Privacy policy, affiliate disclosure, comment policy

Q Spirit regards the privacy and security of user information as a critical component of the service offered to users.  Q Spirit will only use your contact information for its own mailings.  Q Spirit may collect and disseminate anonymous, aggregate data about use of our sites in order to improve and promote our service.

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Prices are exactly the same for readers whether they purchase is through an affiliate link or a non-affiliate link. Q Spirit is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com, Amazon.com.ca, Amazon.com.uk, and any other website that may be affiliated with Amazon Service LLC Associates Program.

When you click links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network. Q Spirit also participates in affiliate programs offered by Zazzle.com and Etsy.com, and is governed by their privacy policies. For more info on privacy and affiliate marketing, visit paidforadvertising.com.

Q Spirit is an individual project of Kittredge Cherry, not a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Q Spirit encourages open, respectful discussion through comments. A safe, polite environment is maintained by moderating comments based on the following principles:

1. No personal attacks.
2. No attacks on groups (including claims that homosexuality is a sin), no profanity, no calls for violence.
3. No repetitive comments.
4. No spam.
5. No profanity.
6. Comments must be on topic and in English.
7. Back-and-forth debate between two commenters is discouraged.
8. Q Spirit reserves the right not to approve any comments for any reason, including those are offensive or that create a hostile atmosphere.

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

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

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.

Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics. For information on how they collect and process data, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact information

Contact information for Q Spirit is listed on the contact page at https://qspirit.net/contact/