Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 11, 2026
Last updated: August 11, 2026

Unfiltered Reflections respects your privacy. This policy explains what information may be collected when you visit unfilteredreflections.org, how that information may be used, and the choices available to you.

Information You Choose to Provide

You may voluntarily provide personal information when you:

  • Send an email
  • Leave a comment
  • Subscribe to an email list or complete an opt-in form
  • Contact the site about writing, interviews, or collaboration
  • Make a purchase if the online store becomes available

Depending on the feature you use, this information may include your name, email address, website address, message, comment, or purchase and billing information.

Please do not submit medical records, financial account information, Social Security numbers, or other highly sensitive information. Comments and ordinary email are not designed as secure channels for private medical communication.

Comments

When visitors leave comments, the site may collect the information entered into the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser information. This information may be used for comment display, moderation, security, and spam detection.

An anonymized version of your email address may be provided to Gravatar to determine whether you use that service. If your comment is approved, your profile image may be publicly visible next to it.

You should not include private medical, financial, or identifying information in a public comment.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the site, certain information may be collected automatically by the website, hosting provider, analytics services, security tools, and other service providers.

This information may include:

  • IP address
  • Browser and device type
  • Operating system
  • Approximate geographic area
  • Pages viewed
  • Referring website or search source
  • Date and time of visits
  • Links or site features used
  • Cookie or similar identifiers
  • Information needed to detect spam, fraud, or security threats

This information is generally used to understand site performance, improve content, remember preferences, maintain security, and diagnose technical problems.

Analytics and Session Information

This site currently uses services that may include:

Google Analytics

Google Analytics helps measure website traffic and visitor interactions. It may collect information such as pages visited, device and browser information, approximate location, referral source, and cookie or device identifiers.

Unfiltered Reflections does not intentionally send names, email addresses, medical information, or other directly identifying information to Google Analytics.

You can learn more from Google’s information for sites using its services. Google also provides a Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Microsoft Clarity

Microsoft Clarity helps show how visitors interact with the website, such as page navigation, clicks, scrolling, and general usage patterns. Clarity may use cookies and similar technologies to collect interaction and device information.

Sensitive form fields should not be intentionally recorded. You can learn more in the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Analytics information is used to improve site usability, content, and performance—not to provide medical diagnoses or build individual medical profiles.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

The site and its service providers may use cookies, local identifiers, pixels, or similar technologies.

These technologies may be used to:

  • Keep the website functioning
  • Remember visitor preferences
  • Measure site traffic
  • Understand how content is used
  • Support comments and spam prevention
  • Maintain shopping-cart or store functionality
  • Protect the site from malicious activity
  • Support email subscription or opt-in features

You can limit or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how certain parts of the site function.

Where legally required, the site may request consent before using nonessential analytics or marketing cookies.

Email Subscriptions and Opt-In Forms

If you subscribe to receive updates or complete an opt-in form, the information you provide may be processed by an email or marketing service used to deliver those communications.

You may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link in an email or by contacting Unfiltered Reflections directly.

OptinMonster or a similar service may be used to display subscription forms or other notices and may collect interaction information through cookies or similar technologies.

Store and Payments

The site uses WooCommerce technology and may offer products in the future.

If purchases become available, information needed to process an order may include your name, email address, billing or shipping address, order details, and payment-related information.

Payments may be processed by a third-party payment provider. Unfiltered Reflections may not directly receive or store complete payment-card numbers. The applicable payment provider will process information according to its own privacy policy.

This policy should be updated when specific payment, shipping, or ecommerce providers are activated.

Security and Spam Prevention

The site uses security, firewall, login-protection, backup, and spam-prevention tools. These services may process IP addresses, browser information, request data, login attempts, and other technical information to:

  • Block malicious traffic
  • Detect spam
  • Prevent unauthorized access
  • Investigate security incidents
  • Maintain backups
  • Protect the website and its visitors

Google reCAPTCHA or another spam-prevention service may be used on comments or forms. Use of reCAPTCHA is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

How Information Is Used

Information may be used to:

  • Respond to messages and inquiries
  • Review and display comments
  • Send requested emails or updates
  • Operate and improve the website
  • Understand which content is helpful
  • Maintain website security
  • Detect spam or abuse
  • Process purchases if the store becomes available
  • Meet legal, tax, or regulatory obligations
  • Protect the rights and safety of the site and its users

How Information Is Shared

Unfiltered Reflections does not sell personal information.

Information may be processed or shared with service providers that help operate the site, such as:

  • Website hosting and backup providers
  • Analytics providers
  • Email and subscription services
  • Spam-prevention and security providers
  • Gravatar and WordPress-related services
  • Ecommerce and payment providers
  • Professional advisers when reasonably necessary

Information may also be disclosed when required by law or when reasonably necessary to protect the site, its visitors, or another person.

These providers maintain their own privacy practices and may process information in locations outside your state or country.

Data Retention

Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, to maintain business or security records, or to meet legal obligations.

Comments and associated information may remain on the site unless removal is requested or moderation requires deletion. Security logs, analytics records, emails, backups, and transaction records may be retained according to operational, contractual, or legal needs.

Your Privacy Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to request:

  • Access to information held about you
  • Correction of inaccurate information
  • Deletion of certain information
  • A copy of information you provided
  • Information about how your data is used
  • Withdrawal of consent
  • Objection to or restriction of certain processing

These rights are not absolute and may depend on applicable law.

To make a privacy request, email unfilteredreflections.org@gmail.com. Reasonable verification may be required before completing a request.

You may also:

  • Unsubscribe from marketing emails
  • Disable or delete browser cookies
  • Use available analytics opt-out tools
  • Avoid submitting optional personal information
  • Request removal of a comment you submitted

Children’s Privacy

This website is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. Unfiltered Reflections does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If you believe a child has submitted personal information, contact the site so it can be reviewed and removed where appropriate.

External Links

The site may link to external websites for research, further reading, products, or other resources. Unfiltered Reflections does not control and is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those websites.

Review the privacy policy of any external service before providing personal information.

Data Security

Reasonable administrative and technical measures are used to protect the website and information associated with it. However, no website, email system, or internet transmission can be guaranteed completely secure.

Please avoid sending sensitive personal, financial, or medical information through comments or ordinary email.

Changes to This Policy

This policy may be updated when the site’s services, technology, or legal obligations change. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “last updated” date.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact:

Kristan Owings
Unfiltered Reflections
Email: unfilteredreflections.org@gmail.com