Privacy | Suite Despair

Suite Despair collects as little personal data as it can while still running the site and sending the newsletter. The newsletter is email-only, low-volume, and explicit opt-in. The RSS feed remains available for readers who do not want email.

Who controls the data

Suite Despair controls the personal data collected through the public site and newsletter. For privacy, unsubscribe, export, or deletion requests, contact privacy@suitedespair.com.

Newsletter data

The newsletter form asks for an email address. A name may be provided only where the newsletter management page offers that field. The system also stores subscription status, confirmation status, unsubscribe status, and basic operational metadata needed to prove consent, deliver email, handle unsubscribe requests, and diagnose failures.

Newsletter email is sent only after confirmation. Every newsletter email includes an unsubscribe route. Tracking is disabled by default; the newsletter is not used for sponsor reporting, audience segmentation, gated downloads, or advertising pixels.

Processors

The site and newsletter use infrastructure services to operate: Cloudflare for site delivery and access protection, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for the newsletter server and email delivery, and a self-hosted listmonk installation for subscriptions and email management.

Retention

Subscriber records are kept until the subscriber unsubscribes or asks for deletion. Suppression and unsubscribe records may be kept where needed to avoid sending unwanted email. Backups and operational logs are retained only for recovery, security, and troubleshooting, then rotated as part of normal operations.

Your choices

You can unsubscribe from any newsletter email. You can also request access to the subscriber data held about you, correction, deletion, or withdrawal of consent by emailing privacy@suitedespair.com.

If you are in the UK and think a privacy request has not been handled properly, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.