Effective date: July 15, 2026
Dial is a daily email newsletter operated by its founder ("we," "us," "our"). This policy explains what data we collect, why, and how we protect it. We aim to keep this straightforward.
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Email address | To send you the newsletter |
| Topic preferences | To personalize your digest |
| Email engagement | Whether an email was delivered, opened, and which links you clicked |
| How you found us | Campaign and referral information from the link you arrived on (e.g. an ad), stored with your subscription |
| Website activity | Page views and signup steps on getdialed.news, recorded against a random session identifier |
| Signup date | Account management |
| IP address | Handled automatically by our hosting provider for security and rate limiting; we do not store it in our own database |
We do not collect your name, phone number, precise location, payment information, or your browsing history on other websites. We do not buy data about you from third parties.
Your data is used to deliver and personalize the Dial newsletter, and to improve the service over time. That's it. We do not sell your email address or personal data to anyone. We do not share your data with advertisers in a way that identifies you personally.
When we include advertising in our emails, ad partners may receive aggregated topic data (e.g., "this email is about technology") for targeting purposes. Depending on the ad platform, your email address may be shared with the ad provider solely for the purpose of delivering the ad within our email. We do not sell your data to advertisers for their own marketing purposes.
We use the following services to operate Dial. Each processes some of your data on our behalf:
| Service | Purpose | Data Shared |
|---|---|---|
| Resend | Email delivery, open and click measurement | Email address, email content, email engagement |
| Supabase | Database | Email, preferences, account data, website activity |
| Meta (Facebook) | Advertising measurement | That a signup occurred, if you arrived from one of our ads |
| Anthropic | Content generation | Topic preferences (no email address) |
| Railway | Server hosting | Server logs (IP addresses) |
| Admailr / ad partners | Advertising | Topic data; email address may be shared for ad delivery |
We select providers with strong privacy and security practices. We do not share more data than necessary for each service to function.
On our website — We record basic activity on getdialed.news — page views and the steps of the signup form — so we can tell whether our signup process works and where people arrive from. This is recorded on our own servers against a random session identifier. It is not tied to you before you subscribe, and it does not follow you to other websites.
If you arrive from an ad or a shared link, we store the campaign information in that link with your subscription, so we know which efforts actually bring people to Dial.
We use no cookies unless you complete a signup. If you do, we load Meta's advertising pixel at that moment and it sets a cookie, which tells Meta that a signup happened so we can measure whether our ads work. If you visit and don't subscribe, no advertising cookie is set and nothing is shared with Meta.
In our emails — Our emails include a small invisible image that tells us when an email is opened. Some email apps load this automatically, so open counts are approximate.
Links in our emails are routed through our email provider's redirect so we can count clicks before sending you on to the destination. We use this to understand which topics you actually read — the thing that tells us whether Dial is worth your time. We do not use it to build a profile of you or share your reading with advertisers.
What we don't do — We don't track you across other websites. We don't sell your data. We don't use advertising cookies for visitors who don't subscribe.
While you are subscribed, we retain your email address and preferences to deliver the service. If you unsubscribe, we retain a record of your email address in an inactive state to honor your opt-out and prevent accidentally re-subscribing you. We do not continue to send emails after you unsubscribe.
If you want your data fully deleted, email hello@getdialed.news and we will remove your record entirely within 30 days.
Regardless of where you live, you can:
Unsubscribe at any time via the link in any email.
Update your preferences using the preferences link in any email.
Request your data by emailing us. We will provide a copy of all data we hold about you.
Request deletion by emailing us. We will delete your data within 30 days.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have additional rights under the GDPR, including the right to data portability and the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. Our lawful basis for processing your data is your consent, provided when you sign up.
Dial is not intended for anyone under 16. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has signed up, contact us and we will delete their data promptly.
We use encryption in transit (HTTPS/TLS) for our website and all API communications. Database access is restricted to authenticated services only. We do not store passwords because our service does not use password-based authentication.
If we make material changes to how we handle your data, we will update the effective date at the top of this page. For significant changes, we may also notify you via email.
For any privacy-related questions or requests, email us at hello@getdialed.news.