Privacy Policy

1. Information we collect

• Name: used to personalize reader communication.
• Email address: used to enroll consenting guide readers in the MRS email list and send the welcome sequence, relationship prompts, book updates, offers, and requested reader communications.
• Relationship stage: used to understand reader needs and improve future emails and resources.
• Relationship Check result: if you choose to email a result after completing the 21-prompt MRS Relationship Check, we collect only the high-level primary focus, supporting focus, and result mode shown to you. We do not store your individual answer selections through the website form.
• Questions submitted: used to answer reader questions and create future educational content.
• Competition entry: if an MRS promotional competition is legally approved and open, we may collect a first name, email address, South African province, age-and-residency confirmation, rules acceptance, optional email-marketing choice, campaign parameters, and security signals needed to prevent duplicate or automated entries. We do not ask for a phone number, identity number, relationship story, or purchase receipt at entry.
• Optional website analytics: after you accept analytics, this site records high-level page views, selected button clicks, guide activity, and campaign parameters. It does not send form answers, names, or email addresses to analytics.

2. How we use information

• To send the free MRS conversation guide.
• To send newsletters, relationship prompts, book updates, and offers connected to Money Relationship Sex (MRS).
• To improve the website, emails, lead magnets, and future products.
• To understand which traffic sources, platforms, and campaigns are performing.
• To respond to reader questions and contact requests.
• To administer an approved competition, prevent duplicate or abusive entries, contact and verify potential winners, pay prizes, and keep required competition records.

3. Email marketing

The free-guide form uses an unchecked, required consent box. If you check it and submit the form, the site securely sends your name, email address, relationship stage, consent date, consent-version record, and, when you request it, your high-level Relationship Check result to Brevo, adds you to the MRS subscriber list, and starts the MRS welcome sequence. The 21 individual response choices remain in your browser. The PDF remains available immediately on the next page even if email enrollment is delayed or unavailable.

Brevo processes this information for email delivery and list management on our behalf. Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe option. The general contact form adds you to the MRS marketing list only when you check its separate email-consent box. Selecting “News, updates or special offers” also requires that box. Reader questions and other contact messages do not create a marketing subscription without this consent.

4. Promotional competitions

Competition entry is separate from email-marketing consent. An eligible person can enter without buying the book, sharing a post, leaving a review, referring another person, or joining the marketing list. If you select the separate optional marketing box, the site may also add you to the MRS Brevo list; you may later unsubscribe without affecting the entry.

The campaign system is designed to store email addresses and first names in encrypted form in a Cloudflare D1 database. Keyed hashes are used to detect duplicate email addresses and unusual entry volume without placing plain email addresses or network addresses in the competition table. Cloudflare Turnstile is used for human verification and processes technical signals under Cloudflare's privacy terms. Access to competition records is limited to people who need them for administration, security, legal oversight, winner verification, or prize payment.

Only selected potential winners will be asked, through a secure follow-up, for the lawful identity, residency, banking, tax, or acknowledgement information needed to verify eligibility and deliver a prize. Never send identity or banking information in response to an unexpected social-media message. Official MRS winner contact will come from [email protected], and MRS will never charge a fee to release a prize.

5. Third-party links and retailers

This website links to third-party platforms including Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Everand, Books2Read, OverDrive, and other regional retailers. Once you click through to a third-party store, that platform controls checkout, privacy, pricing, refunds, account login, and reading access.

6. Cookies, pixels, and analytics

With your permission, MRS uses first-party analytics hosted with Cloudflare and Google Analytics 4 delivered through Cloudflare Zaraz. Google receives analytics events and browser identifiers to measure visits, resource downloads, and retailer clicks. Analytics may record event names, page paths, button locations, retailer labels, campaign parameters, and Relationship Check starts, completions, and high-level result views, but never individual answer selections. We do not send names, email addresses, contact details, or form answers in analytics events. Page location and referrer fields exclude query strings and fragments. Originating visitor IP addresses are hidden from Google Analytics, and Google advertising audiences are disabled. We do not sell personal data.

Analytics stays off unless you choose “Accept analytics” in the site notice. A previous choice for first-party analytics alone does not authorize Google Analytics; we ask again when adding it. You can change that choice at any time with the “Analytics choices” link in the site footer. Your consent choice is stored in your browser so the site can remember it, and consented Google Analytics uses browser cookies or identifiers. Choosing “Keep analytics off” stops subsequent analytics events; it does not erase events already collected. Learn more in Google's Privacy Policy.

7. Data retention

Email subscribers remain on the list until they unsubscribe or request deletion. Reader questions and contact messages may be retained for reasonable business, support, and content-planning purposes.

For an approved competition, non-winner contact fields are intended to be deleted or irreversibly anonymized within 90 days after all prizes are delivered and disputes are reasonably resolved, unless a longer period is required by law. Final rules, draw certification, winner verification, prize acknowledgements, and other legally required audit records may be kept for at least three years after the competition ends. A deletion request may be limited where retention is necessary to comply with law, prevent repeat or fraudulent entries, establish a legal claim, or preserve an independently overseen draw record.

8. Your choices

• You can withhold marketing consent by leaving the free-guide checkbox unchecked.
• You can withdraw consent and unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the link in any marketing email.
• You can request correction or deletion of your submitted information.
• You can choose not to submit the forms and still use the public parts of the website.
• You can enter an approved competition without consenting to marketing. Withdrawing marketing consent does not remove or reduce a valid competition entry.

9. Children

This site is intended for adults and mature readers interested in relationships, money, and intimacy. It is not directed to children.

10. Contact

Privacy questions can be sent to [email protected].