Poems Rethabile Likes Privacy Policy

-

Last updated: July 2025

Welcome to Poems Rethabile Likes. Your privacy is important to me. This Privacy Policy explains what information is collected from visitors and how it is used.

1. Who I Am

This is a personal blog curated by myself, Rethabile Masilo. You can contact me via email:

2. What Information Is Collected

I may collect certain types of information, such as:

  • Email addresses – when you subscribe to updates via Follow.it.
  • Visitor analytics – through Blogger or tools like Google Analytics (e.g. number of visits, browser type, general location).
  • Comment data – if you leave a comment, your name, profile info, or anonymous ID may be stored.
  • Cookies – used by Blogger, Follow.it, AddToAny, and other third-party services to improve functionality.

3. How Your Data Is Used

Your data may be used for the following purposes:

  • To send email updates (only if you subscribe).
  • To understand how visitors use the blog and improve its content.
  • To enable sharing tools and embedded media to function properly.

4. Third-Party Services

This blog uses or links to the following third-party services, each with its own privacy practices:

  • Follow.it – for email subscriptions
  • AddToAny – for social sharing buttons
  • Google – for Blogger, Fonts, Analytics, and embedded content

5. Your Choices

You have control over your data:

  • You can unsubscribe from updates at any time using the link provided in every email.
  • You can disable or clear cookies in your web browser settings.

6. Data Retention

I do not store any personal data myself. Any data collected is stored by third-party services (like Follow.it or Blogger), following their own retention policies.

7. Children’s Privacy

This blog is not directed to children under 13, and I do not knowingly collect data from anyone in that age group.

8. Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. The latest version will always appear on this page.

© July 2025. All rights reserved. All poems remain the property of their respective authors. Let's all play nice.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

for the leaving

-
For the leaving, by Andrea Gibson Nobody ever thinks about the weight of a comet, how heavy something has to be to go that fast. Andrea Gibson how heavy something has to be Questions? Please take a moment to read the guidelines first. Use the form to sign up (home page, menu icon, top right ⇗ ), or follow this link . Check out my latest book, Mbera . This blog uses Follow.it for email subscriptions and updates. By subscribing, you may be sharing data with this service....
Read more

mercy

-
'Mercy,' by Tyehimba Jess the war speaks at night with its lips of shredded children, with its brow of plastique and its fighter jet breath, and then it speaks at daybreak with the soft slur of money unfolding leaf upon leaf. it speaks between the news programs in the music of commercials, then sings in the voices of a national anthem. it has a dirty coin jingle in its step, it has a hand of many lost hands, a palm of missing fingers, the stump of an arm that it lost reaching up to heaven, a foot that digs a trench for its dead. the war staggers forward, compelled, inexorable, ticking. it looks to me with its one eye of ...
Read more

commandments

-
'Commandments' by Rethabile Masilo –for my brother, Khotsofalang Memory lifts its veil, everybody calls you, but no appearance. Once again, I recall walking nights with you, touching walls toward a light of home’s distance lit for those still outside, till that night became another day. I remember ten childhood commandments, how absent loves must be watered and fed with half the force of touch and light and tongue, and half with a winter of wild surmise. Today still the quiet night brings images of walking toward that hill of home, using darkness as a guide there. Then one morning you were gone—one day t...
Read more