THE STEWARD'S POST

Last updated October 14, 2026.

The short version

We collect the minimum needed to run your account and build your edition: your email, the brief you write, the city you pick, the language you'd like and your address if you join the waitlist. Nothing is sold. We don't follow you around the web or build a profile of you, and nothing here is chosen by ad targeting. Any sponsor you see is picked by the city you told us. Nothing from third parties: no ad trackers, no ad cookies and no pixels.

What we collect, and why

Your email address. Used to sign you in, with a link and a code we email you. No password exists, so none can leak. That's its only use.

Your email address, if you join the waitlist. Joining stores the address you typed, the language you were reading in and the date, so we can tell you when The Steward's Post opens to readers. It is not an account. It is never sold or shared. The removal link in every email deletes your address rather than hiding it; you can also ask us at hello@thestewardspost.com. The confirmation email is delivered by Resend, and no one else receives your address.

Your brief. The paragraph you write describing what you want to read. Used to choose what appears in your daily edition. Nothing else. If our automated check flags a brief, we may review it. When you save your brief, we also note which of nine general interest areas it mentions, such as housing or college sports. They're stored with your brief, included in your data download, and deleted with it.

Your home town. The Texas city or county you pick from a list. Used to weigh local news toward where you actually live, because a brief rarely says. Also the only thing that decides which sponsor you see. It is counted, in totals, so we can tell sponsors how many readers each city has. Your name and email are never part of that count. We don't detect it, look it up or infer it. You choose it, and you can change it.

Weather ZIP code. If you add one on your account page, it's used for your forecast at the end of your edition and for any National Weather Service warnings at the top of it, and for nothing else. Not for stories, events, sponsors or counts. We ask the National Weather Service for that area's forecast and warnings, and it isn't told who asked. It's in your data download and is deleted with your account.

Your language preference. Which language you've asked the Post to write in, used to render our own words in it: the site itself, and the note under each story explaining why it's in your edition. Never the journalism: headlines and excerpts appear exactly as the newsroom wrote them, in the language they published them in.

Cookies. A few cookies make the site work: signing in, the language you chose and whether you asked for light or dark. No third-party cookies and no ad cookies.

Errors, when a page breaks. If a page breaks, your browser sends us the error, the page address (minus anything after the question mark), your browser type, the page's language and our site version. Never who you are or what you read. Anything that looks like an email, a token or an ID is stripped first, and it comes to us, not an error-tracking company.

We count how many times each newsroom's stories and each sponsor's link get clicked, in daily totals. We never record who clicked. A newsroom's totals are shared only with that newsroom, and a sponsor's only with that sponsor.

Service providers

To run the site we use a few service providers: hosting (Vercel), our database and sign-in (Supabase), email delivery (Resend), the inbox your messages to us arrive in (Google), encrypted nightly backups of our database, kept 30 days (GitHub) and an AI model from Anthropic, the company that makes Claude. That model reads your brief when you save it and again for each edition. To pick your stories it also sees your feedback, your home town, your language, and each story's headline and feed summary. It never writes or rewrites a story. Anthropic doesn't train on what we send and deletes it within 30 days, unless its own rules require keeping it longer. They handle your data only to provide those services. If you use Write it for me on the Brief page, the model also reads your three answers to write a draft. We don't keep your answers or the draft. Only what you save is kept.

What we don't do

• We don't sell or share your data with advertisers, data brokers or anyone else.
• Your edition is shaped by your brief, your home town and your feedback. There's no engagement algorithm.

We note the date you last opened your edition, and which stories we've already shown you, so we know which readers are active and never show you the same story twice.

Your rights over your data

• Download. One file, from your Account page: your email, your brief and the interest areas noted from it, your home town, your language, your feedback, the date you last opened your edition and the stories in every edition.
• Export your brief any time, as a plain text file, from the Account page.
• Delete your brief any time, with a confirmation step. You'll return to a generic, non-personalized edition, not a broken one.
• Delete your account. There's a button on your Account page. It asks once, then deletes your account and the data above. You can still email privacy@thestewardspost.com if you'd rather we did it.

Children

The Steward's Post isn't directed at children, and we don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.

Changes to this policy

If this changes, we'll say so on this page, dated, in plain language. Not buried in a version nobody reads.

Questions

Questions about this policy or your data? Email privacy@thestewardspost.com.