River Jacks

Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2026

River Jacks is a personal blog published by K Crady at myriverjacks.com. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information may be collected when you visit River Jacks, leave a comment, or subscribe to From the Stream, and how that information is used.

Comments

When you leave a comment on River Jacks, the information you enter in the comment form is collected along with your IP address and browser user agent information. This information is used to manage comments and help detect spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (sometimes called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use Gravatar. If you do, your profile picture may be visible publicly alongside your approved comment.

Comments and their associated metadata may be retained indefinitely. This allows River Jacks to recognize and manage follow-up comments.

From the Stream

If you subscribe to From the Stream, River Jacks collects your email address and, if you choose to provide it, your first name. This information is used to send you new River Jacks posts and messages directly related to your subscription.

Subscriptions are managed using MailPoet. When you sign up, your name (if provided), email address, signup IP address, signup date, and the source of your subscription may be recorded. MailPoet records this information in part to maintain a record of subscriber consent.

River Jacks uses the MailPoet Sending Service to deliver From the Stream emails. Email open and link-click tracking is disabled on River Jacks.

New subscribers are asked to confirm their subscription before receiving From the Stream. You may unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link included in every From the Stream email.

Your email address and other subscription information will not be sold or shared for marketing purposes. Information may be processed by MailPoet as necessary to manage your subscription and deliver the emails you have requested.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on River Jacks, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are provided for your convenience so that you do not have to enter the same information again when leaving another comment. WordPress states that these comment cookies last for one year.

WordPress also uses cookies necessary for site administration and login functions. These primarily apply to site administrators and other logged-in users.

Embedded content from other websites

River Jacks posts may include embedded content from other websites, such as videos, images, or other material. Embedded content behaves in the same way as if you visited the originating website directly.

Those websites may collect information about you, use cookies, include third-party tracking, or monitor your interaction with their content according to their own privacy practices. This is the behavior WordPress specifically calls out in its suggested privacy-policy guidance.

How your information is used and shared

Personal information collected through River Jacks is used only as needed to:

  • operate and maintain the website;
  • manage comments and detect spam;
  • manage subscriptions to From the Stream;
  • send emails that subscribers have requested; and
  • respond to privacy-related requests.

Information may be processed by service providers when necessary to perform those functions, including MailPoet for newsletter subscription management and email delivery.

River Jacks does not sell your personal information.

How long your information is retained

Comments and their associated metadata may be retained indefinitely so that comments and follow-up comments can be recognized and managed.

Information associated with a From the Stream subscription is retained as necessary to manage that subscription and maintain appropriate subscription records. If you unsubscribe, you will no longer receive From the Stream emails.

MailPoet provides tools through WordPress for exporting or erasing subscriber personal information when appropriate.

Your rights over your information

You may request a copy of personal information River Jacks holds about you. You may also request that personal information be corrected or erased, subject to information that may need to be retained for administrative, legal, security, or other legitimate purposes.

WordPress provides tools for exporting and erasing personal data, and MailPoet integrates subscriber information with those tools.

To make a request concerning your personal information, email contact@kcrady.com.

Where your information may be sent

Visitor comments may be processed by automated spam-detection tools.

Information associated with From the Stream may be processed by MailPoet and its sending service as necessary to manage subscriptions and deliver email.

Embedded content from third-party websites is subject to the privacy practices of those websites.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time if the services or features used by River Jacks change. The date at the top of this page will indicate when the policy was most recently updated.