Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes how thrivinghenry.com ("we," "us," "our," or, more accurately, "Henry, sitting at a desk") collects, uses, and discloses information about visitors ("you," "User," or "the person who actually scrolled this far") when you access or use the website located at thrivinghenry.com (the "Site"). By using the Site, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Policy. We acknowledge, in turn, that almost no one ever does.

2. Information We Collect

We collect the following categories of information:

• Information you give us voluntarily: Your email address, if you subscribe to the newsletter. That's it. We don't have a form for your mother's maiden name and we wouldn't know what to do with it if we did.
• Information collected automatically: Aggregate, anonymized page-view data via our analytics provider (see Section 4). No IP addresses are stored, no cookies are dropped, no fingerprints are taken. We sometimes wish we knew who you were, but mostly because we're curious, not because we want to sell you something.
• Information you submit through future interactive features: Comments, votes, and other engagement data, if and when those features are enabled. As of the date above, they are politely waiting backstage.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To send you the newsletter you actually signed up for.
• To understand which articles people read all the way to the end (a genuinely small number).
• To improve the Site over time.
• To comply with applicable laws, respond to lawful requests, and otherwise act like grown-ups.

4. Cookies and Analytics

The Site uses Umami for analytics. Umami is a privacy-first analytics platform that does not use cookies, does not track you across sites, and does not collect personal information. We see things like "someone in Toronto read the master plan for 4 minutes." We do not see who you are, what else you're doing on the internet, or what you had for lunch (though we'd be curious about the last one).

The Site itself sets a small number of strictly necessary cookies for functions like authentication and session management - and only when you actively use those features. We do not use advertising cookies, marketing pixels, or any of the surveillance-economy machinery that has made the modern internet exhausting.

5. Third-Party Services

We use a small number of third-party service providers to operate the Site:

• Resend - newsletter delivery. They receive your email address when you subscribe. They have a perfectly reasonable privacy policy of their own.
• Supabase - database hosting for any account-based features.
• Vercel - website hosting and content delivery.
• Umami - privacy-first analytics, as described above.

We do not share your information with any other third parties for marketing, advertising, or data-broker purposes. We do not sell your personal information. We have considered selling it and concluded that (a) it would be wrong, and (b) no one is offering.

6. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. If you unsubscribe from the newsletter, your email is removed from active mailing lists in accordance with our provider's standard timelines. If you request deletion of your data (see Section 8), we will delete it, generally within thirty (30) days, and occasionally faster if we happen to be at the laptop.

7. Children's Privacy

The Site is not directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. The author's son has on at least one occasion crawled across the keyboard during the preparation of this Site; no personal information was collected during these incidents, though one paragraph was significantly improved.

8. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to access, correct, delete, or port your data, and to object to or restrict certain processing. To exercise any of these rights, please email us at the address in Section 11. We will respond within thirty (30) days. We will probably respond sooner, because the inbox is not large.

9. Security

We use commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the personal information in our possession from loss, theft, and unauthorized access. No method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. We do, at minimum, promise not to email anything sensitive to ourselves and then leave it open in a coffee shop.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, applicable law, or the gentle suggestions of people who know more about this than we do. When we make a material change, we will revise the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, provide additional notice. Continued use of the Site after such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Policy. If you have read this far, we sincerely hope you have a wonderful day.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Policy or our privacy practices, please use the connect page. A real human (Henry) will read your message.