Privacy Policy

International Intrigue is a media newsletter and website. We collect the information needed to send the newsletter, operate the site, protect the service, and understand basic newsletter and website performance.

We do not sell personal information. The website uses essential operational technologies plus cookieless Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights. PostHog is configured for optional product analytics, but it does not run unless you choose to allow analytics. Google Analytics is not currently active.

Newsletter signup and optional profile information: when you subscribe, we collect the email address you provide and the signup placement on the site. After signup, you may optionally tell us why you read Intrigue, your professional function, topic interests, country, first name, and job level. You may also separately opt in to occasional reader-research invitations. None of these optional answers is required to receive the newsletter.

Newsletter delivery and engagement information: Beehiiv, our newsletter platform, may process subscription status, delivery events, opens, clicks, unsubscribe actions, and related email-performance information.

Website technical and analytics information: our hosting, security, and analytics providers may process standard request data such as IP address, browser or device information, requested URL, referrer, timestamps, page-performance signals, and error or operational logs. If you allow optional analytics, PostHog may collect site-event information such as newsletter signup starts, signup outcomes, welcome-flow progress, and Intrigue Insiders out-clicks. Welcome events contain field names and completion counts, not your profile answers or reader-panel choice. After a consented newsletter signup, PostHog may associate subsequent events with the email address used to subscribe so activity can be understood across our public site and subscriber hub.

Content-management information: Sanity stores site content and related editorial data. It is not used as a reader database for this V1 site.

We use reader information to send the newsletter, manage subscriptions and unsubscribes, respond to reader requests, troubleshoot delivery or website issues, protect against spam and abuse, maintain security, and comply with legal obligations.

We use optional profile answers to improve editorial coverage, understand the readership we serve, tailor relevant products or communications, recruit opted-in readers for research, and report aggregate audience patterns. We may use aggregate or de-identified information for sponsor reporting, but we do not give advertisers individual profile answers or subscriber lists.

We use service providers to run the site and newsletter. Today, that includes Beehiiv for newsletter subscriptions and email delivery, Vercel for website hosting, deployment, web analytics, and speed insights, PostHog for consent-gated product analytics, Sanity for content management, and GitHub for source-code hosting and deployment workflow. Google Analytics is prepared in the codebase but is not currently active.

Those providers process information on our behalf according to their own terms and privacy commitments. If you click through to Beehiiv-hosted archives or the Intrigue Insiders hub, those services may collect information under their own privacy policies.

Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights help us understand page usage and Core Web Vitals without using reader-identifying cookies. PostHog only loads after you choose "Allow analytics" in the consent banner. Google Analytics would use the same consent choice if it is activated in the future.

If you choose "Continue with necessary only," optional analytics stay off. Essential hosting, security, or newsletter-provider technologies may still be used to deliver pages, remember operational state, prevent abuse, or process newsletter subscriptions. You can change browser-level cookie settings in your browser; to change the choice stored by this site, clear its local site data and choose again when the banner appears.

We share information with service providers that help us operate the newsletter and website, when required by law or valid legal process, to protect readers or the service from abuse, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not give subscriber lists to advertisers for their own independent marketing.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the unsubscribe link in any email. You can also contact us to ask about access, correction, deletion, or other privacy requests.

Some requests may require us to verify your identity or retain limited information where required for legal, security, or operational reasons.

Reader-panel participation is separate from newsletter subscription. Research invitations and participation are optional. You may leave the panel without unsubscribing from the newsletter by using the leave-panel link in any research invitation; that link opens a confirmation page and changes nothing until you confirm. You can also contact us for help. Leaving the newsletter also makes you ineligible for future panel invitations.

We keep subscriber information while your subscription is active or as needed to provide the newsletter, maintain suppression lists, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and keep reasonable business records.

Technical logs are retained according to our providers' retention settings and operational needs.

International Intrigue has readers around the world. Your information may be processed in countries other than where you live, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and other locations where our team or providers operate.

Where privacy laws require specific rights or safeguards, we will handle requests according to those requirements.

International Intrigue is written for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

We may update this policy as the site, newsletter, providers, or legal requirements change. If we make material changes, we will update the effective date and, where appropriate, provide additional notice.