Privacy Policy

The short version

• Southern East Inc., a Canadian company in Ontario, runs Amazing Newsletters.
• We use your information to run and improve Amazing Newsletters, keep it secure, and talk with you.
• We don't sell your personal information. We don't share it for targeted advertising.
• We may publish or share statistics that don't identify anyone. That section takes effect on December 1, 2026.
• We'll ask you first before we give a partner anything that identifies you for the partner's own use, including training AI.
• If we change how we use your information, we'll tell you at least 30 days ahead. We won't apply a new use to information we already have unless you say yes.
• Your choices: Your Privacy Choices. Questions: Rishit Patel, support@amazingnewsletters.com.

Who we are

Amazing Newsletters is run by Southern East Inc., a company based in Ontario, Canada, at 222 Main St E, North Bay, ON P1B 1B1, Canada ("we", "us"). We decide how and why your personal information is used, so we are responsible for it. Some laws call this the "controller".

Privacy Officer

Rishit Patel is responsible for how Southern East Inc. protects personal information. For people in Quebec, this is also our person in charge of the protection of personal information. Contact: support@amazingnewsletters.com, or by mail at the address above.

What this policy covers

This policy covers the Amazing Newsletters website. That includes accounts, newsletter listings, reviews, and saved newsletters. It does not cover a newsletter or other site you open from a link. Those sites have their own policies.

What we collect

We collect only what the site actually uses.

• Account. If you sign in with Google, GitHub, or LinkedIn, we store your name, email address, profile picture, and a username.
• Listing. If you submit a newsletter, we store the name, website, description, frequency, language, tags, subscriber range, price type, open rate, click rate, country, and any social links you add.
• Review. If you write a review, we store the rating and the text.
• Saves. If you save a newsletter, we store that choice with your account. Your profile page does not ask you to sign in. Anyone can open it and see your @username, the newsletters you saved, your published reviews, and the newsletters you submitted.
• Logs. Vercel, which hosts the site, may log your IP address, browser type, and the page you requested. We use that to run and secure the site.
• Visit counts. Plausible counts page views without a cookie and without tying a visit to your account.

We do not use Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, or advertising cookies. An older version of this policy said we did. That was wrong. We also do not ask for your phone number, street address, or payment card. If you pay for a featured listing, you pay on Stripe's website.

How we use it

• To create your account and keep you signed in.
• To review, publish, and show listings and reviews you submit.
• To show the newsletters you saved.
• To translate a listing description into French with Google Cloud Translation.
• To send our team a Discord alert when a listing is added.
• To count visits with Plausible, so we can see which pages are used and fix bugs.
• To keep the site secure and stop abuse.
• To answer you if you email support@amazingnewsletters.com.

We do not use your information for targeted advertising. We do not sell it.

Security

We use HTTPS, so information is encrypted in transit between your browser and this site. We use reasonable safeguards. No website can promise perfect security. If we confirm a breach that creates a real risk of serious harm, we will tell the people affected and any authority the law requires. Limits on liability are in the Terms of Service. They do not remove rights a law says we cannot remove.

Statistics and anonymized information

This section takes effect on December 1, 2026. Until then, the previous version still covers this topic. It does not apply to information we already hold unless you agree first.

What this is

Sometimes we turn information into statistics, or into other information that does not identify anyone. For example: "the most viewed newsletter category this month."

How we make it

We will remove names, contact details, account IDs, and other direct identifiers. We will combine information from many people. We commit not to publish or share any figure based on fewer than 10 people. Before release, we will check that no one can reasonably be identified from the result, on its own or combined with other information that is reasonably available. We will record what we did and repeat the check over time.

Our commitments

We keep this information in non-identifying form. We won't try to re-identify anyone, except to test that our methods work. We don't use it to make decisions about you or to target you with ads or offers.

How we use it

We use it to run, secure, and improve Amazing Newsletters, to publish research, reports, and benchmarks, and to share or license with the business and research partners described in Who we share information with. Anyone who receives it must agree in writing not to re-identify anyone, not to combine it with other data to do that, and not to pass it on without the same terms.

