Privacy Policy
Last Updated: June 14, 2026
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://drwcballinger.com
Information We Collect and Why We Collect It
Contact Forms
When visitors use the contact form on our website to send an email, we collect the data shown in the form fields (typically your name, email address, and the subject/content of your message). This information is used solely to respond to your inquiries. We do not use this information for marketing purposes unless you explicitly opt-in to a newsletter, nor do we sell or share it with third parties.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Embedded Content and Third-Party Links
This website contains links to external online retailers (such as Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes & Noble) to facilitate book purchases. Additionally, pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g., book trailers, images, or articles).
Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged into that specific website. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For information submitted through our contact form, we retain the communications for customer service records, but we do not use them for marketing or tracking purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments and form submissions may be checked through an automated spam detection service (such as Akismet or Wordfence).
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have left comments or submitted a query through our contact form, 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.