Last Updated: January 2025
TooEarly ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and subscribe to our newsletter.
Information We Collect
Information You Provide
Newsletter Subscriptions: When you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address through Ghost, our publishing platform. This is the only personal information we require for subscriptions.
Reader Correspondence: When you contact us via email with questions, feedback, or guest post submissions, we collect the information you provide in your message, including your email address and any other details you choose to share.
Automatically Collected Information
Analytics Data: We use analytics services to understand how visitors use our site. This may include:
- Pages visited and time spent on site
- Referring websites
- Browser type and device information
- General geographic location (city/region level, not precise location)
- IP address (anonymized where possible)
Cookies: We use essential cookies required for the Ghost publishing platform to function, including those necessary for the subscription portal. We do not use advertising cookies or third-party tracking cookies beyond standard analytics.
How We Use Your Information
We use collected information for the following purposes:
Newsletter Delivery: To send you monthly email updates when we publish new research posts. You will only receive emails through Ghost for content you subscribed to receive.
Site Improvement: To analyze how readers use our site and improve content, navigation, and user experience.
Research Purposes: Reader emails and feedback may inform future research questions and content direction. We may analyze patterns in reader questions and interests to identify topics for investigation. Individual correspondence will not be published or attributed without explicit permission.
Communication: To respond to your inquiries, questions, or guest post submissions.
Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes.
How We Share Your Information
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We may share information only in these limited circumstances:
Service Providers: We use Ghost for newsletter management and hosting. Ghost processes your email address solely to deliver newsletters you requested. See Ghost's privacy policy at https://ghost.org/privacy/.
Analytics Providers: Analytics services process anonymized usage data to generate site statistics.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose information if required by law, court order, or governmental authority, or to protect our rights or the safety of others.
Research Data Sharing: When researchers request data or methodology details, we provide only aggregated, anonymized data unless you have given explicit permission for us to share your specific feedback.
With Your Consent: We may share information for other purposes with your explicit consent.
Data Retention
Newsletter Subscriptions: We retain your email address as long as you remain subscribed. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any newsletter.
Analytics Data: Analytics data is retained according to our analytics provider's retention policies, typically 26-50 months.
Correspondence: Reader emails are retained to maintain communication history and inform future research. You may request deletion of your correspondence at any time.
Your Rights and Choices
Unsubscribe: You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email or by managing your subscription through the Ghost portal.
Access and Correction: You may request access to the personal information we hold about you or request corrections by contacting us.
Deletion: You may request deletion of your personal information, subject to our legal obligations to retain certain records.
Do Not Track: Our analytics services may not respond to Do Not Track signals. You can block analytics using browser extensions or privacy settings.
California Residents
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California residents have additional rights:
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Right to Know: You can request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collected, the sources of that information, our business purposes for collection, and the categories of third parties with whom we shared information.
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Right to Delete: You can request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
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Right to Opt-Out: We do not sell personal information. If our practices change, we will provide an opt-out mechanism.
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Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.
To exercise these rights, contact us at the email address below.
Children's Privacy
TooEarly is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us immediately.
Data Security
We implement reasonable security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Third-Party Links
Our site contains links to external research sources, data repositories, academic publications, and other third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these external sites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will post the updated policy with a new "Last Updated" date. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your privacy rights, contact us at:
Email: [Your contact email for TooEarly]
This Privacy Policy applies to tooearlytosay.com and all subdomains.