De-identified information is different

Some information we have is only de-identified. For example, we may replace your name with a code. That information can still be linked back to you, so we treat it as personal information. We use it only for our own internal research, analysis, and product development. We don't give it to partners unless you've agreed, under Programs you choose to join.

Who we share information with

Service providers

These companies help us run Amazing Newsletters. We rely on each provider's terms and data protection terms. Discord, and Google, GitHub, or LinkedIn when you sign in, may also use information under their own rules. Current list:

People and apps you choose

If you sign in with Google, GitHub, or LinkedIn, that company already holds the account you pick, and it sends us your name, email, and profile picture. If you publish a listing or a review, other visitors can see it. If you open a newsletter link, you leave our site, and that site's policy applies.

Business and research partners

This section takes effect on December 1, 2026. Until then, the previous version still covers this topic. It does not apply to information we already hold unless you agree first.

We may work with partners such as universities and research groups, analytics and market-research firms, and companies that build, test, or supply data for AI and machine-learning systems. By default, partners receive only the statistics and anonymized information described in Statistics and anonymized information.

• We will not give a partner information that identifies you for the partner's own use, including training its AI models, unless you have opted in under Programs you choose to join.
• Every partner signs a written agreement. It limits use to the stated purpose, bans re-identification and onward sale, requires security and deletion, and lets us check compliance.
• Before any sharing starts, we will list here the types of partners we actually work with and what they receive. As of October 2026, we don't share personal information with any business or research partner.

Legal and safety reasons

We may disclose information when the law requires it, in response to valid legal process, or to protect people, our rights, or Amazing Newsletters from fraud or abuse.

If the business changes hands, see If our business changes hands.

Programs you choose to join

This section takes effect on December 1, 2026. Until then, the previous version still covers this topic. It does not apply to information we already hold unless you agree first.

We may offer optional programs. For example, contributing a listing or a review to help build or test AI tools, or being introduced to a partner's research study. The partner may pay you directly for your work.

As of October 2026, we do not offer any optional partner program.

Off unless you turn it on

Before you join, we'll show you a separate screen that says who the partner is, exactly what we'll share, why, how long the partner keeps it, whether it leaves Canada, and whether you'll be paid. Saying no doesn't change how Amazing Newsletters works for you.

You can leave at any time at Your Privacy Choices or by emailing support@amazingnewsletters.com. We commit to stopping future sharing within 2 business days after you leave. We'll also ask the partner to delete what it received, as our agreement with it requires. If your information has already been used to train an AI model, the partner may not be able to remove it from that model. If that applies, we'll say so on the sign-up screen.

Partners' own terms

If you sign up with a partner directly, the partner's terms and privacy policy apply to what you give it. A partner can't send you marketing email because you agreed to something with us. It has to ask you itself.

Do we use personal information to train AI?

• We do not sell personal information to train AI models, including large language models.
• We do not use your personal information to train AI models.

This section takes effect on December 1, 2026. Until then, the previous version still covers this topic. It does not apply to information we already hold unless you agree first.

We do not let partners train AI models on information that identifies you unless you opt in under Programs you choose to join. If you do, we share only what you tell us to.

This site does not connect an AI assistant for you. We do not send your account to an AI product.

Anyone can see content you post publicly, without signing in. That includes a published listing and a published review. Your profile page shows your name, picture, and @username, the newsletters you saved, your published reviews, and the newsletters you submitted. On a newsletter page, a review shows the reviewer's name or username. Search engines and AI crawlers we don't control can see that public content too.

If our business changes hands

This section takes effect on December 1, 2026. Until then, the previous version still covers this topic. It does not apply to information we already hold unless you agree first.

If Southern East Inc., or Amazing Newsletters, is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or insolvency, personal information may be shared with the other parties and their advisers.

