Privacy and Cookies Policies
We are devoted to maintaining your privacy and safeguarding your personal data, and we will never betray your confidence.
This Privacy Statement explains:
- what data is gathered
- how data is kept
- how data is put to use
- It also offers links to the privacy policies of companies who supply the web software this website uses.
Cookies
Your browser settings—which you alone are responsible for managing—determine whether or not you get a cookie notice.
Google cookies are used by Blogger to deliver services and analyze traffic.
For the purposes of ensuring service quality, generating usage statistics, and identifying and addressing abuse, your IP address and user agent are shared with Google along with performance and security metrics. LEARN MORE
This website, along with a very large number of others, sends cookies to your computer when you visit in order to gather information on traffic patterns.
- A cookie is a little bit of data that is transferred from a website's computer to your computer or other device browser and saved on your device's hard disk. Cookies frequently contain a unique identifier.
- Cookies keep track of the location of your IP provider, technical information about your computer, the pages you view on our website, and the methods used to access those pages.
- They don't reveal the viewer's identity or any other information to Blogger, Google, or us.
- If you run a website or blog, you are undoubtedly gathering traffic flow statistics in a manner quite similar to this.
If you reside in the UK or the EU, you will always be informed via a cookie "banner" notice as soon as you alight on the site that cookies are used by this site.
Advertising and Third-Party Cookies
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy.
Privacy
Whose data is it anyway?
- The Information Commission furnished me with this definition.
- The term "personal data" refers to any information pertaining to a person who may be identified, either directly or indirectly, especially by reference to an identifier.
- This definition reflects changes in technology and how organizations gather information about people by allowing a wide range of personal identifiers, such as name, identification number, location data, or online identity, to be considered personal data.
- The GDPR is applicable to both automatic and manual filing systems that make personal data accessible based on predetermined standards. This could include collections of manual records with personal data that are organized chronologically.
What information do we collect?
When you contact us,
- the personal information you provide with us (for example, your name and contact details e.g. an email and Whatsapp number).
- When leaving a comment on a blog article or completing a form, you give your name and email address. We don't request any other information. You decide what you give.
- You may provide business-related information, but it is not personal information for purposes of the GDPR, which only applies to the personal data of persons.
When a third party contacts us on your behalf
- Personal information supplied by a third party, such as your name, contact information, and specifics of your situation.
When you visit this website or interact with this site or us via social media
- Your IP address and browsing preferences and choices;
- Your name and username and any comments that you make.
How do We collect information?
Your personal information may be collected from a number of sources. These include:
- From you when you email this site, engage with it, or interact with it through social media;
- From whatever forms you may fill out;
- From public data sources (e.g. the contacts details you have chosen to make public on your website or social media)
- From organizations/bodies you are involved with or connected to when they give us your information
Why do we collect it?
- The information we currently have about news updates is based on your consent, which you provided. For instance, in the case of receiving news updates, you have consented to have your email retained and used as the basis for processing the blog feed via the email subscription service (formerly Google Feedburner, now Mailer Lite) and receiving the news update via email.
- We may also gather information if it is in our reasonable interest to confirm the accuracy of any publicly available information about you.
- Data pertaining to any business transaction is required by contract, for example, to ensure that you and we are meeting our duties under any applicable contract or the supplier terms and conditions.
How do we use your information?
We process your data in order to:
- Keep a record of all communications and information we receive and reply appropriately;
- Distribute information about news updates.
- Keep in touch with people and organizations and occasionally send messages.
How is it stored?
Your personal data is stored in a number of ways:
- In paper files that are safely stored;
- In software systems that are run on our hardware or on third-party-supplied websites. (See more below)
- If you sign up to receive news updates, Mailer Lite will only use the information you provide to process the news feed automatically. Your information will be stored on a secure server.
Who do we share your information with?
We may share your data with and/or obtain information from some third parties:
- Our website service with regard to the use of forms and comments on this website as well as for the management of cookies on this website;
- Statistical services with regard to understanding website traffic;
- Social media providers, such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, and Instagram, to highlight public news;
- PLUS Other organizations where we are required to by law or by a public authority.
We are committed to protecting your privacy
- Your email address will never be rented, traded, or shared without your permission.
- Rarely do people request to be put in touch with someone else. Instead of providing you with their email address, we advise you that we will forward your request to them via Gmail and let them choose how to react.
How do we protect your data?
We take the security of your data very seriously.
- No one else but those offering the services listed below can access your data.
- To process your data on my behalf for the operation of my website, social media presence, and email correspondence, we work with trustworthy service providers. They are all bound by a duty of confidentiality and are required by law to put in place the necessary organizational and technical safeguards to guarantee data security in accordance with the applicable laws.
How long do we keep your personal data?
Nothing is kept indefinitely. Your personal data is kept under review.
- Correspondence: We occasionally erase contacts and the emails they are associated with.
- Blog comments and forms: If a blog remark is not posted or a form is submitted that makes no sense, it is deleted right away.
- Spam comments are stored for a while until the worst offenders are reported to Google.
- News updates: My personal email subscription service stores emails (was Google Feedburner now Mailer Lite). Within a month of Feedburner receiving an email, if it has not been confirmed for this purpose, we delete it. This online newsletter's subscription can be canceled at any time.
- In accordance with HMRC regulations, personal information and business communication related to all commercial contracts involving payment are kept for a minimum of six years following the end of the tax year.
Hotomdo Productions writes The 24 Elders | UPDATED 23 October 2025