Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 2025-10-05

This Privacy Policy explains how First French Press (firstfrenchpress.me) collects, uses, and protects your information. By using our site, you agree to these practices.

Information We Collect

Personal Information: If you email us or subscribe to updates, we may collect your name, email address, and message contents.
Usage Data: We may collect IP address, device/browser type, pages visited, and time on site to understand performance and improve content.
Cookies and Similar Technologies: We may use cookies, local storage, and pixels to remember preferences and measure site traffic.

How We Use Information

Provide and improve content, features, and user experience.
Respond to inquiries, send requested resources or updates, and administer communications you opt into.
Measure performance, detect abuse, and maintain site security.

Legal Bases (EEA/UK Visitors)

Consent: For email subscriptions and certain analytics/cookies.
Legitimate Interests: To operate the site, prevent fraud, and improve content.
Contract: When we respond to your direct requests.

Cookies & Tracking

Essential Cookies: Required for core functionality (e.g., cookie preferences).
Analytics Cookies: Help us understand traffic and content usefulness. You can opt out via your browser settings or applicable consent tools.
Advertising/Affiliate Cookies: Some merchants we link to may set cookies if you click their links to track referrals and properly attribute commissions.

Analytics We may use privacy‑respecting analytics providers. These services may process IP addresses or set cookies/pseudonymous identifiers. Consult provider policies for details; we configure tools to minimize data where feasible.

Affiliate Disclosure We use affiliate links to retailers. If you click a link and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliates do not influence our testing or conclusions. We clearly mark commercial relationships where required.

Third‑Party Links Our site links to external websites (e.g., retailers, manufacturers). We are not responsible for their content or privacy practices. Review their policies before providing personal information.

Data Retention

Emails and messages: Retained as long as necessary to address your request and for record‑keeping, then deleted or anonymized.
Analytics data: Retained per provider defaults or as configured to minimize retention.

Your Rights Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict processing of your personal data; to object to processing; and to data portability. You can withdraw consent at any time for activities that rely on consent.

Security We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect information. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.

Children’s Privacy Our site is not directed to children under 13 (or the relevant age in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect data from children.

International Transfers If you access the site from outside the country where our servers are located, your data may be transferred internationally and processed where laws may differ from your own.

Do Not Track We do not respond to Do Not Track signals due to lack of a common standard. You can manage cookies in your browser.

Changes to This Policy We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be noted on this page with an updated effective date.