Privacy Policy

Overview

This Privacy Policy explains how 3393 Media LLC ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects personal data when you visit sincerely-nyc.com, nycliebe.de, subscribe to emails, submit an event, buy or download a guide, click affiliate links, or otherwise interact with our content and services.

Controller

The controller responsible for the processing of personal data on this website is:

3393 Media LLC United States of America Email: hello@sincerely-nyc.com Websites: sincerely-nyc.com and nycliebe.de

A business mailing address will be added once available.

Personal data we process

Depending on how you use this website, we may process the following categories of personal data:

• Contact data, such as name, email address, social media handle, and message content.
• Event submission data, such as event name, location, dates, description, press image, photo credit, links, and contact details submitted with the event.
• Newsletter data, such as email address, subscription status, signup date, IP address, consent record, and interaction data.
• Technical data, such as IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referrer URL, pages visited, date and time of access, and server log data.
• Cookie and consent data, such as consent status, consent ID, consent date, selected cookie categories, and banner interaction.
• Analytics data, such as page views, events, approximate location, device information, and user behavior on the website, where analytics tools are used.
• Purchase and payment data, if digital products, guides, affiliate products, or other paid offers are sold through the website.
• Affiliate and advertising data, such as clicks on affiliate links, referral information, tracking IDs, or campaign parameters.
• Social media and embedded content data, if users interact with embedded Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, Google Maps, or similar third-party content.

We do not intentionally collect special categories of personal data unless you voluntarily include such information in a message, submission, or uploaded material.

Purposes and legal bases

We process personal data only where we have a legal basis to do so. Depending on the situation, the legal basis may be consent, performance of a contract, compliance with a legal obligation, or our legitimate interests.

• Operating and securing the website: technical data and server logs. Legal basis: legitimate interest in providing a secure and functional website.
• Responding to messages and inquiries: contact data and message content. Legal basis: legitimate interest or pre-contractual communication.
• Processing event submissions: event data, contact data, and submitted media. Legal basis: consent, legitimate interest, or pre-contractual communication.
• Sending newsletters: email address, consent data, and newsletter interaction. Legal basis: consent.
• Managing cookie consent: cookie and consent data. Legal basis: legal obligation and legitimate interest.
• Website analytics and affiliate tracking: usage data, cookie data, click data, and referral data. Legal basis: consent where required, or legitimate interest where permitted.
• Selling guides or digital products: contact data, order data, and payment data. Legal basis: performance of a contract and legal obligations.
• Compliance, accounting, and record keeping: order data, invoices, and communication records. Legal basis: legal obligation.

Website hosting and server logs

Our websites are fully custom built and hosted by Vercel. "Hosting provider" means the company that stores the website files and delivers the website to visitors when they open sincerely-nyc.com or nycliebe.de. When you visit the website, the hosting provider may automatically collect server log data, including IP address, browser type, operating system, referrer URL, requested pages, date and time of access, and similar technical information.

We process this data to deliver the website, maintain security, detect errors, prevent misuse, and ensure technical stability.

Hosting provider: Vercel Inc. Location of processing: United States and other locations where Vercel provides its services Data processing agreement: [yes / no / link if available] Retention period for server logs: [retention period]

Content management and storage

We use Sanity as our content management system to create, store, and manage website content. This may include articles, images, event information, links, credits, and other editorial content that we choose to publish or manage through the website.

Submitted forms are intended to be sent to us by email and are not intended to be stored directly in Sanity. If submitted content is later selected for publication, we may manually add relevant editorial content, images, credits, links, or event details to Sanity for website publishing purposes.

Content management provider: Sanity Provider privacy policy: [Sanity privacy policy URL] Data processed: website content, editorial content, images, event details, links, credits, and published content where applicable Retention period: [retention period]

Cookies and consent management

We use cookies and similar technologies. Some cookies are necessary for the website to function. Other cookies, such as analytics, marketing, affiliate, or embedded media cookies, are used only where legally permitted and, where required, after consent.

We use Cookiebot by Usercentrics to manage cookie consent. The consent banner allows visitors to accept, reject, or customize cookie categories. Visitors can change or withdraw their consent at any time by using [cookie settings link / button].

Cookie consent provider: Cookiebot by Usercentrics Provider address: [provider address] Privacy policy: [provider privacy policy URL] Cookie declaration: [cookie declaration URL or embedded page]

The cookie declaration lists the cookies and similar technologies currently used on the website, including their provider, purpose, duration, and category.

Analytics

We may use analytics tools to understand how visitors use the website and to improve our content and services.

Analytics and marketing providers: [to be confirmed before launch]. Possible tools may include analytics, tag management, advertising pixels, affiliate tracking, or privacy-friendly analytics tools, but this section should only list tools that are actually installed or actively used.

Data processed may include page views, events, device data, approximate location, referral data, and cookie or consent data, depending on the tools used. Legal basis: consent where required, or legitimate interest where permitted. Retention period: [retention period]. Opt-out or consent withdrawal: [cookie settings link].

If Google Analytics or similar analytics tools are used, this section should state whether IP anonymization, advertising features, cross-device tracking, or similar features are enabled.

Contact forms and email communication

If you contact us by email or through a form, we process the information you provide so we can respond to your request. This may include your name, email address, message, attachments, and any additional information you choose to provide.

We retain contact inquiries for [retention period], unless longer retention is necessary for legal claims, business records, or ongoing communication.

