Privacy Policy: Managing Data Collection and User Rights
How Condoms4Life handles personal information, cookies, and the choices you have when you visit this site.
Introduction
Last updated: 12 February 2025
Condoms4Life is an advocacy site. We publish analysis on Catholic policy, HIV/AIDS prevention, and the public debate around condom access. Most of what we do is reading, writing, and arguing in public. We are not a commercial operation collecting profiles to sell.
This policy explains the small amount of data the site touches anyway, why we touch it, and how you can push back. It is written to be read, not skimmed past. If something here is unclear, the Contact page is the place to ask.
Purposes of Processing
We process data for three reasons, and that list is deliberately short.
The first is keeping the site working. Server logs help us catch broken pages, slow loads, and the occasional bot that hammers a single URL roughly ten thousand times overnight. Without that record, debugging is guesswork.
The second is understanding which articles people actually read. A piece on regional policy might draw a steady trickle for years while a campaign post spikes and vanishes. Knowing the difference shapes what we write next.
The third is replying to you. When you send a message or sign up for updates, we keep what you wrote so we can answer it.
External Services
Some of the work happens through providers we do not own.
Analytics
We use a privacy-conscious analytics tool to count visits and measure page performance. Additional platforms may be added later; this policy will name them when they go live.
Advertising
No ad network runs on the site today. We are considering one to help cover hosting costs. If that changes, the cookie controls described below will apply before anything tracks you.
Hosting & CDN
Our pages are served by a commercial host and delivered through a content delivery network. Both see the technical request data any web server receives.
Each of these providers runs under its own privacy terms. We pick them with care, but we do not control their internal practices.
Information Collected
Here is the honest inventory.
- Technical logs. Your IP address, browser type, and the pages you opened. This arrives automatically the moment any browser requests a page, ours or anyone else's.
- Contact submissions. If you write to us, we hold your name, email, and message for as long as it takes to deal with the conversation.
- Subscription inputs. If you sign up for updates, we keep the email address you gave and nothing else.
We do not ask for data we have no use for. There is no account system, no shopping cart, no reason to collect a birthday or a phone number.
Cookies and Tracking
Cookies are small files a site stores in your browser. Ours fall into three groups, and you are in charge of two of them.
Strictly necessary
These remember your cookie choice and keep a session running while you read. They cannot be switched off without breaking basic behaviour, so we do not ask permission for them.
Analytics
These record visit patterns and load times in aggregate. They tell us a page is popular; they do not tell us who you are.
Advertising
Reserved for future use. Should we ever serve personalised ads, these would be the cookies involved, and they would stay dormant until you opt in.
Taking control: Every major browser lets you view, block, or delete cookies through its settings. Clearing them is a fast way to reset what the site remembers about you. Our full Cookie Policy walks through the categories in more detail.
Data Subject Rights
The data is yours. These rights are not favours we grant.
- Access. Ask what we hold about you, and we will tell you.
- Deletion. Ask us to erase it, and we will, unless a law requires us to keep something.
- Opt-out. Decline analytics and any future advertising tracking through the cookie controls, at any time.
To act on any of these, write to us through the Contact page. A plain email naming what you want is enough; you do not need legal language.
Storage and Deletion
Technical logs roll off after a short retention window once they have served their debugging purpose. Contact messages stay only as long as the exchange is live or might reasonably reopen. Subscription emails remain until you unsubscribe, which every update message lets you do in one click.
When you ask for deletion, we remove what we directly control and, where a provider holds a copy, pass the request along. Backups age out on their own cycle rather than instantly, which is the one limit worth naming plainly here.
Policy Updates
This policy will change as the site does, especially if we add the analytics or advertising services mentioned above. When that happens, we revise the date at the top and post the new version here. Material changes get a clearer notice rather than a quiet edit.
Reading this far means you already care about the details. We try to write the policy that earns that attention.