Privacy Policy


We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of Eeva Lancaster’s Desk’s website visitors. Please read our Privacy Policy for your peace of mind.

1) Eeva Lancaster will use the information you provide when you subscribe to this website, using any of the opt-in forms, to get in touch with you through email, whenever there are new articles posted on the website, or to make recommendations useful to you as an author, writer or DIY.

2) We will never use the information you shared with us for any other purpose than sending you email updates. Your data will not be sold to third-party entities, or used for any other purpose other than what's clearly defined in this privacy policy.

3) We use Mail Chimp as our marketing automation platform. It is specified in our opt-in forms that when you sign up, you acknowledge that your data will be transferred to Mail Chimp in accordance with their own Privacy Policy.

A copy of our sign up form can be found HERE.

If you no longer wish to receive emails from us, you will find an Unsubscribe link in all of our emails. After you unsubscribe, all the information you submitted will be deleted.

4) What else can we do with your information?
  • We can track if you opened our email.
  • We can track if you clicked on the link within the email.
We do this so we can determine if you find the articles or recommendations we're sending you interesting and useful. After all, this website is for your consumption and we aim to provide only the most relevant content.

4) Through Add This and Blogger, we receive a summary of the number of times our articles our shared and the most visited pages. We can see the location where the share originated, and the type of browser used, but not the information of the sharer. This is for the purpose of knowing which articles visitors find relevant, so we can create more content of the same nature and topic.

5) Other Websites

This website may contain links to other third party sites that are not governed by this privacy policy. Although we endeavour to only link to sites with high privacy standards, our privacy policy will no longer apply once you leave our website. Additionally, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by third party websites. Therefore, we suggest that you examine the privacy statements of those sites to learn how your information may be collected, used, shared and disclosed.

6) Affiliate Links

There are affiliate links on this site. When you opt-in to a service on some of the featured links on our sidebar, or a recommendation within an article, we sometimes earn a small commission that doesn't affect the cost of the product or service you're purchasing in any way. We recommend these sites to  you because we also use it and we feel that it will be useful to you as well.

We do not use third-party apps to auto-generate ads based on your browsing preference. All the ads on this site are intentional and purposely added.

7) How We Use Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

For any questions, email eevalancaster@gmail.com