Last updated: September 2, 2026The Kura Next Door ("we," "us," "our") publishes a weekly email newsletter about craft sake. This policy explains what we collect, why, and what you can do about it.
Your email address, when you subscribe. This is the only piece of information we ask you to provide.Your age confirmation. Because we write about alcoholic beverages, our signup form requires you to confirm that you are of legal drinking age in your country. We record that you gave this confirmation.How you use the newsletter and the website. Our email platform records standard engagement data: whether an email was opened, which links were clicked, and which pages of the website were visited. It also records technical information your browser sends automatically, such as approximate location, device type, and browser.How you found us. If you arrive from a link that carries tracking parameters, we record which source sent you.We do not ask for your name, postal address, phone number, or payment information. The newsletter is free and we do not process payments.
To send you the newsletter you asked for. To understand which stories readers actually read, so we can write better ones. To confirm we are not sending alcohol-related content to people below legal drinking age. To keep the newsletter delivering reliably to inboxes.
beehiiv is our email and website platform. Your subscription data is stored on their systems and processed under their privacy policy, at beehiiv.com/privacy.We do not sell your personal information. We do not rent or trade our subscriber list. We do not share your email address with the breweries, importers, or other businesses we write about.If we ever run a sponsored placement in the newsletter, the sponsor receives aggregate performance data only — how many people saw the placement and how many clicked. They do not receive your email address.We may disclose information if required by law, or to protect our legal rights.
beehiiv operates a recommendation network that may suggest other newsletters to you at signup or in the newsletter, and may suggest ours to other publishers' readers. When you subscribe to a recommended publication, your email address goes to that publisher, and their privacy policy governs it from that point. You are never subscribed to anything without taking an action to do so.
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We keep your subscription data for as long as you remain subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we retain a minimal record of the unsubscribe so that we do not email you again by mistake. Engagement data is retained according to beehiiv's platform retention practices.
Unsubscribe at any time. Every email we send carries an unsubscribe link in the footer. It takes one click and takes effect immediately.Ask us what we hold. Email us and we will tell you what is on your subscriber record.Ask us to delete it. Email us and we will remove your record, subject to the minimal unsubscribe record described above.
You have rights under the GDPR to access, correct, delete, restrict, or port your personal data, and to object to processing. Our lawful basis for sending the newsletter is your consent, given when you subscribed; you can withdraw it at any time by unsubscribing, without affecting processing that already happened. You have the right to complain to your national data protection authority.
You have rights under the CCPA/CPRA to know what personal information we collect and why, to request deletion, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined by the CCPA. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.
This publication is about alcohol and is not intended for anyone below the legal drinking age in their country, and in no case for anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has subscribed, email us and we will remove the record.
If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. Material changes will be noted in the newsletter.
Questions, requests, or complaints:Email: [email protected] Post: The Kura Next Door, 2850 34th St N #385, St Petersburg, FL 33713, United States