Event submissions

If you submit an event, we process the information you provide to review, organize, edit, publish, or respond to the submission.

Submitted event information may include event name, date, time, location, description, organizer or contact details, website links, ticket links, social media links, images, press materials, photo credit information, and Instagram usernames or other social media handles to credit.

By submitting event information, you confirm that you have the necessary rights to provide the submitted content and media, and that we may review and, if accepted, publish or edit the submission for editorial purposes.

If you want us to remove or correct submitted personal data, contact us at hello@sincerely-nyc.com.

Newsletter

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we process your email address and subscription data to send newsletters and related updates.

Newsletter provider: [to be confirmed] Provider privacy policy: [URL] Double opt-in used: [yes / no] Data processed: email address, and depending on the provider, name if used, IP address, signup date, consent record, and open/click data Legal basis: consent

You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link in each email or by contacting us. If newsletter tracking is enabled, we may analyze whether newsletters are opened and which links are clicked. This helps us improve newsletter content.

Digital products, guides, payments, and purchases

If you buy a guide, digital product, service, or other paid offer, we process the data needed to complete the purchase, deliver the product, provide customer support, and comply with tax and accounting obligations.

Shop, checkout, or delivery provider: [to be confirmed]. Guides and digital products may be delivered by email once the provider is selected. Payment provider: [Stripe / PayPal / other provider, if used] Data processed: name, email address, billing information, payment status, order details, and communication related to the order Retention period: [retention period required for accounting/tax]

Payment providers and checkout providers process payment data independently according to their own privacy policies.

Affiliate links and partner offers

Some links on this website may be affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and make a purchase or booking, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.

Affiliate partners may process click data, referral IDs, cookies, purchase data, or similar information to track referrals and commissions. Where required, affiliate tracking cookies are used only after consent.

Affiliate partners and partner offers may include Go City, CityPASS, GetYourGuide, Amazon, Ticketmaster, Fever, Airalo, Holafly, and Hotels.com. Affiliate tracking may also be handled through affiliate networks or partner platforms such as Partnerize, Awin, CJ Affiliate, Impact, or similar providers, depending on the specific offer.

Embedded content and third-party services

This website may include embedded content from third-party services, such as videos, maps, social media posts, music players, booking widgets, or forms. Embedded content may behave as if you visited the third-party website directly.

• YouTube or Vimeo videos.
• Google Maps.
• Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, or other social media embeds.
• Spotify or podcast embeds.
• Booking, ticketing, affiliate, or form widgets.

These providers may collect technical data, set cookies, track interactions, or combine data with an account if you are logged in to their service. Where required, embedded content is loaded only after consent.

Social media profiles

We maintain profiles on social media platforms. If you interact with our profiles, the platform provider may process your personal data according to its own privacy policy. We may process messages, comments, likes, profile names, and other interaction data to communicate with users and manage our online presence.

Social platforms used may include Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook, as well as other profiles we link to from the website.

Recipients and service providers

We may share personal data with service providers where necessary to operate the website, communicate with users, provide products or services, analyze website use, manage consent, send newsletters, process payments, host content, or comply with legal obligations.

• Hosting providers.
• Content management and content storage providers, including Sanity.
• Cookie consent providers.
• Newsletter providers.
• Analytics providers.
• Payment and checkout providers.
• Email and form providers.
• Cloud storage or productivity tools.
• Affiliate networks and advertising partners.
• Legal, tax, accounting, or business advisors.
• Authorities, if legally required.

We do not sell personal data in the ordinary sense. If any tracking or advertising activity may qualify as a "sale" or "sharing" under applicable privacy laws, we will provide the required notice and opt-out options.

International data transfers

Some service providers may process personal data outside your country, including outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or the United States.

Where required, we use appropriate safeguards, such as adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses, data processing agreements, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.

Retention

We keep personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

• Server logs: [retention period]
• Contact inquiries: [retention period]
• Event submissions: [retention period]
• Newsletter consent records: until consent is withdrawn, plus [retention period] for proof of consent
• Order and invoice data: [retention period required by law]
• Cookie consent records: [retention period]
• Analytics data: [retention period]

Your rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to request access to your personal data, correction of inaccurate personal data, deletion of personal data, restriction of processing, objection to processing based on legitimate interests, withdrawal of consent, data portability, and complaint to a data protection authority.

To exercise your rights, contact us at hello@sincerely-nyc.com.

Users in the European Economic Area may lodge a complaint with their local data protection authority.

California and other U.S. privacy rights

Depending on your state of residence and whether applicable legal thresholds are met, you may have additional privacy rights, such as the right to know, access, correct, or delete personal information, and the right to opt out of certain sharing, targeted advertising, or sales of personal information.

Sincerely NYC provides a “Your Privacy Choices” link in the footer so visitors can reopen the cookie consent settings and change or withdraw consent for non-essential cookies and similar technologies.

At this time, we do not believe Sincerely NYC meets the thresholds for the California Consumer Privacy Act / California Privacy Rights Act or similar comprehensive U.S. state privacy laws. If that changes, we will update this Privacy Policy and, where required, provide a dedicated U.S. state privacy notice and request methods.

Children

This website is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has provided personal data, contact us so we can delete it where required.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. However, no website or online transmission is completely secure.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, for example if our website, services, tools, providers, or legal requirements change. The current version is always available on this page.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact:

3393 Media LLC United States of America Email: hello@sincerely-nyc.com

A business mailing address will be added once available. Please do not send legal notices or privacy requests to a private residential address.