Privacy Policy for Night Owl Tea Time

Last Updated: November 2, 2025

Your privacy is important to us. This policy explains what personal data we collect from you, how we use it, and what third-party services we use.

Who We Are

"Night Owl Tea Time" is a personal project (Nightaviary) dedicated to providing curated news and information about tea.

What Data We Collect & How We Use It

We collect different, minimal data depending on how you interact with our service.

1. When You Subscribe to the Newsletter

What We Collect: Your email address.
How We Use It: To send you "Night Owl Tea Time" newsletter.
Legal Basis: Your explicit consent, which you provide by signing up and confirming via a double opt-in email.

2. When You Visit Our Website

What We Collect: Your IP address is automatically sent to Google's servers.
How We Use It: We use the Google Fonts service to load the custom fonts ("Merriweather" and "Inter") that style this website. When your browser requests these fonts, it sends your IP address to Google as part of the standard web request.
Legal Basis: Our legitimate interest to provide a well-designed and readable website.

Our Data Processors & Third-Party Services

We will never sell your data. We only use trusted third-party services ("data processors") to operate our service.

Buttondown: We use Buttondown to manage our subscriber list and send our newsletters. Your email address is stored with them.
Buttondown Privacy Policy
Google: We use Google Fonts to style our website. Google may receive your IP address when you browse our site.
Google Privacy Policy

Your Rights Under GDPR

You have the right to:

Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you (your email address).
Rectification: Request that we correct your email address if it is inaccurate.
Erasure: Request that we delete your email address from our records.

How to Unsubscribe (Withdraw Consent)

You can withdraw your consent and unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time. Every email we send includes a clear and easy-to-use "Unsubscribe" link in the footer. Clicking this link will immediately remove you from our mailing list.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please feel free to contact us at contact@nightaviary.de.