Privacy

Fit Over Forty is run by two people. This page describes exactly what we collect, why, and what you can ask us to do about it.

Reading the blog

Nothing is required to read. We do not set advertising or tracking cookies, and there is no third-party analytics on these pages.

The newsletter

If you subscribe, we record your email address, the date and time, the page you subscribed from, your IP address, and the exact wording you agreed to:

Yes, email me new posts from Fit Over Forty. I can unsubscribe at any time, and I have read the privacy policy.

We keep that record for as long as you are subscribed, and for 24 months after you unsubscribe, so that we can show if asked that you did ask to hear from us. Your address is also passed to MailerLite , who send the emails on our behalf. MailerLite will email you to confirm before you receive anything — if you do not confirm, you are not subscribed.

Every email we send carries an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing takes effect immediately. You can also ask us to delete your consent record.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Email info@fitoverforty.blog and we will respond within a month. Deletion takes effect on the live site immediately; see Backups below for how long a copy can survive off-site. If you are unhappy with how we have handled it, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office .

Backups

The site is backed up off-site and encrypted, so that it can be restored if the server fails. That has a consequence for deletion, and we would rather state it plainly than leave you to find out.

When you ask us to delete something, we delete it from the live site straight away. A copy stays in the backups until they rotate out, which takes up to 210 days.

There is one exception. If removing a backup would leave us with no usable copy to restore from, we keep that last copy until a verified replacement exists, and remove it then. That can hold a copy past 210 days. It applies only to the last usable copy, and only until there is a good one to replace it.

We do not use backups for anything except restoring the site, and we do not reinstate data that has been deleted.