Plainly, what we hold and why.
Effective July 2026 · Applies worldwide — we hold everyone to the strictest standard we operate under.
What we collect
Your email address, when you gave consent and from where, your delivery preferences, and — if you become a member — your tier. Payment card details go to Stripe and never touch our servers.
Consent, doubly checked
Nothing is sent until you confirm your address by clicking the link we email you. We keep a record of that confirmation — the time, the page, the address — because that record is your protection as much as ours.
What we measure
Deliveries, bounces, and which links are clicked, in aggregate, so we know the letter works and what to write more of. We do not build individual reading profiles, and we do not use open-tracking pixels. When you unsubscribe, measurement stops with the mail.
Who touches the data
Two processors, under data-processing agreements: Resend carries the email the last mile; Stripe handles payment. No advertising networks, no data sales, no "partners."
Your rights, without asking twice
Access, export, correction, and erasure are self-serve from your account. Unsubscribing is one click and immediate. Where the law grants you more (GDPR, UK GDPR, CASL, CCPA), you have it here regardless of where you live.
The short agreement.
Membership
Billing is monthly or annual, through Stripe, and renews until you cancel — which you can do yourself, effective at the end of the paid period. The founding rate is fixed for life: whatever our prices do later, yours does not move.
The writing
The Weekly Root is evidence-informed writing about wellbeing. It is not medical advice, and it will never claim to be — see a clinician about your particular body. The words are ours; please quote with attribution rather than republishing whole.
Fair dealing, both ways
We may end or refund a membership rather than argue. You may leave at any time, take your data with you, and come back later as if nothing happened — because nothing did.