Privacy

Last updated 7 August 2026

I’ll keep this in the same plain language as everything else here.

The short version: I don’t collect much, I don’t sell any of it, and the only thing I really want from you is an email address — and only if you offer it.

If you just read

You don’t have to give me anything to read this site. No account, no cookie banner, no popup asking who you are.

My site does count visits. It records things like which page was opened, roughly where in the world the request came from, and which site sent you here, if any. It’s the built-in analytics that comes with Ghost, the software this site runs on. It tells me that forty people read an essay last Tuesday. It doesn’t tell me who they were.

If you subscribe

The newsletter is called Just an Ordinary Tuesday. When you sign up, I get your email address. That’s it — I don’t ask for your name, your job, or anything else.

What I do with it: I send you the letter, and I keep it on the subscriber list until you leave.

What I don’t do with it:

• Sell it.
• Rent it.
• Hand it to an advertiser.
• Add you to some other list you didn’t ask for.

I also record which page you were on when you signed up. Not to build a profile — it tells me which essays actually move people to subscribe, which is genuinely useful when I’m deciding what to write next.

The part people don’t usually admit

Every newsletter I send records whether you opened it and whether you clicked a link in it. That’s on by default in Ghost and I’ve left it on, because it’s how I know whether the writing is landing.

I’d rather say that plainly than let you assume otherwise. If it bothers you, most email apps let you block remote images, which stops the open tracking. Clicking nothing stops the rest.

If you become a member

Some things here — the resource library, for one — ask you to sign in. Signing in is done with a link emailed to you, so there’s no password to lose. When you’re signed in, your browser holds a cookie that keeps you signed in. That’s what it’s for. It isn’t following you around the rest of the internet.

There’s no paid tier. Nothing on this site charges you money, so no payment details exist anywhere in this.

Things on this site that come from other companies

A few parts of the site load from somewhere else, which means those companies see your IP address the way any website you visit does:

• Fonts are served by Google Fonts.
• The signup form and the site search load from a public code CDN.
• Music players on the music page come from SoundCloud. That one only loads if you press play — nothing reaches SoundCloud until you ask it to.
• Podcast artwork on the home page is fetched from Spotify.

The site is hosted by Magic Pages and served through Cloudflare, both of which handle the request before it reaches me.

I don’t run advertising trackers, Facebook pixels, or any of that. There are none on this site.

Getting out

Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link at the bottom. One click, no form asking you to explain yourself, no “are you sure?”

If you’d rather I deleted your email address entirely rather than just unsubscribing you — or if you want to know what I have on you — email me and I’ll do it. You don’t need a reason.

Children

This site is written for adults. I don’t knowingly collect anything from children under 13.

If this changes

If I add something that collects more than what’s described here, I’ll change this page and change the date at the top. I’m not going to quietly expand it and hope nobody reads it.

Asking me anything about this

Email mikebakerhq@gmail.com, or use the contact page.