Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

This policy explains how Wiiver, Inc. (“Wiiver,” “we,” “us”) handles personal information in connection with wiiver.co and the Wiiver Weekly newsletter. We are the controller of the limited personal data described here, and you can reach us anytime at hello@wiiver.co.

2. What We Collect, and What We Don’t

Wiiver has no user accounts and no login. You can read everything on the site without giving us any personal information, and the website itself stores no personal data about you. There are only two ways we come into contact with your information:

The Newsletter

When you subscribe to Wiiver Weekly, the signup form collects your first name, last name, and email address, nothing more. This information is collected and stored by our newsletter platform, beehiiv (see section 3); it is not stored natively on wiiver.co. beehiiv also gives us aggregate engagement data, for example, how many people opened an edition or clicked a link, to help us improve the newsletter.

Website Analytics

We measure basic, aggregate traffic using Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is privacy-first by design: it sets no cookies, uses no client-side tracking or fingerprinting, and does not identify you or build an advertising profile. It reports aggregate figures such as page views, referring sites, and general device or browser type. Because it doesn’t track individuals or store anything on your device, Wiiver does not need a cookie-consent banner.

3. How Your Newsletter Data Is Handled (beehiiv)

Our newsletter runs entirely on beehiiv, Inc., which acts as our data processor (or “service provider”) and handles your name and email on our behalf and under our instructions. A few things worth knowing:

• beehiiv stores subscriber data on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure located in the United States.
• beehiiv maintains SOC 2 Type I–audited security controls and publishes a list of its own sub-processors.
• Your subscription is also subject to beehiiv’s privacy policy. For EU/UK data-transfer questions, beehiiv offers Standard Contractual Clauses and a data-request process.

4. How We Use Your Information

• To send you Wiiver Weekly and essential messages about it (such as a confirmation);
• To understand, in aggregate, which topics resonate and how the site is performing; and
• To respond when you get in touch, and to meet legal obligations.

We do not use your information to build advertising profiles, and we do not sell or share it (see below). Where a legal basis is required, we rely on your consent to send the newsletter (which you can withdraw at any time by unsubscribing) and on our legitimate interest in understanding aggregate readership and keeping the site secure.

5. Sharing and Selling

We do not sell or share your personal information (including as those terms are used under California law), and we don’t use it for targeted advertising. We disclose it only to the providers that make Wiiver run, principally beehiiv (newsletter) and Cloudflare (site delivery and cookieless analytics), and only as needed to provide their service. We may also disclose information if required by law, or as part of a future business transfer, in which case we’ll seek to keep it protected under terms consistent with this policy.

6. How Long We Keep It

We keep your subscriber details for as long as you’re subscribed to Wiiver Weekly. When you unsubscribe, beehiiv removes you from the active list, and we delete or anonymize your details within about 30 days, unless we’re legally required to keep them longer. Aggregate analytics contain no personal data and may be kept indefinitely.

7. Your Rights, Wherever You Live

Our practices don’t change based on where you live, but your rights might. You can unsubscribe at any time using the one-click link in every email, and you can email us (see below) to access, correct, or delete the limited information we hold about you. Depending on your location, for example if you are in California or the EU/UK, you may have additional rights, such as to know what we hold, request deletion or correction, object to certain uses, or lodge a complaint with your local authority. Because we do not sell or share your personal information or use it for targeted advertising, most of these are things we already honor for everyone, and we respect recognized opt-out signals such as Global Privacy Control (GPC).

8. Children’s Privacy

Wiiver is intended for adults and is not directed to anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18; if you believe we have, email hello@wiiver.co and we’ll delete it.

9. International Readers

Wiiver operates from the United States, and our providers (including beehiiv and Cloudflare) process data in the United States. If you subscribe from outside the U.S., your information will be processed there. Where required for EU/UK transfers, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the Standard Contractual Clauses offered through beehiiv.

10. Security

We use reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures designed to protect your personal information against unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use, and the site is served over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. Our providers maintain their own audited security programs. No method of transmission or storage is ever perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee that information will never be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed, but the amount of personal data involved here is deliberately small.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We’ll post the revised version here and update the effective date above, and we’ll note material changes plainly. We will only use your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect at the time the information was collected.

12. Contact Us

Questions or requests about your privacy? Email hello@wiiver.co (general inquiries). Postal mail may be sent to Wiiver, Inc., 6955 Willow Street NW, Box #375, Washington, DC 20012.