Privacy Policy

Ostaren Journal ("the Journal", "we", "us", "our") is an independent editorial publication operated from 28 Garnault Place-form editorial content examining the relationship between food composition, eating patterns, energy balance, and body composition.

For any enquiries relating to this Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal data, please contact us at [email protected] or by telephone at +44 20 7382 6914.

Ostaren Journal collects the minimum data necessary to operate this website and to respond to reader correspondence. The categories of data we may collect are:

• Contact data: your name, email address, and the content of messages submitted via our contact form. This data is collected only when you voluntarily submit it.
• Usage data: pages visited, time on page, referral source, and browser type, collected via anonymised analytics. No individual user is identified or profiled through this data.
• Technical data: IP address (anonymised), browser type, operating system, and device type, collected automatically when you access the website.
• Cookie data: information stored in cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. You may manage your cookie preferences at any time using the Cookie Settings link in the footer.

We do not collect sensitive personal data, payment information, or data relating to the health status of any reader.

Personal data collected by Ostaren Journal is used for the following purposes, each with the corresponding lawful basis under UK data protection law:

• To respond to correspondence: Contact form submissions are used solely to respond to your enquiry. Lawful basis: legitimate interests.
• To maintain and improve the website: Anonymised usage data is used to understand how readers engage with editorial content and to identify technical issues. Lawful basis: legitimate interests.
• To comply with legal obligations: We may retain records where required by applicable UK law. Lawful basis: legal obligation.

We do not use your personal data for automated decision-making, profiling, or targeted advertising. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise transfer your personal data to third parties for their own commercial use.

Contact form submissions are retained for a period of twelve months from the date of receipt, after which they are securely deleted unless an ongoing correspondence requires a longer retention period. Anonymised usage data is retained for a maximum of twenty-six months in aggregated form.

Where we are required to retain data for legal or regulatory compliance, we will retain that data only for the minimum period necessary to fulfil the obligation.

Under UK data protection law, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data held by Ostaren Journal:

• Right of access: you may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification: you may request that inaccurate data is corrected.
• Right to erasure: you may request that your personal data is deleted, subject to any legal obligation to retain it.
• Right to restrict handling: you may request that we limit how we use your data in certain circumstances.
• Right to object: you may object to our handling of your data where we rely on legitimate interests as the lawful basis.
• Right to data portability: where applicable, you may request that we transfer your data to another controller.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days. If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.

This website uses third-party services that may set cookies or collect data independently. These include:

• Google Maps: used on our contact page to display our office location. Google’s privacy policy governs data collected through this service.
• Google Fonts / Fontshare: used to serve typefaces. Font requests may log your IP address as a standard web request.
• CDN libraries: JavaScript and CSS libraries are loaded from third-party CDNs (jsDelivr, Cloudflare, unpkg). These services may log standard request data including IP addresses.

Ostaren Journal does not integrate social media tracking pixels, advertising networks, or any third-party analytics service that identifies individual users.