Effective Date: July 9, 2025
Welcome to Ecclesia in Culture. Your privacy is paramount, and this policy outlines how your personal information is collected, used, and protected when you visit and interact with this blog. This policy aims to comply with relevant data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for visitors from the European Union.
1. Information We Collect
When you interact with Ecclesia in Culture, we may collect certain basic personal information:
Information You Directly Provide: This includes your name, email address, and any content you submit when you:
- Subscribe to receive email updates or newsletters (if this feature is made available).
- Fill out and submit the contact form.
- Leave a comment on a blog post.
Automatically Collected Information: When you visit the blog, certain information may be automatically collected by the underlying platforms and services, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and pages viewed. This data helps in the functioning and improvement of the blog.
This information is collected primarily to facilitate your engagement with the blog, to respond to your inquiries, to manage blog comments, and to deliver any requested updates.
2. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Ecclesia in Culture uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your Browse experience, provide blog functionality, and understand user behavior. These are primarily managed by Google, through the Blogger platform itself, Google Analytics, and potentially Google AdSense.
Blogger Cookies: These are essential for the basic functionality of the blog, such as maintaining user sessions and remembering your preferences.
Google Analytics Cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors use our blog. They track anonymous data such as the pages you visit, the duration of your stay, the type of device you use, and referral sources. This aggregated data allows us to analyze blog traffic and improve content relevance, without personally identifying you. You can learn more about Google Analytics' data privacy and security at
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 Google AdSense Cookies (if applicable): If advertisements are displayed on this blog, Google AdSense may use cookies to serve personalized ads based on your interests and past interactions across websites. This is part of Google's effort to provide relevant advertising.
As required by laws such as the GDPR, a cookie consent banner is displayed on this blog to inform you about the use of cookies and to obtain your consent for their use.
For comprehensive information on how Google processes data from sites or apps that use their services, please refer to
3. Third-Party Services and Embedded Content
This blog may incorporate links to or embedded content from third-party services (e.g., YouTube videos, social media share buttons, external survey forms). These third-party services may operate independently and may set their own cookies or collect data according to their own privacy policies.
Examples of such third-party tools and embedded content that may be used on Ecclesia in Culture include:
YouTube: Videos embedded from YouTube (a Google service) may set cookies and collect data as per
Google's Privacy Policy YouTube's specific privacy information Google/Blogger Commenting System: The commenting system is managed by Google/Blogger and processes your name, email address, and IP address for the purpose of managing comments, preventing spam, and displaying your comments on the blog, as per
Google's Privacy Policy
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party services you interact with via our blog.
4. Your Data, Your Choice (Your Rights)
You are in control of your personal information. Under applicable data protection laws, including the GDPR for residents of the European Union, you have certain rights concerning your personal data. These rights may include:
Right to Access: The right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: The right to request the correction of any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.
Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): The right to request the deletion of your personal data under certain circumstances.
Right to Restriction of Processing: The right to request that we restrict the processing of your data under certain conditions.
Right to Object to Processing: The right to object to the processing of your data, particularly for direct marketing purposes.
Right to Data Portability: The right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit that data to another controller.
You also have the right to:
Choose not to provide certain personal information, though this may limit your ability to use some blog features (e.g., commenting).
Unsubscribe from email updates at any time by following the instructions provided in the emails.
Adjust your browser settings to decline cookies.
Your information will never be sold or knowingly shared with any third party, beyond the functionalities of the Google services and other identified third-parties mentioned in this policy, unless required by law.
To exercise any of these rights, or if you have questions about how your information is handled, please contact me directly using the email address provided below.
5. Changes to This Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements. When we make updates, the "Effective Date" at the top of this page will be revised. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please feel free to reach out:
Email: ecclesiainculture@gmail.com