What this site knows about you.

The short version: as little as possible. WritingFaith is a reading site. It sets no advertising or tracking cookies, shows no ads, and sells nothing — including your data, which is never shared for marketing in any form.

Reading

You can read everything here without signing up and without telling us anything. We use Vercel’s cookieless, aggregate analytics to understand which essays are read — it identifies pages, not people, which is why there is no cookie banner: there is nothing to consent to.

If you sign in (site owner)

Signing in exists only to open the publication editor and is limited to the site owner. When used, we store the email address (and, with Google sign-in, the name Google provides) plus a session cookie. Sign-in cookies are strictly necessary for editing; they are not used to track you. We never see or store a password, because there are none.

If you subscribe to the newsletter

We store your email address and your subscription status, with timestamps of when you asked to subscribe and when you confirmed — that record is what double opt-in means. Emails are delivered through Resend. Every email contains an unsubscribe link that works with one click; unsubscribing is immediate and doesn’t require an account.

Where data lives

Subscription and sign-in data is stored in our database (Neon), email is delivered by Resend, and the site is hosted on Vercel. Essay content is managed in Sanity and contains no reader data. Each provider processes data on our instructions.

Your choices

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the link in any email — it works with one click and takes effect immediately. If you’d like your data deleted entirely, email us via the contact page and it will be done — there is no retention we need beyond your participation.

Questions

Anything unclear, or any concern about your data: get in touch.