Privacy notice

We collect as little personal information as we can. This notice explains what we do collect and your rights under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).

What we collect

• When you email us: your email address, name if you give it, and whatever you write. We use it to reply and to fix the site. We keep it for as long as we need to deal with your message, then delete it.
• Visits to the site: we use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages people find useful. It sets cookies (named _ga and _ga_ followed by an ID) and records things like the pages you view, roughly where you are, your device and how you found us. It doesn't give us your name or contact details. Google keeps this data for 14 months and processes it on servers outside South Africa. We don't use Google's advertising features.
• The weather box: to show today's weather, your browser asks Open-Meteo for the Marloth forecast. Open-Meteo sees your IP address, as any website you load would.

We don't sell personal information or share it with anyone else.

Turning off analytics

You can block cookies in your browser settings, or install Google's opt-out browser add-on. The site works the same either way.

Your rights

You can ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Email hello@hellomarloth.co.za.

If you're not happy with how we've handled your information, you can complain to the Information Regulator.

Changes

If we start collecting more, for example when we add a newsletter, we'll update this notice first and ask for your consent where the law requires it.