Effective Date: September 30, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how Esther Baker (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and shares your personal information. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you understand how your data is handled.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://estherbaker.org.
1. Data Collected via Contact Form (Crucial for Consent)
When visitors submit an inquiry through our contact form, we collect the data provided in the form fields.
Information Collected:
Name
Email Address
Message Content
Purpose of Processing: The personal information collected through the contact form is used solely to respond to your inquiry, provide the requested information, and communicate with you regarding your message.
Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR): We process this data based on your consent, which you provide by checking the acceptance box and submitting the form, and our legitimate interest to address your direct communication. We will not use this email address for marketing purposes unless you have given us separate, explicit consent to do so.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Who we share your data with
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties. We only share data as necessary to provide service or when required by law.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
7. How long we retain your data
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for.
Contact Form Submissions: We retain non-customer contact form submissions for a maximum of [Please specify a retention period, e.g., 6 months] for record-keeping and follow-up purposes, after which they are automatically deleted.
Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
Registered Users: For users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile.
8. What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you have the following rights:
Right to Access: You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Erasure: 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.
Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
9. Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Contact form submissions are sent to our internal email system and are stored securely to facilitate communication.
10. Contacting Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise any of your data rights, or have other privacy concerns, please contact us through our contact form on the bottom of the page of:
Website: https://estherbaker.org