Privacy Policy

The Company Behind This Site

Wandermio is written and photographed by me, Ida Fenwick, and published by Wandermio Press LLC, a registered West Virginia limited liability company. That company is the controller for everything set out here, meaning the choices about why reader information exists at all, and where it goes afterward, are made by it. The office address is 1012 Kanawha Boulevard East, Suite 320, Charleston, WV 25301, United States, and the telephone line is +1 (681) 273-5064. Anything touching privacy, data, or a formal request under a privacy law belongs at [email protected], which I read myself. The desk keeps short hours, Wednesday through Friday, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Eastern Time, and a message that arrives outside them waits quietly until the next open afternoon.

What This Policy Covers

This page applies to wandermio.com and to correspondence sent to the addresses printed on the site. It lays out what arrives, the reason for keeping any of it, the period each thing survives, the parties who might see it, and the requests open to you. Most visitors read a story, linger on the photographs, and leave without typing a thing, which is exactly the way these pages are meant to be used. Nothing on this site asks for a payment method, a document number, a date of birth, or a home address, because nothing is sold and nothing is booked. There are no outside domains linked from these pages, so you are unlikely to wander off into a different privacy regime by accident.

The Two Forms On This Site

There are exactly two places where you can type something and send it. The contact form has four fields: a name, an address for the reply, a subject picked from a short menu, and whatever you want to say. The reader list signup near the foot of the home page wants one thing only, an address to send a note to. Both carry a hidden field that a person never sees and never fills in, which lets automated submissions be dropped before anyone reads them. When a submission arrives with that field completed, it is discarded and no copy is kept. Sending either form is a deliberate act: a message travels only when you press the button, and closing the page instead sends nothing.

Both forms hand what you typed to a form delivery service, and that service drops the message into the company mailbox without publishing a word of it anywhere. Please keep anything genuinely sensitive out of a reader letter. Email is a fine way to ask about a story, a correction, or a permission, and a poor container for private details of any kind.

Letters That Arrive Another Way

Some people skip the forms and write directly, or call the number above. A direct email carries whatever your mail program attaches: the sending address, a subject, the moment of sending, and any file you chose to include. A phone call leaves no recording, since none is made, though I may write down a name and a note about what was asked so the answer can be sent later. Post is rare and handled the same way as email: read, answered, and then kept only as long as the section on retention allows.

Records The Server Keeps

Every web server writes a technical line as it hands a page to a browser, and this one is no exception. A line of that kind normally records the requesting internet protocol address, the moment of the request, the page asked for, the code returned, a referring page where the browser offers one, and the string a browser uses to name itself. Those records exist so pages can be delivered, errors can be traced, and unusual automated traffic can be spotted. Nothing in them is assembled into a picture of an individual reader as the site runs today, and nothing in them is matched against a form message for marketing. How long those lines survive is set by the hosting provider, and no second copy sits anywhere on this end.

The One Setting Stored In Your Browser

One item goes into local storage on your device, under the key wm_pref_2026. Its value is one short word, either full or essentials, and it records the answer you gave in the storage notice that appears at the foot of the page. It is not an identifier, it holds no reference of any sort, and it travels nowhere at all, least of all here. It exists so the notice can stay away instead of asking the same question on every page you open. Clear this site's data and the item disappears, the notice comes back, and a different answer is yours to give. The Cookie Policy describes that item in more detail, along with how the notice behaves.

Measurement And Advertising, Stated Plainly

There is no advertising on these pages today, and no measurement or analytics storage is written by them. Nothing counts you, follows you, or reports on what you read. Should consent-based measurement or consent-based advertising ever be introduced here, the storage notice would ask first and nothing would load before an answer arrived. A reader who chose essentials would keep the quiet version of the site, with optional storage switched off. A change of that sort would appear in this policy and in the storage page first, and reach the site second.

The Reasons For Holding Any Of It

The purposes are short enough to list in full:

• answering questions, corrections, permission requests, and ordinary reader mail
• holding the thread of an exchange so a message six months later still makes sense
• sending an occasional note to people who joined the reader list, and stopping the moment they ask
• keeping the site online, steady, and sensibly guarded against abuse
• honoring the storage choice you made, and meeting obligations that apply to a published site

Where a privacy law wants a legal ground named, correspondence stands on steps taken at your own request, and on the legitimate interest a blog has in answering the people who write to it. Reader list mail stands on consent, and taking that consent back is a one-line message. Server records stand on the legitimate interest in a small site staying online and intact. The stored setting is held on the basis of consent wherever consent is what the law wants.

Nothing is sold. Nothing is handed over for cross-context behavioral advertising, and that holds true of the site as it stands today. That sentence is written the same way in every place a reader might look for it.

