Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 15, 2026
Who We Are
Democrawonk is Darren’s liberal political satire and commentary website at democrawonk.com. For privacy questions or requests, use our Contact Us form.
Information You Provide
When you subscribe, we store your email address, signup time, subscription status, confirmation time when applicable, and a hash of your signup management token. The consent checkbox is required to submit the form. Public comments, reader accounts, Gravatar profiles, and public media uploads are not enabled. When you use the Contact Us form, we store your name, email address, topic, message, and submission time to review and respond to your request. Contact requests are kept in the site’s database and are accessible only to the owner. They do not enroll you in the newsletter. Contact request records remain until removed; use the form to request deletion. The form also uses a short-lived hashed network identifier to limit abuse.
How We Use Subscription Information
We use subscription records to manage your signup, confirm your request when email delivery is configured, send the daily digest when enabled, and honor unsubscribe requests. If delivery is unavailable, your signup is saved without sending a digest. We do not sell the subscriber list.
Email Delivery And Service Providers
The site uses hosted database and storage services to operate the blog and subscription system. Resend is the configured email delivery integration; when delivery is enabled, recipient addresses and message content are sent to Resend. We store queued email payloads encrypted, along with delivery status, provider message identifiers, attempts, and delivery errors. Delivery and bounce events help us prevent failed or unwanted messages. We have not added email open-tracking or click-tracking pixels to our message templates.
Technical Information And Security
Hosting and authentication services may process IP addresses, browser information, request logs, and essential security cookies. The subscription endpoint uses a hashed network identifier to limit abusive signups. It groups attempts in ten-minute windows and removes limiter records older than 24 hours during subsequent signup requests. This identifier is stored on the server, not in a browser cookie. Owner editorial access is restricted through authentication.
Google Analytics: Counting Readers, Not Votes
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how people find and use Democrawonk: which articles get read, where visits come from, and whether our punchlines hold anyone’s attention. Analytics may collect page URLs and titles, referring sites, visit times, interactions, browser and device details, approximate location, and cookie-based identifiers. Your browser sends this information to Google for processing and reporting. These identifiers can distinguish browsers and visits; calling it analytics does not make it magically anonymous. We do not intentionally send newsletter email addresses, contact messages, or names to Google Analytics.
Google’s Role And Your Choices
Google processes analytics information on its infrastructure, which may be outside your country. Its privacy practices and safeguards are described in the Google links below. Cookie lifetimes and analytics record retention are different things; analytics retention depends on the Google Analytics property settings. You can restrict cookies and tracking through browser controls or use the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on on supported browsers. Deleting cookies alone does not stop future analytics requests. The site currently loads the Google tag when pages load and does not offer an on-site analytics consent or opt-out control. Reading a policy is not a vote of consent. Our Cookie Policy explains the cookies and available controls.
Fonts And External Websites
The site also loads Google Fonts, so Google may receive technical information from font requests. Source and social links lead to external websites with their own privacy practices. We have not added separate advertising pixels or remarketing tags to the site. Analytics helps us measure readership; it does not turn our editorial desk into a campaign targeting operation.
Retention And Unsubscribing
Subscription and operational records are kept to run the list and manage delivery. Unsubscribing stops future digest delivery and cancels queued messages where applicable; it does not automatically erase every database record. We may retain an email suppression record to prevent further unwanted mail. Use your signup management link or the unsubscribe link in an email, or contact us for access, correction, or deletion requests. We may need to verify a request before acting.
Changes And Contact
We will update this policy when the site’s data practices change. Send questions or privacy requests through our Contact Us form.
The Fine Print Has Links
How Google Uses Information From Partner Sites · Google Privacy Policy · Google Analytics Opt-Out Add-On