The short version
NYC Daily TL;DR collects your email address when you subscribe, plus standard website analytics. We use the email to send you the newsletter. We use the analytics to understand which pages bring in readers. We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with anyone, full stop.
What we collect
- Your email address, when you submit one of our subscribe forms. Alongside it we record which form you used (a tag like
home_hero) and the page you subscribed from. We use this to learn which pages earn subscribers, nothing more. - Email engagement basics through Buttondown, our newsletter delivery provider: whether an issue was delivered and whether you unsubscribed. Buttondown processes this data on our behalf; their own policy is at buttondown.com/privacy.
- Website analytics through Google Analytics: pages visited, approximate location at the city level, device type, and how you found the site. This uses cookies. We see aggregates, not identified individuals, and we don't combine analytics data with the subscriber list.
- Server logs through Cloudflare, which serves the site and applies standard security filtering to requests.
What we never do
- Sell or rent your email address or any personal data.
- Share your data with advertisers or data brokers.
- Send you anything other than NYC Daily TL;DR and direct replies to your own messages.
Unsubscribing and deletion
Every issue has a one-click unsubscribe link at the bottom; it works immediately. If you want your data deleted entirely (not just unsubscribed), email hello@nycdailytldr.com and we'll remove your record from Buttondown. Deletion requests are honored within 30 days, usually much faster, because the list is small enough that a human reads that inbox.
Questions
Email hello@nycdailytldr.com. For who runs this and how editorial decisions get made, see about and how we curate.
Last updated: June 10, 2026.