Privacy Policy for The Diasporer

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to The Diasporer ("we," "our," "us"). We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal data when you visit our website, https://diasporer.neocities.org/, or use our services (collectively, the "Services").

Please read this policy carefully. By using our Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

2. The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped as follows:

Identity Data: First name, last name, username or similar identifier.
Contact Data: Email address.
Profile Data: Your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
Technical Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and Services.
Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

3. How We Collect Your Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:

Direct Interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Profile Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- Subscribe to our service or publications;
- Request marketing to be sent to you;
- Enter a competition, promotion, or survey; or
- Give us feedback or contact us.
Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical and Usage Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, such as analytics providers (like Google).

4. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., providing you with content or services you have requested).
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g., to study how customers use our services, to develop them, and to grow our business) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
Where you have given us your clear consent.

Purpose/Activity	Type of Data	Lawful Basis for Processing
To register you as a new subscriber	Identity, Contact	Performance of a contract with you
To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you of changes	Identity, Contact, Profile, Marketing	Performance of a contract, Legal obligation
To administer and protect our business and this website	Identity, Contact, Technical	Legitimate interests (for running our business, IT services, network security)
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure the effectiveness of that content	Identity, Contact, Profile, Usage, Marketing, Technical	Legitimate interests (to study how customers use our services, to develop them, to grow our business, and to inform our marketing strategy)
To use data analytics to improve our website, services, marketing, and user relationships	Technical, Usage	Legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our services, to keep our website updated and relevant)
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about services that may be of interest	Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage, Profile	Legitimate interests (to develop our services and grow our business) or Consent

5. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

6. Your Legal Rights

Under the UK GDPR, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of your personal data.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at thediasporer@tutamail.com.

7. Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Email: thediasporer@tutamail.com

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.