Last updated 5 November 2026

This policy explains what information Blog Digest (randomthoughtsever.blogspot.com) collects when you visit, how it is used, and the choices you have. We collect as little as we can.

Information You Give Us

  • Email newsletter. If you subscribe, your email address is stored by our email provider, Brevo, and used only to send you new articles. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing removes you from the list.
  • Contact messages and comments. If you contact us or leave a comment, we receive the details you provide, such as your name and email address, and use them only to reply or to publish your comment.

Calculators and Tools

Our calculators run entirely in your browser. What you type is not sent to us or stored on any server. A few tools, such as the digital legacy checklist and your reading history, save your choices in your own browser's local storage so they are there when you return. You can clear this at any time in your browser settings.

Information Collected Automatically

Like most websites, Blog Digest is hosted on a platform (Google's Blogger) that records standard technical information when you visit, such as your IP address, browser type, the pages you view and the time of your visit. We use Google Analytics to understand, in aggregate, which articles are read and how visitors find us. This helps us decide what to write and improve. We do not use this information to identify you personally.

Advertising and Cookies

Blog Digest is supported by advertising from Google AdSense. To show and measure ads, Google and its partners use cookies and similar technologies.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent before personalised ads and non-essential cookies are used. You can change your choice at any time using the privacy and cookie settings link shown on the page, or by clearing cookies in your browser.

Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to correct or delete it, to object to or restrict its use, and to withdraw consent. This includes rights under the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation and California privacy law. We do not sell personal information. To make a request, use our contact page. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

Blog Digest is written for adults and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has given us personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.

Links to Other Websites

Our articles link to official sources and other websites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, so please read their policies when you visit them.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top shows when it was last changed.

Plainly, Our Android App

Plainly is our app for Android. It reads the articles on this website through Blogger's public feed and shows them with its own design. It does not open this website or run its scripts. This is what applies to the app:

  • No account. There is no sign-up, email or password. Your goals, country, the numbers you choose to enter (pay, spending, savings, debt), your check-up scores, quiz answers, challenges, streak and badges are kept on your phone only and are never sent to us.
  • Community (optional). If you use Community, the app signs you in anonymously with Google Firebase (no name, email or phone number) and gives you a random display name and emoji, which you can change. What you post (posts, comments, likes and quiz votes) and your display name are stored by Google Firebase on our behalf and shown publicly to other app users. If you choose to appear on the streak leaderboard, your display name, streak and number of guides read are shown there. Reports you file are seen only by us, to moderate the community. You can delete your posts at any time, and Settings → Delete my community data removes your posts, comments, leaderboard entry and anonymous ID. Blocking someone is stored on your phone only.
  • Advertising (Google AdMob). The app shows ads provided by Google AdMob. To show and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google's ads software collects your device's advertising ID, IP address (which can indicate your approximate location), information about the ads you see and tap, and diagnostic data about how the ads perform. Where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland), the app asks for your consent first, and you can change your choice at any time under Settings → Privacy choices. You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalised ads, in your phone's Settings under Google → Ads (or Privacy → Ads). Learn how Google uses this data at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
  • What stays on your phone. Articles you save, your reading history, your currency and display settings, and your progress (XP and levels, daily puzzle results, mood check-ins, your notebook, collected cards, simulator scores and calm minutes) are kept only on your phone. They are not copied to cloud backups or other devices. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage in your phone's settings, deletes them.
  • Your files stay on your phone. When you choose a photo or PDF in one of the app's tools, it is processed on your device only and never uploaded. Files the tools create are saved to your phone's Pictures or Downloads folder, or shared only to the app you pick.
  • Calculators. Numbers you type into the calculators are worked out on your phone and are not sent anywhere.
  • Network requests. To load articles and images, the app connects to Blogger (Google). It also loads cover images and the code for some tools from public content networks (jsDelivr, GitHub and cdnjs), and the currency converter reads exchange rates published by the European Central Bank. These are ordinary encrypted web requests, like a browser makes; we receive no data from them.
  • Tools from this website. The app can open the interactive tools from this website. They run on your phone: photos and PDFs you choose are processed on the device and never uploaded. A few tools (for example the habit tracker or subscription tracker) remember what you enter, on your phone only.
  • Community. The app's Community tab shows the comments readers leave on this website's guides. Reading them needs no account. To post, the app copies what you wrote and opens Blogger's comment page for that guide, where you sign in with your Google account and publish it yourself. Comments are public, appear under your Google account's name, and are handled by Google under its privacy policy; you can delete your own comment on the website. The app itself does not send your text anywhere. Your community display name and emoji, challenge progress, quiz answers, and anything you choose to hide or block are kept only on your phone.
  • Translation. If you choose to read an article in another language, it is translated on your phone by Google ML Kit. The language pack downloads from Google once; after that, translation works offline, and the text you read is not sent anywhere. Like other Google software, ML Kit may send Google basic diagnostics about how the feature performs.
  • Tips. You can choose to tip the app ("Support Plainly"). Tips through Google Play are handled by Google Play under its own terms and privacy policy; we receive no card or payment details, only Google's confirmation, and the app keeps just the date of your last tip on your phone so it stops asking for a while. Tips through PayPal or UPI (where offered) open those services, under their own terms.
  • Notifications. If you allow notifications, the app checks this website's public feed about every 15 minutes and tells you when a new guide is published, and sends at most one reminder a day, at the time you usually open the app, only when there's something to do (for example your streak is about to end, a challenge check-in or today's Daily Run). This is worked out on your phone. You can turn either off in the app's Settings or your phone's settings.
  • Listen and the widget. "Listen" reads articles aloud with your phone's own text-to-speech; the text stays on your phone. The home-screen widget shows a tip and your streak from data already on your phone.
  • Permissions. The app uses internet access, network status, the advertising ID and Google Play billing (only for optional tips). It does not ask for your location, contacts, camera or storage.
  • Children. The app is meant for adults and is not directed at children under 13.
  • Ratings. The app may show Google Play's standard rating prompt, which Google Play handles.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent through our contact page.