What I keep, and why

The site itself keeps nothing about you: no accounts, no tracking cookies, no analytics.

If you subscribe to the daily email, I keep your address, your time zone, the hour and edition you chose, whether you asked to hold Shabbat and Yom Tov issues, the version of the sign-up text you agreed to, and the dates you confirmed and, if you leave, unsubscribed. If you arrived through a link I paid for, the sign-up form also carries the name of that campaign (a word like search-2026-09), so I can tell which ones brought readers; it names the ad, not you. I also keep a log of which issue went to which subscriber for sixty days, so the same issue is never sent twice. Nothing else: no opens, no clicks, no tracking pixel. I never store your IP address; the sign-up form uses it for ten minutes to limit repeat attempts and to run the bot check, keyed by a one-way hash, and then it is gone.

Two companies touch it: the email provider that carries the mail (Resend, in the United States), and Cloudflare, which hosts the site and its database, also in the United States.

When you unsubscribe, I delete your address and time zone right away. If an address bounces, or a reader reports an issue as spam, I keep a one-way hash of the address so it is never added again by mistake.

You can stop at any time from the link at the bottom of every issue, change your settings from the same place, or write to me to see or erase whatever I hold. The legal basis for all of this is your consent, which you gave by confirming your address.

Questions: joe@group17a.com.