Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 2026

Who we are

This website, loismelbourne.com, is the author site of Lois Melbourne.

Information you send through the contact form

If you use the contact form, we collect the details you enter: your name, email address, phone number (if you give it), the topic you choose and your message. We use them only to read and reply to your message. The message is delivered to Lois by email through our email provider, Resend. We do not sell or share your details with anyone else, and we do not add you to a mailing list.

Cookies and tracking

This site does not use cookies, analytics or advertising trackers.

Services this site uses

The site is hosted by Railway, whose servers keep short-lived technical logs (such as IP addresses) to run and protect the service. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when your browser requests them. Links to Amazon, social media, podcasts and other sites take you to services with their own privacy policies.

How long we keep your information

Contact-form messages are kept in Lois’s email for as long as they are needed to respond and keep a record of the conversation. You can ask for your message to be deleted at any time.

Your rights and contact

To ask what information we hold about you, or to have it corrected or deleted, please get in touch through the contact page.