Legal · Privacy
The reader side of the Firehose is anonymous by default. If you are reading this page, we do not know who you are. The only personal information we ever store is an email address, and only if you choose to subscribe.
[PLACEHOLDER] Demo copy. This privacy policy is the product rule, not legal advice, and will be reviewed by counsel before launch.
The Firehose uses no third-party trackers or analytics on the reader site. No Google Analytics. No Meta pixel. No ad tags. No session replay. No fingerprinting. Operational measurement is first-party and server-side.
If you subscribe to the dispatch, your email is the only reader data we hold. It is encrypted at rest, used only to deliver the weekly dispatch, and never shared with any third party, campaign, party, or political committee.
Unsubscribe is one click in every dispatch. Hard delete happens 30 days after unsubscribe. Not soft-flagged, not retained for analytics. Deleted.
Like every web server on the internet, ours produces access logs. They contain IP address, user agent, and request path, are kept for 30 days for security and operational reasons, then deleted. They are not joined to subscriber data.
If you write to press@civictide.org, that email and its contents are retained in our editorial inbox under standard records-retention practice. If you do not want a record kept, do not send the email.
Questions about privacy: press@civictide.org.
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