Privacy Policy

DPC Insider asks for one thing when you subscribe: your email address. We keep a few other details with it. This page lists every one of them, says why we keep it and tells you how to unsubscribe or have it deleted.

How signing up works

When you sign up, we send you one email with a confirmation link. You aren't on the list until you open that link and press the button. The link works for 72 hours. If you never confirm, the sign-up is deleted after 7 days. If you sign up again before confirming, we send the email again, at most three times and at least 15 minutes apart.

The form runs a quick spam check (Cloudflare Turnstile) before anything is saved. It needs JavaScript, so the form doesn't work with JavaScript turned off.

What we store

• Your email address, in lowercase.
• When you signed up and when you confirmed.
• The IP address you signed up from and the one you confirmed from. Together with the two times, this is the record that you asked for the newsletter.
• The country our host, Cloudflare, matches to the IP address you signed up from.
• The page you signed up on, and which of the site's sign-up forms you used.
• Campaign tags in the link that brought you here, if it had any (the utm_ tags, such as utm_source=instagram).
• The name of the site that sent you to DPC Insider on that visit, such as google.com, and the page you first opened. We drop the rest of both addresses, including anything after a ?, so tracking codes other sites add to links are not kept.
• A flag, if the sign-up looked automated, so we can review it before sending.

That is the whole record. We don't keep your browser or device type, your city or any finer location, your network provider or a history of repeat sign-ups.

Why we keep it

We use your email address to send you the newsletter. The IP addresses and times show that you asked for it and confirmed it, and they help us find automated sign-ups. The country tells us which privacy laws apply to you. The page, form, campaign tags and referring site tell us where readers come from, so we know which stories and channels bring people to DPC Insider. We don't sell this information, and we don't use it for advertising.

If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom: we send the newsletter on the basis of your consent, which you give by confirming. We keep the sign-up record and run the spam check on the basis of our legitimate interest in proving that consent and keeping bots off the list.

Who handles it

• Cloudflare hosts this site and stores the sign-up list. Its Turnstile spam check looks at signals from your browser and connection, such as your IP address and browser type, to tell people from bots. See Cloudflare's Turnstile privacy addendum and privacy policy.
• Amazon Web Services (Amazon SES) sends the confirmation email, from [email protected]. Amazon handles your email address and the message to deliver it. See AWS's privacy notice.

Both companies may process this data in the United States. When the newsletter starts sending, the list will move to DPC Pro, the company that publishes DPC Insider, and this page will be updated before that happens.

How long we keep it

An unconfirmed sign-up is deleted after 7 days. A confirmed subscription is kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it.

Unsubscribing

Every email we send has an unsubscribe link, the confirmation email included. Open it and press the button. That deletes your whole record at once, and you don't need an account or a password.

For 73 hours after you unsubscribe, we keep one short note: a scrambled code made from your address (a one-way hash, which can't be turned back into the address) and the time you unsubscribed. It stops an old confirmation link from signing you back up. It deletes itself after those 73 hours.

Your rights

You can ask us to show you what we hold about you, correct it, delete it or stop using it. You can withdraw your consent at any time, and unsubscribing does exactly that. These rights come from EU and UK data protection law, and we honor them for every reader, wherever you live.

Email [email protected] from the address you subscribed with. We reply within one month. If you are in the EU or the UK and aren't satisfied with our answer, you can complain to your data protection authority. In the UK that is the Information Commissioner's Office.

Site analytics

Separately from the newsletter, dpcinsider.com uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages people read. Google's own policy covers that data. You can block it with the Google Analytics opt-out add-on or most content blockers, and the site works the same.

The site also uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views and page load times. It sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser.