What We Collect

When you subscribe to R!NGER, we collect:

• Email address — to send you newsletters
• ZIP code (optional) — to personalize content to your district and representatives
• Your districts (optional) — if you look up your street address on Where You Stand and then subscribe there, we save the districts that address is in (for example, City Council District 3 or Congressional District 50). We never save the address itself.
• Tone preference — whether you prefer the "Straight" or "Raw" edition
• Referral source — how you found us (e.g., Bluesky, direct)

How We Use It

• Send newsletters: The R!NGER briefing to your inbox
• Personalize content: Match you with your representatives, using your districts if you looked up your address, or your ZIP code otherwise
• Track engagement: We use Resend (our email provider) to track opens and clicks so we can improve our content
• Improve the product: Aggregate analytics help us understand what resonates with readers

What We Don't Do

• We don't sell your data to anyone
• We don't share your information with political campaigns or advertisers, or with any third party except the address lookup services described below, which receive only an address you type in
• We don't build advertising profiles or use ad trackers

Address Lookups (Where You Stand)

When you type a street address into Where You Stand, we use it once to find the districts it's in. To do that, the address is sent to the U.S. Census Bureau's geocoder and, if the Census Bureau can't find it, to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service. R!NGER doesn't store the address, doesn't log it, and never puts it in share links. If you then subscribe on that page, we keep only the district identifiers, not the address. Typing a ZIP code on our homepage shows the representatives for that ZIP without sending anything to these services.

Email Tracking

Our emails include standard open and click tracking provided by Resend, our email delivery service. This helps us understand which content is useful and which alerts drive action. We use this data in aggregate — we don't build individual surveillance profiles.

Data Storage

Your data is stored securely on Supabase (hosted on AWS). Access is restricted to the R!NGER team only.

Data Retention

We keep your data as long as you're subscribed. When you unsubscribe, your data is soft-deleted (marked inactive). If you want your data permanently removed, email us and we'll delete everything within 7 days.

Your Rights

• Unsubscribe anytime: Every email has an unsubscribe link, or visit ringer.press/unsubscribe
• Request your data: Email us and we'll send you everything we have
• Request deletion: Email us and we'll permanently delete your information

Website Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors interact with ringer.press. This collects anonymous data like pages visited, time on site, and referral source. Google Analytics uses cookies to distinguish unique visitors. We don't use advertising pixels or share analytics data with advertisers.

Changes

If we make significant changes to this policy, we'll notify subscribers by email before the changes take effect.

Contact

Questions about your data or this policy? Email us at ringer@ringer.press.