Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 27, 2026

1. Introduction

Blumenthal Magazine respects the privacy of its readers, subscribers, contributors, interviewees, business contacts, and website visitors.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, disclose, and protect personal information when you:

  • Visit the Blumenthal Magazine website;

  • Subscribe to our newsletter;

  • Complete a contact form;

  • Communicate with us by email;

  • Submit an article, photograph, story idea, questionnaire, or other material;

  • Participate in an interview, feature, competition, survey, or collaboration;

  • Interact with our articles, newsletters, or other digital content.

Blumenthal Magazine is published by Pemberley Group. References in this Privacy Policy to “Blumenthal Magazine,” “the Magazine,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Blumenthal Magazine and Pemberley Group.

By using this website or voluntarily providing personal information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

2. Who Is Responsible for Your Information?

Blumenthal Magazine, published by Pemberley Group, is responsible for the personal information collected directly through this website and through our editorial and business communications.

Certain third-party service providers may process information on our behalf or collect information under their own privacy policies. These providers may include our website host, email-marketing provider, analytics services, embedded-content providers, and other services necessary to operate the Magazine.

Privacy questions and requests may be sent to:

Blumenthal Magazine
Published by Pemberley Group
Email: hello@blumenthalmag.com

3. Information We May Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with the Magazine.

Information You Provide Voluntarily

You may provide us with:

  • Your name;

  • Your email address;

  • Your telephone number;

  • Your business, organization, job title, or professional details;

  • Information contained in a contact form or email;

  • Newsletter subscription preferences;

  • Responses to questionnaires, surveys, or interview questions;

  • Photographs, biographies, quotations, articles, story ideas, or other submitted materials;

  • Information relating to a partnership, advertising inquiry, media request, or editorial collaboration;

  • Any other information you choose to provide.

Please avoid sending sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for the particular communication or editorial purpose and you are comfortable providing it.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the website, certain technical and usage information may be collected automatically, including:

  • Your Internet Protocol address;

  • Information about your browser, network, and device;

  • Your approximate location based on your Internet Protocol address;

  • The website or page you visited before arriving at our website;

  • Pages and articles viewed;

  • Links, buttons, or internal searches used;

  • Dates, times, and duration of visits;

  • Scrolling, navigation, and other website activity;

  • Cookie identifiers and similar technical information.

This information is generally used to operate the website, understand readership, improve content, identify technical problems, and maintain security.

Newsletter Interaction Information

When you subscribe to or receive our newsletters, we may receive information about:

  • Whether an email was delivered;

  • Whether an email was opened;

  • Whether a link within an email was clicked;

  • Whether an email was forwarded, rejected, or marked as undeliverable;

  • Whether you unsubscribed or changed your preferences;

  • The date and time of these interactions.

Some email activity information may be approximate or affected by privacy settings used by your email provider or device.

4. How We Collect Information

We may collect personal information:

  • Directly from you when you subscribe, contact us, or submit material;

  • Through forms embedded on the website;

  • Through email correspondence;

  • Through interviews, surveys, questionnaires, and editorial communications;

  • Automatically through Squarespace, cookies, analytics, server logs, and similar technologies;

  • Through Brevo, our newsletter and email-marketing provider;

  • From publicly available professional or business sources when contacting potential contributors, interviewees, advertisers, or editorial subjects;

  • From public-relations representatives, agencies, businesses, organizations, or other third parties that contact us with an editorial proposal.

When another person or organization provides us with your information, we expect them to have an appropriate basis for doing so.

5. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

  • Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website;

  • Deliver articles, newsletters, editorial updates, and announcements;

  • Manage newsletter subscriptions and preferences;

  • Respond to messages, inquiries, proposals, and requests;

  • Communicate with contributors, interviewees, readers, advertisers, and partners;

  • Review and manage editorial submissions;

  • Arrange interviews, features, photographs, events, or collaborations;

  • Produce, publish, edit, and promote approved editorial content;

  • Understand which articles, subjects, and newsletters interest readers;

  • Measure website and newsletter performance;

  • Detect spam, fraud, misuse, or security threats;

  • Maintain records of consent, subscriptions, permissions, and communications;

  • Comply with legal, regulatory, contractual, accounting, or administrative requirements;

  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal rights;

  • Carry out any other purpose explained when the information is collected.

We will not use personal information for a materially unrelated purpose without providing appropriate notice or obtaining consent where required.

6. Legal Bases for Processing

Depending on your location and the applicable law, we may process personal information on one or more of the following bases:

Consent

We may rely on your consent when you:

  • Subscribe to the newsletter;

  • Agree to receive promotional communications;

  • Accept non-essential cookies;

  • Submit material for publication;

  • Permit us to use your name, image, quotation, biography, or other personal information.

You may withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that lawfully occurred before consent was withdrawn.

Legitimate Interests

We may process information where reasonably necessary for legitimate editorial, administrative, security, analytical, or business interests, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights.

