Privacy notice — Japan Matcha Desk

Who we are: STOKE LLC, Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan, publisher of Japan Matcha Desk. Contact: [email protected].
What we collect: First name, work email and company; if you give them, your role and country; your answer to the sourcing-stage question; and whether you opened our emails.
Why: To send the checklist you requested and, only if you ticked the box and confirmed your address, two follow-up notes (your consent). Your sourcing-stage answer helps us decide what to cover. If we contact you by business email because your company sources matcha in Europe, we rely on our legitimate interest in offering relevant business information; every such email lets you opt out.
How long: Until you unsubscribe, or 24 months after your last interaction with us, whichever comes first.
Who sees it: Only us and the service providers that process data on our behalf (Cloudflare, which hosts this website and handles our incoming email, and Google Workspace, our email provider). We don't sell or share your details, and we never pass them to suppliers.
Transfers: Your data is processed in Japan, which the European Commission and the United Kingdom recognise as providing an adequate level of data protection.
Your rights: You can ask for access, correction or deletion, object to processing, and withdraw consent at any time by emailing [email protected]. You can also complain to your national data protection authority.
Fonts and this website: The typefaces on this site are served from our own domain, so loading a page does not send your address to a font provider.