Privacy

Who runs this. Grew Up With It is an independent weekly email from Alex Vita, Bucharest, Romania. Questions go to hello@grewupwithit.com, or by post to [mailing address].

What we collect. Your email address, the date you signed up and, if a link brought you, which one: a forwarded issue (issue 1, say) or a post or listing somewhere else. If you reply to an issue, the reply and the state you put in it. If you use the form at /suggest/, what you typed there: the thing, your words, your state, first name and email if you gave them, which boxes you ticked, and the day it arrived.

Why. To send the newsletter you asked for, on your consent. You confirm by email before the first issue, and one click on any issue takes you off the list. Replies and form entries are read so that some of them can run in an issue, the way you allowed. Which link brought you is kept so we can see which issues get forwarded and which places bring readers. That’s our legitimate interest, and we use it for nothing else.

The form. The email box is optional. If you fill it in, we use the address only to write back about that entry, to ask about a detail or to say it ran, and it doesn’t go on the newsletter list. What you write may say who you are even without it, so leave out anything you wouldn’t want printed. A person reads every entry. One that runs is checked against a page first and printed only as you ticked: as a reader in your state, or with your first name. We keep an entry, address included, until it has run or been passed over, then delete it. To have one removed sooner, write to hello@grewupwithit.com with the thing and the state you typed and about when you sent it.

Who handles it. Kit holds the list and sends the email. Kit’s own page says its servers are in the United States and other countries, and it follows the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Cloudflare hosts this site, holds the form’s entries and keeps standard security logs. Google Workspace handles mail to and from hello@grewupwithit.com, our replies and the notes about form entries included.

Tracking. This site sets no cookies. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views, with no cookies. Kit records whether an email was opened and which links were clicked.

Your answers. We print answers as “a reader in Ohio”; add “use my first name” if you’d like that instead. We never print a surname, a town, an email address or an age.

How long. We keep your address, and which link brought you, while you’re subscribed. Write to us and we’ll delete both, along with your replies.

Your rights. You can ask to see, correct or delete what we hold, and all three start with an email to hello@grewupwithit.com. If you think we’ve handled your data badly, you can complain to ANSPDCP, Romania’s data protection authority, or to the one where you live.