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What we collect
- If you create a member account (free or paid), we collect the email address you sign up with; it is used to sign you in (via emailed login links) and to deliver your notes. Our site and membership system are hosted by Ghost(Pro) (Ghost Foundation), which stores your account email and delivers our emails, and may keep standard server logs (IP address, user-agent) briefly for security and operations. Browsing without an account collects no personal data directly.
- Payment and billing details for paid subscriptions are collected and processed by our payment processor, Stripe; we never see or store your card data.
- We use Google Analytics to measure how the website is used — pages visited, which site or search sent you here, browser and device type, and an approximate location derived from your IP address. This tells us in aggregate which pages are worth writing; we do not send Google your name, your email address, or anything else that identifies you personally.
What we do not collect
- No advertising trackers, and no cross-site advertising identifiers.
- No payment card data; Stripe handles billing for paid subscriptions.
- No behavioral profiling for ad targeting.
How we use it
We use your subscription email to deliver the daily note and occasional service messages, and any email you contact us from to respond to support. Billing runs through Stripe. Ghost(Pro), Stripe, and Google Analytics operate under their own privacy policies as our service providers; we share member data with no one else, do not sell personal data, and do not share it with advertisers.
Your rights
You can cancel your subscription at any time, and request export or deletion of your data, by emailing hello@morningowl.io. EU-based readers have the rights granted by GDPR; California-based readers have the rights granted by CCPA.
Cookies
The website sets two kinds of cookie: a functional session cookie that keeps members signed in, and Google Analytics cookies (_ga and _ga_*) that let us tell a returning visitor from a new one so our traffic counts mean something. It sets no advertising cookies and no cross-site advertising trackers. Checkout is handled by Stripe under its own cookie and privacy policies. Our X account operates under X's own policies.
You can refuse the analytics cookies through your browser settings, through any ad blocker, or with Google’s opt-out browser add-on. The site and your subscription work exactly the same either way.