This Privacy Policy explains what information gmfphil.com collects from visitors, how it is used, and the choices you have. This ministry site is operated by Tom & Nancy Cook.
Website Hosting
This website is hosted with Hostinger and uses LiteSpeed caching and malware protection to keep the site secure and fast. Like most websites, our hosting provider automatically logs basic technical information for every visitor, such as IP address, browser type, and pages visited, for security and performance purposes. We do not use this information to identify individual visitors.
Comments
When you leave a comment on one of our posts, we collect the data shown in the comment form (your name, email address, and comment text), along with your IP address and browser user agent string, to help detect spam. Your name and comment will be displayed publicly; your email address is never displayed or shared.
An anonymized string created from your email address (called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you have a Gravatar profile picture. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy is available here. After your comment is approved, your profile picture may become publicly visible in the context of your comment.
Comments may remain on the site indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments, rather than holding them for moderation each time.
Newsletter and Email Updates
If we offer a newsletter or email sign-up on this site, we only collect the email address you provide, and use it solely to send you ministry updates you have requested. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link included in every email. We do not sell, rent, or share your email address with third parties.
Cookies
If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies to make it easier for you to comment again in the future. These cookies last for one year. Our caching plugin (LiteSpeed Cache) may also set technical cookies needed to serve pages efficiently. We do not use advertising or third-party tracking cookies, and this site does not currently run analytics tracking scripts such as Google Analytics.
Donations and Giving
This website does not directly process financial donations or collect payment information. Our “Ministry Support” page links out to the giving page of our sending church, Gateway Christian Fellowship, where any donation or payment details you provide are handled entirely by that organization and its payment processor, not by this website. Please review Gateway Christian Fellowship’s own privacy and security practices when giving through their site.
Embedded Content
Pages on this site may include embedded content (such as images or videos) from other websites. Embedded content behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website directly, and that website may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.
Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell or share personal information with third parties for marketing purposes. Information may be shared with service providers who help us run this website, such as our hosting provider (Hostinger), strictly for the purpose of operating and securing the site.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have left comments on this site, 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.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact us through the information provided on our About page.
Last updated: July 2026.