Privacy Policy

Last updated: 1 May 2026

Riviera Ready Magazine respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and protect information when you visit Riviera Ready Magazine, subscribe to our newsletter, contact us, comment on articles, interact with our editorial content, buy or enquire about magazine editions, or click links to third-party websites, shops, travel providers, affiliate partners or advertisers.

Riviera Ready Magazine is an online and print-focused lifestyle, travel, fashion, culture and luxury living publisher. Our website address is magazine.rivieraready.com.

1. Who we are

Riviera Ready Magazine is responsible for the personal information collected directly through this website.

You can contact us through the Contact page on this website if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, or your data protection rights.

2. Related websites and brands

Riviera Ready Magazine is part of a wider Riviera Ready publishing, lifestyle and ecommerce brand family.

We may link to, promote, or work alongside related websites and brands, including:

• Riviera Ready — our associated ecommerce shop at rivieraready.com, where readers may be able to buy print and digital editions of the magazine, selected fashion, resort wear, accessories, lifestyle products or other Riviera Ready products.
• Sultry Siren — Riviera Ready’s swimwear label at sultry-siren.com.

These related websites may have their own privacy policies, cookie notices, terms and conditions, checkout processes and customer service arrangements. If you visit, buy from, subscribe through, or contact one of those websites, the privacy information and terms shown on that website may also apply.

Where it is necessary and lawful, information may be used across related Riviera Ready websites and brands for purposes such as responding to enquiries, managing orders, dealing with customer service, fulfilling magazine purchases, handling editorial or contributor enquiries, preventing fraud or abuse, maintaining business records, and promoting relevant Riviera Ready content or products where permitted.

We do not sell your personal information.

3. Information we may collect

We may collect and process the following types of information.

Information you provide directly

This may include:

• your name and email address when you contact us;
• information submitted through contact forms;
• newsletter subscription details;
• comments submitted on articles;
• competition, giveaway or event entries, if we run them;
• editorial, contributor, model, photographer, brand or PR enquiries;
• interview answers, biographies, social media handles or image permissions where relevant to editorial features;
• order or customer service information where you buy or enquire about magazine editions;
• any other information you choose to send to us.

Technical and usage information

When you visit the website, some information may be collected automatically, including:

• IP address;
• browser type and version;
• device type;
• operating system;
• pages visited;
• referral links;
• approximate location derived from technical data;
• date and time of visits;
• security, spam-prevention and server log data.

This helps us operate the website, understand how readers use it, improve content, protect the site from spam or abuse, and maintain security.

Comments

If comments are enabled and you leave a comment, we may collect the information shown in the comment form, together with your IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.

An anonymised string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible publicly in the context of your comment.

Newsletter subscriptions

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect the information needed to send you magazine updates, selected editorial highlights, offers, announcements and relevant news.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link in our emails or by contacting us through the website.

Contact forms

If you contact us through a form on the website, we use the information you provide to respond to your enquiry. This may include editorial enquiries, advertising enquiries, contributor enquiries, model or photography enquiries, brand enquiries, customer service questions, or general messages.

Editorial submissions and contributors

If you submit editorial material, photography, press information, biography details, social media handles, images, interview answers or contributor information, we may use that information to assess, edit, publish or promote editorial content, subject to any agreement or permission given.

This may include information supplied by writers, photographers, models, interviewees, PR representatives, brands, venues, travel providers or commercial partners.

4. Magazine purchases and ecommerce

Readers may be able to buy print or digital editions of Riviera Ready Magazine either directly through this website or through Riviera Ready’s associated ecommerce shop at rivieraready.com.

If you place an order, we or the relevant ecommerce website may collect and process information needed to manage that order, including your name, email address, billing details, delivery details, order information and customer service messages.

Payments are normally handled by third-party payment providers. We do not normally receive or store your full payment card details.

If your purchase is made through a related website, such as rivieraready.com, that website’s own privacy policy, cookie notice, terms of sale, refund information and checkout terms may also apply.

5. How we use your information

We use personal information where it is necessary and lawful to do so, including to:

• operate and maintain the website;
• respond to messages and enquiries;
• send newsletters and subscriber updates;
• publish and manage comments;
• protect the website from spam, fraud, hacking, misuse or abuse;
• analyse readership and improve our editorial content;
• manage advertising, sponsorship and affiliate relationships;
• understand which articles, categories and offers are of interest to readers;
• administer competitions, giveaways or events, if applicable;
• manage contributor, PR, model, photographer, brand and editorial relationships;
• process or support magazine purchases where relevant;
• manage customer service enquiries relating to magazine editions or related Riviera Ready products;
• comply with legal, regulatory, tax or accounting obligations;
• establish, exercise or defend legal rights.

6. Our lawful bases for processing

Depending on the situation, we may rely on one or more of the following lawful bases.

Consent

We rely on consent where you have actively agreed to something, such as subscribing to a newsletter, accepting certain non-essential cookies, submitting information for a specific purpose, or giving permission for editorial use.

You can withdraw consent at any time.

Legitimate interests

We may process information where it is necessary for our legitimate interests as a publisher and ecommerce-related brand, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.

This may include website security, audience measurement, improving editorial content, responding to enquiries, managing business relationships, preventing spam, managing contributor or PR communications, promoting relevant Riviera Ready content or products, and operating a sustainable publishing business.

Contract or steps before entering a contract

We may process information where necessary to deal with a request from you, provide a service, manage an order, fulfil a magazine purchase, manage a contributor or commercial relationship, or take steps before entering into an agreement.

Legal obligation

We may process information where required to comply with legal, regulatory, accounting, tax, security or reporting obligations.

7. Cookies and similar technologies

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files stored on your device. They can help websites function, remember preferences, measure traffic, improve security, or support advertising and affiliate tracking.

