What We Collect and Why
The Sunday Sailor collects the minimum information necessary to operate a publication. We do not run advertising. We do not sell data. We do not use tracking pixels, behavioural analytics, or any technology designed to profile readers for commercial purposes.
If you subscribe to The Sunday Sailor, you become part of our analogue social network. We collect your email address for one reason only: to verify that you are a real person, and to give you the right to participate. Subscribers can write to The Sunday Mail, send tips and leads, propose articles, and engage with the publication directly. Unsubscribed addresses cannot. This is what Real Data is about — knowing that the person on the other side of the page is a person, not a bot, not a fake account, not a dataset to be monetised. We do not deliver the publication by email. We do not run a newsletter. We will never spam you. Your subscription is a handshake, not a mailing list.
If you write to The Sunday Mail, we collect your name and email address. If your letter is published, your name and any location you have provided will appear in print. Your email address is never published. It is used only to correspond with you regarding your letter. Anyone who writes should write in the understanding that their letter, once published, is part of the editorial record. We will never erase published letters. The Sunday Mail is a permanent archive of correspondence — write to us only if you are ready for what you have written to be read by others, in print, indefinitely.
Cookies and Tracking
The Sunday Sailor does not use advertising cookies, tracking cookies, or any cookie designed to follow you across the internet. We may use a minimal session cookie to remember your preferences within a single visit. No data from this cookie is shared with any third party.
We use basic server-side analytics to understand aggregate traffic to the publication — page views, referral sources, general geography. This data is anonymous and aggregate. It is used to understand what our readers find useful, not to identify individuals.
Your Rights Under United States Law
The Sunday Sailor operates under United States data protection law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and applicable federal law. You have the right to know what personal data we hold about you, to request its correction, to request its deletion, and to object to its processing. To exercise any of these rights, write to us at sundaymail@thesundaysailor.com. We will respond within thirty days.
Data Retention
Subscriber email addresses are retained for as long as the subscription is active. On unsubscription, addresses are deleted within 30 days. Correspondence addresses used for The Sunday Mail are retained for as long as the correspondence relationship is active. If you request deletion, your address is removed within 30 days.
Published letters, including the writer's name and any location provided, form a permanent part of the editorial record. We do not remove published letters. The Sunday Mail is an archive, and the integrity of an archive depends on the archive being honoured. Anyone who writes to us with the intention of publication should write in full awareness of this. If you are not ready for your words to be read indefinitely, do not send them.
Contact
For any privacy-related query, write to sundaymail@thesundaysailor.com. The Sunday Sailor is published independently. There are no advertisers, no investors with editorial influence, and no parent corporation behind the work.
Last updated: April 2026