Privacy Policy and Disclosure Statement

Disclosure Statement

At Broken Vows, Restored Hearts, everything we do is done in obedience to what we believe to be God’s leading. We are in constant prayer as we seek His will for this ministry and in our life. We ask Him to take our simple offerings and multiply them for His Kingdom.  More than anything else, we want to honor God in what we do here.

For that reason, we are highly committed to honesty and integrity in our business dealings. We can assure you that we whole-heartedly stand behind anything we recommend.  While we do include ads and affiliate links to help compensate us for our time as well as make money to further the ministry, these do not in any way affect what we write or say.
Book reviews, product reviews, or services recommendations are all done giving our honest opinions. If we include an affiliate link to purchase the product, it is both to make it easy for the reader to purchase, and, yes, to help us make a few cents off that purchase. (Without ever affecting the price for you, the buyer, at all.)

*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Copyrights

We use A LOT of Scripture in our writing. Through our years of studying God’s word we have used many translations, and encourage our readers to look verses up in multiple translations in their own personal Bible study time. Along the way, we’ve fallen in love with the New Living Translation (NLT). It so beautifully communicates the Word of God in a way that is very easy to understand. For that reason, we have chosen to use NLT as our default translation here on the blog.

*Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

We may occasionally prefer the way another translation states a verse, and choose to use that translation instead. This will always be indicated in parentheses next to the passage, and will almost always be either the New International Version (NIV) or English Standard Version (ESV).

*Scripture quotations marked (ESV) are from are from The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

*Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are from are from THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION® NIV®
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society®
Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Privacy Policy

Broken Vows, Restored Hearts will collect some personal information (like email addresses) from anyone who subscribes, or leaves a comment.  This information is solely for the use of HDLD Ministries. Below we will share some information about how the data collection process works for those who are interested.

Comments and Media

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.

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 and Embedded Content

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.

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.

Information about your data

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, 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.

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

Subscribing to our Ministry

Signing up for the subscriber list will not result in large amounts of spam emails.  You will receive one email each month updating you on all the happenings of the ministry and offering a word of encouragement. On occasion there may be an additional update email if there is information we wish to urgently share with our subscribers.

**If you have subscribed to HDLD ministries (via this site or our sister site), but are not seeing the monthly emails in your inbox, you might check your spam folder. Occasionally the provider used for email subscriptions gets labeled as spam by certain email providers.

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The ad network I use (a product of google) does use cookies to generate its ads and choose products/services that are relevant to you, the reader, based on your search history. I have tried to block any ad categories that I think are likely to have inappropriate material, but this is very difficult to do thoroughly.

Please know that Broken Vows Restored Hearts, and HDLD Ministries are not selecting the ads that appear on your screen and do not necessarily endorse them. I sincerely apologize if something triggering or inappropriate shows up!