What we collect
When you vote, we collect the coffee shop’s name, city and country, Instagram handle, your comment and the time the vote was submitted. Our hosting and security providers may also process routine technical information, such as an IP address, browser information and request logs, to deliver the site and prevent abuse.
Email community
If you subscribe, we collect your first name, last name, email address, consent record and subscription status so that PCCA and FLTR Magazine can send you newsletters. Subscription is optional and is not required to vote. Every newsletter includes an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribed addresses are excluded from future sends.
Why we use it
We use submitted information to count and verify votes, identify the correct coffee shop, calculate rankings, investigate suspicious activity, contact winning coffee shops and understand broad themes about why customers value them.
Comments
Comments are required to support vote quality. PCCA does not publish them verbatim or provide raw comments to coffee shops. We may create aggregate summaries or editorial insights that do not identify an individual voter. Please do not include your own name, contact details or another person’s private information in a comment.
Public results
We publish a ranked list of the leading coffee shops and name one winner each month. The number of places recognised may vary according to participation. We do not publish the number or percentage of votes received by any coffee shop.
Sharing
Information may be processed by service providers that host, secure or maintain the website and, if you subscribe, by the provider that delivers our newsletters. We do not sell voting or subscriber data. We may disclose information where required by law or where reasonably necessary to protect the integrity, rights or safety of PCCA, FLTR Magazine or others.
How long we keep it
Voting records are kept only for as long as reasonably needed to administer the awards, verify or correct results, resolve disputes and maintain an appropriate record of the competition. Subscriber details are kept while you remain subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we may retain your email address on a suppression list so that we can respect your choice. Other information may be deleted or converted into anonymous statistical information.
Website analytics
If you choose “Allow analytics”, PCCA uses first-party browser storage and a random identifier to understand visits, page views, engagement, traffic sources, device categories, broad location, voting-form performance, media-kit downloads and sponsor-link performance. Analytics does not store your name, email address or IP address, and is not used for advertising profiling. You can decline without affecting your ability to vote.
How long we keep analytics
Anonymous website analytics may be kept for up to 24 months so that we can compare competition periods and prepare aggregate reports for PCCA and its commercial partners. We may keep non-identifying totals for longer.
Your questions
To ask a privacy question or request that we review information you believe relates to you, contact hello@fltrmagazine.com. We may need enough information to locate the relevant record and confirm that a request is legitimate.
Last updated: 11 September 2026