• Before a deal closes, we share only what's needed to evaluate it, de-identified where we can. We share it under a confidentiality agreement that limits use to the deal and requires return or deletion if the deal doesn't go ahead.
• After a deal closes, the new owner may use your information only as this policy describes. To make a material change, it must follow Changes to this policy: 30 days' notice, and your consent for new uses of information it already holds.
• We'll tell you within 30 days after a closing in which your information changes hands. We'll give you the new owner's name and contact details. You can delete your account before or after.
• A deal whose main purpose is selling personal information is not a "business transfer". The rest of this policy applies to it.

Your Privacy Choices

• Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, and opt out of targeted advertising and profiling. Use the switch on Your Privacy Choices. We don't sell or share personal information today. If that ever changes, this switch already works. When it is on, we also stop the Plausible visit counter on that browser.
• Global Privacy Control (GPC). If your browser sends a GPC signal, we treat it as an opt-out of sale, sharing, and targeted advertising for that browser only. It does not follow your account to another browser or device. When we have applied it, the choices page shows "Opt-Out Request Honored". GPC does not unsubscribe you from email. Use the unsubscribe link for that.
• Optional programs and consents. See and change each one on Your Privacy Choices. Withdrawing is as easy as agreeing. It stops future use. It doesn't undo what was lawfully done before. We have no optional program today.
• Marketing email. We do not run a marketing list from this site today. If we email you, every commercial email will have an unsubscribe link, or you can use the choices page. We process it within 10 business days.
• Cookies. We set essential cookies only. The sign-in session cookie keeps you signed in. During sign-in, Auth.js also sets short-lived essential cookies: a CSRF token, a callback URL, and OAuth state and PKCE values. A language cookie named NEXT_LOCALE remembers English or French. If you use the opt-out switch, we store that choice for 1 year in a cookie named an-sale-opt-out and in localStorage under an-sale-opt-out. If you hide the notice banner, we store that in localStorage under an-policy-notice-2026-10. The choices page may set a sessionStorage key named an-opt-out-reload so it does not reload in a loop. We do not save Global Privacy Control in a cookie. We read that signal on each visit. Plausible does not use a cookie. We do not set advertising cookies or other non-essential cookies. Because of that, we do not show a cookie banner. If we add a non-essential cookie later, it will stay off for people in the EEA or UK until they agree.
• Access, correct, delete, port, object, appeal. Email support@amazingnewsletters.com or use Your Privacy Choices. We reply within 30 days. We may need to confirm who you are. If we refuse, we'll explain why and how to appeal or complain.
• Someone acting for you. An authorized agent can make a request with your signed permission. We may still confirm your identity with you.
• No penalty. We won't charge you more, give you a worse service, or refuse service because you used these choices.
• We confirm every request by email or on screen. If you've opted out of sale or sharing, we won't ask you to opt back in for at least 12 months.

Notice for US residents

This section applies to residents of California and other US states with comprehensive privacy laws, including Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, and Oregon. It is our notice at collection. Last updated: October 2026.

Sale and sharing. In the past 12 months, we have not sold personal information and have not shared it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

Minors. We don't knowingly sell or share personal information of anyone under 18, and we don't target ads to them.

Sensitive information. We use sensitive personal information only for purposes the law allows without a "limit" right, such as providing the service and keeping it secure. We don't use it to infer things about you.

Deidentified information. We keep and use deidentified information only in deidentified form. We won't try to re-identify it, except as the law allows to test our methods. We require anyone who receives it to make the same commitments in writing.

AI training. See Do we use personal information to train AI?.

Your rights. You can ask to know and access, delete, correct, and get a portable copy of your personal information. You can opt out of sale, sharing, targeted advertising, and profiling that has legal or similarly significant effects. In some states you can also get a list of the specific third parties we have disclosed to. We won't treat you differently for using these rights.

How to use them. Email support@amazingnewsletters.com or use Your Privacy Choices. We reply within 45 days, and we may extend once by 45 days if we tell you why. We'll confirm your identity first. An authorized agent may act for you with your signed permission. If we refuse, reply "appeal" and we'll respond within the time your state's law allows. If you're still unhappy, you can contact your state Attorney General.

