Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 2026

In short

I’m Minter Dial, and this is my website. It’s run by my company, MYDIAL LLP. I collect as little personal data as I can, I use it only to run the site, answer you and send you what you’ve asked for, and I never sell it. You can ask me what I hold about you, or ask me to delete it, at any time by writing to nminterdial@gmail.com.

The rest of this page gives the detail, as required by the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, and by the EU GDPR for visitors in the European Union.

1. Who we are

This website, www.minterdial.com (the “site”), is run by MYDIAL LLP, a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales (Companies House number OC430434), with its registered office at North End House, Fitzjames Ave, London W140RZ (“we”, “us”, “our”). MYDIAL LLP is the “controller” of the personal data described on this page.

Contact for anything privacy-related: nminterdial@gmail.com

2. What we collect and why

We only collect what you give us, plus a small amount of technical data that every website receives.

When you use the contact form. Your name, email address and message (on the speaking enquiry form, also any dates, topic and requirements you include). We use them to reply to you and, if you’re booking me to speak or consult, to prepare and deliver that work. Form submissions reach us by email.

When you subscribe to my newsletter. My newsletter, Dialogos, is published on Substack (minter.substack.com). When you subscribe, you sign up on Substack, and Substack collects and holds your email address and subscription details under its own privacy policy. I can see my subscriber list so that I can send you the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time with the link at the bottom of every email.

When you leave a comment. Your comment, name, email address and, if you add it, your website. WordPress also records your IP address and browser details to help prevent spam. Your name, website and comment are shown publicly; your email address is never published. Comments are checked for spam by Akismet (see section 4). If you have a Gravatar profile linked to your email, your profile picture may appear next to your comment.

When you’re a guest on my podcast. If you’re a guest on Minter Dialogue (or another of my shows), we collect your name, contact details, bio, photo and anything you share for the episode, plus the recording itself. We use these to arrange, record, edit and publish the episode and its show notes. We schedule recordings with Calendly, and we hold and record the interview on Zoom, which captures your audio and video. The published episode is public, and is distributed by our podcast host and podcast apps.

When you book a call. The contact page links to my Calendly booking page. If you book through it, Calendly collects your details under its own privacy policy, and we receive the booking details to hold the call.

When you buy one of my books or products. I don’t sell anything directly on this site. Links take you either to third-party stores, such as Amazon or my publishers’ sites, which handle your order and payment under their own privacy policies, or to my own store, The Last Ring Home (thelastringhome.com), which I run through MYDIAL LLP. If you order from my store, we receive the details needed to fulfil your order, such as your name, email and delivery address. Card payments are handled by the store’s payment processor, so we never see your full card details.

When you simply browse. Like every website, our server receives technical data such as your IP address, browser type, device and the pages you visit. With your consent, we also use analytics cookies to understand how the site is used (see section 4).

We don’t use your data for automated decision-making or profiling that has legal or similarly significant effects on you, and we don’t sell or rent your data to anyone.

3. Our lawful bases

The law requires us to have a lawful basis for each use of your data. Ours are:

What we do	Lawful basis
Replying to your messages and enquiries	Legitimate interests (answering people who contact us); for speaking or consulting bookings, taking steps towards a contract at your request
Delivering a talk, workshop or other service you’ve booked	Contract
Fulfilling orders from my store, thelastringhome.com	Contract
Sending the newsletter	Consent (you subscribe on Substack, and you can unsubscribe at any time)
Publishing and moderating comments, and spam protection	Legitimate interests (running a lively, spam-free blog)
Recording and publishing podcast episodes with guests	Legitimate interests and your agreement to take part
Analytics cookies and embedded videos	Consent, given through our cookie banner
Strictly necessary cookies and form security (reCAPTCHA)	Legitimate interests (keeping the site working and secure)
Keeping business and tax records	Legal obligation

Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time. Where we rely on legitimate interests, you can object (see section 8).

