Privacy Policy

Taleni Notebook is an independent editorial publication focused on everyday wellness practices. The publication is not affiliated with any commercial, governmental, or institutional body.

The data controller responsible for personal information collected through this website is:

Any enquiries regarding the handling of your personal data may be directed to the contact details above. We aim to respond to all data-related correspondence within ten working days.

We collect only the minimum data necessary to operate the publication and respond to reader enquiries. The categories of data we may collect include:

• Contact form submissions: name, email address, and message content provided when a reader chooses to contact us.
• Technical data: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and pages visited, collected automatically through server logs and analytics tools.
• Cookie data: preference records and anonymised session identifiers. See our Cookie Policy for full details.

We do not collect sensitive personal data, including information relating to health, financial status, or identity documents, through any means on this publication.

Personal data collected by Taleni Notebook is used only for the purposes described below and is not sold, rented, or shared with third parties for commercial purposes.

• Responding to enquiries: contact form data is used solely to reply to the reader who submitted it.
• Publication analytics: aggregated, anonymised data is used to understand which articles are read and how readers navigate the site. No individual profiles are built from this data.
• Site security and fraud prevention: technical data may be used to identify and block abusive access patterns.
• Legal compliance: we retain records as required under applicable law, including UK GDPR obligations.

The legal bases under UK GDPR for our data processing are: legitimate interests (analytics and security), contractual necessity (enquiry responses), and legal obligation (record retention).

Contact form records are held for no longer than twelve months from the date of receipt, after which they are permanently deleted. Technical log data is retained for up to ninety days. Cookie preference records persist until cleared by the reader.

This publication uses a small number of third-party services in its functioning:

• Hosting provider: server logs and basic technical data are processed by our hosting infrastructure partner, located within the United Kingdom.
• Analytics: aggregated, cookieless page-view data is processed through an analytics service. No personally identifiable information is shared with this service.
• Embedded maps: the contact page embeds a Google Maps widget. Google may process technical data in connection with loading this widget; see Google's privacy documentation for details.

No data is transferred outside the United Kingdom or European Economic Area except where the third-party service operates under a recognised adequacy decision or standard contractual clauses.

Under UK GDPR, readers whose personal data we hold have the following rights, each of which may be exercised by contacting us at [email protected]:

• Right of access: to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification: to request correction of inaccurate data.
• Right to erasure: to request deletion of your personal data, where no overriding legal basis exists for its retention.
• Right to restriction: to request that we limit the purposes for which your data is used.
• Right to object: to object to processing carried out on the basis of legitimate interests.
• Right to portability: to receive data you provided to us in a structured, machine-readable format.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk if you believe your data has been handled in a manner inconsistent with UK GDPR.