Privacy Policy

Last updated January 2025

In order to allow us to automatically track and log your personal data, we may use internet technologies such as cookies. You can decide to accept, decline or remove cookies using your web browser settings, but you should know that declining the use of cookies can affect your experience of this and other sites. For detailed information on cookies and how you can choose to allow or prevent sites accessing cookies, see www.allaboutcookies.org.

Please note that third parties who we work with on our website, including but not limited to – WordPress, Google, may also use cookies over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://somebodysdiaries.com/.

Somebody’s Diaries is the trading name of Somebody’s Diaries Limited, which is registered in England and Wales and registered with the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office under the Data Protection Act 2018. We encourage you to get in touch with any questions you may have here.

How we do business

Somebody’s Diaries is committed to upholding and maintaining your personal rights. We operate our business in-line with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and observe your rights to change or withdraw your opt-in options at any time. As part of our ongoing commitment to uphold your rights, Somebody’s Diaries will also extend advice on how you can issue formal complaints to relevant authorities, such as the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Sensitive data

Somebody’s Diaries does not collect any sensitive data about you. Sensitive data refers to (but is not limited to) information about your race or ethnic background, religious or political affiliations, trade union affiliations, sexual orientation, criminal background or health background.

Who our privacy policy applies to

This privacy policy has been developed to inform users of Somebody’s Diaries how we use their data. Our privacy policy applies to any and all individuals registered with us as a user, customer, administrator or in any other capacity.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the “Last updated” date and take any other steps required by applicable law.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

When we use the term “personal information”, we are referring to information that identifies, relates to, describes or can be associated with you.

Personal information provided by you

The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include names and email addresses. We process this personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our services, including to request feedback, to send you marketing and promotional communications and to identify usage trends.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised 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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Consent

Please note that when you submit personal data on our website, you are giving Somebody’s Diaries your explicit consent that we can use that data in line with our privacy policy.

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.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Third Party Websites and Links

Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms may also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, or have subscribed to our newsletter 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. To do this please contact us here https://somebodysdiaries.com/contact/

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Marketing and communications

Somebody’s Diaries may send you marketing communications if you have given us your contact details and opted-in to marketing communications.

You can opt-out of these marketing communications and manage your preferences at any time.

Our company obligations

As a data controller, Somebody’s Diaries is legally responsible for the data you provide us with. In honouring that responsibility, we pledge to uphold our commitments under GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

We will only ever use your data:

In ways that are both fair and legal
As described within this policy
In ways that are necessary for the purposes described

In addition, Somebody’s Diaries processes the personal data you submit to us or we collect as a data processor. As part of this role, we take all necessary precautions to secure the personal data we collect, process and store.

We may occasionally use the data you provide us with for marketing, relationship management or account management activities. These activities are designed to ensure you have adequate information about other products and/or services we offer, that we have reason to believe you may be interested in. You have the right to opt-out of these activities at any time.

Complaints

If you are not happy with how your personal data has been processed, you should contact us in the first instance by using the contact details listed above. If we are unable to satisfy your concerns, you have the right to apply to the Information Commissioner’s Office for a resolution.

You can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office at the following address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF