Last updated: October 6, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how personal data is handled on nomnes.com (“Nomnes”, “we”, “us”). The site is operated by nomnes.com. It’s an online publication for a worldwide audience and operates globally, without an establishment in any single country. The site is hosted by a provider located in the United States. For any privacy question or request, email [email protected].
Our approach: no data retention
nomnes.com doesn’t keep or store personal data beyond what is technically needed to deliver a page or complete something you asked for. We don’t build profiles of readers, and we don’t sell personal data.
There are two limits to that, and we’d rather state them plainly. First, a few optional features can’t work without storing something, such as an account, a comment or a newsletter subscription. That data is kept only while you use the feature, and we delete it when you ask. Second, the site uses third-party services from Google, X, Automattic and Cravatar. They may set their own cookies and keep data under their own privacy policies, which we don’t control. Both are explained below.
When you visit the site
Every time your browser loads a page, it sends our server standard technical information: your IP address, browser and device type, the page requested, the referring page and the time. This is needed to deliver the page and protect the site against abuse. We don’t use it to identify or track individual readers. Like most hosting companies, our US hosting provider may keep short-term technical logs for security and operations under its own terms.
Optional features that store data
Accounts and Sign in with Google
You need an account to comment. When you create one, WordPress stores your username, email address, a hashed (encrypted) version of your password and any profile details you add. If you use Sign in with Google (including the Google One Tap prompt), Google shares your name, email address and profile picture with the site so it can create or match your account. Account data is kept while the account exists. Ask us and we’ll delete the account and the data attached to it.
Comments
When you post a comment, WordPress stores the comment along with your name, email address, IP address and browser user agent. Comments may be checked by Akismet, an anti-spam service run by Automattic, which receives that information to detect spam. A published comment stays visible next to its article until you ask us to remove it, or until you delete your account.
Profile pictures next to comments and author names are served by Cravatar (cravatar.com), a Gravatar-compatible avatar service. The image address contains a hashed form of the account’s email address, and when your browser loads the image, Cravatar receives your IP address.
Newsletter
If you subscribe to our newsletter, the Icegram Express (Email Subscribers) plugin stores your email address, your name if you give it, and the date you signed up, so we can send you emails. Newsletter emails may include the plugin’s standard open and click tracking. Every email has an unsubscribe link. If you also want your subscriber record removed entirely, email us and we’ll delete it.
Emails you send us
If you email us, we use your message and address only to reply, and we don’t keep them longer than we need to deal with your request.
Cookies and third-party services
Necessary cookies. WordPress sets cookies such as wordpress_logged_in_* and wp-settings-* when you log in, so the site remembers you. Sign in with Google uses googlesitekit_auth_nonce, which expires after 15 minutes, and googlesitekit_auth_redirect_to, which is deleted when you close your browser.
Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager. We use Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager and Google Site Kit, to see which articles are read and how visitors find us. It can set cookies such as _ga and _ga_*. We look at aggregated reports inside Google’s tools and don’t download or store analytics data about individual visitors. Google keeps this data under its own policies: see the Google Privacy Policy and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Google AdSense. AdSense shows ads on the site and may set cookies such as __gads and __gpi, as well as cookies on Google’s own domains. They can be used to show personalized ads based on your browsing, to limit how often you see the same ad, and to measure ad performance. See How Google uses cookies in advertising.
Visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland. For visitors in these regions, the site uses Google consent mode with analytics and advertising storage set to “denied” by default. In that mode Google’s analytics and advertising cookies are not set, although Google may still receive limited, cookieless signals, such as the fact that a page was viewed.
Sign in with Google. The Google sign-in prompt is loaded from accounts.google.com, so Google receives information about your visit when it appears. The Google Privacy Policy applies.
X (formerly Twitter). Some articles embed posts from X. Those pages load a script from X, which lets X receive your IP address and the page you’re viewing, and set its own cookies. We embed posts with X’s “do not track” option switched on, which asks X not to use the visit to personalize content or ads for you. See the X Privacy Policy.
Automattic and Cravatar. Akismet (run by Automattic) and Cravatar receive the comment and avatar data described above and handle it under the Automattic Privacy Policy and the Cravatar privacy policy. Some browsers also load emoji images from WordPress.org (s.w.org), which receives your IP address; see the WordPress.org Privacy Policy.
Your choices. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings, manage personalized ads in Google’s My Ad Center, and install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Blocking cookies won’t stop you from reading the site.
Why we process data
We process personal data to deliver and secure the site, stop spam, run accounts and comments, understand which articles people read, show the ads that pay for the site, send newsletters you’ve asked for, and reply to you. If you’re in the EEA or the UK, the legal bases are your consent (newsletter, and analytics and advertising cookies where consent is required), our legitimate interest in keeping the site secure and working (technical data, spam checks, necessary cookies), and performance of a contract when you create an account.
Data retention
We don’t retain personal data as a matter of course. Where an optional feature has to store data (an account, a comment, a newsletter subscription or an email thread), it’s kept only as long as that feature needs it, and we delete it when you ask. Data collected by Google, X, Automattic, Cravatar and our hosting provider is retained under their own policies, linked above.
Selling and sharing
We don’t sell personal data, and we don’t share it for money. Under some US state laws, including California’s, letting advertising partners such as Google use cookies for personalized ads can count as “sharing” personal information. You can opt out of personalized Google ads in My Ad Center, block third-party cookies in your browser, or email us and we’ll help.
International data transfers
Nomnes serves readers worldwide, and the site is hosted in the United States, so information your browser sends to the site is processed on servers in the US. Google, X and Automattic also process data in the US, and some providers, including Cravatar, may process data in other countries. Data protection law in these places may differ from the law where you live. Each provider describes the safeguards it relies on, such as standard contractual clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, in its own policy.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, including under the GDPR in the EU, the UK GDPR and California and other US state privacy laws, you may have the right to access, correct or delete your personal data, get a copy of it, object to or restrict certain processing, withdraw consent, and opt out of targeted advertising or the sale or sharing of your data. Email [email protected] to make a request. Because we keep very little, there may be little or nothing to send back; for data held by Google or X, their own privacy tools are usually the quickest route. We may need to confirm your identity first, we’ll reply within the time limits set by the law that applies to you, and we won’t treat you differently for using your rights. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
Children
Nomnes is written for adults, and much of it is about markets and money. We don’t knowingly collect personal data from children under 13, or under 16 in the EEA and UK. If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact us and we’ll delete it.
Changes to this policy
If we add a new service or change how data is handled, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. If a change is significant, we’ll point it out on the site.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data go to [email protected]. To learn more about the site, see About. For how you can reuse our articles, see the License page.