Effective Date: June 13, 2026
Last Updated: June 13, 2026

Sacred Sobriety respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly and transparently.

This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, and disclosed when you visit Sacred Sobriety at sacred-sobriety.com, subscribe to website updates, leave a comment, follow an affiliate link, or otherwise interact with the website.

In this policy, “Sacred Sobriety,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Sacred Sobriety and its website administrator. “You” and “your” refer to visitors, subscribers, and users of this website.

1. Information We Collect

The information collected depends on how you interact with the website.

Information You Voluntarily Provide

You may voluntarily provide information such as:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Your display name
• Comments submitted on posts or pages
• Website subscription information
• Messages sent directly by email
• Other information you choose to provide

Sacred Sobriety does not currently provide a public contact form or prayer-request form.

Because this website discusses addiction, recovery, trauma, grief, emotional wellness, and spiritual growth, please do not submit confidential medical records, diagnoses, treatment information, detailed recovery histories, financial account information, or other highly sensitive personal information through comments, email, or other public website features.

Submitting information through this website does not create a counselor-client, therapist-client, healthcare-provider-patient, pastor-parishioner, or other confidential professional relationship.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the website, WordPress.com, Jetpack, Automattic, Akismet, and related website services may automatically collect certain technical information, including:

• Internet Protocol address
• Browser type and version
• Device type
• Operating system
• Referring website
• Pages and posts viewed
• Links clicked
• Date and time of access
• Approximate geographic location
• Browser language
• Cookie or similar technology identifiers
• Website interactions
• Security and error information

This information is used to operate, maintain, secure, and understand the performance of the website.

2. How We Use Information

Information may be used to:

• Operate and maintain Sacred Sobriety
• Deliver website subscription notifications
• Respond to emails or other direct communications
• Display and moderate comments
• Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, and malicious activity
• Understand general website traffic and content performance
• Troubleshoot technical issues
• Improve website content and usability
• Maintain website security
• Comply with applicable legal obligations
• Protect the rights, safety, and integrity of Sacred Sobriety and its visitors
• Maintain appropriate administrative records

Sacred Sobriety does not use voluntarily submitted recovery or health-related information for targeted advertising.

3. Recovery, Health, and Spiritual Content

Sacred Sobriety provides educational, devotional, faith-based, and recovery-support content.

Sacred Sobriety is not a healthcare provider, treatment center, counseling practice, crisis service, emergency service, or substitute for qualified medical or mental-health care.

Visitors should share only the minimum information necessary when communicating with Sacred Sobriety. Do not use comments or email to submit medical records, diagnostic information, treatment documents, or information requiring emergency intervention.

Ordinary website comments and email communications may not be encrypted and should not be treated as secure methods for transmitting confidential health or recovery information.

Sacred Sobriety does not intentionally sell, rent, or trade personal health information.

4. Website Subscriptions

Visitors may choose to subscribe to Sacred Sobriety through the subscription features provided directly through WordPress.com and Jetpack.

When you subscribe, WordPress.com or Jetpack may collect information such as:

• Your email address
• Your subscription status
• The date and method of subscription
• Your WordPress.com account information, when applicable
• Technical information associated with the subscription request
• Information about the delivery of subscription emails

Subscription information is processed through WordPress.com, Jetpack, and Automattic systems.

Sacred Sobriety does not currently use a separate commercial email-marketing provider.

You may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in subscription emails or by adjusting your WordPress.com subscription settings.

Unsubscribing from new-post notifications may not prevent the delivery of essential administrative or security communications associated with a WordPress.com account.

5. Comments

When visitors leave comments, the website may collect:

• The information entered in the comment form
• The visitor’s IP address
• Browser and device information
• The date and time of the comment
• Information used for spam prevention and moderation

An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use that service. If your comment is approved, your Gravatar profile image may appear publicly alongside your comment.

Comments, display names, profile images, and information voluntarily submitted in a public comment may be visible to other visitors.

Do not include private, confidential, medical, financial, or personally identifying information in a public comment.

Sacred Sobriety reserves the right to moderate, edit, refuse, close, or remove comments that violate website policies or that are considered abusive, threatening, unlawful, misleading, defamatory, promotional, or harmful.

