Privacy Policy

This policy explains what information My Blog collects when you use this website, why, and what you can do about it. The website is run by Community News Worldwide CIC (“we”, “us”), which is the data controller. Questions about privacy: admin@ragmouth.com.

What we collect

• Newsletter. Your email address, the date you signed up and the page you signed up on. Used only to send you the newsletter.
• Story tip-offs and contact messages. Whatever you choose to tell us, plus your name and contact details, so our team can read it and reply.
• The Big Mouth. Your question, who it is for, the name you choose to give (if any) and anything you add for our eyes only. We do not ask for your email address. Questions are only published after an editor approves them, and only with the name you gave.
• Seconding a question. To count each reader once, we keep a scrambled (hashed) code made from your connection for up to 30 days. It cannot be turned back into your address and is never linked to anything else.
• Comments. If comments are open and you leave one, your name, email, website and comment, and your IP address for spam protection.
• Server logs. Our hosting provider keeps standard technical logs (IP address, browser, pages requested) for security, for a limited time.

Our legal basis

We rely on your consent for the newsletter, for keeping tip-offs and messages and for publishing Big Mouth questions, and on our legitimate interests for running and securing the site and counting seconds fairly. Personalised advertising relies on your consent, which you give or refuse through the consent message (see below).

Advertising and cookies

We use Google AdSense to show advertising on this site. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or 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 can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

Visitors in the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland are asked for consent before personalised ads are shown, and can change their choice at any time using the “Privacy and cookie settings” link that appears on the page. For more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

This site itself only sets the cookies WordPress needs (for example if you leave a comment or log in). Your day/night and low-data choices, and which questions you have seconded, are kept in your own browser and never sent to us. Videos from YouTube load from youtube-nocookie.com, and only after you press play. “Keep a copy” builds the file in your browser; nothing is sent to us.

Sources and anonymity

If you ask to stay anonymous when sharing a story, we never publish your name or anything that identifies you without your written agreement, and we limit who on the team can see your details. For anything sensitive, use one of the encrypted routes on the Share Your Story page rather than the website form.

How long we keep things

Newsletter details until you leave the list (every email has a one-click link, which deletes them). Tip-offs and messages for as long as they’re useful to the story, and no longer than three years unless we’re working with you. Published Big Mouth questions stay up as part of the public record; ask us and we will remove your name. Server logs according to our host’s schedule.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of the information we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, object to how we use it, or withdraw consent at any time. Email admin@ragmouth.com. If you’re unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).