Privacy
This policy describes what standards collects, why, and what we do and do not do.
Who we are
This site and list are operated by Standards News, LLC, a Utah limited liability company — the party responsible for the information described here. Reach us at privacy@standards.com. Standards News, LLC, is the formation vehicle for standards: as the public benefit corporation is established, Standards News, LLC will be merged into it, responsibility for your information will carry over to the public benefit corporation under these same commitments, and this policy will be updated.
What we collect
The email list. If you subscribe, we store the name and email address you give us, the time you consented, and which page you signed up from. We use double opt-in: you are not added to anything until you click a confirmation link, and you can leave in one click at any time.
Contact and correction messages. If you send us a message or flag an error, we store what you wrote and — only if you choose to provide it — your name and email, so we can reply. These messages are an internal inbox. They are not published.
What our servers see. Serving you pages means our hosting provider processes each request, including your IP address, and we keep routine server logs briefly to defend the site against abuse and keep it running. Those logs are used for security and reliability, retained briefly, and then discarded. We build nothing about you from them.
That is the complete list. There are no accounts, and reading requires nothing from you.
What we do not do
- We do not run behavioral tracking, ad pixels, or third-party trackers.
- We do not set cookies. If a strictly necessary one is ever required to make the site work, we will say so here.
- We do not store your IP address or device fingerprint with your subscription.
- We do not sell or rent your data, and we never share it with anyone for their own purposes.
- We do not profile you, and we do not build advertising audiences from readers.
Because we do not track anyone, "Do Not Track" and Global Privacy Control signals ask us for something you already have.
Analytics
Today we run no analytics. When we measure traffic, it will be in aggregate — a cookieless, privacy-respecting count that collects no personal data.
The providers that help us
Two categories of providers touch data on our behalf, under contract, on our instructions, and for no purpose of their own:
Email delivery. A transactional email provider sends subscription confirmations and the newsletter, and processes delivery records (such as bounces) so the list works. Open-tracking is switched off.
Hosting and security. Our hosting provider serves the site and processes requests, including IP addresses, as described above.
How long we keep things
Your subscription record: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it, after which it is removed from the active list promptly. Contact and correction messages: as long as they are useful for the purpose you sent them, then deleted. Server logs: briefly, on a rolling basis, for security and reliability.
Your rights and your control
You own your relationship with us. Unsubscribe links are in every email and work in one click. You may also ask us to see, correct, or delete everything we hold about you — write to privacy@standards.com and we will act on it promptly, and in any case within a month. We extend these rights to every reader, everywhere, regardless of whether local law requires it, and we will never treat you differently for using them.
For readers in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and similar jurisdictions: we are based in the United States and your data is processed here. Our lawful bases are your consent (the list — which you may withdraw at any time by unsubscribing) and our legitimate interest in keeping the site running and secure (server logs). You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority, though we would rather you write to us first and let us fix it.
Children
standards is a general-audience news site. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has subscribed, write to privacy@standards.com and we will delete the record.
Legal requests
Like anyone, we can be compelled by valid legal process to disclose what we hold — which is why we hold almost nothing. We will resist demands that are overbroad, and where the law permits, we will notify you before complying.
Security, and if something goes wrong
We protect what little we hold with measures appropriate to it — encryption in transit, restricted access, reputable providers. No system is invulnerable; if a breach ever affects your information, we will notify you promptly and say what happened and what we are doing about it.
If standards changes hands
If the operator of this site changes — including the planned merger of Standards News, LLC, into the public benefit corporation — your information transfers only under these same commitments, and this policy will be updated to name the new operator. A change of ownership is never a change of promise.
This policy may be updated as the publication grows. Material changes will be noted here, with the date revised. Questions: privacy@standards.com. Effective July 4, 2026.