We may use the following types of cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies

These are required for the website to work properly, for example security, login, form, spam-prevention, checkout, basket, cookie preference or basic WordPress functionality.

Preference cookies

These may remember choices you make, such as display preferences, cookie settings or other website preferences.

Analytics cookies

These help us understand how readers use the website, which articles are popular, how visitors arrive at the site, and how the website can be improved.

Affiliate and advertising cookies

Some articles may include affiliate links, advertising links, sponsored links or links to travel, fashion, retail, booking or lifestyle partners.

If you click one of these links, a third-party partner or affiliate network may use cookies or similar tracking technology to record that you came from Riviera Ready Magazine. This may allow us to receive a commission if you make a purchase, booking or enquiry.

Ecommerce cookies

If magazine purchases are available directly through this website, ecommerce cookies may be used to support essential functions such as basket contents, checkout, payment handling, order processing, fraud prevention and customer account functionality.

Embedded content cookies

Articles may include embedded content from other websites, such as videos, social media posts, maps, images or other media. Embedded content behaves as if you visited the third-party website directly. These third parties may collect data, use cookies, track interactions, and combine that information with your account if you are logged in to their service.

Where required, we ask for consent before placing non-essential cookies. You can also control cookies through your browser settings.

Where technically possible and legally appropriate, cookie preferences may be remembered across Riviera Ready Magazine and related Riviera Ready websites on the same domain, such as rivieraready.com and magazine.rivieraready.com.

However, some related websites, including websites on separate domains such as sultry-siren.com, may need to ask for cookie choices separately. This is because browser cookies are usually limited to the website or domain that sets them.

8. Affiliate links, advertising and sponsored content

Riviera Ready Magazine may earn revenue through advertising, sponsored content, brand partnerships and affiliate links.

This means that some links on the website may be trackable commercial links. If you click one of these links and make a purchase, booking or enquiry, we may receive a commission or other commercial benefit.

This does not normally increase the price you pay. The final price, availability, terms, booking conditions, refund rules and customer service are set by the third-party provider.

Affiliate links and sponsored content help support the magazine, but we aim to keep editorial content independent, honest and relevant to our readers.

Some articles, features or magazine pages may also link to Riviera Ready’s own or associated websites, including rivieraready.com and Sultry Siren, Riviera Ready’s swimwear label at sultry-siren.com.

These links may promote our own magazine issues, products, swimwear, fashion, resort wear or related services.

Links to our own associated websites are not necessarily affiliate links in the usual third-party sense, but they are commercial links. Where editorial content promotes our own products, magazine issues, shop pages or associated brands, we aim to make the commercial nature of the link clear where appropriate.

For more information, please see our Affiliate Disclosure page.

9. Third-party websites and partners

Our website may link to third-party websites, including:

• travel providers;
• villa, hotel, flight or booking platforms;
• fashion and retail websites;
• restaurants, venues and event providers;
• affiliate networks;
• advertisers and sponsors;
• social media platforms;
• video platforms;
• payment or ecommerce platforms;
• Riviera Ready shop pages or related websites;
• Sultry Siren pages or related brand websites.

When you click through to another website, that website is responsible for its own privacy practices, cookies, terms and customer service.

We are not responsible for the privacy policies, content, accuracy, prices, booking terms, products or services of third-party websites.

10. Who we may share information with

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share limited information with trusted service providers where necessary to run the website, magazine and related services, including:

• website hosting providers;
• email and newsletter providers;
• analytics providers;
• spam-prevention and security services;
• website maintenance providers;
• ecommerce, checkout and order-management providers;
• payment providers;
• delivery or fulfilment providers, where relevant;
• affiliate networks and advertising partners;
• professional advisers, if needed;
• payment or ecommerce providers, where relevant;
• legal or regulatory authorities, where required.

These organisations may only use the information as necessary to provide their services or comply with their own legal obligations.

Where you use or buy from a related website such as rivieraready.com or sultry-siren.com, information may also be processed by the systems, providers and policies used by that website.

11. International transfers

Some service providers, platforms, plugins, analytics tools, social media platforms, affiliate networks, email providers, payment providers or ecommerce providers may process information outside the United Kingdom.

Where this happens, we aim to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as recognised contractual protections, adequacy arrangements, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.

12. How long we keep information

We keep personal information only for as long as necessary for the purpose it was collected.

As a guide:

• contact form messages may be kept for as long as needed to deal with the enquiry and maintain business records;
• newsletter subscription details are kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them;
• comments and comment metadata may be kept indefinitely unless removed, so that discussions remain coherent and spam can be managed;
• order and transaction records may be kept for as long as necessary for customer service, accounting, tax, legal or business record purposes;
• security logs may be kept for a limited period to protect the website;
• contributor, brand, advertising or commercial records may be kept for as long as necessary for editorial, contractual, tax, legal or business purposes;
• editorial correspondence and permissions may be kept where necessary to evidence consent, publication rights, agreed usage or contributor arrangements;
• anonymised analytics data may be retained for longer because it does not identify individual readers.

13. Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:

• ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
• ask us to correct inaccurate information;
• ask us to delete your information;
• ask us to restrict how we use your information;
• object to certain uses of your information;
• withdraw consent where we rely on consent;
• ask for your information in a portable format, where applicable;
• complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

The right to object is especially relevant where we rely on legitimate interests.

To exercise your rights, please contact us through the Contact page on this website.

14. Security

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information and keep the website secure.

However, no website, email system, payment system or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should take care when sending sensitive information online.

15. Children

This website is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can review and remove it where appropriate.

16. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the website, magazine, ecommerce arrangements, advertising relationships, affiliate partnerships, legal requirements or business operations.

The latest version will always be published on this page with the updated date shown above.

17. Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle personal information, please contact us via privacy@rivieraready.com