You agree to the privacy policy below, and the Privacy Policy for Substack, the technology provider.
TL/DR: We collect the minimum. We protect what we have. We don’t map or sell you.
Children: This publication deals with complex geopolitical and structural analysis, & adult themes which may not be age appropriate. This page is not intended for children under 13. If you are under 13, we are impressed you found us, but please come back later when you are of age under The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
What we collect: Your email address when you subscribe. Your name if you provide it. Basic analytics that Substack provides automatically. We don’t go looking for more.
What we don’t collect: Your political affiliation. Your browsing history. Your financial information. Your network. Your shopping preferences. We map power structures, not subscribers.
We don’t follow you around the internet after you’ve read us. We don’t care about how likely you are to click on someone’s ad campaign or what you are putting in your shopping cart for dinner.
The Chokepoint Dispatch operates on Substack’s platform and infrastructure. Substack maintains its own privacy policy which governs how they handle platform-level data. We encourage you to read it. We operate within it. What happens at the platform level is Substack’s responsibility.
You can unsubscribe at any time. You can send us an email and get a response from a human, not automated algorithms.
Same as our Terms of Service if something significant changes, we’ll tell you in the dispatch. Plainly. Not buried.
Contact: Questions about this policy? Email us. We read our mail.
The Chokepoint Dispatch: Identify the chokepoint. Trace the system. Question everything.