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Privacy Policy

This page explains what information Trend Digest collects when you visit the site, how we use it and how we protect it.

Last updated Oct 20, 2026

1 Trend Digest Privacy Policy

Trend Digest makes it extremely important to maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal information, which is any information about you that you provide to us when using our site, for example, information that you provide when registering for a user account or when entering into transactions through the site, which may include (but is not limited to) Your Name, contact information, gender, date of birth, profession, and email any reference to 'We',' us', and' Our ' is considered a reference to the name of the site.

This notice may be amended or updated from time to time to reflect changes to our practices regarding the processing of personal data, or as required by law. We urge you to read the notice carefully, and to follow this page regularly to be aware of any changes we may make in accordance with the terms of this notice.

2 What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you subscribe to our newsletter.

Any data that we request that is not required will be identified as optional or non-optional.

When ordering or registering on the site Trend Digest, as appropriate, you may be asked to Enter: Name, e-mail. You can, however, enter and comment on the site anonymously .

3 What we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used to send periodic emails.

The email address you provide may be used to process the order, to send information and updates related to your order or inquiry, as well as to send company news, updates, promotions, information related to the product or service, etc.

4 How we protect your information?

We implement a set of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when entering, sending or accessing personal information. These security measures include: password-protected directories and databases to protect your information.

We offer the use of a secure server. All submitted sensitive / credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted in the database of Payment Gateway Providers only for access by authorized persons with special access rights to these systems, required to maintain the confidentiality of information.

After the transaction, your private information (credit cards, Social Security numbers, financial data, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.

5 Do we use cookies?

The Trend Digest website may use cookies to store information about visitors ' settings, specific information about the user is recorded when entering or visiting a page, and the content of a web page is customized based on the visitor's browser type or other information when the visitor sends information via the browser.

6 Do we disclose any information to third parties?

We do not sell, trade or transfer your personal information to third parties. This does not include trusted third parties who help us operate our website, conduct our business, or serve you, as long as these parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also disclose your information when we believe it is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others ' rights, property, or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to third parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Compliance with the law on the protection of privacy on the internet.

Since we value your privacy, we have taken the necessary precautions to comply with the Online Privacy Protection Act. Therefore, we will not distribute your personal information to third parties without your consent.

7 Your Trend Digest account

When you create an account, we store your email address, the display name you choose, a one-way hash of your password (never the password itself), your interface language and the date of the terms version you accepted.

Later, we store what you add or change in your account: a profile photo, your time zone, your preferred countries and categories, your notification and digest choices, and the date you last signed in.

We send a link to your email address to confirm that it is yours. The link works once and expires after 30 minutes. Password reset and email change links work the same way.

You can turn on two-factor authentication. We then store your authenticator secret encrypted and 10 single-use recovery codes as one-way hashes, and we ask for a code when you sign in and before sensitive actions.

8 Signing in with Posty5

If you choose Continue with Posty5, Posty5 sends us your account identifier for Trend Digest, your email address and whether Posty5 has verified it, your name, your profile picture and, when Posty5 provides it, how you signed in there. We never receive your Posty5 password, and we keep no Posty5 access token.

We use your name as your display name and, if you have no profile photo yet, we may copy your Posty5 picture to our storage. We keep the link between the two accounts, with the dates it was created and last used.

You can unlink Posty5 in your account settings. If Posty5 is your only way to sign in, set a password first. Unlinking or deleting your account removes the link on our side; to also remove Trend Digest from your Posty5 account, remove it under Connected apps in Posty5.

9 Sessions and security logs

Each time you sign in, we create a session. It records your IP address, your browser and device type (user agent), your country, and when the session started and was last used. You can see your sessions and sign them out in your account.

A session ends after 30 days without use, when you sign out, or when you sign it out from another device. We delete its record 30 days after it ends.

Security-relevant actions, including actions our staff take on accounts, are recorded in a security log with the IP address, country and browser. After 90 days we shorten the IP address so that it no longer identifies your connection, and we delete the entry after 2 years.

Everywhere else, for example in analytics, article feedback and contact messages, we keep only your country, never your IP address.

