Privacy Policy

• Newsletter and book updates.When you sign up, we keep your email address, your first and last name if you give them, and which signup form you used. The book page's list works the same way and also marks you as wanting book news. Every email has an unsubscribe link.
• Messages. The contact page and the message button keep your name, email, the reason you picked and your message, and send a copy to my inbox so I can reply.
• Media kit requests.The partner page keeps your name, email, company, what you're interested in and any notes, sends them to me, and emails you the media kit.
• Comments.To comment on a post or an episode you make an account with your email and a password. The password is handled by our database provider's sign-in system, and we never see it. We keep your comment, the name you show and your email. Comments are reviewed before they appear.
• Notifications. If you turn on notifications, we keep the delivery address your browser gives us for them and your browser type. You can turn them off at any time in your browser settings.

• Our own site analytics.Your browser gets a random visit ID. With it we record the pages you view, where you click, how far you scroll, how long you stay, the page that sent you here, your screen size and device type, and an approximate location (city, region and country, with map points rounded to about 7 miles). This isn't tied to your name or email. It tells us what helps people and what's broken, and it drives the reader map on the home page.
• Episode search.What you type in the episode search box is saved, with some words removed, along with how many results it found. It helps us make search better and isn't linked to you.
• Google Analytics.Google measures visits to this site using cookies. Google's own privacy policy covers what it does with that data.
• Meta Pixel.Meta (Facebook and Instagram) records visits to this site so we can see which posts and ads bring people here. This shares your visit with Meta, under Meta's privacy policy.
• Metricool. A social media analytics tool that counts visits to the site.
• Vercel Speed Insights. Our hosting provider measures how fast pages load for real visitors.
• Embedded players. YouTube videos and podcast players come from those companies, and they can set their own cookies once they load.

Your browser also stores a few small settings for this site, like light or dark mode, whether you closed a pop-up, and the app-style layout on phones. Those stay on your device.

The advocacy tools at /takeaction ask for your address to find your lawmakers. Your address is used once to find your districts and is not stored. It goes to the U.S. Census geocoder to match it to a district. The fields that fill in your letter and call script, like your name and city, stay in your browser and are never sent to us.

We use a few companies to run things. They handle your information only to do that job:

• Supabase stores the database (signups, messages, comments, analytics).
• Resend sends our emails, including the newsletter.
• Vercel hosts the site.
• Google, Meta and Metricool provide the analytics described above.

We don't sell your personal information. We'd only share it beyond this list if the law required it.

• Unsubscribe from any email with the link at the bottom of it.
• Ask to see, correct or delete what we have about you through the contact page.
• Block or clear cookies in your browser, or use a content blocker. The site still works.

This site is written for parents and other adults. It isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information. If you think a child has signed up, tell us and we'll remove it.

If what we collect changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top will say when.