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 and the analytics to understand which pages bring in readers. We use Buttondown, Google Analytics, PostHog, and Cloudflare to provide these services. We do not sell your personal information or share it with advertisers.
What we collect
- Your email address, when you submit one of our subscribe forms. Alongside it we record the form and signup page, the first and current visit's landing page and referring site, campaign labels when present, and a short sequence of pages visited before signup. This helps us understand which information brings readers here and earns a subscription.
- Browser storage for signup attribution. We remember the first visit for up to 90 days and the current tab's visit until 30 minutes of inactivity. The record contains page paths and referral or campaign context, not your email, an analytics identifier, or full URL query strings. If storage is unavailable, the form still works.
- 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 and PostHog: pages visited, approximate location, device type, referral information, and successful signup-form submissions. These services use cookies or browser storage. Our signup tracking does not send them your email or connect analytics identifiers to your subscriber record.
- 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.
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Last updated: October 13, 2026.