These interests may include operating the website, responding to inquiries, communicating with contributors, measuring readership, preventing misuse, and maintaining the Magazine’s editorial operations.

Contractual Necessity

We may process information when necessary to take steps requested by you before entering into an agreement or to perform an agreement involving advertising, commissioned writing, photography, sponsorship, services, licensing, or another collaboration.

Legal Obligations

We may process or retain information when required to comply with applicable law, respond to a lawful request, maintain necessary records, or protect legal rights.

7. Newsletter Subscriptions and Brevo

Blumenthal Magazine uses Brevo to collect newsletter subscriptions, maintain subscriber lists, send emails, manage unsubscribe requests, and review newsletter performance.

When you subscribe, the information you provide through the subscription form is transmitted to and processed through Brevo.

We may use your email address to send:

  • New articles and editorial selections;

  • The Blumenthal Edit newsletter;

  • Magazine announcements;

  • Recommendations and seasonal content;

  • Invitations, surveys, or reader questionnaires;

  • Occasional sponsored or promotional material that is relevant to the Magazine.

We may review delivery, opening, click, bounce, and unsubscribe information to understand whether our newsletters are reaching readers and which content is useful.

You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included at the bottom of an email. You may also contact us directly to request removal from the mailing list.

After you unsubscribe, we may retain limited information on a suppression list so that we can honor your request and avoid sending further marketing emails to that address.

Unsubscribing from marketing emails does not prevent us from responding to a message you send or from sending essential communications relating to an existing editorial, contractual, or business relationship.

8. Squarespace Hosting and Analytics

This website is hosted by Squarespace.

Squarespace may collect information relating to your browser, network, device, Internet Protocol address, referring pages, pages viewed, and interactions with the website. Squarespace uses this information to provide, secure, maintain, and improve its website-hosting services.

We may use Squarespace Analytics to understand:

  • The number of visitors to the website;

  • Which articles and pages are viewed;

  • General traffic sources;

  • Search activity;

  • Device and browser categories;

  • Approximate geographic readership;

  • General patterns of website use.

Analytics information helps us improve the website, plan editorial content, identify technical issues, and understand the Magazine’s readership.

Analytics information may be aggregated or de-identified, but some technical information may constitute personal information under applicable privacy laws.

9. Cookies and Similar Technologies

This website may use cookies and similar technologies, including local storage, pixels, tags, and analytics tools.

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a visitor’s browser or device. They may be used to operate website functions, remember preferences, understand website activity, improve performance, and support embedded or third-party services.

Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies may be used to:

  • Deliver and secure the website;

  • Prevent technical errors or malicious activity;

  • Remember cookie and privacy preferences;

  • Support website navigation and essential functionality;

  • Prevent cross-site request forgery and other security threats.

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics and performance cookies may help us understand visitor numbers, page views, traffic sources, sessions, searches, and other interactions.

Depending on your location and our website settings, you may be allowed to accept, decline, or manage non-essential cookies through a cookie banner.

You may also be able to restrict or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect the operation or appearance of certain website features.

Third-Party Cookies

Embedded videos, social-media features, newsletter forms, analytics tools, and other third-party content may place or access their own cookies or similar technologies.

The use of these technologies by third parties is governed by their own privacy and cookie policies.

10. Contact Forms and Correspondence

When you complete a contact form, the information you submit may be transmitted through Squarespace and delivered to or stored within our connected email or data-storage services.

We use contact-form and correspondence information to:

  • Read and respond to your message;

  • Consider editorial proposals;

  • Manage advertising and partnership inquiries;

  • Communicate regarding interviews, submissions, corrections, or permissions;

  • Maintain appropriate business and editorial records;

  • Protect against spam, misuse, or fraudulent communications.

Please do not submit confidential, privileged, or highly sensitive information through a general contact form.

11. Editorial Submissions, Interviews and Photographs

When you participate in an interview or submit an article, photograph, biography, quotation, questionnaire, personal story, or other material, we may process the information for editorial purposes.

This may include:

  • Reviewing and editing the material;

  • Verifying information;

  • Communicating with you about publication;

  • Publishing approved names, biographies, photographs, quotations, or other material;

  • Promoting published content through the website, newsletters, search engines, and social-media platforms;

  • Maintaining editorial archives and publication records.

Published editorial material may remain publicly accessible after the original publication date and may be indexed, archived, copied, quoted, or shared by third parties outside our control.

Requests to correct or remove personal information from a published article will be considered individually, taking into account accuracy, public interest, editorial integrity, legal obligations, historical record, and applicable privacy rights.

Removal from the Blumenthal Magazine website does not guarantee removal from search-engine caches, internet archives, social-media posts, screenshots, or third-party websites.

