Privacy Policy
Our website address is: https://www.xpastor.org.
XPastor applauds online privacy and since our inception in 2003, we have done our best to ensure your privacy. XPastor uses current best practices to ensure that your data is not misused or accessed by others. Our site is secured with HTTPS protocols.
Cookies
XPastor only uses Google Analytics to understand how many people visit our various pages.
Gravatar
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. Authors with Gravatar will have their Gravatar images displayed in their biography. Only G and PG images are allowed. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here.
Log-in Cookies
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.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information provided in your user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except you cannot change your username, to do that the user must delete their account). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Embedded Content
Articles on our site may include embedded content (such as videos from Vimeo). 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.
Your Information and Purchases
If you have an account on our site, 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.
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to: send you information about your account and order; respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints; process payments and prevent fraud; set up your account for our store; comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes; and improve our store offerings.
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders. For our learning management system, we store course progress and essay submissions. Log into your account to see the limited information that we have.
XPastor does not store your credit card information. You can choose to have Stripe servers store your credit card information. You can delete your information from their servers at any time.
If required by law, we will disclose the limited personal information we have.
YouTube
On a few of our older video pages, we use plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube.
Vimeo
On most video pages, we use features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our plugin or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored. If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account. For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy.
Google Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, we often use web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer. Further information about handling user data, can be found at here and in Google’s Privacy Policy.
Transparency Since 2003
From its inception, XPastor has been transparent in its data use and collection:
- We have always allowed you to delete your account on XPastor at any time.
- You have always been allowed to unsubscribe from our Mailchimp newsletter by clicking on unsubscribe at the bottom of our emails.
- You have always been allowed to see what data you have at XPastor and change it.
XPastor posts articles with the written permission of the author. All photos are used legally, generally purchased from Bigstock photo. We value integrity in our website, photos and articles.
XPastor assumes that all users are over 18 years old or that an adult has given approval for using our content. We have no content of an explicit nature on our site.
We may change this privacy statement at any time and any changes will be posted on this page.