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How Next Matsuri collects, uses, stores, and protects your personal data.
Last updated: 2 August 2026
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Next Matsuri ("Next Matsuri", "we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect personal data when you visit nextmatsuri.com (the "Website"), subscribe to our newsletter, contact us, report an error, submit a festival, or otherwise interact with us.
The data controller responsible for your personal data is:
[Full legal name / business name]
Trading as: Next Matsuri
Address: [Business address]
Email: [privacy@nextmatsuri.com]
Website: nextmatsuri.com
If you have a question about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at [privacy@nextmatsuri.com].
We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer at this time. If this changes, we will update this Privacy Policy.
The personal data we collect depends on how you use Next Matsuri.
When you visit the Website, our hosting and security providers may automatically process limited technical data, such as:
This information is used to deliver the Website securely, prevent abuse, diagnose technical issues, and maintain our services.
If you subscribe to the Next Matsuri newsletter, we may collect:
We may use a double opt-in process. This means that, after signing up, you may receive an email asking you to confirm your subscription before we add you to our mailing list.
If you contact us through a form or by email, we may collect:
Please do not send sensitive personal data unless it is genuinely necessary.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), we need a legal basis to use personal data.
| Purpose | Data used | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Operate, secure, and maintain the Website | Technical and server-log data | Our legitimate interests in operating a secure, functional website |
| Respond to messages, error reports, festival submissions, and partnership enquiries | Name, email address, message, supporting information | Our legitimate interests in responding to enquiries and keeping festival information accurate, or taking steps at your request before entering an arrangement |
| Send the newsletter | Email address, language preference, subscription record | Your consent |
| Keep a record of newsletter consent or unsubscribe requests | Email address, consent record, unsubscribe record | Legal obligation and our legitimate interests in demonstrating compliance and respecting your preferences |
| Protect the Website from fraud, misuse, and security incidents | Technical data and logs | Our legitimate interests in protecting Next Matsuri, users, and services |
| Comply with legal obligations or resolve disputes | Relevant data depending on the request | Legal obligation and our legitimate interests in establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims |
You may withdraw newsletter consent at any time. See Section 8 below.
Our newsletter shares monthly festival information, confirmed dates, planning advice, and selected Next Matsuri updates.
We will only send you the newsletter if you actively subscribe. Newsletter consent is optional and is not required to browse the Website or use the festival guide.
Every marketing email will include a clear unsubscribe link. You can also contact us at [privacy@nextmatsuri.com] to withdraw your consent.
If you unsubscribe, we will stop sending you marketing emails. We may retain a limited record of your email address on a suppression list so that we can respect your unsubscribe request and avoid contacting you again by mistake.
At the date of this Privacy Policy, Next Matsuri does not intentionally use non-essential advertising, analytics, or tracking cookies.
We may use strictly necessary technical technologies where required to provide the Website securely and correctly. These do not require consent where they are genuinely necessary for the operation of the service.
We may introduce analytics tools, advertising technologies, and Google AdSense in the future. These services may use cookies or similar technologies to measure audiences, display advertising, limit repeat ads, prevent fraud, and, in some cases, personalise advertising.
Before placing non-essential cookies or similar trackers on your device, we will:
When these services are introduced, this Privacy Policy and our Cookie Policy will be updated.
We do not sell your personal data.
We may share data only where necessary with trusted service providers acting on our instructions, such as:
If we use Google AdSense, Google Analytics, or similar providers in the future, we will identify them in our Cookie Policy and/or this Privacy Policy, as appropriate.
Service providers may process personal data only for the purposes described above and subject to appropriate contractual and security safeguards.
Some of our service providers may process personal data outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"), including in countries that may not provide the same level of data protection as your country.
Where this happens, we will take steps required by applicable law to protect your data. Depending on the provider and destination, these safeguards may include:
You may contact us at [privacy@nextmatsuri.com] for further information about international transfers relevant to your data.
If the GDPR applies to you, you may have the right to:
To exercise these rights, contact us at [privacy@nextmatsuri.com]. We may need to verify your identity before responding.
If you are located in France, you can lodge a complaint with the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL): www.cnil.fr.
You can also contact the data-protection authority in your country of residence, work, or the place where you believe a breach occurred.
We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, unless a longer period is required by law or needed to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
As a general guide:
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure, or access.
However, no website, transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure. Please use caution when sharing information online.
Next Matsuri is a general-audience website and is not intended to knowingly collect personal data from children.
If you believe that a child has provided us with personal data without appropriate consent, please contact us at [privacy@nextmatsuri.com] so that we can take appropriate action.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including when we introduce new features, a newsletter provider, analytics, advertising services, or legal changes.
We will publish the updated version on this page and change the "Last updated" date above. Where required by law, we will provide additional notice or request consent again.
For privacy-related questions or requests, contact:
[Full legal name / business name], Next Matsuri
Email: [privacy@nextmatsuri.com]
Address: [Business address]