Privacy policy

Last updated: November 10, 2026

This policy explains how A Word in Season (“the site”), run by J.L. Brooks, handles information when you visit.

The verse finder

When you type how you’re feeling into the box on the home page, the matching happens entirely in your browser. What you type is not sent to us, stored or shared.

The contact form

If you send a message through the contact form, your name, email address and message are processed and stored by our host, Netlify, so that we can read and reply to it. We use this information only to respond to you. We don’t sell it, and we don’t add you to a mailing list. You can ask us to delete your message at any time through the contact page.

Advertising and cookies

This site uses Google AdSense to show ads, which helps keep it free.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Third parties may place and read cookies on your browser, or use web beacons or IP addresses, to collect information as a result of ad serving on this site.
• Other third-party vendors and ad networks may also serve ads on this site through Google, and they may use cookies to do so.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info. To learn more, see how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Your choices and consent

If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you’ll see a consent message from Google that lets you choose how your information is used for ads. Wherever you are, you can block or delete cookies in your browser’s settings. The site will still work, though ads may be less relevant to you.

Fonts and hosting

The site’s fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, so your browser connects to Google’s servers, which receive your IP address. See Google’s privacy policy. The site is hosted by Netlify, which may keep standard server logs, such as IP addresses and the pages requested, to keep the site secure and running. See Netlify’s privacy policy.

Children’s privacy

This site isn’t directed to children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has sent us personal information through the contact form, let us know and we’ll delete it.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page will be updated.

Questions

If you have a question about this policy, send a message through the contact page.