10 Your rights: exporting your data

You can download a copy of your data from the Data rights page of your account. To protect you, we ask you to confirm your identity first, and you can request one export every 24 hours.

The export is a ZIP file of JSON files, one for each part of the service that holds your data (for example your profile, sessions, saved articles, reading history, alerts, notifications, comments and credits), with a README file that explains them.

We email you when the file is ready. Each download link in your account works once, for 15 minutes, and we delete the file 7 days after it is ready.

11 Your rights: deleting your account

You can delete your account from the Data rights page of your account. Your account is deleted 14 days after your request. Until then you can cancel the request in your account, and signing in also cancels it. When you make the request, we sign you out on your other devices.

When the 14 days end, we delete your account, sessions, Posty5 link, reactions, saved articles, reading history, alerts, digests, notifications, browser push subscriptions, the emails we sent you, your contact messages, analytics data and preferences.

Your comments that have no replies are deleted. A comment that has replies stays in place as "[deleted]", without your name or its text, so that the conversation still makes sense.

We keep some records, without your name or email address, because the law or security requires it: payment, subscription and credit records for 7 years, and security log entries for 2 years. We also keep a one-way hash of your email address so that we never email it again.

An active subscription is cancelled when your account is deleted, without a refund for the remaining period. Deleting your account does not remove Trend Digest from your Posty5 account; see Signing in with Posty5.

12 Service providers we use

We use the following providers to run Trend Digest. Each one receives only the data it needs for its task:

  • Cloudflare: hosting, content delivery, file storage and bot protection (Turnstile), and your country from your connection.
  • Our email service provider: sending account, security and notification emails.
  • Cookiebot: recording your cookie choices where consent is required.
  • Google: Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to measure how the site is used, and Google AdSense to show ads, according to your cookie choices.
  • Meta: the Facebook pixel to measure our campaigns, according to your cookie choices.
  • Polar: payments for paid plans, as the merchant of record that processes your payment and billing details.
  • Posty5: sign-in when you choose Continue with Posty5, and publishing our articles to social networks.

Our articles are drafted and checked with the help of AI services. They process news sources, not your account data.

13 The cookies we set

We set the following cookies ourselves. These are strictly necessary and cannot be turned off:

  • __Host-td_at: keeps you signed in to your account. It expires after 15 minutes and is renewed while you use the site.
  • __Secure-td_rt: renews your sign-in. It is sent only to our sign-in service and expires 30 days after you last used the site.
  • __Host-td_oidc: protects signing in with Posty5. It expires after 10 minutes.
  • td_consent: remembers your cookie choices in countries where the consent platform is not shown. It expires 395 days after it is set.
  • td_adfree: tells the site not to show ads to members of a plan without ads. It expires after 30 days and is renewed while you are signed in.

The following depend on your choices:

  • td_vid: a random visitor identifier for our own analytics, set only while analytics is allowed (in countries where we do not ask for consent first, until you turn it off). It expires 395 days after it is set, and we delete it when you withdraw your consent.
  • Cookies of Google Analytics (_ga), the Facebook pixel (_fbp) and Google AdSense, set by those providers for measurement and ads.

Where consent is required, Cookiebot stores your choices in its own cookie. You can change your choices at any time with Manage cookie choices on the Cookie Policy page.

14 Spam and unwanted messages

We have taken the necessary steps to ensure that we comply with the CAN-SPAM law of 2003 by never sending misleading information.

15 Online privacy policy only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

16 Terms and conditions

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section which sets out the use, disclaimers and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

18 Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page, and / or update the Privacy Policy modification date below. Policy changes will only apply to information collected after the date of the change.

19 The site's pledge regarding the Privacy Policy

We pledge to you, our customers, that we have made dedicated efforts to bring our Privacy Policy in line with the following important privacy laws and principles:

  • Federal Fair Trade Act
  • Online Privacy Protection Act
  • The privacy alliance that controls the assault on non-solicitation of the publications and Marketing Act
  • Privacy protection privacy requirements
  • Local laws on the internet.

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