Last updated: March 2025
This page explains what we keep when you use the site or write to us, why we keep it, and what you can ask us to do with it.
When you send a message or ask about a commission, we keep what you have typed: your name, your email address and the details of your request.
The site also records ordinary technical information, such as the type of browser used and the pages opened, so we can tell what is slow or broken.
Messages you send us while discussing a myth or legend stay on file during our conversation and for a short while after. Records tied to a commissioned piece — a hand-bound old book or illustrated legend — are kept longer in case we need to refer back to them.
We never sell your personal details. Your information is shared only with the few services that help us run this storytelling blog — our mailing list provider and printer for bound books — and only the pieces of data each one genuinely needs.
Only the people who manage this blog and its archive of myths can access your details, and everything you send through the site — from comments to commission requests — travels over an encrypted connection.
You can ask what information we hold about you, request a correction, or ask us to erase it entirely. Write to us and we will confirm once the request has been carried out.
This site uses a small number of cookies to remember your preferences as you browse our collection of myths and folklore. Which ones we use, and how to turn them off, is explained on a separate page.
If anything about how we use cookies changes, we will update this page and adjust the date at the top, so a quick glance tells you whether our storytelling practices around data have shifted since your last visit.
If anything here leaves you uncertain — about cookies, about a story's source, or anything else — reach out through the contact page and we will give you a straight, plain answer.