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Privacy policy
What The Dry Standard collects, why, and how to reach the editor about it.
Updated 25 October 2026.
The Dry Standard is an independent editorial site. It does not sell visitor data, run advertising networks, or keep reader accounts. Questions: privacy@drinkdrystandard.com.
What you send us
The product submission, partnerships, and correction forms collect the fields on those pages: typically a name, email, organization, product details, a claim, and a message. The Dry List collects only an email address for the monthly dispatch. A hidden honeypot field is ignored except to discard spam. Direct email to the address above is treated the same way.
We use that information to reply, to consider a product for the editorial queue, to send the dispatch if you asked for it, and to handle business inquiries. Submissions are not published automatically, and they are not sold.
A copy is stored in a private inbox on the site host. Another copy is emailed to drinkdrystandard@gmail.com, which is hosted by Google under Google’s privacy policy. Public addresses on drinkdrystandard.com (hello@, industry@, press@, privacy@, editor@, and any other alias) are forwarded to that same Gmail inbox. The forms are rate-limited, which briefly records the requesting IP address to blunt spam.
We keep correspondence as long as it is useful for a reply or an editorial record. Write if you want a record corrected or deleted.
Cookies
Most pages do not set a session cookie. The industry forms and The Dry List use a short-lived session cookie so the form can be submitted safely (CSRF protection). There is no advertising cookie and no login cookie.
Visits
The site records named on-page events — for example opening a review, using a filter, or a “where to buy” link — on the site host. Those events do not include form fields, message text, or a visitor email. A search query is kept only when it does not look like an email address or a web link. No third-party analytics product is loaded.
Outbound-click events may include the brand, bottle, link type, page context, and destination domain and path. The destination field excludes URL credentials, query parameters, and fragments. Outbound links carry campaign parameters identifying The Dry Standard and the kind of page sending traffic, not an individual visitor.
For the length of one browser tab, the page stores a random session marker in sessionStorage so events from that visit can be read in order. It is not a cookie, it is not tied to an email, and it is not reused on the next visit. A separate flag in localStorage records only that this browser has been here before, so a later visit can be counted as a return. The event log stores the class of the referring site (direct, this site, Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or other), not the full referring URL.
My Bottles and a compare tray also use localStorage on this device. My Bottles stores your saved lists and any personal reactions, tasting notes and dates you choose to add. Those personal tasting details stay in your browser; they are not sent to us or included in analytics. The page requests current catalog details using only the identifiers of your saved bottles. Clearing site data clears your collection. You can download a backup and restore it in another browser; that file includes your personal tasting details, so keep it somewhere private. Restoring a backup reads the file in your browser without uploading it to us.
If you choose Light or Dark in the footer, that choice is kept in localStorage on this device so the next page opens the same way. It is never sent to us. Choosing Auto removes it and the site follows your device setting again.
The host may keep ordinary web logs (IP address, browser, pages requested) for security and operations. Outbound retailer and producer links leave this site; those destinations have their own policies.
Samples
We do not publish a receiving address. If a sample is useful, shipping instructions go out by email. A parcel you send is for independent tasting, not a public listing of your contact details.
Contact
Karl Hill, editor — privacy@drinkdrystandard.com for this page. We reply within three business days. This page will change if the site’s practices change.