PRIVACY POLICY & TERMS OF USE
Welcome to our Privacy Hub, where your data security and online privacy are our top priorities.
Who we are
Life’s A Wonder provides written content, including Christian faith-based content, fiction, and other creative works. The website may also offer paid membership services that provide access to designated members-only content.
Our website address is: https://lifesawonder.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. 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
When leaving 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. When 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.
Membership Accounts and Payments
If you register for a paid membership on this website, we may collect and store information necessary to create and manage your membership account, such as your name, email address, username, account information, membership level, and membership status.
If you purchase a membership, we may also retain information relating to your membership orders and payments, including the date of payment, amount paid, membership level, payment status, and information necessary to manage recurring payments and your membership.
Payments are processed through the payment provider presented at checkout. Life’s A Wonder does not receive or store your complete payment-card details. Payment information may be processed and handled by the applicable payment provider in accordance with its own privacy policy and terms.
We use membership and payment information to provide and manage membership access, process payments, manage recurring subscriptions, communicate with members about their membership, and maintain appropriate administrative, financial, and legal records.
Membership Emails
Members may receive emails relating to their membership, including membership confirmation messages, payment receipts, failed-payment notifications, account information, and other necessary communications concerning their membership.
These emails are transactional or service-related communications necessary to administer the membership service.
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 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 do we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
Upon leaving 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 who 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 do 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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Submission of forms
When you submit information through a form on this website, we collect the information you choose to provide and use it for the purpose indicated on the form.
We may use information submitted through forms to respond to enquiries, provide requested services, communicate with you, or otherwise carry out the purpose for which the information was submitted.
We may include any story shared with us, such as a testimony, question, or other submission, on our website, where it may be made freely available for others to read and comment on. If you specifically state that you do not want your submission to be shared or published, we will respect that request, subject to any legal or administrative requirements that may apply.
User Conduct and Account Restrictions
We reserve the right to remove forms, comments, submissions, or other information shared on this website if they contain vulgar language, impudent comments, inappropriate or offensive material, or religious views or content that we consider unsuitable for the website or its community.
We may also restrict, suspend, or terminate a user’s account or membership, including without prior notice where appropriate, if the user violates our Terms of Service or misuses the website.
We may retain information relating to such activity where necessary for security, administrative, legal, or record-keeping purposes.
Use of the Website
By using lifesawonder.com, you acknowledge that you use the website voluntarily and at your own risk.
We take reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold, but no website, online service, or method of electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to exclude or limit any responsibility or liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited.
If you believe that anything on the website is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service, or if you are concerned about or offended by comments or other content on the website, please contact us at contact@lifesawonder.com so that the matter can be reviewed.