Last updated: January 2026 · Written in plain English, on purpose.
bennettwritеs.com is a personal site, written and run by one person — me — from a desk in Bath. There's no team, no data department, no one behind the curtain but Sophie.
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.
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.
I'm not building a profile of you. I'm just trying to send you a nice email every couple of weeks.
I use a privacy-friendly analytics tool (something like Fathom or Plausible) to get a rough sense of which stories people are reading and enjoying. It doesn't use cookies and doesn't track you across the web.
There are no tracking pixels here, no ad networks, and nothing that follows you around after you leave.
Every so often I'll embed a video or a post from somewhere like YouTube or Instagram. Those platforms may set their own cookies when you view that content, and that's genuinely outside my control — it's worth knowing, so I'm telling you plainly.
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter whenever you like — there's a link at the bottom of every email, no hard feelings.
You can also ask me to remove your email address entirely, or just get in touch if you have any questions about what I hold. I'll sort it out myself, usually within a day or two.
If you have any questions about any of this, just get in touch — I'm easy to find at bennettwritеs.com/contact.