Who We Are
Heart Work Retreats (heartworkretreats.com) is run by Melody Stevenson. If you have questions about this policy or the data we hold about you, you can reach us at info@heartworkretreats.com.
Newsletter Signup
When you sign up for our mailing list (“Join the Circle”) on this site, we collect your email address. It’s stored and managed through Mailchimp, our email service provider, and used only to send you updates about retreats and reflections from Heart Work Retreats. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email we send you. See Mailchimp’s privacy policy for more on how they handle your data.
Comments
When visitors leave a comment on this site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be shared with the Gravatar service to check whether you’re using it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public alongside your comment.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use this site — for example, which pages are visited most. This service may use cookies and collects information such as your approximate location, device type, and browsing behavior on this site. See Google’s privacy policy for more detail.
Media
If you upload images to this website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included, since visitors can download and extract that location data from images on the site.
Embedded Content
Some posts on this site include embedded content from other websites (for example, Instagram posts). Embedded content behaves exactly as if you had visited that other website directly. Those sites may collect data about you, use cookies, and track your interaction with the embedded content, including if you’re logged into an account there.
Cookies
If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in a cookie for your convenience the next time you comment. These cookies last for one year. Our Google Analytics integration and our newsletter signup form may also set cookies to support their own functionality.
How Long We Retain Your Data
Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely, so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Email addresses collected for our newsletter are retained until you unsubscribe.
Who We Share Your Data With
Newsletter sign-ups are shared with Mailchimp, our email service provider. Analytics data is processed by Google. We do not sell your personal information to anyone.
Your Rights Over Your Data
You can ask us to tell you what personal data we hold about you, correct it, or delete it. To unsubscribe from our newsletter, use the link included in any email you’ve received from us. For any other request, email us at info@heartworkretreats.com.