Privacy & cookies

This page explains what personal data Things Worth Keeping collects, why, and what choices you have. It's written in plain English rather than legal boilerplate, but it's meant to be complete.

If anything here isn't clear, or you want to exercise any of the rights below, get in touch via our contact page.

Who we are

Things Worth Keeping is a personal publication about home objects and furniture, reviewed after years of real use. It isn't run by a registered company; you can think of it as a personal project with a website. For data protection purposes, the person running the site is the "controller" of any personal data described below.

What we collect, and why

• Contact form. If you get in touch, we collect your name, email address, and whatever you write in the message. We use this only to reply to you. We keep it for as long as reasonably needed to deal with your message, then delete it.
• Newsletter sign-up. If you join the newsletter, we collect your email address. We use it only to send you the newsletter. We keep it until you unsubscribe, at which point it's removed.
• Analytics (cookies). With your consent, we use Google Analytics to understand how many people visit the site, which pages they read, and roughly how they found us (for example, via search or Pinterest). This helps us know what's worth writing more of. See the cookies section below for details and how to opt out.
• Affiliate links. Some articles link to retailers where you can buy the things reviewed. Once these become affiliate links, clicking one may set a cookie that tells us (and the retailer) that the visit came from this site, so we can earn a small commission if you buy something, at no extra cost to you. This section will be updated with specifics once those links are live, and the cookie consent banner will cover them too.

Cookies

We ask for your consent before setting any non-essential cookie. When you first visit, you'll see a banner offering to Accept or Reject. If you reject, none of the cookies below are set.

Cookie	Purpose	Duration	Requires consent?
twk-cookie-consent	Remembers your cookie choice, so we don't ask every visit.	Persistent (until cleared)	No. This one is strictly necessary to remember your preference
Google Analytics (_ga, _ga_*)	Counts visits and page views, and shows us broad traffic patterns. We don't use it for advertising or to build profiles of individuals.	Up to 2 years	Yes
Affiliate network cookies (Awin, Amazon Associates, or similar; not yet active)	Attributes a purchase to a click on one of our links, so the retailer knows to pay us a commission.	Varies by retailer, typically 24 hours to 30 days	Yes

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Who we share data with

• Netlify hosts this site and processes contact form and newsletter submissions on our behalf. Their own privacy policy covers how they handle that data as a processor.
• Google processes analytics data if you've consented to analytics cookies.
• We don't sell personal data, and we don't share it with anyone for their own marketing purposes.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law, you can ask to see what personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how we're using it. Get in touch via our contact page and we'll deal with it as quickly as we reasonably can.

If you're not happy with how we've handled your data, you also have the right to complain to the UK's data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

Changes to this policy

We'll update this page as the site changes, most likely once affiliate links go live. The date at the top will always reflect the most recent update.