Privacy
What we keep about you, why, who helps us, and for how long.
Who we are
Beats Buzz publishes free newsletters for small Canadian towns, every Monday and Thursday. Local businesses pay to place ads in them.
Questions about your information go to [email protected].
What we keep about readers
Your email address, your town, when you signed up, when you confirmed, and the page you signed up on. That last part is our record of your consent.
We do not ask for your name, and we do not build a profile of you.
What we keep about advertisers
Your business name, your email, your ad text and image link, the issues you booked, and where your order and payment stand.
Stripe handles your card. We never see or store the card number.
To check that the business is yours, we look up whether your email domain receives mail and has a website.
What we use and do not keep
Your IP address is used to check you are human (Cloudflare Turnstile) and to stop too many sign-ups from one place. We do not store it.
To suggest towns near you, we use the approximate location your connection already gives away, once, and do not store it.
If you tap Use my location, your browser finds the nearest towns on your own device. Your location is not sent to us.
Why we use it
To send you the newsletter you asked for, with your consent under Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL). To confirm your email first. To run, check and charge for ads. To stop abuse. To keep the records the law asks of us.
Who helps us
Cloudflare protects the website and runs our sign-up and booking service. Supabase stores our database. Resend sends our emails. Stripe takes advertiser payments. GitHub hosts the website.
Anthropic’s Claude checks each ad before a person does. It reads the business name, the website, the ad text and the image.
Our team reviews ads in a private Telegram group, where they see the business name, email and ad.
Some of these companies process information outside Canada, including in the United States.
How long we keep it
If you never confirm your email, we delete your sign-up after 7 days.
When you unsubscribe, or an email to you bounces, we keep your address marked that way so we never email you again by mistake.
We keep advertiser orders and payments for as long as tax law requires, generally six years in Canada.
Your choices
Every issue has a one-click unsubscribe link.
To see, correct or delete what we hold about you, email [email protected] and we will answer within 30 days.
Changes
When this page changes, the date below changes too. Last updated November 10, 2026.