Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 2026

Who we are

This website is byaliha.com, a beauty and home decor lifestyle blog operated by a sole trader based in the United Kingdom. If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us at byalihaa@gmail.com

What Personal Data We Collect

We collect only the following personal information: your first name and your email address. We do not collect payment details, phone numbers, physical addresses, or any sensitive personal data.

How We Collect Your Information

We collect your name and email address directly from you when you choose to sign up to our mailing list via a signup form on this website. You will never be added to our list without actively choosing to do so. We also collect basic technical data such as your IP address and browsing behaviour on this site automatically through cookies.

Why We Collect Your Information

We collect your name and email address solely to send you our newsletter, which includes beauty and home decor content, product recommendations, and updates from byaliha.com. We use your first name to personalise the emails we send you. We do not use your data for any other purpose, and we will never sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for their own marketing.

Explicit Consent

By completing and submitting our signup form, you are giving us your explicit consent to collect and use your name and email address for the purposes described above. This consent is freely given, specific, and informed. You may withdraw your consent at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email we send you, and we will remove you from our list promptly.

Affiliate Links

This website participates in affiliate marketing programmes. Some links on byaliha.com are affiliate links, meaning we may earn a small commission if you click a link and make a purchase, at no extra cost to you. We participate in the following programmes: Amazon Associates UK, Amazon Associates US, Awin, and LTK. When you click an affiliate link, you will be directed to a third-party website governed by their own privacy policy. We do not receive any personal data about you from these affiliate networks – we only receive anonymous commission data.

We disclose the presence of affiliate links in every blog post with the statement: “This post contains affiliate links. I may earn a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you.”

Third-Party Sharing

We use MailerLite to store and manage our email list and send newsletters. MailerLite processes your name and email address on our behalf as a data processor. You can view MailerLite’s privacy policy at mailerlite.com. Your data may be stored on servers within the EU and USA. We do not share your personal information with any other third parties.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

How Long We Keep Your Data

We keep your name and email address for as long as you remain subscribed to our mailing list. If you unsubscribe, we will remove your details from our active list promptly. We may retain your email address on a suppression list to ensure we do not accidentally contact you again in future.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Your Rights

Under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, you have the following rights regarding your personal data: the right to access the data we hold about you, the right to correct inaccurate data, the right to request deletion of your data, the right to restrict how we use your data, the right to receive your data in a portable format, and the right to object to our use of your data at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at: byalihaa@gmail.com. We will respond within one calendar month.

Data Protection

We take reasonable steps to protect your personal data, including using SSL encryption on this website and ensuring our email service provider MailerLite maintains appropriate security measures. No internet transmission is 100% secure, but we take our responsibility to protect your data seriously.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page will always reflect when it was last revised. Continued use of this website after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.