Privacy Policy

I'm Vicki Bell, the creator and owner of this website. At ReceiveHope.com we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy. We are committed to providing safe website for all our visitors and have implemented this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy.

Website Privacy Policy

As a Canadian-based website, ReceiveHope.com complies with Canada's Federal and Provincial privacy laws and regulations including Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) which received Royal Assent in 2000 and was amended in 2014 with Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL).

We have also taken steps to comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to ensure any information you provide to ReceiveHope.com is secure, only seen by the people who need to see it, and within your control.

We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use ReceiveHope.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

ReceiveHope.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our online visitors' privacy on our website.

About Our Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that ReceiveHope.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to ReceiveHope.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Google Analytics Cookies

ReceiveHope.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's Privacy Policy is available at:

https://policies.google.com/privacy.

ReceiveHope.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

In order to perform a year-to-year comparison on any data collected by Google Analytics, we have set our Data Retention settings at Google Analytics to 38 months, after which Google will automatically delete the data.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on at:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse ReceiveHope.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Personally Identifiable Information

ReceiveHope.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To run and operate our site.
  
• To display content on the site correctly.
  
• To improve customer service.
  
• To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
  
• To personalize your user experience.
  
• To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
  
• To improve our site.
  
• To improve our products and services.
  
• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
  
• To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
  
• To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
  
• To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.
  

ReceiveHope.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.

If you complete a form (e.g., Contact Us), we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.

This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. Below are links to the privacy policies of Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, Reddit, Tumblr, and WhatsApp:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/settings/account

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/policy.php

Pinterest: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy

Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/privacy

WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy

ReceiveHope.com offers RSS as a way to easily follow content updates. Obtain easy access via an RSS feed reader for your preferred browser. Before you choose your RSS reader, please review its privacy policy.

Feedly: https://feedly.com/i/legal/privacy

Feeder: https://feeder.co/help/legal/privacy-policy/

Feedbro: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/privacy/

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

ReceiveHope.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), enacted in 2018, creates new consumer rights relating to the access to, deletion of, and sharing of personal information collected by businesses.

ReceiveHope.com has not sold any personal information in the previous 12 months.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection

Internet child safety issues are very important to ReceiveHope.com. This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16.

We operate our site in compliance with the current U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) regulations, and Article 8 of the GDPR.

Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell ReceiveHope.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to review and download that information, click on this link.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the privacy practices of this site, ReceiveHope.com can be reached by email using our handy Contact Us form. We can also be contacted by writing to us at our host's mailing address:

ReceiveHope.com
c/o SiteSell, Inc.
Suite 204, 310 de Murano
Sainte Julie, QC
Canada J3E 0C6

For additional information about electronic privacy issues and the management of personal information in the private sector, or to view copies of Canada's PIPEDA and CASL privacy laws, visit The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) website at www.priv.gc.ca/en or write to:

Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
30 Victoria Street
Gatineau, Quebec K1A 1H3
CANADA

Telephone: (819) 994-5444
Toll free: 1-800-282-1376

OPC Blog: https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/blog/

OPC YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/PrivacyComm

Updates and Effective Date

ReceiveHope.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to ReceiveHope.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Privacy Policy Reviewed and Updated

This Privacy Policy was reviewed and updated on January 1, 2025.

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