6. Akismet Anti-Spam

Sacred Sobriety uses Akismet Anti-Spam, an Automattic service, to identify and filter spam and potentially harmful comments.

Akismet may process information such as:

• Comment content
• Commenter name
• Email address
• Website address
• IP address
• Browser information
• Referring page
• Date and time of submission
• Other information necessary to evaluate possible spam or abuse

This processing helps protect the website and its visitors from spam, malicious content, and automated abuse.

7. Jetpack Stats

Sacred Sobriety uses Jetpack Stats, a service provided through WordPress.com and Automattic, to understand website traffic and content performance.

Jetpack Stats may collect or process information such as:

• Post and page views
• Video plays
• Outbound link clicks
• Referring websites and URLs
• Search-engine terms
• Country, region, or approximate location
• IP address
• Browser and device information
• WordPress.com account information when a visitor is logged in
• Pages visited
• Date and time of visits
• Browser language

Sacred Sobriety generally receives aggregated statistical reports rather than information identifying individual visitors. For example, Sacred Sobriety may see how many people viewed a particular article without seeing the identity of each individual visitor.

This information is used to understand which content is helpful, measure general website activity, identify technical issues, and improve the website.

8. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Sacred Sobriety, WordPress.com, Jetpack, Akismet, embedded-content providers, and affiliate services may use cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies may be used to:

• Provide essential website functions
• Remember visitor preferences
• support WordPress.com login or subscription features
• Display and manage comments
• Prevent spam and malicious activity
• Maintain website security
• Measure website traffic and performance
• Support embedded media
• Track qualifying Amazon affiliate referrals

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function. Others may be used for statistics, affiliate attribution, or third-party services.

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may prevent certain website features from functioning correctly.

Where required, the website may display a cookie notice or preference tool that allows visitors to manage nonessential cookies.

9. Embedded Content and Third-Party Platforms

Sacred Sobriety articles may include embedded videos, audio players, social-media posts, images, or other content provided by third-party websites.

Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly. Those services may collect information about you, use cookies, employ tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, particularly when you are logged into an account with that provider.

Third-party services appearing on Sacred Sobriety may include:

• YouTube
• Google
• Facebook
• Instagram
• TikTok
• X
• Spotify
• Podbean
• Patreon
• Amazon
• WordPress.com
• Jetpack
• Gravatar
• Other media or social platforms

Your interaction with these services is governed by the privacy policies and terms of the respective providers.

10. Amazon Affiliate Links

Sacred Sobriety participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for websites to earn fees by linking to Amazon products and services.

As an Amazon Associate, Sacred Sobriety may earn from qualifying purchases.

When you click an Amazon affiliate link:

• You are redirected to an Amazon website or service.
• Amazon may use cookies or similar technologies to recognize that the referral originated from Sacred Sobriety.
• Amazon may collect information about your visit, account, browsing activity, and purchases according to its own privacy practices.
• Sacred Sobriety may receive a commission if you complete a qualifying purchase.
• Your purchase price is not increased because you used an affiliate link.

Sacred Sobriety does not receive your complete Amazon payment-card information or Amazon account password.

Affiliate relationships will also be disclosed near relevant recommendations, reviews, or affiliate links when appropriate.

11. Payments and Donations

Sacred Sobriety does not currently display or operate direct donation or payment links through the website.

Sacred Sobriety has previously used or maintained accounts with PayPal and Stripe. If donation, payment, membership, or purchase features are added in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated to identify the services in active use.

When a third-party payment processor is used, payment information is generally submitted directly to that provider. Sacred Sobriety ordinarily does not receive or store complete credit-card numbers, bank-account numbers, or account passwords.

A payment provider may provide Sacred Sobriety with limited transaction information, including:

• Name
• Email address
• Transaction amount
• Transaction date
• Product, membership, or donation selected
• Transaction status
• Transaction identification number

Payment providers process information according to their own privacy policies, security practices, and legal obligations.

