Last updated: September 22, 2026
Sarah Grey (“we”, “our”, or “us”) operates the English lifestyle blog at https://sarahgrey.blog/ (“the Site”). This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you visit the Site, how we use it, and the choices and rights you have.
1. Information We Collect
Comments: When you leave a comment on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form — your name, email address, and comment — as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam. An anonymized string created from your email address (a “hash”) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/.
Contact form: If you write to us through our Contact page, we collect your name, email address, and message so we can respond to your enquiry.
Cookies: We use cookies to operate the Site, remember your preferences (such as comment details you choose to save), and understand how visitors use the Site. You can control cookies through your browser settings.
Analytics: We use Google Analytics, connected through Google Site Kit, to collect information about how visitors use the Site — for example, which pages are viewed and how long visitors stay. This information helps us improve our content.
2. Advertising
We may show advertisements on the Site using Google AdSense. Google and other third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Site and other websites. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads/. You may also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to operate and maintain the Site, respond to comments and messages, detect and prevent spam and abuse, and analyze how the Site is used so we can improve it.
4. Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on this Site may include embedded content (for example, videos, images, articles, or social media posts). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if you had visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
5. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Messages sent through our Contact page are kept for as long as needed to handle your enquiry. Analytics data is retained according to Google Analytics’ data retention settings.
6. Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have left comments on this Site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
7. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Analytics information is processed by Google in accordance with Google’s privacy policy.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or about your personal data, please get in touch through our Contact page.