THE STEWARD'S POST
The short version
We collect the minimum needed to run your account and build your edition: your email, the brief you write, and the language you'd like us to write in, plus your address if you asked us to tell you when we open. Nothing is sold. Nothing is used for ad targeting — any advertising on the Post is general and non-personalized, never built from your reading history or anything else we know about you. No third-party trackers or analytics scripts run on this site.
What we collect, and why
Your email address. Used to sign you in via a magic link — no password exists, so none can leak. That's its only use.
Your email address, if you join the waitlist. Separate from the address above, and separate from having an account. 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. That is the only thing the list is for. It is not an account and it grants no access: being on it doesn't sign you in, and it is never checked when you do sign in. We send a confirmation email to check the address is really yours, and nothing is added to the list until you click the link in it. Every email carries a one-click removal link, which deletes your address rather than marking it hidden; you can also ask us at hello@thestewardspost.com. The list is never sold or shared. It is stored in our database and the confirmation email is delivered by Resend; no one else receives it.
Your brief. The paragraph you write describing what you want to read. Used to choose what appears in your daily edition. Nothing else.
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 used to translate the journalism: headlines and excerpts appear exactly as the newsroom wrote them, in the language they published them in. It's a display setting, not a signal about you — nothing else reads it.
A session cookie. Keeps you signed in between visits. It's not used to track you across other sites, because we don't have a relationship with other sites — it only knows you're you, here. Our sign-in provider may split it across more than one cookie; that's a technical detail, not extra information about you.
A language cookie. Remembers which language you chose to read in. If you haven't chosen, we read the language setting your browser already sends with every request, use it once to pick a starting language, and say so on the page — changing it takes one click. A second cookie exists for about thirty seconds to show that one-time notice, then expires on its own.
An appearance cookie. Remembers whether you asked for the light theme, the dark one, or whichever your device is already set to. One word, kept in your browser rather than on your account — so the right one is chosen before the page draws, and so it survives signing out. A display setting, like the language one: nothing else reads it, and it says nothing about you.
That's the complete list, as of today. We don't collect your location, your device's advertising ID, your browsing history outside this site, or any behavioral signal beyond what's described above.
What we don't do
- We don't run third-party analytics, ad trackers, or pixels of any kind.
- We don't build a profile of your interests beyond the brief you wrote yourself, in your own words, that you can read at any time.
- We don't sell or share your data with advertisers, data brokers, or anyone else.
- We don't use your reading activity to manipulate what you see — there's no engagement algorithm here to feed.
Reading data, honestly
Eventually, when we begin paying newsrooms based on completed reads, we'll measure whether you finished an article — scroll depth and active time on the page, scaled to the article's length. That's the full extent of what that feature will ever measure: did you finish it, yes or no. Not what you clicked, not how long you hovered, not anything else. This isn't built yet. When it is, this page will say so plainly, and the measurement will stay exactly this narrow.
Your rights over your data
- Export your brief any time, as a plain text file, from the Brief 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. Email us at privacy@thestewardspost.com and we'll delete your account and all associated data within 30 days.
Cookies
Cookies for three things: signing you in, remembering your language, and remembering whether you read us light or dark. No third-party cookies, no ad cookies, no cross-site tracking cookies.
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 us at privacy@thestewardspost.com.