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The Cottage Almanac Inc. is a digital media company focused on cottage lifestyle topics.
By utilizing any services provided by The Cottage Almanac Inc. (email marketing, website, community, etc.) you agree to the terms below.
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Last updated: October 9, 2026
Effective Date: October 9th 2026
We may update this page from time to time. The “Last updated” date shows when the most recent changes were made, and the “Effective date” shows when they take effect.If we make a material change (one that significantly affects how we use your personal information or your rights), we will give you notice at least [30] days before it takes effect, by email to subscribers and by a notice on our website. For other changes, we will update this page. If you don’t agree with a change, you can unsubscribe or stop using our services at any time. If you continue to use our services after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms, except where the law requires us to get your fresh consent. Where we need your consent for a new use of your personal information, we will ask for it.
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These help support the newsletter. Always do your own research before purchasing anything mentioned.Our content may include:
Affiliate links: we may earn a commission if you buy through them, at no extra cost to you.
Sponsored content: content paid for by a partner.
Advertisements: paid placements.
We will clearly label sponsored content, affiliate links, and advertisements so they are easy to tell apart from our editorial content. Labels such as “Sponsored,” “Partner content,” “Ad,” or “Affiliate link” appear at or near the start of the content or link. Sponsors do not control our editorial opinions or coverage, and the views in sponsored content are the sponsor’s own.
Emails may include tracking technologies (such as pixels or tracked links) to measure opens and clicks.
The Cottage Almanac Inc. produces [Fireside & Your Cottage Weekend], podcasts about cottage life, along with related audio and video content. Episodes may include interviews and regional segments such as weather, events, and traffic.
Episodes are available on our website and on third-party platforms such as Spotify and YouTube. When you listen or watch there, those platforms collect information directly from you under their own privacy policies. We receive aggregated listening data (such as play counts, general location, and device type) and may share summaries with current and potential advertising partners. We don't receive your name or email address from these platforms.
Episodes may include sponsor messages and partner content. We identify these in the episode (for example, "this episode is sponsored by...") and, where relevant, in the show notes. Sponsors don't control our editorial opinions.
Guests appear with their consent, and their views are their own. We may edit, shorten, or remove recorded content at our discretion.
Weather, event, traffic, and other local information is provided for general information only and may change after we record it. Check official sources (such as Environment Canada, municipalities, or event organizers) before making travel or safety decisions.
Questions, comments, voicemails, photos, or other material you send for use on the podcast are treated as User Content (see "Our Content & Intellectual Property").
The Cottage Almanac Inc. maintains pages and accounts on social platforms, including LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube. These platforms are run by third parties. When you follow, like, comment, message, or otherwise interact with our pages, the platform collects information about you under its own terms and privacy policy, and we don’t control that collection.
We see what the platforms show us: your public profile name, your comments and messages, and aggregated insights such as reach, engagement, and general audience location and demographics. We use this to understand our audience and may share summaries with current and potential advertising partners. We don’t receive your email address from these platforms unless you give it to us directly.
Comments, tags, and replies on our pages are generally public and visible to other users and the platform. Don’t share sensitive personal information in comments or direct messages. We may respond publicly, or ask you to continue by email.
Social posts that include sponsors, partners, affiliate links, or paid promotion are clearly labelled, using the platform’s own disclosure tools (such as a “Paid partnership” label) or a clear label in the post, such as “Ad,” “Sponsored,” or “Affiliate link.”
The “Conduct” rules for the Community also apply to our social pages. We may hide or delete comments, and block or report accounts, at our discretion and without notice, including content that is unlawful, harassing, hateful, spam, or misleading.
You’re welcome to share and tag our posts using the platform’s own sharing tools. Please don’t copy our content to reuse elsewhere without permission (see “Our Content & Intellectual Property”).If you tag us or use a hashtag we’ve promoted, you give us permission to reshare your post on our channels, using the platform’s sharing features and with credit to your account. For any other use of your photos, videos, or other material, such as in the newsletter, on the website, or in the podcast, we’ll ask you first.
We may not monitor our social accounts at all times, so don’t use them for urgent matters. To make a privacy request, email our privacy officer at [privacy email] (see “Making a request”).
We will never ask you for passwords, payment details, or personal identification through social media direct messages. If you see an account impersonating us, please report it to us at [email protected] and to the platform.
Our posts may link to third-party websites. We aren’t responsible for their content or privacy practices.
You must be at least: 19 years old
When you participate in the Community, we collect the information you voluntarily provide — your name, comments, posts, and any other content you share. This may be visible to other members and, depending on settings, the public.
When you participate in the Community, we collect the information you voluntarily provide — your name, comments, posts, and any other content you share. This may be visible to other members and, depending on settings, the public.
