This page explains how we collect, use, and protect your information.
1. Who we are
Mennie Drinks is a trading name and trade mark of Mennie Consulting Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales (Company Number 14553416) and having its registered office at Suite G04, 1 Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1HR.
If you have any questions about this policy or your data, you can contact me at:
📧 alex@menniedrinks.com
2. What information we collect
When you interact with Mennie Drinks, we may collect:
- Email address (when you subscribe to the Substack newsletter, join a mailing list or email us directly)
- Name (if you provide it)
- Billing and shipping details (if make a purchase (via Big Cartel) or join the Print Collective (via Substack))
- Engagement data (opens, clicks, unsubscribes) through Substack and HubSpot analytics
- Payment information is handled securely by Big Cartel or Substack and their payment providers (Stripe/PayPal). Mennie Drinks does not store your card details.
3. How we use your information
We use your information to:
- Send you newsletters, stories, and updates via Substack
- Provide subscriber-only benefits and discount codes
- Manage subscriptions and marketing via HubSpot (including tagging interests and segmenting audiences)
- Fulfil and deliver print products ordered via Big Cartel or the Print Collective
- Share occasional offers and announcements about Mennie Drinks projects
We will never sell or licence your data to third parties.
4. Sharing your data
We only share your data with trusted services needed to run Mennie Drinks:
- Substack – for email delivery and subscription management
- HubSpot – for subscriber management and analytics
- Big Cartel – for online shop and order fulfilment
- Payment processors (Stripe, PayPal) – for secure payments
Each of these services has its own privacy policy and complies with GDPR and data protection standards.
5. Your rights
Under GDPR and UK data protection law, you have the right to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you
- Ask us to correct or delete your data
- Unsubscribe from emails at any time (every email contains an unsubscribe link)
- Withdraw consent to marketing or data use
To exercise these rights, email me at alex@menniedrinks.com.
6. Data storage and security
Your data is stored securely on Substack, HubSpot, and Big Cartel systems. These platforms have strong safeguards in place to protect your information.
7. Changes to this policy
If we update this Privacy Policy, the new version will be posted here with the updated date.