Laminatelove publishes Laminatelove. This policy sets out what visiting laminatelove.com involves in data terms, and what you can do about it.

About Cookies

Cookies and similar browser storage are covered separately, in detail, in our Cookie Policy.

Where advertising is served, third-party vendors including Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet. You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info.

Mailing List

The list is confirmed opt-in only. You will get a verification email before anything else, every subsequent message has an unsubscribe link and our postal address, and removal is processed immediately.

Our Use of Your Data

It is used to run the site, to improve what we publish by seeing which pages are read, to honour newsletter subscriptions, and to serve advertising where that is in place.

Your Options

You have rights over your data, and which ones depend on where you are. Common to most: find out what is held, get it corrected, get it deleted, get a copy, push back on a particular use, and stop your data being sold or shared for ads. GDPR applies in the UK and EU; CCPA/CPRA and its equivalents apply across a growing list of US states. Global Privacy Control is honoured. More at State Privacy Notice and Do Not Sell or Share.

Holding Periods and Security

We hold data only as long as the purpose requires. Subscriber records end at unsubscribe; comments end at deletion; analytics follow the retention window of whichever provider is in use. Safeguards include access control and transport encryption. We cannot guarantee absolute security, and we do not claim to.

Outside Processors

Outside services may sit behind this site: our host, an analytics tool, an email provider used only if you subscribe, and advertising partners where ads run. Their handling of data is governed by their own policies, and for advertising and analytics vendors that means they act as independent controllers, not merely as processors on our behalf.

Children Under 13

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, or under 16 where local law applies that age. This is an adult-facing site, and any children’s data that reaches us in error is deleted.

Information Received

The data involved falls into two buckets. Passively collected: log and analytics information — IP address, device and browser — about the connection used to reach laminatelove.com, and the path taken through the site. Actively provided: an email address for the mailing list, comment details, or the contents of a message to us.

Given what we write about, this is worth being explicit about: we ask readers not to send us sensitive personal details, and we delete rather than retain anything of that kind that reaches us unprompted.

Contact Details

You can reach us at hello@laminatelove.com about this policy or to exercise any right described in it.

Updated — 29 Jul 2026