Last updated: July 2026 · Written in plain English, on purpose.
bennetwritеs.com is a personal site, written and run by one person — me, Sophie — from a desk in Bath. There's no team, no data department, no one behind the curtain.
That matters here, because it means this policy describes exactly what I actually do with your information, not a boilerplate list of things a big company's lawyers might do.
Some posts on this site — mattress and product reviews in particular — contain affiliate links. If you buy something through one of those links, I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Any post like this carries its own disclosure, both near the top and in the footer.
Compensation never influences my opinion. If something isn't worth recommending, it doesn't appear here, and the parts I didn't like stay in the post.
If you sign up for Letters from Bath, I collect your email address — that's it. I use it to send you the newsletter, and nothing else.
If you write to me through the contact form, I read your message and reply if I can, then delete it. There are no accounts here, no logins, no passwords to remember.
Server logs capture the standard technical basics (things like browser type and page requested) that any site collects just by existing. I only ever look at that in aggregate — I'm not building a profile of you.
This site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies. I'd rather tell you exactly what and why than hide it in a wall of legalese, so here it is.
Some are simply needed for the site to work. The rest are advertising and measurement tools, described in the next section — those are the ones that set cookies in your browser and can recognise you across other sites.
I use the Meta Pixel (from Meta Platforms, Inc. — Facebook and Instagram) on every page of this site, loaded through Google Tag Manager. This is how I find out whether the ads I run are actually reaching people who want to read this stuff.
The pixel records that you viewed a page, and — on posts with affiliate links — whether you clicked through to the retailer. It collects your IP address, browser and device information, and a cookie identifier, and it sends that to Meta. If you're logged into Facebook or Instagram, Meta can connect that activity to your account. Meta may use it to show you ads elsewhere and to measure how my ads perform.
I only ever see this as aggregate numbers — how many people read a post, how many clicked. I can't see who you are, and I don't try to.
Meta acts as an independent controller for the data it receives. What they do with it is governed by their own policy, at facebook.com/privacy/policy, not by mine.
You can turn this off, and it costs you nothing to do so. In your Facebook or Instagram settings, "Ads" → "Ad settings" lets you control activity from partner sites like this one. Your browser settings can block third-party cookies outright, and most tracker-blocking extensions stop the pixel loading at all.
Nothing on this site is gated behind tracking. Block all of it and every word still works exactly the same.
Every so often I'll link out to a retailer like Saatva, or embed a post from somewhere like YouTube or Instagram. Once you leave bennetwritеs.com, their own privacy practices take over — that's outside my control and outside the scope of this policy, so it's worth checking theirs too.
Affiliate links also pass a tracking identifier to the retailer so a sale can be credited back to this site. That identifier tells them the sale came from here — it does not tell them anything about you personally.
Letters from Bath goes out roughly fortnightly. It never contains sponsored content or affiliate links dressed up as a personal note — if I'm recommending something in an email, I'll say so.
Unsubscribe whenever you like using the link at the bottom of any email. I process those within 48 hours, usually much sooner.
This site is run from the UK, so UK and EU data protection law applies. You can ask to see, correct, or delete whatever personal data I hold on you — for most people that's just an email address. You can also object to your data being used for advertising, and withdraw consent for tracking at any time using the opt-out steps above.
Get in touch through the contact form and I'll sort it out myself, usually within a day or two. If you think I've handled your data badly and I haven't put it right, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
I may update this policy occasionally as the site changes. The date at the top reflects the most recent update, and I won't quietly change what I do with your data without updating it here.
Questions get a personal reply from me, not an automated one — I'm easy to find at bennetwritеs.com/contact.