Newsletter privacy
Notice version: newsletter-2026-11-v1.
Bora Bekiroğlu is the controller of your newsletter information, operating as Bora Bekiroğlu Productions. The weekly newsletter covers Visual · Music · AI · Games.
Your choice
We use your email address to send the newsletter only with your consent. Enter your address, tick the consent box and confirm through the email link. An unconfirmed signup is not permission to send you newsletter issues. You can withdraw through the unsubscribe link or contact Bora. There is no charge to unsubscribe.
What is stored and where
We record your email address, signup and confirmation times, subscription status and the version of the notice you agreed to. A private service on our existing DreamHost hosting handles confirmation and unsubscribe requests even while the local computer is offline. Email addresses in its application database are encrypted. The private subscriber master is kept on Bora’s Mac, outside the public website and project folders, with restricted access and encrypted subscriber data.
DreamHost processes website and email delivery data; your email provider also processes the messages it receives. Hosting and email processing may involve countries outside the UK, including the United States. See DreamHost’s privacy policy for its processing and international-transfer information. Private local storage does not mean no service provider handles your address.
Retention and withdrawal
Unconfirmed signup records expire after seven days and are removed during maintenance or subsequent requests. Confirmed information is retained while you remain subscribed. After withdrawal, we stop newsletter eligibility and retain a minimal pseudonymous suppression record to prevent accidental re-subscription or sending; we do not retain your email address in the active subscriber record. Restricted encrypted recovery copies may temporarily contain older records. Suppression must be reconciled before any future newsletter send, including after restoring a backup.
We use a short-lived keyed representation of your network address for abuse-rate limiting, not as a marketing profile. Standard hosting security/access logs and email-provider records are managed separately by those providers. We do not add newsletter advertising trackers or sell the subscriber list.
Your rights and contact
You can request access, correction or deletion and withdraw consent through the inquiry form. Use that form for privacy questions: the newsletter’s no-reply sender does not monitor incoming mail. You may also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.