PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: 17th July 2026

This website, Lydia on Location, is committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices regarding your personal information, please contact us at lydiaonlocation@gmail.com

When you visit our website www.lydiaonlocation.com (the "Website"), you trust us with your personal information. Below, we outline exactly what data is collected, how it is used via our hosting platform (Squarespace), and what your rights are under UK law.

1. WEBSITE VISITORS & HOSTING

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

2. ANALYTICS

This website collects personal information to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps.

We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity so we can improve our travel guides.

3. COOKIES

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

  • Necessary and Required Cookies: These cookies are always used, allowing Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

  • Analytics and Performance Cookies: These cookies are used on this website only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use these cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other performance data.

4. BLOG COMMENTS & LIKES

This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal information when you post a comment, including:

  • Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)

  • Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

  • Your website URL (optional)

This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal information when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including information about your browser, network, and device, details about the content you liked, and your IP address.

5. FORM SUBMISSIONS

When you submit information to this website via webform (such as a contact form), we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We provide this information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us and help us manage our relationship with you.

6. MARKETING EMAILS (NEWSLETTERS)

If you subscribe to our travel newsletter, we may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We provide your contact information to Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

7. FONTS

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

8. SHARE BUTTONS

This website includes share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from this site to third-party social media services. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data, including information about your browser, network, and device, details about the web page or content you shared, and your IP address.

9. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS (UK GDPR)

Because you are interacting with a UK-based blog, you hold the following rights regarding your data:

  • The right to access, update, or delete the personal information we hold on you.

  • The right to withdraw consent at any time (e.g., unsubscribing from emails or changing cookie choices).

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at lydiaonlocation@gmail.com

10. COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE

If you have a complaint regarding how your data is handled, please contact us directly first. Under the Data Use and Access Act, we operate an internal complaints process and will acknowledge your concern within 30 days. If we cannot resolve the dispute, you have the right to lodge a formal complaint with the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).