Updated 5 July 2026

Data Privacy Statement for Amusement Gratuit

This document describes how Amusement Gratuit treats the personal information of everyone who reads our brewing guides and tasting notes, subscribes to our updates, or contacts the editorial desk. It covers the categories of data we handle, the reasons we handle them, the safeguards applied, and the choices available to you at any time.

If you use any interactive feature on this website — search, filters, the subscription box, or the contact form — you are agreeing to the handling practices explained throughout this document.

Information We Collect

In practice, the data that passes through Amusement Gratuit belongs to one of the following groups:

• Information supplied directly. Whatever you enter in our forms — typically a first name and a working email address, plus the body of a message if you are contacting us.
• Automatic technical logging. Every request to the site produces a log line containing IP address, browser signature, operating system, referrer and time of access.
• Aggregate reading analytics. Statistical summaries of session duration, scroll depth, popular tea and brewing, and internal search queries submitted across the archive.

Purposes and Lawful Grounds

The grounds on which we rely, and the objectives they serve, are set out here:

• Delivering what you asked for. Sending the steeping letter you subscribed to and replying to enquiries you send us. The lawful basis here is your consent, withdrawable at any moment.
• Improving the publication. Understanding which brewing guides and tasting notes readers find useful so that we can commission more of what works and retire what does not. The basis is our legitimate interest in running a relevant publication.
• Keeping the site secure. Detecting automated abuse, blocking credential-stuffing attempts and diagnosing outages using server logs. The basis is our legitimate interest in a stable, safe website.
• Meeting legal obligations. Retaining proof of subscription consent and responding to lawful requests where applicable law requires it.

Tracking Technologies in Use

Alongside conventional cookies we make limited use of local browser storage to hold your consent record and any interface preference you set, such as an active category filter on our loose-leaf tea pages.

All of this can be switched off. Browser privacy settings allow blanket blocking, selective deletion, or per-site alerts, and our own preference panel lets you revise consent at any time. Turning off essential storage prevents the site from remembering settings between sessions. Refer to the Cookie Policy for specifics.

Who Else Sees Your Data

No part of our reader data is commercialised. We do not participate in advertising auctions, audience-matching schemes or list rentals of any kind.

• Hosting and content delivery. Servers and caching networks that store the site files and serve them to your browser.
• Email delivery. A specialist provider that sends the steeping letter and processes unsubscribe requests on our instruction.
• Audience measurement. An analytics service configured to report aggregate figures with IP addresses truncated.
• Legal disclosure. Where a valid court order, statutory demand or regulatory instrument requires it, and only to the extent required.

Storage Duration

Each category has its own limit: subscription data ends with the subscription, enquiry data ends when your question is answered and any follow-up period has passed, log data ends when the rotation window closes, and aggregate analytics continue only in a non-identifying state.

Rights Available to You

You may exercise any of the rights below at no cost, and we aim to respond within thirty days:

• Access. Ask what personal information we hold about you and receive a copy of it.
• Rectification. Have inaccurate details corrected or incomplete details completed.
• Erasure. Request deletion of your data where we have no overriding obligation to keep it.
• Restriction and objection. Ask us to pause processing, or object to processing carried out under legitimate interest.
• Portability. Receive the data you supplied in a structured, machine-readable format.
• Withdrawal of consent. Unsubscribe at any time using the link in every email, with no explanation required.

Safeguards in Place

All pages are served over an encrypted connection, subscriber data sits with a reputable provider under contractual security obligations, and administrative logins are protected by multi-factor authentication. While these measures substantially reduce risk, no system connected to the internet can be described as invulnerable.

Younger Readers

No feature of this website is directed at minors, and we do not knowingly process data belonging to anyone under sixteen. If a parent or guardian notifies us of such a submission, deletion follows immediately.

Where Your Data Is Processed

Processing may occur outside your country of residence. In each case the receiving provider is bound by contractual terms that hold it to protections equivalent to those described here.

Updates and Revisions

Changes to infrastructure, analytics or legislation may require updates to this policy. When that happens we republish the page with a new date and, for significant changes, notify subscribers directly.