Privacy
What I collect, and what I don’t.
A newsletter that asks you to trust its price claims should be able to say plainly what it does with your email address. This page describes the system as it is actually built — not a template, and nothing I cannot point at in the code.
What I collect
Three things, and I will name each precisely rather than describe them as “certain information”.
- — Your email address, when you type it into a subscribe form. Alongside it I store the date and a one-word label for where you signed up — the homepage, the quiz, a referral — so I can tell which surfaces bring readers who stay.
- — A record of outbound clicks. Every retailer link in an Issue points at a redirect on this site before it forwards you to the retailer. That redirect writes down which Issue and which Pick was clicked, the retailer, the destination link, whether the click came from the email or the web, the page that referred you, your browser's user-agent string, and the time.
- — Your quiz answers, if you take one. The fragrance quiz stores the session, the options you picked, and the taste profile it computes from them. That happens whether or not you give an email address at the end; if you do give one, the session is linked to it.
What happens to your IP address
The redirect never stores it. It is hashed with a secret key the moment it arrives, and only the hash is written down. The hash lets me tell one visitor's repeat clicks apart from a mail client's automated preview fetches, which is the entire reason it exists. It cannot be turned back into an address.
The email itself
Issues are delivered by Resend, which records deliveries, bounces and unsubscribes on my behalf. Open and click tracking are provider-level settings I configure in Resend's dashboard rather than anything in this site's code, so I will not tell you from here exactly which are switched on. Assume an Issue may report opens, and that if provider click tracking is enabled the links you see may be rewritten to route through Resend before they reach my own redirect.
Where opens are reported they are imprecise — Apple Mail's privacy protection reports opens that never happened — so I read them as a trend and never as a fact about you.
Every Issue carries an unsubscribe link. Using it stops the sending immediately; it does not require emailing me first.
Who else handles it
The services this site actually runs on, and nothing beyond them:
- — Vercel — hosting and the servers that render these pages.
- — Supabase — the Postgres database where subscribers, quiz sessions and click records live.
- — Resend — newsletter delivery and the subscriber list used for sending.
- — Bunny — the CDN that serves the bottle images.
- — CJ Affiliate and Rakuten Advertising — the two affiliate networks a marked retailer link can pass through.
What I do not do
I do not sell, rent, or trade your email address. I do not upload the subscriber list to an advertising platform to build an audience from it. I do not run sponsored placements, so no brand or retailer receives reader data as part of a deal.
EauDeDeal may earn affiliate commissions from retailer links, at no added cost to you. Whether a link pays never changes the selection gate or the order of Picks, and a link that paid at publication carries a note saying so.
How long I keep it
I will not invent a retention schedule I do not run. There is no automatic deletion job today: subscriber records, quiz sessions and click records persist until they are removed, and unsubscribing marks your record unsubscribed rather than erasing it, so that a later re-subscribe is not mistaken for a fresh signup.
If you would rather be deleted outright than marked unsubscribed, email me at deals@mail.eaudedeal.com. Deleting you removes your subscriber row and its signup-source history, your Resend contact, and any quiz session, quiz answers and taste profile linked to your address. Click records are not linked to your identity — they carry only a salted hash — so there is nothing there to pick out and delete.
If this changes
If I add a service that handles reader data, this page changes in the same release. It is not a document I intend to keep vague enough to never need updating.
Questions, or a deletion request: deals@mail.eaudedeal.com.