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privacy policy

GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation  (GDPR) came in to force on 25 May 2018. This site is fully compliant with its requirements. 

The only personal information I collect is the names (pseudonyms are fine) and email addresses of individuals who have chosen to subscribe to the blog in order to receive the daily post by email. This information is stored by the email marketing service I use, Mailchimp, which is both GDPR compliant and annually confirms its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework.

I never use this information for any other purpose and never will. I have never shared this information with any other person or organisation and never will.

Under GDPR I am required to:

  • Erase any personal information on request. Every post has an unsubscribe option so that you can remove yourself from the mailchimp database. You can also email me direct to request this.
  • Comply with any request from you to let you see what data of yours I collect. You can email me direct to request this, although as stated, this is solely your name (if provided) and email address.
  • Inform you of any breach of data. I have installed a specific plug-in to inform me in the unlikely event of any data breach. In which case, you will receive an email from me detailing the breach.

Cookies

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. I suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

This site uses cookies to allow readers to comment and to count anonymously the number of visitors.

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