Privacy Policy

Last updated on 2/14/2023.
Please read these policies carefully before using our Services.

Our website address is https://www.reformedunificationism.com

At Reformed Unificationism, we hold that privacy is critical. We want to empower our users to be the masters of their identity. In this privacy policy, we want to help you understand how and why Reformed Unificationism (“Reformed Unificationism”, “Services”, “we”, or “us”) collects, uses, and shares information about you when you use our sites, mobile apps, widgets, and other online products and services (collectively, the “Services”) or when you otherwise interact with us or receive a communication from us.

We collect minimal information that can be used to identify you by default. If you want to just browse, you don’t need an account. If you want to create an account to participate in a forum, we don’t require you to give us your real name. We don’t automatically track your precise location. You can share as much or as little about yourself as you want. You can create multiple accounts, update information as you see fit, or ask us to delete your information.

Any data we collect is used primarily to provide our services, which are focused on allowing people to come together and form discussion groups. If you have questions about how we use your data, you can always ask us for more information.

We use information about you to:

  • Provide, maintain, and improve the Services;
  • Personalize services, content, and features that match your activities, preferences, and settings.
  • Help protect the safety of Reformed Unificationism and our users, which includes blocking suspected spammers, addressing abuse, and enforcing Reformed Unificationism’s User Agreement and Content Policy;
  • Provide, optimize, target, and measure the effectiveness of ads shown on our Services;
  • Research and develop new services;
  • Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, invoices, and other support and administrative messages;
  • Provide customer service;
  • Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, and events, and provide other news and information we think will be of interest to you (for information about how to opt out of these communications, see “Your Choices” below); and
  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services.

Information You Provide To Us

Account Information

You don’t need an account to use Reformed Unificationism. If you create a Reformed Unificationism account, your account will have a username, which you provide or which was automatically generated. Your username is public, and it doesn’t have to be related to your real name. You may need to provide a password, depending on whether you register using an email address or using a Single Sign-On (SSO) feature (such as Apple or Google).

When you use Reformed Unificationism, you may provide other optional information. We may ask you to select interests (e.g. history, leadership, member care) to help create a home feed for you or to select communities (e.g. /member-care) to join. You may also provide other information, such as a bio, gender, age, location, or profile picture. This information is optional and may be removed at any time. We also store your user account preferences and settings. We may ask for such information prior to you creating a username or account to help improve your experience exploring Reformed Unificationism.

Content You Submit

We collect the content you submit to the Services. This includes your posts and comments including saved drafts, audio and videos you broadcast, your messages with other users (e.g., private messages, chats, and others), and your reports and other communications with moderators and with us. Your content may include text, links, images, gifs, audio, and videos.

Actions You Take

We collect information about the actions you take when using the Services. This includes your interactions with content, like voting, saving, hiding, and reporting. It also includes your interactions with other users, such as following, friending, and blocking. We collect your interactions with groups, like your subscriptions or moderator status.

Transactional information

If you purchase products or services from us (e.g., Reformed Unificationism Premium or Reformed Unificationism Coins), we will collect certain information from you, including your name, address, email address, phone number, and information about the product or service you are purchasing. Reformed Unificationism uses industry-standard payment processor services (for example, Stripe) to handle payment information and does not store private key information.

Other Information

You may choose to provide other information directly to us. For example, we may collect information when you fill out a form, participate in Reformed Unificationism-sponsored activities or promotions, apply for a job, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors could download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Log And Usage Data

We may log information when you access and use the Services. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), device settings, mobile carrier name, pages visited, links clicked, the requested URL, and search terms.

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.

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.

In general, Reformed Unificationism does not control how third-party services collect data when they serve you their content directly via any embeds. As a result, embedded content is not covered by this privacy policy but by the policies of the service from which the content is embedded.

How long we retain your data

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.

What rights do you have over your data

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.

Where your data is sent

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

Children

Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to create an account or otherwise use the Services. Additionally, if you are located outside the United States, you must be over the age required by the laws of your country to create an account or otherwise use the Services, or we need to have obtained verifiable consent from your parent or legal guardian.

Information Collected from Advertisers and Potential Advertisers

If you use Reformed Unificationism Ads (Reformed Unificationism’s self-serve ads platform) we collect some additional information. To sign up for Reformed Unificationism Ads, you must provide your name, email address, and information about your company. If you purchase advertising services, you will need to provide transactional information as described above, and we may also require additional documentation to verify your identity. When using Reformed Unificationism Ads, we may record a session replay of your visit for customer service, troubleshooting, and usability research purposes.

Contact Us

If you have other questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

HobbyJoy Media
PO Box 1990
West Sacramento, California 95691

For email inquiries, please contact us here.