Mannastery is a one-person labor of love. It is completely self funded. It is not a corporation or an institution or a media enterprise. There is no advertising on the site so the general privacy issues are of no concern. But here is a privacy policy, to tell you what information this website does receive from you and what happens to it.

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE

Online Newsletter & Monthly Digest / If you sign up to receive Mannastery's monthly digest, you provide your email address, which is used solely for the delivery of the digest to your inbox. I will never share them with any “third parties.” You can unsubscribe at any time, if you wish.

Donations / If you choose to donate to Mannastery — thank you ever so much! — you provide your name, donation amount, and payment card information. The secure financial service provider that handles these transactions (called PayPal) will receive your payment card information, which will only be used to process your donation. (If you support on a monthly basis, you can cancel your recurring donation at any time.)

Communications / If you contact me, either by writing to me directly, using the contact form or by replying to the automated email digest, I will receive your email address and any other information you choose to provide.

INFORMATION AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED

Usage Information / Mannastery lives on the publishing platform Squarespace, which includes a statistical analytics feature to help publishers understand how their readers use their websites. This means that anonymised information of the pages Mannastery readers visit and the times of those visits are represented in these statistics. Squarespace may add other features to their analytics at any time, which may or may not be available to me as a publisher.

WHAT MANNASTERY DOES WITH YOUR INFORMATION

I use your information solely to communicate with you if you have opted in to receive the newsletter, to facilitate donations, and to better understand how you use the site in order to improve it. I don’t share your information with any “third parties,” though it does live — securely — within the external services that deliver the email newsletter (MailChimp) and process donations (PayPal).

OTHER

Data Transfers / I’m told I need to state that because Mannastery is based in the United Kingdom, if you visit the website from another country, your data may be transferred to the United Kingdom and other countries that may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided information.

Data Security / I do everything I can to make Mannastery and your information as secure as possible. However, this is the Internet — no security measures can be 100% secure for reasons far beyond any one person’s intent and control.