Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 15, 2026

Who we are

LivingJamie is a Christian motherhood and homeschool website. Our website address is https://livingjamie.com/. For privacy questions or requests, email hello@livingjamie.com.

Information we collect

We collect information that you choose to provide, such as your email address when you subscribe to the newsletter and your name, email address, website, and comment when you leave a comment. Our website and service providers may also collect technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, referring page, pages visited, and cookie data for security, spam prevention, site operation, and analytics.

Newsletter subscriptions

If you subscribe to LivingJamie emails, we use the email address you provide to send the content you requested. Our newsletter services may record the IP address used at signup to prevent abuse and may track email opens and link clicks so we can understand and improve our newsletters. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link included in each newsletter or by emailing hello@livingjamie.com.

Comments and spam prevention

When visitors leave comments, we collect the information shown in the comment form along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent string to help detect spam. An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to Gravatar to determine whether you use that service. After a comment is approved, your profile image may be publicly visible with your comment.

Comments may be checked through Akismet, an automated spam-detection service. Akismet typically processes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, site URL, name, email address, website address, and comment content for spam prevention.

Cookies and analytics

If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These comment cookies may last for one year. WordPress.com and Jetpack may also use cookies or similar technologies for essential site functions, security, performance, audience measurement, and analytics.

Analytics information helps us understand which content is useful and how visitors use the site. This information may include pages viewed, approximate location based on IP address, browser or device information, referring pages, and interactions with the site.

Embedded content and external links

Articles may include embedded content such as videos, images, or posts from other websites. Embedded content behaves as though you visited the other website directly. Those websites may collect data, use cookies, and monitor your interaction according to their own privacy policies. LivingJamie is not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites.

Service providers and data sharing

We use WordPress.com and Jetpack to host and operate the website, MailPoet and WordPress.com services for newsletter delivery, Akismet for spam detection, and Gravatar for optional commenter profile images. These providers may process information only as needed to provide their services, protect the site, deliver requested emails, and measure performance.

For more information, review the Automattic Privacy Policy and the MailPoet Privacy Notice.

How long we retain information

Approved comments and their metadata may be retained indefinitely so follow-up comments can be recognized and approved automatically. Newsletter subscription information is retained while you remain subscribed and as needed to maintain unsubscribe records, prevent abuse, or meet legal and security requirements. Technical and analytics records are retained according to the practices of the services described above.

Your choices and privacy rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information associated with you. You may also withdraw newsletter consent at any time. To make a request, email hello@livingjamie.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request, and we may retain information required for administrative, legal, fraud-prevention, or security purposes.

Children’s privacy

LivingJamie is written for parents and caregivers. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information, please contact hello@livingjamie.com so we can review and, where appropriate, remove it.

How we protect information

The website uses HTTPS encryption and WordPress.com security protections. We limit access to website administration and use service providers that maintain security measures for their systems. No method of internet transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Joy and Pinterest

Jamie may choose to connect her own Pinterest account to Joy, her local LivingJamie blogging assistant. Pinterest’s authorization process grants permission for the requested actions, such as reading available boards, creating an approved Pin, and checking the result. Joy does not request or store Jamie’s normal Pinterest password.

Joy stores its app credentials and authorization tokens encrypted on Jamie’s Windows computer. Joy requests permission to read and write boards and to read and write Pins. Pinterest bundles creation, updating and deletion within its write permissions and requires board-write permission to create a Pin on an existing board. Joy’s regular publishing workflow uses existing boards and does not create, rename or delete boards. Disposable Sandbox test Pins are removed only with explicit test approval. The current implementation is limited to Pinterest Sandbox testing; production Pinterest posting is disabled.

Joy saves local workflow information: the LivingJamie article reference, original Pin image and copy, intended destination URL, Jamie’s board label and intended board-name instruction, content fingerprints, approval and attempt times, and whether an attempt is waiting for review, uncertain, or confirmed. These records help keep approval specific and prevent duplicate submissions. A confirmed record describes a successful submission and read-back at that time; it is not a continuously updated copy of the Pin on Pinterest.

Joy fetches current Pinterest information when it is needed. It does not save retrieved board lists, board IDs, Pin IDs, account profiles, Pin metadata, or raw Pinterest API responses in its workflow records. Retrieved information is used temporarily during the request or review session. Jamie’s saved board-name instruction comes from her deliberate input, rather than an automatically retained board object.

Nothing is posted without Jamie’s explicit approval of the exact Pin image, title, description, destination and selected board. A changed Pin requires review again. If a request has an uncertain result, Joy keeps a local no-repeat record and does not automatically submit another copy. When an approved Sandbox Pin is submitted, its image, copy, destination and currently resolved board identifier are sent to Pinterest, whose privacy policy governs its handling of that information.

Disconnecting Pinterest in Joy removes Joy’s saved Pinterest app credentials, authorization tokens and pending authorization state on that computer, invalidates live Pin review sessions, and stops new Pinterest requests. Local content, board instructions, approval history and no-repeat attempt records remain in place. Disconnecting does not delete existing Pins or revoke the app’s permission in Pinterest’s own account settings. Jamie can also manage the app’s authorization directly with Pinterest.

Joy uses cloud AI tools to help prepare original content. The Pinterest publishing code keeps authorization credentials separate from the AI model and does not send retrieved Pinterest board lists, Pins or account profiles to the model.

For privacy questions, use the contact information in LivingJamie’s existing Privacy Policy.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, services, or legal obligations change. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page shows the most recent revision.