Last updated: 2 October 2026
AngloFilipino is a personal website documenting our life, travels and experiences as a British-Filipino couple.
This Privacy Policy explains what information may be processed when you visit AngloFilipino and how it is used.
Who we are
AngloFilipino is operated by Mario and Racel.
For questions about this Privacy Policy or how information is handled, you can contact us at:
Information collected when you visit the website
Like most websites, our web-hosting provider receives technical information when your browser requests a page.
Our website is hosted by IONOS. Information processed by the hosting service may include:
- the page or file requested;
- the referring website;
- browser type and version;
- operating system;
- device type;
- time of access; and
- an anonymised version of the visitor’s IP address.
IONOS uses this information for purposes including operating, securing and maintaining the hosting service.
According to IONOS, web-hosting visitor data is anonymised when collected and retained for eight weeks.
Our lawful basis for this processing, where the information constitutes personal data, is our legitimate interest in operating a secure and reliable website.
SiteAnalytics
We use IONOS SiteAnalytics to understand general usage of AngloFilipino and to help us maintain and improve the website.
SiteAnalytics may collect information such as:
- the referring website;
- pages or files requested;
- browser type and version;
- operating system;
- device type;
- time of access; and
- an anonymised IP address used to determine the approximate location of access.
IONOS states that the IP address transmitted with the page request is anonymised immediately after transmission and is then processed without personal reference.
SiteAnalytics does not use cookies. The information is used for statistical analysis and technical optimisation rather than to create profiles of individual visitors.
Our legitimate interest is understanding the general use and technical performance of the website without identifying individual visitors.
Cookies and browser storage
AngloFilipino does not currently use advertising, behavioural tracking or non-essential analytics cookies.
Our testing of ordinary visits to the website has found no cookies, Local Storage, IndexedDB or Cache Storage being created by AngloFilipino during normal browsing.
WordPress may temporarily use browser Session Storage for technical browser-capability information. This is not used to identify or track visitors.
If the website changes in future and we introduce technology that requires consent or additional privacy information, this policy and our consent arrangements will be reviewed before that technology is introduced.
YouTube videos
Some AngloFilipino articles contain videos hosted by YouTube.
To reduce unnecessary contact with YouTube, we do not load the YouTube player automatically when you open one of these articles. Instead, the page initially displays an image hosted by AngloFilipino.
No request is made to YouTube simply because you visit the article.
If you choose to play a video on a desktop or tablet, the YouTube player is then loaded using YouTube’s Privacy-Enhanced Mode through youtube-nocookie.com.
On mobile devices, selecting the video may instead open the normal YouTube website or YouTube application.
Once you choose to interact with YouTube, information may be processed by Google/YouTube in accordance with their own privacy policies and terms. AngloFilipino does not control that subsequent processing.
Facebook, Instagram and other external links
AngloFilipino contains links to external services including Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
Simply viewing an AngloFilipino page does not cause our website to contact those social platforms as part of the normal page load.
If you follow an external link, you leave AngloFilipino and the privacy practices of the destination website or service apply.
Our Latest Updates feature displays information from our own WordPress, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook content. External updates are retrieved by our website in the background and stored locally. Visitors viewing Latest Updates do not make direct API requests to those platforms through that feature.
Comments
We do not operate a WordPress commenting system for new posts.
Where an article provides a Comment on Facebook link, following that link takes you to Facebook. Any information you provide there is handled by Facebook under its own privacy arrangements.
If you contact us
If you contact us directly, we may receive information such as your name, email address and anything you choose to include in your message.
We use this information only as reasonably necessary to read and respond to your communication.
Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in responding to people who contact us.
We retain correspondence only for as long as it is reasonably useful or necessary for the purpose for which it was received.
We do not sell personal information or use correspondence for advertising or profiling.
Sharing information
We do not sell personal information.
Information may be processed by service providers where this is necessary to operate the website, principally our hosting provider, IONOS.
If you deliberately interact with an external service such as YouTube, Facebook or Instagram, information may also be processed by that provider under its own privacy arrangements.
We may also disclose information if required to do so by law.
International transfers
IONOS states that the visitor data processed as part of its web-hosting service is not transferred to third countries.
If you choose to interact with an external service such as YouTube, Facebook or Instagram, that provider may process information in other countries under its own privacy arrangements.
Your data protection rights
Depending on the circumstances and the type of processing involved, UK data protection law may give you rights relating to your personal information, including the right to:
- ask for access to personal information held about you;
- ask for inaccurate information to be corrected;
- ask for personal information to be deleted in certain circumstances;
- ask for processing to be restricted in certain circumstances; and
- object to processing based on legitimate interests.
You have the right to object to processing of your personal data where we rely on legitimate interests.
Because AngloFilipino deliberately collects very little information about visitors and most technical visitor information is anonymised, we may not hold information that allows us to identify an individual website visitor.
To exercise a data protection right, contact us at privacy@anglofilipino.com.
Complaints
If you have concerns about how we handle personal information, please contact us first so that we can try to resolve the issue.
You also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s independent data protection regulator.
Information about making a complaint is available on the ICO website at ico.org.uk.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy if the website, the services we use or applicable privacy requirements change.
The date at the top of this page shows when the policy was last updated.