Privacy Policy for The Tech Stack Founder Newsletter
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Welcome to The Tech Stack Founder Newsletter! This Privacy Policy explains how The Tech Stack Founder Newsletter ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and discloses information about you when you subscribe to our newsletter, visit our website, or interact with our content. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in an open and transparent manner.
1. Who We Are
The Tech Stack Founder Newsletter provides insights, articles, and updates related to technology, entrepreneurship, and founder journeys. Our primary service is the delivery of a digital newsletter to our subscribers.
2. Data Collection
We collect various types of information for different purposes to provide and improve our service to you.
2.1 Information You Provide to Us
- Contact Information: When you subscribe to our newsletter, you typically provide your email address. You may also choose to provide your name for personalization purposes.
- Communications: If you contact us directly (e.g., by replying to a newsletter, sending an email), we may receive additional information about you, such as your name, email address, phone number, and the contents of your message.
2.2 Information We Collect Automatically
When you access our website or open our newsletter, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage patterns. This may include:
- Log Data: Your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, time spent on pages, and dates/times of access.
- Usage Data: Information about how you interact with our newsletter (e.g., open rates, click-through rates on links) and our website.
3. How We Use Your Data
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To send you The Tech Stack Founder Newsletter and other related communications.
- To personalize your experience with our newsletter and content.
- To operate, maintain, and improve our website and services.
- To understand and analyze how you use our services and content.
- To develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
- To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the newsletter, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
- To find and prevent fraud.
- To comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms and conditions.
4. Legal Basis for Processing (for EEA/UK Users)
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK, our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it:
- Consent: For sending you our newsletter and direct marketing communications. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
- Legitimate Interests: For operating and improving our website and services, understanding user engagement, and detecting fraud, provided these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.
- Compliance with a Legal Obligation: When required by law.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information.
- Cookies: Small data files placed on your device. We use both session and persistent cookies to enable certain functions of the service, to provide analytics, and to store your preferences.
- Web Beacons/Pixels: Electronic files used to record information about how you browse our website or open emails, often used in conjunction with cookies to track activity and personalize content.
We use these technologies to:
- Remember your preferences.
- Analyze website traffic and user behavior.
- Deliver relevant advertisements.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.
- our advertising partners: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our website. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our website and other sites on the Internet.
- Opt-out: Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy.
- Third-Party Links: Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
7. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell your personal data to third parties. We may share your information with:
- Service Providers: Third-party vendors and service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as email marketing platforms (e.g., Mailchimp, Substack), website hosting, analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics), and customer support. These providers are obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes we specify.
- Legal Requirements: If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
- Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
8. Data Retention
We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
9. Data Security
We have implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our website is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.
10. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
- Right to Complain: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe your rights have been violated.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the email address provided in the "Contact Us" section below. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe, and in accordance with applicable law.
For California Residents (CCPA): If you are a California resident, you have specific rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including the right to know what personal information is collected, used, shared or sold, the right to delete personal information, and the right to opt-out of the sale of personal information. Please note that The Tech Stack Founder Newsletter does not "sell" personal information as defined under CCPA.
11. International Data Transfers
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside [e.g., United States] and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to [e.g., United States] and process it there. We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place for such transfers, such as Standard Contractual Clauses, where applicable.
12. Children's Privacy
Our service is not intended for anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
14. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data, or would like to exercise any of your data protection rights, please contact us by email at: