Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you use MyDryBar, we may collect:

• Information you provide directly, such as your name, email address, drink preferences and information submitted through contact forms, newsletter sign-ups or gated content forms.
• Technical information, such as your IP address, browser type, device type and operating system.
• Usage information, including pages visited, links clicked, referral sources and how visitors interact with the website.
• Cookie and consent information, depending on the choices you make through our cookie consent system.

We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information through MyDryBar.

2. How We Use Your Information

Information collected through MyDryBar may be used to:

• Operate and maintain the website.
• Respond to questions, review suggestions and other messages submitted through our contact form.
• Provide access to requested content, tools or results.
• Send newsletters and other communications where you have signed up to receive them.
• Understand how visitors use MyDryBar.
• Improve our content, reviews, recommendations, tools and website experience.
• Measure website traffic and performance.
• Protect the website against spam, abuse and security threats.
• Meet legal or regulatory requirements where applicable.

3. Contact Forms

When you contact MyDryBar through our website, we may collect information such as your name, email address, reason for contacting us and the contents of your message.

We use this information to respond to your enquiry and for any reasonable follow-up relating to it.

Please avoid submitting sensitive personal information through the contact form.

4. Email Sign-Ups and Gated Content

Some features on MyDryBar, including access to certain results, guides or other content, may ask you to provide information such as your name, email address and drink preferences.

When you sign up through one of these forms, we may use the information you provide to:

• Provide access to the requested content or results.
• Send you MyDryBar newsletters, new reviews, guides and other alcohol-free drinks content.
• Tailor emails or recommendations based on the drink preferences you provide.
• Understand which types of alcohol-free drinks and content are of most interest to our readers.

Where required, we process email marketing on the basis of your consent. You can withdraw your consent and unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in our emails.

Unsubscribing from marketing communications does not necessarily require us to delete information that we are legally entitled or required to retain for other purposes. You may contact us separately if you wish to exercise your data protection rights.

5. Cookies

MyDryBar uses cookies and similar technologies to help the website function, understand how it is used and, where applicable, support analytics and advertising.

Cookies may include:

• Essential cookies required for the website to operate correctly.
• Analytics cookies that help us understand website traffic and usage.
• Advertising or affiliate-related cookies that may be used to measure advertising or referral activity.

Where consent is required, non-essential cookies are used in accordance with the choices you make through our cookie consent controls.

You can review or change your cookie choices using the Privacy and cookie settings link available on the website. You can also control cookies through your browser settings.

6. Analytics

We may use analytics services to understand how visitors find and use MyDryBar. These services can collect information such as pages viewed, approximate location, device type, browser information and interactions with the website.

This information helps us understand which content is useful to readers and improve the website.

7. Advertising and Affiliate Links

MyDryBar may contain advertising and affiliate links. If you follow an affiliate link to a retailer or other third-party website, that third party may use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with its own privacy policy.

MyDryBar may receive a commission when a purchase is made through certain affiliate links. This does not affect the price you pay.

8. Third-Party Services

We use third-party services to help operate, protect, analyse and improve MyDryBar and to provide features such as forms, email communications, analytics and advertising.

These providers may process limited information where necessary to provide their services.

Third-party providers are responsible for handling information in accordance with their own privacy policies and applicable data protection requirements.

9. How We Protect Your Information

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse or disclosure.

However, no website or method of electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

10. How Long We Keep Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including providing requested services, managing email subscriptions, responding to enquiries and meeting legal, accounting or security requirements where applicable.

11. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on where you live and the circumstances in which your information is processed, you may have rights including:

• The right to access personal information held about you.
• The right to ask for inaccurate information to be corrected.
• The right to request deletion of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• The right to request restriction of processing.
• The right to object to certain types of processing.
• The right to data portability where applicable.
• The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
• The right to complain to the relevant data protection authority.

If you would like to exercise a privacy right relating to information held by MyDryBar, please contact us using the details below.

12. External Links

MyDryBar contains links to other websites, including retailers, brands and other third-party services.

Once you leave MyDryBar, the privacy practices of the destination website apply. We recommend reviewing the privacy policy of any third-party website you visit.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the website, the services we use, the information we collect or applicable privacy requirements.

The date at the top of this page will be updated when material changes are made.