Who I am
Phoebe Loves Food is a food blog run by Phoebe Akua Ampomah Boateng, who is responsible for your details under UK data protection law. You can reach me at pblovesfood@gmail.com.
What I collect and why
- Newsletter: your email address, to send you the newsletter. You’re only added once you confirm through the link I email you, so my legal basis is your consent. Every issue has an unsubscribe link, and you can withdraw consent at any time.
- Contact form: your name, email address, topic and message, so I can reply. My legal basis is my legitimate interest in answering messages people send me.
- Visiting the site: the servers that deliver it record technical details such as your IP address, browser and the pages requested, to keep the site secure and working (legitimate interests).
The site doesn’t use cookies, analytics or advertising trackers.
Who handles it for me
I use these services to run the site. They only use your details to provide their service to me:
- Kit sends the newsletter.
- Resend delivers contact form messages to my inbox.
- Vercel hosts the website.
- Sanity stores the site’s content and serves its images.
These companies are based in, or store data in, the United States. Those transfers are protected by the UK–US data bridge or the UK’s approved contract clauses. I never sell your details or share them for marketing.
How long I keep it
- Newsletter: until you unsubscribe. After that I keep only a note that you unsubscribed, so you’re never emailed again. Sign-ups that are never confirmed are deleted regularly, usually within a few months.
- Contact messages: kept in my inbox for as long as I need them to reply and follow up, and deleted after 12 months at most. Resend, which delivers them, deletes its copy after about 30 days.
- Server logs: kept briefly by the hosting providers under their own retention rules.
Your rights
You can ask to see the details I hold about you, have them corrected or deleted, restrict or object to how I use them, or get a copy to take elsewhere. Email pblovesfood@gmail.com and I’ll reply within one month.
People and places in my stories
I write about venues and the people who run them with their permission. If you’re featured and would like something changed or removed, email me and I’ll sort it out.
Complaints
If you’re unhappy with how I’ve handled your details, please tell me first. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or on 0303 123 1113.
Changes
If this notice changes, I’ll update the date at the top of the page.