The privacy letter.
We collect the smallest amount of data we can to do our job. We don't sell any of it. You can remove yourself from our systems with one email.
The short version
- One first-party cookie — to remember your reading preferences and your cookie-consent choice. No third-party ad trackers.
- Anonymized page-view counts via Vercel Analytics — no IPs stored, no fingerprinting.
- Email only if you give it — when you subscribe to The Briefing, submit a founder pitch, or contact the desk.
- Never sold, never rented, never traded.
- One-click removal — email info@theentrepreneurstory.com and we delete everything we have on you within 30 days.
What we collect
Reading
When you read a page, our servers log the URL, the timestamp, the country your request came from (derived from CDN headers, not stored past 90 days), and the user-agent string. We do not store IP addresses past the rolling 24 hours used for spam control.
Subscribing
When you subscribe to The Briefing, we store your email address, the time you subscribed, the page that referred you, and your stated role if you supplied one. We use this only to send the newsletter and to measure aggregate open / click rates.
Submissions
When you pitch a founder via /founders/submit, we store the submitted information for editorial review. If we don't cover the founder within 12 months, the submission is purged.
Payments
We use Stripe for all paid transactions (paid founder features, print issue orders, ad slot purchases). We never see or store your card details. Stripe's privacy notice governs that data.
What we don't do
- We don't sell, rent, or trade your data.
- We don't use third-party advertising cookies (no Google Ads, Facebook Pixel, etc.).
- We don't profile you across other sites. Every analytic event on this site stays on this site.
- We don't use dark patterns to make removal hard. One email, done.
Your rights (GDPR · CCPA · similar)
Regardless of where you live, you can ask us to:
- Show you everything we have on you. We will send a JSON export within 30 days.
- Correct anything that's wrong.
- Delete it all. One email, gone in 30 days.
- Take it elsewhere (data portability).
Contact
For anything privacy-related, email info@theentrepreneurstory.com. For everything else, the desk is at info@theentrepreneurstory.com.
We'll update this page when we change anything material; the “Last updated” line at the top will reflect that.