My Online Home is a personal, non-commercial website run by one person. This page explains what it collects and why. In short: almost nothing, and no tracking.
The contact form collects your email address, your message, your name if you give it, and the page you came from. I use these only to read and reply to your message. The legal basis is my legitimate interest in answering people who get in touch.
Messages are stored in the website's database, hosted by Cloudflare, and nobody else sees them. To stop spam, the form also stores a one-way scrambled code made from your IP address and the date. That code can't be turned back into your address. Messages are deleted automatically after 12 months, or sooner if you ask.
The site doesn't use analytics, advertising or tracking, doesn't build a profile of you, and sets no cookies on visitors' devices.
Some pages save things in your own browser's storage so they work quickly and offline. The recipe book keeps a copy of the recipes. This stays on your device. It isn't sent to me, and you can clear it any time in your browser settings.
To protect the site from spam and abuse, repeated requests to some parts of it are counted against the same kind of one-way code made from your IP address and the date. Those counts are cleared within an hour.
Cloudflare hosts the site and its database, so it handles your IP address and basic request details to deliver pages and protect against attacks. Some pages also load things straight from other providers, who see your IP address as any website would: typefaces from Google Fonts, postcode look-ups from postcodes.io if you type one into the farmers' markets page, and recipe pictures from the food websites shown on the Inspiration page. Links to other websites take you to sites with their own privacy policies.
Under UK data protection law you can ask to see what I hold about you, ask me to correct or delete it, or object to how it's used. Use the contact form. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Last updated October 2026.