You agree to the privacy policy below, and the Privacy Policy for Substack, the technology provider.
Substack has it’s own Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for all users but I wanted to add a little more detail about what happens to your data over here at The Prompt.
I strive to collect as little personal information as possible and be transparent about what is collected and why. See the privacy policy on my website, Courage Everywhere, hosted on Squarespace to demonstrate my efforts.
As a subscriber to The Prompt, your name email address and the date you subscribed are stored in my Substack dashboard. Occasionally, I export and download this information in a CSV format which I store in an encrypted Proton Drive.
One of the benefits of this is that if Substack does something wild and out of whack with my values, I can switch seamlessly to another platform and take subscriber information with me so you never miss a Prompt!
The CSV file contains information about the country you subscribed from, how often an email has been opened, shared etc. and how you came to The Prompt eg. via LinkedIn or the Substack app. It is very cool for me to see that I have subscribers from 19 countries (!) but the rest of the information I do not consider necessary at this stage and I delete it from the CSV file before storing it so I only keep your name, email and country.
If you unsubscribe, I will delete all information.
And here is some of the more generic privacy policy info that I have copied from my Courage Everywhere privacy policy:
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting lucy@courage-everywhere.com.
Your data protection rights:
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access. You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification. You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure. You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing. You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing. You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability. You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. Please contact us at
lucy@courage-everywhere.com if you wish to make a request.
How to complain
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website:
https://www.ico.org.uk