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Privacy

How we handle your information.

We collect as little as we can, keep it private, and tell you plainly what happens to it.

Draft notice. This privacy notice describes how this website works, but it has not yet been reviewed by a qualified legal adviser. It should not be treated as final until it has been.

Who is responsible

Bloom: Psychology with Hannah runs this website.

What we collect, and why

  • Contact messages. Your name, email address, the topic you choose and anything you write. Used only to reply to you. Kept up to 12 months after we last replied.
  • Story submissions. Your story, title, chosen display name, chosen themes, optional relationship and optional email. Stories stay private until a person has reviewed and approved them. Your email is never published. Kept until you withdraw them or we decline them (declined submissions are deleted within 90 days). When you withdraw a story, its text and details are erased straight away.
  • Donations. Your email, optional name and message, the amount, currency, frequency and payment status. Card details are entered on our payment provider’s secure page and are never seen or stored by us. Donation records are kept for the period required by accounting and tax rules that apply to Bloom (to be confirmed).
  • Technical data. Our server may log technical details such as time and page requested, for security. These are kept up to 30 days. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies, and we do not run third-party analytics.

Who else sees it

  • Payment provider. When you donate, you are sent to our payment provider, which processes your payment under its own privacy terms.
  • Videos. Some videos are hosted by other services such as YouTube or Vimeo. Nothing loads from them until you choose to play a video, and we ask for their reduced-tracking modes where available.
  • Email delivery. If email notifications are switched on, a mail service delivers notifications about new messages to Bloom staff.

Cookies

Visitors do not receive cookies. A strictly necessary sign-in cookie is used only by the people who administer the site.

Your choices

You can ask to see, correct or delete your information, or withdraw consent to a published story, at any time. Stories can be withdrawn instantly at the withdrawal page. For anything else, contact us.

Safety and sensitive content

We understand that what people share with us is deeply personal. Only the small group of people who administer this site can read private submissions.