What we keep, and why
The Blueprint is published by Nerdience Technologies Private Limited. This page covers the newsletter and this website. For everything else Nerdience does, see the Nerdience privacy policy.
Your email address
When you subscribe we send a confirmation link. Nothing is added to the list until you click it.
Once you confirm, we keep your email address, when you signed up and confirmed, and the internet address you confirmed from, as a record that you asked to receive the newsletter.
To limit abuse, we count how many confirmation emails each address receives. These counts are deleted within a day.
Bot protection
The subscribe form is protected by Google reCAPTCHA, which tells people from automated spam. It loads only when you start using the form, not when you read the site.
To do this, Google collects information such as your internet address, details of your browser and device, and how you use the page, and may set its own cookies. Google handles this under its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. We receive only a score of how likely the request came from a person, not that information.
Delivery and reading
Editions are sent through Resend, an email delivery service. For each edition it tells us whether the email was delivered, opened or clicked, and whether it bounced or was marked as spam. We use this to see which stories land, and to stop emailing addresses that bounce or report spam.
Opens are approximate: some mail apps load images automatically and others block them.
Cookies and analytics
Reading the site sets no cookies and uses no analytics. The bot check on the subscribe form may set Google cookies once you use the form.
Who else sees it
We never sell your data. It is handled only by the services that run The Blueprint for us: Resend for email, DigitalOcean for hosting, the database and photo storage, Google reCAPTCHA for bot protection on the subscribe form. Some of them process data outside your country.
Unsubscribing and deletion
Every email has an unsubscribe link. After you unsubscribe we keep your address marked as unsubscribed, so you are not emailed again by mistake.
To see what we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted entirely, email contact@nerdience.com. Deletion removes your address from the list, from Resend and from our records; our logs keep only a masked form, such as j***@company.com, as proof the deletion happened.
The Blueprint is not meant for anyone under 16, and we do not knowingly keep their data.
When this page changes
If we change how we handle your data, we update this page and the date at the top. Questions: contact@nerdience.com.