Who we are
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from The HymnStore at HymnSite.com.
Our website address is: https://www.hymnsite.com/hymnstor (“Site”).
The Site is a WooCommerce installation in WordPress, with payment processing through PayPal. We also are also an Amazon Affiliate seller and Amazon’s products are linked from this Site. Amazon links from this site include an affiliate ID so that their sales from this store are properly tracked and accounted for. Amazon collects and uses information through its site in accordance with Amazon’s own privacy policy. HymnSite.com has used Google Analytics and Google Ads in the past. We have tried to remove those, but Google may still track some activity in our site.
Personal Information We Collect
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that may be installed on your device.
Additionally, as you browse the Site, we may collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically collected information as Device Information.
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
Cookies are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. These are discussed in greater detail below.
Log files track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
Links to Amazon from this Site include an affiliate ID so that sales are properly tracked and accounted for. Amazon may collect and use information on its site in accordance with Amazon’s own privacy policy.
Google may still use tracking tools and/or technologies during your visit, particularly if you arrived from a link in their search engine.
Also, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, PayPal may collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers). This is called Order Information.
By Personal Information in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.
By Personal Information in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).
Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
- Communicate with you.
- Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud.
- When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
- We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site.
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
The HymnStore at HymnSite.com uses WooCommerce in WordPress, each of which uses cookies.
WordPress 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.
WooCommerce Cookies
WooCommerce use of cookies is addressed at https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-cookies/.
HymnSite.com Cookies
Outside of The HymnStore at HymnSite.com, we make limited use of cookies. You can learn more about these at http://www.hymnsite.com/privacy.
Embedded content from other websites
Some resources 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
We do not share your information with third parties except in processing any order that you place or try to place. Also, we may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
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 own 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.
Changes
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
If you have questions and/or require more information, do not hesitate to contact us through our contact form.