. These technologies may collect information such as pages visited, time spent on the site, referring websites, browser type, device type and general geographic information. Google requires websites using Google Analytics to disclose its use and explain how data is collected and processed.

Advertising and measurement technologies
We may use advertising technologies, including the Meta Pixel, to measure the performance of advertising on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. These technologies may collect information about your device and your interactions with our website and may share that information with the applicable service provider.

Lutheran Life does not use website visitor information collected through the Meta Pixel for website retargeting unless otherwise disclosed.
You can accept or reject nonessential cookies through the cookie banner displayed when you visit our website. You can also review or change your selections at any time through the Cookie Preferences link in the website footer.

Disabling nonessential cookies will not prevent you from accessing the website, although some optional features may function differently.

We do not intend to collect medical, health or other sensitive personal information through cookies or advertising technologies. Please do not enter sensitive information into website search fields or other areas that are not specifically designed to collect that information.

Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies. More information about their practices is available through the privacy materials provided by Google and Meta.

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.

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.