Everyday Shaman respects your privacy. This page explains what information is collected when you visit this website, how it is used, and the choices you have.
This website is run by Nicky Mott, the Everyday Shaman. If you have any questions about this policy or about your information, please get in touch through the Contact page.
How we measure use of this website
We like to understand how the website is being used — for example which pages are the most popular — so we can keep improving it. To do this we use a privacy-friendly analytics tool.
- It does not use cookies and does not store anything on your device.
- It does not collect or store personal data, and does not identify you.
- It does not track you across other websites or build a profile of you.
- The information we see is aggregated and anonymous — such as total page views, general visitor numbers and which country visits come from — and cannot be traced back to an individual.
Because no cookies are set and no personal data is collected for analytics, there is nothing you need to accept or opt out of in order to browse the site privately.
Cookies
This website does not use advertising or tracking cookies of its own. The only cookies it may set are ones needed to make it work:
- If you leave a comment, you can choose to have your name and email remembered for next time. This is stored in a cookie on your device for up to a year, and only if you tick the box.
- If the website administrator signs in to manage the site, login cookies are used for that purpose only.
Other websites whose content appears on this site may set their own cookies — see Content from other websites below.
Contacting Nicky and booking a class
If you use the contact form or the booking request form, the details you enter are sent by email to Nicky so she can reply to you. The information is not stored on the website itself.
- Contact form: your name, email address and message.
- Booking request form: your name, email address, and, if you choose to give them, your telephone number, postal address, the class you are interested in, how you heard about us, and any comments or questions — for example dietary requirements.
Your details are used only to respond to your enquiry, and to arrange and run any class, workshop or ceremony you book. If you tell us about dietary or health needs, this is used only to look after you during a class or event. We do not sell your information or share it with anyone for marketing.
Emails are kept for as long as they are needed to deal with your enquiry or booking, and to keep in touch with you about classes you have attended, unless you ask us to delete them.
Comments
If you leave a comment on a blog post, we collect the name, email address and any website you enter, together with your IP address and browser details, to help prevent spam.
- Your email address is never published.
- Comments are checked by Akismet, a spam-filtering service run by Automattic. Your comment and the details above are sent to Akismet for this check.
- Your email address may be turned into a scrambled code and sent to Gravatar, also run by Automattic, to see whether you have a profile picture to show next to your comment.
- Comments and the details that go with them are kept for as long as the comment stays on the site. You can ask us to remove a comment at any time.
Content from other websites
Some pages include content from other websites. These sites may collect information about you and set their own cookies, in the same way as if you had visited them directly.
- YouTube videos are embedded on some pages. When a page with a video loads, and particularly when you play it, YouTube (owned by Google) may set cookies and record that you watched it. See Google’s privacy policy.
- Fonts: some pages load a typeface from Google Fonts. This means your browser contacts Google’s servers, which can see your IP address. Google says this is not used to build a profile of you.
- Facebook and Instagram: the links to our pages on these sites are plain links. Nothing is sent to Facebook or Instagram unless you click on them.
Keeping the website secure
To protect the website from hacking and abuse, a security tool (Wordfence) records the IP addresses of visitors and the pages they request. These records are used only to spot and block attacks, and are deleted automatically after a short period.
The website is hosted by 20i in the UK. Regular backups of the website, which include any comments, are kept in secure storage for up to six weeks and then deleted.
Your rights
Under data protection law you have the right to:
- ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
- ask us to correct anything that is wrong;
- ask us to delete your information;
- object to, or ask us to limit, how we use it.
To do any of these, please get in touch through the Contact page. If you are unhappy with how your information has been handled, you can complain to the data protection authority where you live — in the UK this is the Information Commissioner’s Office, and in France the CNIL.
Changes to this policy
We may update this page from time to time, for example if the website changes the way it works. The date below shows when it was last updated.
Last updated: 23 September 2026