How Long Each Thing Is Kept

Reader mail and the answers to it stay for two years from the last message in the exchange, which is long enough for a follow-up question and short enough to stay tidy. A message about a correction to a story stays for three years, since a correction becomes part of the record of what was published. Reader list addresses stay until the person asks to come off the list, and a request to leave is honored within a few days, with a short suppression note kept afterward so the address is not added again by mistake. Server records live under the hosting provider's own window and are not extended. The browser item lasts until you remove it. When the time runs out, records are deleted or reduced to a form that no longer points at a person.

Who Else May See It

A handful of ordinary service providers sit behind the site, listed below by the job each one does. One hosts the site and holds the technical records just described. A form delivery service carries form submissions into the mailbox. An email provider stores and sends the mail itself. A domain and security provider protects the address against abuse. Each of them handles information only to provide its service, and none of them is permitted to use reader information for its own marketing. Beyond those, disclosure happens only where a lawful demand compels it, or where defending the site and the people who write in requires as much. There is no other sharing, and there is no sale.

Where The Information Is Handled

The company sits in Charleston, West Virginia, and its service providers are based in the United States, so information described here is handled in the United States. A message sent from Europe, from Britain, or from anywhere beyond this country therefore lands in a place whose privacy laws differ from the ones at home. Where a transfer of that kind requires safeguards, the company relies on standard contractual clauses with its providers and on the plain fact that the amount of information involved is small: a name, an address for a reply, and the message you chose to send.

Rights Under European And British Rules

Under the General Data Protection Regulation and the equivalent United Kingdom rules, you may ask for a copy of what is held about you, ask for something inaccurate to be corrected, ask for deletion, ask that handling be restricted while a question is sorted out, object to handling that rests on legitimate interest, and ask for what you provided in a portable form. Where handling rests on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time without affecting what came before. You may also complain to the supervisory authority in your own country, or to the United Kingdom regulator, and doing so costs you nothing but a letter.

Rights For Readers In Several American States

Readers in California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Texas have rights under their own state laws, and this desk applies them to anyone who asks rather than checking a map first. Broadly, you may ask what exists about you and why it exists, request a copy, request a fix, request deletion, and instruct the company never to sell your details or feed them into targeted advertising. Nothing here is sold and no targeted advertising runs, so the last of those is already the standing position. California readers may also ask about categories of information and recipients, may use an authorized agent, and will never be treated differently for asking. Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and Texas readers may appeal a refused request by writing again to the same address, and the appeal is answered in writing. The Utah law is narrower than the others and does not include a correction right, though a correction is made anyway when something is plainly wrong.

Making A Request

Send a note to [email protected] describing what you would like done. Say which right you are using if you know it, and if you do not, plain language works just as well. Enough detail is needed to find your records, which usually means the address you wrote from and roughly when. A request is normally answered within forty-five days, and where a matter is genuinely complicated that window may be extended once, with a note explaining why before the first period runs out. There is no charge for a request, and no one is treated less kindly for making one.

Readers Under Thirteen

This is a travel blog written for adults, and it is not directed to children. Nothing is knowingly gathered from a person under thirteen, in line with Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requirements for a site of this kind. No form asks for an age, and none of the material here is designed to appeal to a child. Where a parent or a guardian suspects that something arrived from a child through a form, a note to [email protected] brings the record up, and it is deleted, usually inside the same week.

How This Information Is Protected

Pages travel over an encrypted connection, the mailboxes sit behind long passwords and a second factor, and I am the only person holding access. Records are kept for the time described above and no longer, which is the simplest protection there is. No arrangement on the internet is perfect, and it would be dishonest to claim otherwise, so the sensible advice remains to keep private details out of a message to a blog. If something ever went wrong in a way that affected readers, affected people and any required authority would be told, without delay and in plain words.

Changes To This Policy

When practices change, this page is rewritten first and the date at the top moves with it. A meaningful change is described in the text itself rather than folded quietly into a paragraph. The version above reflects the site exactly as it is built today, and a glance here whenever the storage notice asks a fresh question is a reasonable habit.

How To Reach The Desk

• Publisher: Wandermio Press LLC, a registered West Virginia limited liability company
• Privacy and data requests: [email protected]
• General mail: [email protected]
• Address: 1012 Kanawha Boulevard East, Suite 320, Charleston, WV 25301, United States
• Phone: +1 (681) 273-5064
• Hours: Wednesday through Friday, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Eastern Time

Three pages sit alongside this one: Cookie Policy for browser storage, Terms of Use for the rules of the site, and Disclaimer for what the stories are.