Short version: we hold your email address, so we can send you the letter, and your reply if you send one. We also note which of our pages you signed up on. That’s the whole list.
Same Old Trick is run by Alex Vita in Bucharest, Romania. Anything about this page, or about what we hold on you, goes to hello@sameoldtrick.com.
Your email address. You typed it in yourself and confirmed it with one click, and that click is our permission to write to you (consent, in the law’s word). You can take it back whenever you like: every issue has an unsubscribe link, and an email to hello@ does the same job.
The page you signed up on. Kit notes it when you sign up. A few of our sign-up pages carry a short label: “issue-1” on the page for people who were forwarded issue 1, for example, or “inboxreads” on the one listed in a newsletter directory. We only look at those in totals, to see which issues get passed on and which listings bring readers.
Your replies. They land in a mailbox, and a person reads them.
A message or screenshot you let us print. Some readers send in a scam they got, or the call they got out of, and say yes to it running in an issue. When that happens we keep your written yes (the email itself), take out every name, number and link, and sign it the way you asked: your first name and state, or just “a reader in” your state. Ask and it comes off the site. Issues already sent can’t be recalled.
Server logs. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, keeps the standard logs a host keeps for security.
Kit, the company that sends the email for us, stores your address on its servers in the US and handles it under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Cloudflare hosts the site. Google Workspace handles mail to hello@sameoldtrick.com, so that’s where your replies land. That’s everyone, and we don’t sell your data, rent it or swap it.
Your address, and the page you signed up on, stay on the list until you unsubscribe. Kit then keeps a record of the unsubscribe itself, so a slip on our side can’t put you back on. Replies stay in the mailbox unless you ask us to delete them, except that a reply holding health or money details is deleted within 30 days whether you ask or not.
You can ask to see what we hold on you, have it corrected, have it deleted, or take back your permission to email you, and all four start with an email to hello@sameoldtrick.com. If you think we’ve handled your data badly, you can complain to ANSPDCP, Romania’s data protection authority, or to the one where you live.
The site sets no tracking cookies and loads nothing from any other company, so nobody else’s cookies turn up here either.
The same line sits at the bottom of every issue: We will never ask you for money, a password, a code or your Social Security number, and we never send a link to sign in anywhere. An email that does is not from us.