Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 2026

This Privacy Policy explains what information Best-Selling.Beer (the "Site", "we", "us") collects when you visit it, how that information is used, and the choices you have about it. We try to keep this as plain and short as possible.

1. Who runs this site

Best-Selling.Beer is a small informational website about the world's best-selling beer brands. The Site does not sell products, does not have user accounts, and does not process payments. For any privacy question please use our contact page.

2. What we collect

We collect only what we need to keep the site running and to understand how it is used:

• Information you give us through the contact form. When you submit a message through the contact page, we receive the name, email address, optional phone number and message text you typed. We use this only to reply to your enquiry.
• Automatic analytics data. Like most websites, our analytics provider records technical information such as your approximate location (country/region), device type, browser, referring page, and which pages you viewed. This data is aggregated and is not used to identify individual visitors by us.
• Cookies and similar technologies. See section 4 below.

3. Third-party services we use

The Site uses the following third-party services, which may receive information about your visit subject to their own privacy policies:

• Google Analytics - for visitor statistics. (Google Privacy Policy; Opt out.)
• Google AdSense - to serve advertising on content pages. Google and its partners may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. You can manage personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings and opt out of third-party vendor cookies at aboutads.info/choices.

4. Cookies

Cookies are small files stored in your browser. We and the third-party services listed above use cookies for:

• Measuring traffic and how visitors use the Site (Google Analytics).
• Showing ads and measuring ad performance (Google AdSense).

You can refuse, delete or block cookies through your browser settings. If you do so, parts of the Site may still work but ads may be less relevant and our analytics will record fewer details about your visit.

5. Legal basis (GDPR)

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the legal bases we rely on for processing personal data are:

• Your consent, where required, for non-essential cookies and personalised advertising.
• Our legitimate interest in running, securing and improving an informational website.
• Performance of a request you have made when you contact us through the contact form.

6. Your rights

Depending on where you live (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA and similar laws), you may have the right to:

• access the information we hold about you,
• ask us to correct or delete it,
• object to or restrict its processing,
• opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising,
• withdraw consent for cookies at any time, and
• complain to your local data-protection authority.

To exercise any of these rights, please use our contact page.

7. Data retention and security

Contact-form messages are kept only as long as needed to respond to you and meet basic record-keeping. Analytics data is retained according to the defaults of the providers listed above. We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect data we hold, but no internet transmission is ever fully secure - by using the Site you accept that residual risk.

8. Children

This Site is intended for adults of legal drinking age in their country of residence. It is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16.

9. External links

This Site links to external websites that we do not control. Their privacy policies and practices are their own; please read them before sharing personal information with them.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version is always posted on this page with a fresh "Last updated" date at the top.

11. Contact

Questions, corrections or privacy requests: please use our contact page.