Effective Date: October 15, 2025
Last Updated: October 15, 2025
We respect your personal information and are committed to keeping it safe. This Privacy Policy explains how Redwood Current collects, uses, and protects your information when you subscribe to our newsletter.
Who We Are:
This newsletter is published by Justin Miller, doing business as Redwood Current. You can reach us at [email protected].
Redwood Current is published on beehiiv, a third-party newsletter platform. beehiiv processes certain subscriber data (including your email address and engagement metrics) to deliver emails and provide analytics services. beehiiv's data practices are described in their Privacy Policy, available at beehiiv.com/privacy.The practices described below explain how we, as the newsletter publisher, handle your information beyond beehiiv's platform services.
Required Information:
Email address – This is collected and stored by beehiiv on our behalf when you subscribe and is necessary to send you the newsletter.
Optional Information:
Survey responses – We may occasionally send surveys asking about your interests, demographics, or preferences. Participation is always voluntary.
Information you share with us – Any additional information you choose to provide through email, feedback forms, or other communications with us.
Automatically Collected Information:
Email engagement data – We track when you open our emails and which links you click to understand what content interests our readers and improve the newsletter.
Technical information – beehiiv may collect technical data such as device type, email client, and IP address for delivery and fraud prevention purposes.
We use your information to:
Send you the Redwood Current newsletter you subscribed to receive
Understand what content resonates with our audience and improve the newsletter
Respond to your questions, comments, or feedback
Send occasional service-related messages about your subscription
Aggregated Data:
We may create anonymous, aggregated statistics from subscriber data (such as total subscriber count, geographic distribution, or general interest categories) to analyze our audience and share insights with potential partners or advertisers. This aggregated data contains no personally identifiable information and cannot be used to identify individual subscribers.
We will never sell, rent, or give away your email address or other personally identifiable information to third parties for their marketing purposes. Your subscription data stays with us and beehiiv (our platform provider).
We use beehiiv as our newsletter platform. beehiiv and its subprocessors (including services for email delivery, analytics, and fraud prevention) process your data as described in beehiiv's Privacy Policy.
Our newsletter emails use tracking technologies including web beacons and pixels to monitor email opens and link clicks. We also may use cookies and similar technologies on any web pages associated with Redwood Current for analytics purposes.This tracking helps us understand which content interests you and allows us to improve our newsletter. Email tracking is standard practice for newsletters and cannot be disabled without affecting our ability to improve content.
We use commercially reasonable security measures to protect your information, including secure data storage and access controls. beehiiv maintains security measures as described in their Privacy Policy.While we strive to protect your personal information, no system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of data transmitted over the internet.
We retain your email address and subscription preferences for as long as you remain an active subscriber and for a reasonable period after you unsubscribe to process your request and prevent accidental re-subscription.Survey responses and other optional information you provide are retained for as long as useful for improving our newsletter, unless you request earlier deletion.
Unsubscribe:
You can unsubscribe from Redwood Current at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any newsletter email. Your request will be processed promptly.
Delete Your Data:
To request deletion of your data from our records and beehiiv's system, contact us at [email protected]. We will process your request within a reasonable timeframe.
Access or Correct Your Information:
If you would like to know what information we have about you or need to correct it, contact us at [email protected].
In the event of a data breach affecting your personal information, we will notify you as required by applicable law.
Redwood Current is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately at [email protected] and we will delete the information.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, operational, or regulatory reasons.If we make material changes, we will notify you by email or through a notice in our newsletter before the changes take effect. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy will always reflect the most recent version.Your continued subscription after changes take effect means you accept the updated policy.
For privacy questions or requests regarding Redwood Current:
Email: [email protected]
For questions about beehiiv's platform practices:
Email: [email protected]
Visit: beehiiv.com/privacy
By subscribing to Redwood Current, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and consent to the collection and use of your information as described above.