Status as of June 8, 2026

Compliance & Trust

Where LearnSomethin stands against the standard newsletter compliance checklist. We publish this honestly — including the gaps — because transparency about what we do and don’t do is itself a trust signal.

Roughly 35 of 50 items are solidly in place. The rest break down into 5 items handled manually, a handful of deliberate omissions documented below, and a small list of planned closures we’re working through.

Corporate & Legal

  • Yes
    Terms of Service published
  • Yes
    Privacy Policy published
  • Yes
    Contact email for privacy requests
  • N/A
    Legal entity
    Operating under the LearnSomethin trade name as a sole proprietor in India. Permissible at this scale; formalize as the project grows.

Subscriber signup

  • Yes
    User actively enters their email
  • Yes
    No pre-checked consent boxes
  • Yes
    Clear explanation of what you're subscribing to
  • Yes
    Double opt-in confirmation flow
  • Yes
    Signup timestamp recorded
  • Yes
    Consent version stamping
    Every signup and re-opt-in is tagged with the published policy version (currently 2026-06-08) for a defensible audit trail of which terms you accepted.
  • Yes
    Source / referrer logging
    Each signup records the HTTP referrer (the page you came from, if your browser sent it) and any utm_* campaign tags on the landing URL. Used to understand which channels bring subscribers. Disclosed in the privacy policy.
  • Planned
    Anti-bot protection
    Planned: Cloudflare Turnstile on the signup form.
  • Deliberate omission
    IP address (not stored)
    The checklist suggests recording it; we don't persist it anywhere we control. Data minimization is a feature — the IP isn't needed to deliver the service.

Email sending

  • Yes
    Unsubscribe link in every email
  • Yes
    Unsubscribe works immediately (RFC 8058 one-click)
  • Yes
    Sender identity clearly visible
    From: LearnSomethin <daily@mail.learnsomethin.com>
  • Yes
    Valid reply-to address
    hello@learnsomethin.com — replies reach a real human.
  • Yes
    No purchased or scraped lists
  • Planned
    Physical business address in footer
    Active gap. Required for CAN-SPAM and a recommended Gmail deliverability signal. Will add once a real address is finalized.

Your rights

  • Yes
    Withdraw consent at any time
    One-click unsubscribe link in every email.
  • Partial
    Delete your data
    Email hello@learnsomethin.com with subject “delete my data.” We respond within 30 days. A self-service flow is planned.
  • Partial
    Export your data
    Same path as deletion — email us and we'll send back a copy of what we hold.
  • Partial
    Correct your data
    Same path as above.

Security

  • Yes
    HTTPS everywhere
  • Yes
    Database access restricted
    Service-role key only; row-level security enabled with no policies (service-role-only access pattern).
  • Yes
    Daily backups, encrypted at rest
    Managed by the database provider on AWS.
  • Partial
    Audit logging
    Runtime logs and email-event webhooks flow into operational dashboards. No consolidated audit table yet.
  • Planned
    MFA on admin accounts
    Not currently enabled across every vendor account (Vercel, Supabase, AWS, GoDaddy, OpenAI, GitHub). Planned: enable on all six and document in our internal runbook.
  • N/A
    Strong password policy
    LearnSomethin is passwordless — you sign in by clicking a link in your inbox.

Vendors & data storage

All four sub-processors are disclosed in the privacy policy along with what each one does and where data is stored. Subscriber data lives in AWS us-east-1.

  • Yes
    Vendor list maintained and publicly disclosed
  • Yes
    Storage location documented
  • Yes
    Cross-border transfer disclosed
  • Yes
    Data retention policy stated
    Active subscribers indefinitely while active; unsubscribed addresses retained in suppressed state to prevent accidental re-mailing.

What we're working on

The active gaps above, in rough priority order:

  1. Physical mailing address in the email footer (blocked on finalizing the address).
  2. Anti-bot protection on the signup form (Cloudflare Turnstile).
  3. Documented data subject request runbook plus a self-service export endpoint.
  4. MFA enabled on every vendor account that touches subscriber data (Vercel, Supabase, AWS, GoDaddy, OpenAI, GitHub).

Spot something we’ve missed? Email hello@learnsomethin.com.