Any content posted may be indexed by search engines or AI crawlers.
These help support our company. Always do your own research before purchasing anything mentioned.Our content may include:
Affiliate links: we may earn a commission if you buy through them, at no extra cost to you.
Sponsored content: content paid for by a partner.
Advertisements: paid placements.
We will clearly label sponsored content, affiliate links, and advertisements so they are easy to tell apart from our editorial content. Labels such as “Sponsored,” “Partner content,” “Ad,” or “Affiliate link” appear at or near the start of the content or link. Sponsors do not control our editorial opinions or coverage, and the views in sponsored content are the sponsor’s own.
The Community is hosted on beehiiv. Your participation is also subject to beehiiv's own privacy policy and terms.
We retain Community content for as long as your account or post remains active, or as required by law.
You may request removal of your posts or deletion of your Community data by contacting us at [email protected]. Removal may not be immediate or complete if content has already been shared or cached elsewhere.
Content you post in the Community ("User Content") remains your responsibility. By posting, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to display and distribute that content in connection with operating and promoting the Community (please see user content section below).
Don't post anything unlawful, harassing, defamatory, hateful, sexually explicit, or infringing. Don't spam, impersonate others, or promote unrelated products or services without our consent.
We may monitor, edit, or remove User Content, and suspend or terminate access to the Community, at our discretion and without notice.
Views expressed by Community members are their own, not ours.
We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Community at any time without liability.
Applies to emails we send outside of the newsletter, including to current and prospective business partners, podcast guests, and other contacts.
Tracking pixels (small, invisible images) in these emails, provided through HubSpot.
Whether an email was opened, when and how often, approximate location, device type, and link clicks.
HubSpot processes this data on our behalf and may store it on servers outside Canada, where it may be subject to local laws.
You can withdraw consent or opt out at any time by contacting [email protected]. You can also limit tracking by disabling image loading in your email client.
We may collect:
Your email address (and name if provided)
General location (city or country)
Emails include tracking technologies (such as pixels or tracked links) to measure opens and clicks.
Browser and device type
Referring site (i.e Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.)
Survey results
User-generated content submitted through community feature.
Email engagement data from non-newsletter communications (via HubSpot)
We use your information to:
Communicate via email
Provide access to The Cottage Club community
Improve content and engagement
Provide a summary of aggregated or anonymized metrics to TMA’s current and potential advertising partners (open rates, click-through rates, survey results, The Cottage Club community, etc.) for informational purposes.
We do not sell your personal information.
Your data may be stored or processed outside of Canada, including in the United States.
We share data with service providers who help us operate, and who process it on our behalf:
beehiiv (newsletter and community hosting, and analytics)
HubSpot (business contact management and email)
Google (Tag Manager, Analytics 4, and related tools)
Embedded platforms
Our website, newsletter and podcast pages may include content from third-party platforms, including Spotify and YouTube. When you play or interact with this content, these platforms may collect information directly from you, such as your IP address, device details, and listening or viewing activity, and may set their own cookies. We don’t control what they collect or how they use it. Their own privacy policies apply, and we encourage you to review them:
We also maintain pages on social platforms such as LinkedIn and Instagram. Anything you share or do there is governed by those platforms’ policies.
If a breach occurs that poses a real risk of significant harm, we will notify affected individuals and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada as required by law.
We retain your subscriber information (email, engagement data) for as long as you remain subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we retain limited records (such as consent and unsubscribe history) for a reasonable period afterward to comply with legal obligations, after which the data is deleted or anonymized.
We take reasonable steps to protect your information, but no system is completely secure.
We may link to third-party websites. We are not responsible for their content or privacy practices.
Under Canadian privacy laws (including PIPEDA), you may:
Request access to your personal information
Request corrections
Withdraw consent at any time by unsubscribing or by contacting us
Challenge our compliance with this policy or with privacy law
To access or correct your personal information, withdraw consent, or ask us to delete your data, email our privacy officer at [email protected]. We may need to verify your identity before sharing or changing any information.We will respond to access requests within 30 days. If we need more time, or need to consult another party, we may extend this by up to 30 days and will tell you before the first 30 days are up, along with the reason for the extension.
If you have a concern about how we handle your personal information, contact our privacy officer first. We will investigate every complaint, respond in writing, and correct any problem we find, including changing our practices where needed.If you’re not satisfied with our response, you have the right to complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada:
Website: priv.gc.ca
Phone: 1-800-282-1376
If you live in Quebec, you may also contact the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec at cai.gouv.qc.ca.
Who is sending
Emails are sent by The Cottage Almanac Inc., 113 Lakeshore Road West, Suite 31, Mississauga, Ontario, L5G 3B3. You can reach us at [email protected] or through the contact details at the bottom of this page. We send newsletters through beehiiv.