12. How We Share Information

We may share personal information only as reasonably necessary with:

  • Squarespace, as our website-hosting and analytics provider;

  • Brevo, as our newsletter and email-marketing provider;

  • Email, file-storage, administrative, security, or technology providers;

  • Contractors, editors, writers, photographers, designers, or other individuals assisting with Magazine operations;

  • Professional advisers, including accountants, insurers, or legal advisers;

  • Government agencies, courts, regulators, or law-enforcement authorities where legally required;

  • A successor or potential successor in connection with a legitimate merger, restructuring, transfer, or sale of the Magazine or its assets.

Service providers are permitted to access information only to the extent necessary to perform services for us, subject to their contractual and legal obligations.

We do not sell or rent our subscriber list or personal information to third parties for their independent direct-marketing purposes.

We may share aggregated or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify an individual.

13. Third-Party Websites and Embedded Content

Articles and pages may contain links to third-party websites, businesses, charities, social-media platforms, videos, maps, subscription forms, or other embedded content.

When you click a third-party link or interact with embedded content, that provider may collect information directly from you. Your interaction is governed by the third party’s own terms and privacy practices.

Blumenthal Magazine does not control and is not responsible for how an external website or service collects, uses, stores, or shares personal information.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any external service you use.

14. International Data Processing and Transfers

Blumenthal Magazine is an international online publication. Our readers, contributors, service providers, and business contacts may be located in different countries.

Personal information may be processed or stored in a country other than the country in which you live. That country may have privacy laws that differ from those in your jurisdiction.

Where required by applicable law, our service providers and we may use recognized legal mechanisms or contractual safeguards for international data transfers.

By using the website or voluntarily submitting information, you acknowledge that information may be processed internationally, subject to applicable legal protections.

15. How Long We Retain Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including legal, editorial, administrative, security, and recordkeeping requirements.

Retention periods may vary according to the type of information:

  • Newsletter information may be retained while you remain subscribed;

  • Limited unsubscribe information may be retained to honor your opt-out request;

  • Contact-form and email correspondence may be retained while an inquiry or relationship remains relevant;

  • Contractual and financial records may be retained for legally required periods;

  • Editorial permissions, submissions, interviews, published materials, and publication records may be retained as part of the Magazine’s permanent editorial archive;

  • Technical and analytics information may be retained according to the settings and policies of the relevant service provider.

We may delete, anonymize, or aggregate information when it is no longer reasonably required.

16. Information Security

We take reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical measures intended to protect personal information against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure.

The website uses security measures provided by Squarespace and other service providers. However, no website, email system, transmission method, or storage service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You provide information electronically at your own risk. Please contact us promptly if you believe personal information connected with Blumenthal Magazine has been accessed or used without authorization.

17. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and the laws applicable to you, you may have the right to:

  • Ask whether we hold personal information about you;

  • Request access to personal information;

  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information;

  • Request deletion of certain information;

  • Request restriction of certain processing;

  • Object to processing based on legitimate interests;

  • Withdraw consent;

  • Request a portable copy of certain information;

  • Opt out of marketing communications;

  • Object to or opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted-advertising practices where applicable;

  • Submit a complaint to an appropriate privacy or data-protection authority;

  • Exercise privacy rights without unlawful discrimination.

These rights are not absolute and may be limited by applicable law, editorial freedom, freedom of expression, public-interest considerations, legal claims, contractual requirements, or legitimate recordkeeping needs.

To make a privacy request, email hello@blumenthalmag.com and describe the information or action requested.

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. We may also request additional information when necessary to locate the relevant records.

Authorized representatives may submit a request where permitted by law, but we may require evidence of their authority.

18. Marketing Choices

You may stop receiving marketing newsletters by using the unsubscribe link included in each email.

You may also contact us to:

  • Unsubscribe from the mailing list;

  • Update your email address;

  • Correct your subscription details;

  • Change your communication preferences;

  • Ask a question about newsletter tracking.

Opting out of marketing does not require us to delete information that must be retained for legal, contractual, security, suppression-list, or editorial purposes.

19. Children’s Privacy

The website is intended for a general audience and is not designed to knowingly collect personal information directly from children without appropriate authorization.

Children should not submit personal information, subscribe to communications, participate in an interview, or send editorial material without the permission of a parent or legal guardian where such permission is required.

A parent or guardian who believes that a child has provided personal information without appropriate permission may contact us to request review or deletion.

20. Automated Decision-Making

We do not ordinarily use personal information to make decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects on an individual.

Website and newsletter analytics may be used to identify general readership and engagement patterns, but they are not ordinarily used to make significant automated decisions about individual readers.

21. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our website, editorial operations, service providers, technology, or applicable privacy requirements.

The revised policy will be published on this page with a new “Last Updated” date.

Material changes may also be communicated through the website or newsletter where appropriate.

Continued use of the website following an update means that the revised policy will apply to information processed after the effective date, subject to any consent requirements imposed by applicable law.

22. Contact Us

For questions, concerns, privacy requests, newsletter requests, or complaints relating to this Privacy Policy, contact:

Blumenthal Magazine
Published by Pemberley Group
Email: hello@blumenthalmag.com