Financial incentives. We don't offer any.

Notice for people in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland

Your rights. You can access, correct, delete, restrict, and get a portable copy of your data. You can also object to processing based on legitimate interests, and you can always object to marketing. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time. We don't make decisions about you based solely on automated processing that have legal or similarly significant effects.

Transfers. We're based in Canada. The European Commission and the UK recognize Canada as providing adequate protection for organizations covered by PIPEDA. Some of our service providers are in other countries, such as the United States (Vercel, Google, GitHub, LinkedIn, Stripe, Discord, and Google Cloud Translation) and the European Union (Plausible). Supabase stores data on its cloud servers, which may be outside Canada. For providers outside Canada, we use the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (and its UK and Swiss extensions) or Standard Contractual Clauses (with the UK Addendum where needed), where those tools apply.

Representative. We have not appointed an EU or UK representative. You can contact support@amazingnewsletters.com first.

Complaints. You can complain to the data protection authority where you live or work. We'd like the chance to help first at support@amazingnewsletters.com.

Notice for people in Quebec

• Person in charge. Our person in charge of the protection of personal information is Rishit Patel (support@amazingnewsletters.com). A summary of our governance policies is available on request from the Privacy Officer.
• Purposes and consent. We collect only what we need for the purposes we tell you before or at collection. We ask for consent separately for each specific purpose, in clear and simple terms. We ask for express consent for sensitive information. We won't use your information for a new purpose without your consent, except where Quebec law allows it, such as a purpose consistent with the original one, or internal studies and statistics using de-identified information.
• Privacy by default. Our settings start at the most privacy-protective level. Optional sharing and programs are off until you turn them on.
• Identification, location, and profiling. We don't use technology that identifies you, locates you precisely, or builds an advertising profile of you. Plausible counts visits without a cookie and without a profile tied to your account.
• Anonymization. From December 1, 2026, we commit to anonymizing information only for serious and legitimate purposes, following Quebec's Regulation respecting the anonymization of personal information, and to recording each process in a register.
• Outside Quebec. Our service providers store or process information in the United States and the European Union, and Supabase stores it on its cloud servers, which may be outside Canada. Where the law requires it, we assess the privacy impact before information leaves Quebec. We rely on each provider's terms and data protection terms.
• Research. We disclose information without consent for study, research, or statistics only where Quebec law allows, after a privacy impact assessment and under a written agreement.
• Your rights. You can access and correct your information, withdraw consent, and get your information in a structured, commonly used technological format. You can ask us to stop disseminating or to de-index information. You can also get information about any decision made solely by automated processing. We commit to replying within 30 days.
• Complaints. You can complain to the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec.
• French. This policy is available in French at the French Privacy Policy.

Changes to this policy

Small changes

For typo fixes, clearer wording, changes that give you more protection, or a new service provider doing the same kind of job, we update this page and the "Last updated" date.

Material changes

Examples: a new type of partner; a new purpose for using personal information; sharing information that identifies you where we didn't before; starting to use your information to train AI; weakening any promise in this policy; storing your data in a new country we had not named.

• We'll tell you at least 30 days before the change takes effect. We'll email account holders and show a clear notice on Amazing Newsletters. The notice explains what's changing, why, and what your choices are.
• Information we already have. A material change applies only to information we collect after it takes effect. We'll use information we already hold in a materially new way only if you agree first, by an action such as ticking a box or tapping "Yes". Staying on Amazing Newsletters, or not replying, doesn't count as agreeing.
• If you don't agree, we'll keep handling your existing information under the earlier version. You can also close your account at any time.

Past versions. Every past version, with its dates, is linked from this page. The version before October 2026 is the previous Privacy Policy.

Legal requirements. If the law makes us change something faster, we'll give as much notice as we can.

Questions: support@amazingnewsletters.com.