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Birdie Brae

A Journal for the Thrifty Gowfer

Privacy Policy

Last updated 3 September 2026. This policy is a plain-English summary of how we handle your data. If anything isn't clear, email us and we'll rewrite it.

Who we are

Birdie Brae is a Scottish golf editorial site operated as a sole proprietorship based in Glasgow, Scotland. We are the data controller for any personal data you share with us. You can contact us at hello@birdiebrae.co.uk.

What we collect

We only collect data we actually need:

  • Your email address if you subscribe to our newsletter. We pass it to our email provider (MailerLite) so we can send you the Sunday Post.
  • Your name if you give it to us in the newsletter form or send us an email. This is optional.
  • Aggregate site analytics from Vercel Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights — page views, approximate region, referrer, performance metrics. We use their cookieless mode: these two set no cookies and share nothing with advertisers.

We do not sell your personal data. Display advertising on this site is handled by Journey by Mediavine — see below.

Advertising

Some pages carry display ads served by Journey by Mediavine. Their tag runs its own consent manager: in the UK and EU it asks you before any advertising cookie or identifier is set, and your choice is stored by them, not by us. Journey and the ad partners it works with may set cookies or similar identifiers to measure and personalise ads once you have agreed.

We do not pass your email address, your name or anything else you have given us to any advertiser. Some pages carry no ads at all — the tools, and a handful of articles where they would get in the way.

Journey's own privacy notice explains what they collect and how to change your choice: mediavine.com/privacy-policy.

Legal basis

We process your newsletter subscription on the basis of your consent (which you give when you submit the form). You can withdraw consent any time — there's an unsubscribe link on every email.

We process aggregate analytics on the basis of legitimate interest — we need to understand how many people visit the site and whether it's working. Because the data is cookieless and non-identifying, this does not require consent under UK GDPR / PECR.

How long we keep it

  • Newsletter subscribers: until you unsubscribe.
  • Emails you've sent us: for as long as we might reasonably need to reply or keep a record of a correction. Typically deleted within 12 months.
  • Analytics: aggregated and retained by Vercel per their data retention policy.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you can ask us to:

  • Confirm what personal data we hold about you.
  • Correct anything that's wrong.
  • Delete your data (“right to be forgotten”).
  • Export your data in a portable format.
  • Withdraw consent for anything we're doing on a consent basis.

Email us at hello@birdiebrae.co.uk with your request. We'll respond within a month. If we can't help you to your satisfaction, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Third-party services we use

Changes to this policy

We'll update the “last updated” date at the top when anything meaningful changes. If it's a material change, we'll mention it in the next Sunday Post.

The Sunday Post

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One email, most Sundays. No affiliate spam, no drip funnel, no nonsense. Just the tee time we'd book this week, the muni we'd play before work, and one piece of Scottish golf history worth the read.

Written by someone who actually plays here.

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