Spicy Balanced Living ("we", "us", "our") is a wellness and meditation website published by Naomi Christie from Little Rock, Guyana. This policy explains, in plain language, what happens to information when you use www.spicybalancedliving.com. If anything here is unclear, please contact us and we will explain it properly.

The short version

• You do not need an account to read, meditate or watch anything on this site.
• We do not sell your personal information. Ever.
• Your journal entries and daily practice notes are stored on your own device, not on our servers.
• We show advertising through Google AdSense, and we use basic analytics. Those services set cookies.

Information we collect

Information you give us

If you write to us by email or WhatsApp, we receive whatever you choose to send — typically your name, your contact details and the content of your message. We keep that correspondence only for as long as we need it to answer you.

Information stored on your own device

Features such as the daily journal, streak counter, saved affirmations and chakra progress are written into your browser's local storage. That information stays on your phone or computer. We cannot read it, and clearing your browser data will erase it.

Information collected automatically

Like almost every website, our hosting provider records standard server logs: the page requested, the date and time, the referring page, a truncated IP address, and your browser and device type. These logs help us keep the site fast and secure.

Cookies and similar technologies

A cookie is a small text file placed on your device by a website. We and our partners use them for three purposes:

Type	What it does
Essential	Remembers your place in the app, your theme preference and your local journal. Without these the site cannot work properly.
Analytics	Tells us, in aggregate, which pages and meditations people find useful so we can make more of what helps.
Advertising	Used by Google and its partners to select and measure the ads you see.

You can delete or block cookies at any time in your browser settings. Blocking advertising cookies will not stop you seeing ads, but the ads will be less relevant to you.

Google AdSense and third-party advertising

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
• You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
• You may opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info or Your Online Choices.
• More detail is available in Google's page on how it uses information from sites that use its services.

Embedded video

The Meditation Room streams nature and scenery footage from third-party media servers. When a clip loads, that provider receives your IP address and basic technical information so it can deliver the file. We do not pass them any personal details about you.

Children

This site is written for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, write to us and we will delete it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, or to object to it being processed. Because we hold very little, most requests are simple to honour. Write to us and we will respond within thirty days.

Data security and retention

The site is served over an encrypted HTTPS connection. Server logs are rotated regularly by our host. Email correspondence is kept only while it is useful and then deleted.

Changes to this policy

When we change this policy we will update the date at the top of the page. Material changes will also be announced on the home page.

Contact

Naomi Christie · Spicy Balanced Living · Little Rock, Guyana. See the contact page for the current email address and WhatsApp line.