What Data We Collect and Why

1. Website Analytics

This website collects personal information to power our site analytics, including:

• Information about your browser, network, and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps.

We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

2. Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies — small files or pieces of text that download to your device when you visit a website or app.

Necessary and required cookies are always used. These allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

Analytics and performance cookies are used on this website to view site traffic, activity, and other data. These are only placed after you acknowledge our cookie banner (where applicable).

For full details on the cookies used, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

3. Email Sign-Up Form

When you submit your email address via the sign-up form on this website, we collect that information in order to send you updates, blog posts, and news from My Old Dad Diary.

We provide this information to Squarespace, our website hosting and email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf and help us manage our relationship with you.

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email we send.

4. General Website Visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including:

• Information about your browser, network, and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Web pages you view while on this website

• Your IP address

Squarespace needs this data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data in their Privacy Policy.

5. Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and/or Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

• Information about your browser, network, or device

• Information about this site and the page you're viewing

• Your IP address

6. Social Media & Embedded Content

This website links to and embeds content from third-party platforms including YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. If you interact with embedded content or share buttons, those third parties may receive your personal data, including information about your browser, network and device, your IP address, and details about the page you were viewing.

We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of those platforms for more information.

Your Rights (UK)

As a UK resident, under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), you have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you

• Correct inaccurate data

• Request deletion of your data

• Withdraw consent at any time (for example, by unsubscribing from emails)

• Lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at myolddaddiary@gmail.com

Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data on the basis of:

• Legitimate interests — for website analytics and serving the site to you

• Consent — for email marketing, which you can withdraw at any time

Data Retention

We retain your email address for as long as you remain subscribed to our mailing list. You can unsubscribe at any time. Analytics data is retained in accordance with Squarespace's own data retention policies.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The most current version will always be posted on this page with the date it was last updated.

This privacy policy was last updated in May 2026. This policy is provided for informational purposes. For specific legal advice regarding your rights or obligations, please consult a qualified legal professional.