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Privacy Policy

What we collect, why, and what you can ask us to do about it. Short, because we collect almost nothing.

The Gr!dline is a free publication. We do not run advertising, we do not use analytics, and we do not set cookies. The only personal information we hold is an email address, and only if you typed one into our newsletter form.

What we collect

Your email address, if you subscribe to the Gr!dline Brief, together with the date and time you subscribed. That is the entire list. We do not ask for your name, and we do not record your IP address, your browser, or where you came from when you sign up.

We do not use Google Analytics, Plausible, PostHog, Vercel Analytics, or any other analytics or tracking product. There is no advertising network, no tracking pixel, no social widget, and no embedded third-party script anywhere on this site. We set no cookies of our own, and there is no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to.

Why we can hold it

Consent. You gave us your address by typing it into a form and submitting it. That is the only basis on which we hold it, and you can withdraw it at any time by emailing us — see below.

Where it is stored, and who else can see it

The list is held in private storage provided by Vercel, our hosting provider, and is readable only by this site's server using a credential that is not published anywhere. It is not shared, not sold, and not passed to any advertiser, data broker, or analytics provider. Nobody buys access to it because it is not for sale.

Vercel processes data on our behalf as our hosting provider, which means that — like any website host — their servers handle the requests your browser makes, and they keep standard technical request logs for security and reliability. Those logs are Vercel's, generated by the act of serving the page, and we do not use them to build any profile of you.

Photographs on this site are served through our own image handler rather than loaded directly from wherever they are hosted. The practical effect is that the original image hosts never see your IP address or that you visited us. Site search runs entirely inside your browser: what you type into it is never sent to us or to anyone else.

How long we keep it

Until you ask us to delete it, or until the newsletter stops existing, whichever comes first. We do not have an automatic expiry, and we would rather tell you that plainly than invent a retention schedule we do not operate.

Your rights

Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act and, if you are in the EU or UK, the GDPR, you can ask us to show you what we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or stop using it. Because the only thing we hold is your email address and its signup date, all of those requests are quick to answer.

Email hello@thegridlinemedia.com and we will action it and confirm when it is done. We aim to respond within seven days and will not take longer than 30. We handle these by hand — there is no self-service dashboard, and we would rather say so than imply an automated process that does not exist.

Unsubscribing

There is no one-click unsubscribe link yet, because the newsletter has not started sending. Email hello@thegridlinemedia.com and we will remove you and confirm. When the Brief begins sending regularly, every issue will carry a working unsubscribe link and this section will be updated to say so.

Children

This site is intended for a general and professional readership. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has subscribed, email us and we will remove the address.

Changes

If we start collecting anything new — analytics, accounts, payments — we will change this page before we turn it on, not after, and the effective date below will change with it.

Contact

hello@thegridlinemedia.com for anything on this page, including data requests and complaints. If you are in Nigeria and are not satisfied with our response, you can escalate to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission. See also our Terms and Credits & Sources.

Effective 22 August 2026. This policy describes what the site does today. It is a working draft written by the publisher and has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer.