Email updates privacy policy
Last updated: 12 November 2026
Fred Potvin is responsible for this optional email service. Contact [email protected]. This notice supplements the website privacy policy, which provides my address, general processing information and your rights.
Your choices
Email updates are optional. Signing in, adding a Book or buying access does not subscribe you. You choose separately whether to receive monthly project updates, new-release announcements, and sales or special offers. All topics start off and become available after email confirmation.
Updates rely on your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)). You can withdraw it at any time without affecting earlier lawful processing or your library access. Purchase emails are separate from these optional updates.
Data and providers
When you subscribe, a separate Google authorization supplies your Google account’s verified email address. You must then confirm the subscription by email. Ordinary sign-in does not collect or update this address. We do not request your name, photo or inbox access, or retain Google’s authorization tokens.
The website stores your address, account ID, confirmation time, selected topics, and the date and wording version of each current consent. Pending requests also contain request/expiry times and a confirmation-token digest. Necessary tab storage holds the confirmation token while you sign in and removes it after successful confirmation or unsubscribe. There is no personal email activity history or tracking pixel in confirmation messages.
The confirmation email fulfils your subscription request; it does not authorize marketing before confirmation. A short resend cooldown protects inboxes and the service from abuse, based on legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)).
Cloudflare hosts the subscription database and processes recipient addresses, confirmation messages and delivery information through Email Sending. Google and Cloudflare may process data outside the European Economic Area. Their roles and transfer safeguards are described in the website privacy policy and Cloudflare’s data processing terms.
Retention and controls
Your confirmed address and current topic agreements remain while subscribed. Turning a topic off deletes that agreement. Turning every topic off does not unsubscribe you: use Unsubscribe to remove the saved address, verification time, topic agreements and pending request. Your account and library remain.
Confirmation links expire after 24 hours. A cleanup task normally removes expired requests within 24–30 hours; a failed run can delay deletion but cannot extend link validity. Successful confirmation removes the pending request immediately. Any existing topic choices and consent records can remain until replaced or removed through unsubscribe or account deletion; they do not authorize unconfirmed subscriptions. An empty settings record with technical timestamps may remain until account deletion.
Deleted database records may remain in recovery copies for up to 30 days. Cloudflare’s delivery and bounce/complaint suppression records follow its own retention rules, which may have no automatic expiry. Deleting a subscription does not erase emails already delivered.
Use your signed-in email settings to change topics, resend confirmation or unsubscribe. Public unsubscribe links work without sign-in. To change the saved address, unsubscribe and enroll again using your current Google email. Confirming the same address on another account moves the subscription to that account and clears the former account’s address and choices.
For access, correction, deletion, restriction, or applicable portability or objection requests, email [email protected]. You may also complain to France’s CNIL or your local data protection authority.