We send you commercial emails only with your consent. When you subscribe, you give us express consent to send you our newsletter and related messages, including sponsored content and advertisements. We keep a record of when and how you consented. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
Every email includes an unsubscribe link at the bottom. We process unsubscribe requests promptly and no later than 10 business days after you make them. If you have trouble unsubscribing, contact us and we will remove you manually.
We also email current and prospective business partners, such as sponsors and advertisers. We send these messages only where:
you have asked us for information or contacted us about a business matter,
you have a current or recent business relationship with us, or
your business email address is publicly available (for example, on your website or in a directory), you haven’t indicated you don’t want unsolicited messages, and our message relates to your role or business.
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies (such as pixels and local storage) to make the site work, understand how it’s used, and improve our content. These may include:
Essential cookies: needed for the site to function, such as remembering your cookie choices and keeping you logged in to The Cottage Club.
Analytics cookies: help us understand how visitors find and use the site (pages viewed, referring site, browser and device type, general location). We use Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics 4 for this.
Embedded content: pages with embedded Spotify or YouTube players may set cookies from those services. We don’t control these, and they are subject to the privacy policies of Spotify and YouTube.
When you first visit our site, you can Accept all cookies, Decline non-essential cookies, or Customize your preferences. Essential cookies are always on. You can change your choices at any time by clearing your browser cookies, which will show the banner again, or by adjusting your browser settings.Declining non-essential cookies won’t affect your ability to read the newsletter or use the site, but some features, such as embedded players, may not load.
Cookies are separate from the tracking pixels in our emails. See “other email communications” above for how those work and how to limit them.
Some cookies are set by third parties such as Google, Spotify, YouTube and beehiiv. We do not control them. Please review their privacy policies for details.
All content published across our channels, including articles, newsletters, podcast episodes, graphics, logos, and the name The Cottage Almanac, is the property of The Cottage Almanac Inc. or its licensors, unless otherwise stated. It is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws.
You may share links to our content and quote brief excerpts with clear credit and a link back to the original. You may not copy, republish, scrape, sell, or create derivative works from our content, or use our name or branding, without written permission. Our content may not be used to train artificial intelligence models without our written permission.
Content you submit to us, including Community posts, comments, survey responses, photos, and any other material you share (“User Content”), remains yours. By submitting it, you grant The Cottage Almanac Inc. a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, sublicensable licence to use, reproduce, display, adapt, and distribute your User Content across the Community, our newsletters, website, podcast, and social media channels, in connection with operating and promoting The Cottage Almanac.You understand that no payment or other compensation will be provided for User Content.
You confirm that you own your User Content or have the right to share it, and that it doesn’t infringe anyone’s rights or break any law. If you submit photos or other material showing other people, you confirm you have their permission.
To the extent allowed by law, you waive, in favour of The Cottage Almanac Inc. and its licensees, any moral rights you have in your User Content, including the right to be credited and the right to object to changes. We will make reasonable efforts to credit you by name where practical, but we are not required to.
You can ask us to remove your User Content (see “Your choices” above). Removal ends our right to keep using it going forward, but doesn’t affect uses already made, content already shared by others, or copies in backups or caches.
You agree to defend and indemnify The Cottage Almanac Inc. against claims, losses, and reasonable legal costs arising from your User Content, your breach of these terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.
Our website, newsletters, Community, and content are provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, we make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including about accuracy, reliability, availability, or fitness for a particular purpose. We don’t guarantee that our services will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that information, events, weather, traffic details, or listings we publish are complete or up to date.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, The Cottage Almanac Inc. and its directors, officers, employees, and contractors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of our services or content. Our total liability for any claim will not exceed $100 CAD. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited, including for fraud or gross negligence, or affects the rights you have under consumer protection laws.
Views expressed by Community members, sponsors, advertisers, and guests are their own. We are not responsible for third-party content, products, or services, including those linked from or advertised in our channels.
Content is provided for general information only and is not legal, financial, medical, or professional advice.
This page, together with any other terms we present to you for a specific service, is the entire agreement between you and The Cottage Almanac Inc. about your use of our services. It replaces any earlier understandings on that subject
These terms are governed by the laws of Canada and the Province of Ontario, and attorn to the courts of Ontario.
If any part of these terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, that part will be limited or removed to the minimum extent needed, and the rest will remain in effect.
If we don’t enforce a part of these terms right away, that doesn’t mean we’ve given up our right to do so later.
If you have questions, contact our privacy officer at:
Sean Menzie, Privacy Officer
[email protected]
Mailing Address
113 Lakeshore Road West
Suite 31
Mississauga, Ontario
L5G 3B3
