Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 27, 2026

Chilled Media respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect information when you visit ChilledMagazine.com, subscribe to our newsletter, request a free print subscription, contact us, participate in promotions, or otherwise interact with our website and services.

By using our website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information:

Information You Provide to Us

You may provide information directly to us when you:

  • Subscribe to our newsletter
  • Request a free print subscription
  • Submit a contact form
  • Enter a contest, giveaway, promotion, or survey
  • Submit content, cocktail recipes, comments, or other materials
  • Contact us by email
  • Communicate with us about advertising, partnerships, or press inquiries

This information may include:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Mailing address
  • Phone number
  • Company or organization name
  • Job title or industry role
  • Submission details, messages, or other content you provide
  • Any other information you choose to submit

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information, including:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Pages viewed
  • Referring URLs
  • Time spent on pages
  • Clicks and interactions
  • Approximate location based on IP address
  • Cookie and tracking technology data

2. How We Use Information

We may use collected information to:

  • Operate and improve our website
  • Send newsletters, updates, and promotional emails
  • Process free print subscription requests
  • Respond to inquiries and customer service requests
  • Manage contests, giveaways, surveys, and promotions
  • Communicate with advertisers, contributors, partners, and media contacts
  • Personalize website content and user experience
  • Analyze website traffic and audience behavior
  • Display, measure, and improve advertising
  • Prevent fraud, abuse, spam, and security issues
  • Comply with legal obligations

3. Email Communications

If you subscribe to our newsletter or otherwise opt in to receive emails, we may send you editorial updates, promotional messages, contest announcements, advertising opportunities, and other Chilled Media communications.

You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in our emails or by contacting us directly.

Even if you unsubscribe from marketing emails, we may still send non-promotional messages related to transactions, subscriptions, legal notices, or account-related communications where applicable.

4. Free Print Subscriptions

If you request a free print subscription, we may collect and use your name, mailing address, email address, and related information to process and fulfill your subscription.

We may work with service providers, mailing vendors, fulfillment partners, and similar third parties to deliver print issues and manage subscription records.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, and similar technologies to:

  • Keep the website functioning properly
  • Remember preferences
  • Measure website traffic
  • Understand user behavior
  • Improve content and performance
  • Support advertising and retargeting
  • Track email engagement, where applicable

You can adjust your browser settings to refuse or delete cookies. Some parts of the website may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

6. Analytics and Advertising

We may use third-party analytics and advertising tools, such as Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Pixel, or similar services, to understand website activity and improve our content, advertising, and marketing.

These third parties may collect information about your activity on our website and other websites over time. They may use cookies, pixels, device identifiers, or similar technologies to provide measurement, analytics, personalization, and advertising services.

You can manage certain advertising preferences through your browser, device settings, or third-party opt-out tools.

7. Contests, Giveaways, and Promotions

From time to time, we may offer contests, giveaways, sweepstakes, or promotions. If you participate, we may collect information needed to administer the promotion, verify eligibility, contact winners, deliver prizes, and comply with applicable laws.

Promotions may be subject to additional rules, terms, eligibility requirements, or privacy disclosures.

8. User Submissions and Public Content

If you submit content to Chilled Media, such as cocktail recipes, comments, photos, stories, or other materials, we may review, edit, publish, display, or otherwise use that content in connection with our website, magazine, social media, marketing, or related editorial activities.

Information you choose to make public may be visible to others. Do not submit personal information you do not want publicly shared.

9. How We Share Information

We may share information with:

  • Website hosting and technology providers
  • Email marketing platforms
  • Analytics and advertising partners
  • Subscription fulfillment and mailing vendors
  • Contest, giveaway, and promotion partners
  • Payment processors, if applicable
  • Professional advisors, such as legal or accounting providers
  • Business partners, advertisers, or sponsors, where permitted by law and applicable promotion terms
  • Law enforcement, regulators, or other parties when required to comply with legal obligations

We do not sell personal information in the traditional sense. However, certain advertising or analytics activities may be considered “sharing” or “targeted advertising” under some privacy laws.

10. Third-Party Links

Our website may link to third-party websites, services, advertisers, social media platforms, subscription tools, partner sites, or other external resources.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or policies of third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any external sites you visit.

11. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing services, maintaining records, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, and complying with legal obligations.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.

12. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect personal information. However, no website, database, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

13. Age Restrictions and Children’s Privacy

Our website and services are intended exclusively for individuals who are at least 21 years of age or older. Chilled Media does not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from individuals under the age of 21, nor do we market or direct our content to children under the age of 13.

If you are under 21, please do not use our website, sign up for our newsletter, or provide any personal information to us. If we become aware or are notified that we have inadvertently collected personal information from an individual under 21 (or a child under 13), we will take immediate steps to delete that information from our records as quickly as possible. If you believe we have collected information from someone under 21, please contact us at info@chilledmagazine.com.

14. U.S. State Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have certain privacy rights under applicable state privacy laws. These may include the right to:

  • Request access to personal information we maintain about you
  • Request correction of inaccurate personal information
  • Request deletion of personal information
  • Opt out of certain targeted advertising or data sharing activities
  • Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, where applicable
  • Appeal a privacy rights decision, where required by law

To exercise privacy rights, contact us using the information below. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

15. California Privacy Notice

If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act and related privacy laws.

In the past 12 months, we may have collected the categories of personal information described in this Privacy Policy, including identifiers, internet activity information, commercial or subscription-related information, and information you voluntarily provide.

We may disclose personal information to service providers, advertising partners, analytics providers, fulfillment vendors, and other parties as described above.

We do not knowingly sell personal information of individuals under 16.

California residents may contact us to request access, deletion, correction, or opt-out rights where applicable.

16. International Visitors

Chilled Media is based in the United States. If you access our website from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.

By using our website, you understand that privacy laws in these locations may differ from those in your country.

17. Your Choices

You may:

  • Unsubscribe from marketing emails using the link in our emails
  • Disable cookies through your browser settings
  • Contact us to update or delete certain personal information
  • Opt out of certain advertising tracking through available browser, device, or third-party tools
  • Decline to provide certain information, although some features may not work without it

18. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date above.

Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Contact Us

For privacy questions or requests, contact us at:

Chilled Media
220 Harborside Drive, Suite 204
Schenectady, NY 12305
Email: info@chilledmagazine.com

For press inquiries, contact: press@chilledmagazine.com