🛡️ Privacy Policy
Last Updated: November 29, 2025
At GospelLight Creations (“we,” “us,” or “our”), we are committed to protecting your privacy and your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, process, and safeguard your information when you use our services, including our main website at gospellightcreations.com, all subdomains (e.g., podcast.gospellightcreations.com), and related services, including Christian articles, courses, merchandise, digital products, and resources (collectively, the “Services”).
By using our Services, you consent to the practices described in this policy.
1. Information We Collect
1.1 Personal Data You Provide Directly
This includes data collected when you use our new podcast subdomain, purchase products, or contact us:
- Identity & Contact Data: Name, email address, and phone number when you contact us (e.g., via
info@gospellightcreations.comor contact forms on the main site or other subdomains). - Transaction & Financial Data: Billing and shipping details (name, address, payment token) when you purchase merchandise or digital products through our WooCommerce store. We do not store full credit card details.
- Communications & Subscription Data: Email address when you subscribe to our newsletter or premium content (via
subscriptions@gospellightcreations.com). - Feedback Data: Comments, reviews, or other content submitted to us (e.g., via
feedback@gospellightcreations.comor subdomain contact forms).
1.2 Automated Data Collection
We may collect non-identifiable technical and usage information:
- Technical Data: Browser type, IP address, device type, and operating system via cookies and analytics tools.
- Usage Data: Pages visited, time spent on articles, interaction with resources (like Bible Trivia), and podcast episode consumption metrics (via our podcast hosting platform).
1.3 Third-Party Platforms
Your interactions with these platforms are governed by their respective privacy policies:
- E-commerce: Amazon (physical and kindle e-book purchases), WooCommerce (payment processing/order details).
- Fulfillment: Printful (merchandise orders collect shipping information).
- Content Platforms: YouTube (channel interactions at
youtube.com/@GospelLightCreations), and our Podcast Hosting Platform (analytics and delivery metrics).
2. Legal Basis and Purpose for Processing (GDPR)
We only process your personal data when we have a legal basis to do so. The purposes for which we use your information are:
| Purpose of Use | Legal Basis (for EU/UK Residents) |
| Order Fulfillment (Processing purchases, sending receipts) | Contract: Processing is necessary to fulfill the contract of sale. |
| Sending Newsletters/Promotions | Consent: You have explicitly opted in to receive marketing communications. |
| Responding to Inquiries (Contact form submissions) | Legitimate Interest: Necessary to respond to user requests and support our customers. |
| Website & Service Improvement (Analytics, usage data) | Legitimate Interest: Necessary for running our business, detecting fraud, and improving user experience. |
| Legal Compliance (Court orders, regulatory requests) | Legal Obligation: Processing is necessary to comply with the law. |
3. How We Use and Share Your Information
3.1 Use of Information
We use your information to:
- Process and fulfill orders, sending receipts from
orders@gospellightcreations.com(statement descriptor: GLCreations). - Manage subscriptions and deliver content (newsletters, blogs, prayers).
- Respond to inquiries (via
support@gospellightcreations.com). - Improve our Services (including 3D Bible animations, articles, and podcast content).
- Send promotional emails (you can opt out via unsubscribe links).
- Analyze website performance and user behavior using tools like Google Analytics.
3.2 Disclosure of Information
We do not sell or rent your personal data. We may share it with:
- Service Providers: Platforms like Printful (merchandise), WooCommerce (payments), Mailchimp (newsletters), and our podcast host to perform services necessary to operate our business.
- Legal Compliance: If required by law, regulation, or legal process.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred with prior notice.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., tracking pixels, web beacons) to:
- Functionally enhance user experience (e.g., remembering shopping cart items).
- Analyze traffic, engagement, and podcast consumption metrics.
- Deliver targeted ads (if applicable, only with your consent).
We use a cookie consent banner to obtain explicit opt-in consent from EU/UK users for non-essential cookies. You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings, but disabling essential cookies may affect functionality.
5. Data Retention
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
- Transaction Data: Retained for a minimum of seven years to comply with tax and accounting laws.
- Subscription Data: Retained until you unsubscribe, after which we may retain a record of your opt-out request indefinitely to respect your preference.
- Support/Inquiry Data: Retained for up to [e.g., 24 months] after the last communication to track common issues and improve service.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction (especially for EU/UK residents under GDPR), you have the following rights concerning your personal data:
- The Right to Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- The Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
- The Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): Request the deletion of your personal data where there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.
- The Right to Restrict Processing: Request us to suspend the processing of your personal data.
- The Right to Data Portability: Request the transfer of your data to another party.
- The Right to Object to Processing: Object to processing based on legitimate interest or direct marketing.
- The Right to Withdraw Consent: At any time, where processing is based on consent (e.g., for newsletters).
To exercise any of these rights, please email us at info@gospellightcreations.com with the subject line: “Data Subject Rights Request.”
7. International Data Transfers
We are based in the United States. If you access our Services from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States, which may have different data protection laws than your country.
For EU/UK residents, whenever we transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded by ensuring that standard contractual clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission are in place. By using our Services, you consent to this transfer.
8. Children’s Privacy
Our Services are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe we have such data, contact info@gospellightcreations.com to request deletion.
9. Changes and Contact
9.1 Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy, with changes effective immediately upon posting the revised policy on our website. Your continued use constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
9.2 Contact Us & Supervisory Authority
For questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, contact us at:
Email: info@gospellightcreations.com
Contact Page: Click Here
GDPR Note: If you are an EU/UK resident and believe we have not adequately addressed your concerns, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country.
Thank you for trusting GospelLight Creations, a beacon of hope, a light in the darkness.