Here's what we do, in plain words, with the data you give us when you sign up for alerts from the Contests & events calendar or suggest a date. Last updated: 15 October 2026.
The data controller is Carlo Facheris, on behalf of Average Joe BBQ Team. For any question or request, write to info@averagejoebbqteam.com.
For one thing only: to email you when a contest or event matching your preferences shows up in the Calendar. We don't use your data for anything else, and we never sell or share it.
The legal basis is your consent, which you give by ticking the box and then confirming through the link we email you. You can withdraw it at any time.
Sign-ups and emails go through Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, France), a newsletter service that processes the data on our behalf, within the European Union and under the GDPR. Our emails may include tools that tell us whether they were opened and which links were clicked: we only look at this to see whether the alerts are useful.
As long as you stay subscribed. When you unsubscribe, your data is removed from the list; only your address stays in a suppression list, precisely to make sure we never email you again.
You can ask us at any time to see, correct or delete your data, to restrict its use, to receive it in a readable format, or to object to its processing. To unsubscribe, just click the link at the bottom of any email; for everything else, write to info@averagejoebbqteam.com.
If you think your data is being handled improperly, you can lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority (in Italy, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali).
Through the Suggest a contest or event form we collect the event details and your email. Your email is used only to contact you if we need to clarify something about that submission: it doesn't go on the alerts list and we don't use it for anything else. Submissions are handled by Netlify, which hosts the site, and we delete them once reviewed (within one year at the latest).
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