4. Cookies and third-party services

When you first visit, a cookie banner asks for your choice. Statistics and marketing cookies, including embedded YouTube videos, are only set if you accept them, and you can change your mind at any time through the “Manage consent” button on the site. Our Cookie Policy gives more detail: https://www.minterdial.com/cookie-policy-uk/

These are the tools and services we found running on the site:

Service	What it does	When it runs	Cookies (and how long they last)
Complianz	Cookie banner; remembers your choice	Always	cmplz_ cookies (1 year)
Google Analytics 4	Visitor statistics	Full analytics only with your consent; before that, Google’s consent mode sends cookieless pings	_ga, _ga_VWQ00K84GK (up to 13 months)
WPMU DEV Analytics	Visitor statistics	Only with your consent	_pk_id (up to 13 months), _pk_ses (30 minutes)
YouTube (Google)	Embedded videos	Only with your marketing consent; until then a placeholder image is shown	YSC (session), VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE and others (up to 6 months)
Google reCAPTCHA	Blocks spam on our forms	On pages with a form	Google may read or set its own cookies
Megaphone (Spotify)	Podcast player	On podcast pages	None set in our tests; Megaphone receives your IP address and playback data
Google Fonts	Loads the site’s fonts	Always	None; Google receives your IP address
WPMU DEV CDN	Delivers the site’s images and files quickly	Always	None
Akismet (Automattic)	Spam filter for comments	When you submit a comment	None
Gravatar (Automattic)	Commenters’ profile pictures	On posts with comments	None
WordPress comments	Remembers your name and email for the next comment	When you comment	comment_author cookies (up to 1 year)
Share buttons (Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Buffer, Gmail)	Lets you share a page	Only if you click one	Set by that network once you’re on its site

Outside the website itself, we use Calendly to schedule calls and podcast recordings, and Zoom to hold and record podcast interviews (Zoom processes guests’ names, audio and video).

Google, Automattic, WPMU DEV, Megaphone, Substack, Calendly and Zoom each process data under their own privacy policies. Our website is hosted by WPMU DEV.

Links to other websites, including Amazon, Substack, Calendly, social networks and online stores, take you to sites we don’t control. Their own privacy policies apply once you’re there.

5. Amazon affiliate links

Some links to books on this site are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. It costs you nothing extra. Amazon may use cookies to record that you arrived from this site; this happens on Amazon, under Amazon’s privacy notice.

6. How long we keep your data

Data	How long
Contact form messages and email correspondence	24 months after our last exchange, unless we’re working together
Client, booking and store order records, invoices	6 years, to meet UK tax and accounting rules
Comments	For as long as the post is online, or until you ask us to remove yours
Podcast guest details	For as long as we need them to arrange, publish and promote the episode; published episodes stay online indefinitely unless we agree otherwise
Analytics data	14 months
Newsletter subscription	Until you unsubscribe (held by Substack)
Cookies	As listed in the table above

7. International transfers

Some of the services we use (for example Google, Automattic, Substack, Calendly, Zoom, Megaphone and WPMU DEV) are based in, or store data in, the United States or other countries outside the UK and EU. Where that happens, we rely on the safeguards the law provides, such as the UK–US “data bridge” (the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework) for certified companies, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or Addendum, or the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

8. Your rights

Under UK and EU data protection law you have the right to:

ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you (access);
ask us to correct data that’s wrong or incomplete;
ask us to delete your data;
ask us to limit how we use your data;
object to our use of your data where we rely on legitimate interests, and to any direct marketing at any time;
withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on consent;
receive your data in a portable format, or have it sent to another organisation.

To use any of these rights, email nminterdial@gmail.com. We’ll answer within one month, and it’s free in almost all cases. We may ask you to confirm your identity first.

Complaints. If you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled your data, please tell us first so we can put it right. You also have the right to complain to the UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO): ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, telephone 0303 123 1113, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

If you live in the European Union, you can also complain to the data protection authority in your country. If you’re based in France, that’s the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés): www.cnil.fr, 3 Place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 Paris Cedex 07.

9. Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your data, including an encrypted (HTTPS) connection, security software on the site, spam protection and access controls. No website is completely secure, though. If a breach ever puts your rights at risk, we’ll tell you and, where required, the ICO, without undue delay.

10. Children

This site is written for adults and isn’t aimed at children. We don’t knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has sent us their details, contact us and we’ll delete them.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time, for example when we add or remove a service. The date at the top shows when it last changed. If the change is significant, we’ll flag it on the site.