12. How Information May Be Shared

Sacred Sobriety may share information only when reasonably necessary with:

• WordPress.com
• Automattic
• Jetpack
• Akismet
• Website hosting and infrastructure providers
• Website administrators
• Security and spam-prevention providers
• Analytics and traffic-measurement providers
• Email subscription and notification services
• Affiliate partners when a visitor chooses to follow an affiliate link
• Professional advisers when reasonably necessary
• Government or legal authorities when disclosure is required by law

Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with a valid legal request
• Investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or unlawful activity
• Enforce website policies
• Protect the rights, property, safety, or integrity of Sacred Sobriety
• Protect visitors or other members of the public
• Address an immediate and credible threat of harm

Sacred Sobriety does not knowingly sell personal information in exchange for money.

13. Data Retention

Sacred Sobriety retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.

Because Sacred Sobriety does not currently use contact forms or prayer-request forms, it does not maintain a separate retention schedule for those types of submissions.

Information may be retained as follows:

• Approved comments and their associated metadata may be retained indefinitely to preserve conversation context and assist with moderation.
• Subscription information may remain active until the subscriber unsubscribes or requests deletion.
• Direct email correspondence may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond, maintain records, protect legal interests, or address administrative matters.
• Website statistics may be retained according to WordPress.com and Jetpack practices.
• Spam and security information may be retained according to Akismet, WordPress.com, Jetpack, or Automattic practices.
• Backup copies may remain temporarily until routinely overwritten or deleted.
• Affiliate reporting information may be retained according to Amazon’s practices and Sacred Sobriety’s legitimate administrative or tax-record needs.

Information may be retained longer when required for legal, tax, security, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, or recordkeeping purposes.

14. Data Security

Sacred Sobriety uses reasonable administrative and technical safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information maintained.

These safeguards may include:

• Secure WordPress.com hosting
• Website and platform updates
• Access controls
• Strong passwords
• Multifactor authentication when available
• Spam filtering
• Security monitoring
• Limited administrative access
• Backup and recovery measures

No website, email system, electronic transmission, or storage method is completely secure. Sacred Sobriety cannot guarantee absolute security.

Visitors should use caution when submitting information online and should not send confidential medical, financial, or identity information through ordinary email or website comments.

15. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live and which laws apply, you may have the right to:

• Ask whether Sacred Sobriety maintains personal information about you
• Request access to certain personal information
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Request deletion of certain personal information
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Unsubscribe from website notifications
• Manage cookie preferences
• Object to or restrict certain uses of information
• Appeal certain privacy-request decisions

To submit a privacy request, email:

timothyrb@sacred-sobriety.com

Use the subject line:

Privacy Request

Sacred Sobriety may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request. Information submitted for verification will be used only to process and document the request.

Certain information may be exempt from access, correction, or deletion because of legal, security, administrative, technical, or recordkeeping obligations.

16. Children’s Privacy

Sacred Sobriety is intended for a general adult audience and is not directed toward children under 13 years of age.

Sacred Sobriety does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that a child under 13 has submitted personal information without appropriate parental consent, we will take reasonable steps to remove it.

A parent or legal guardian who believes a child has submitted information may contact Sacred Sobriety at:

timothyrb@sacred-sobriety.com

17. International Visitors

Sacred Sobriety is administered from Washington State in the United States.

If you access the website from outside the United States, information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other countries where WordPress.com, Automattic, Jetpack, Akismet, Amazon, or other service providers operate.

Those countries may have privacy laws that differ from the laws of your location.

18. External Links

Sacred Sobriety may link to websites, products, resources, ministries, social networks, or services operated by third parties.

Sacred Sobriety does not control and is not responsible for the privacy, security, content, availability, or data practices of third-party websites.

Visitors should review the privacy policy and terms of each external website or service they use.

19. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Sacred Sobriety may update this Privacy Policy when website features, services, plugins, legal requirements, or data practices change.

The current version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.

Material changes may also be communicated through the website or another appropriate method.

20. Contact Information

Questions or requests concerning this Privacy Policy may be directed to:

Sacred Sobriety
Website: sacred-sobriety.com
Email: timothyrb@sacred-sobriety.com
Location: Washington State, United States

For privacy-related requests, use the subject line:

Privacy Request