What we collect, and what we do with it.

Short, because there is not much of it. The Closing Mark is a publication. It needs an address to send you an issue, and a card if you buy one. That is close to the whole story.

What we collect

Your email address. Given either on this site or through a subscription form on Facebook or Instagram. It is the only thing required to receive the free series.

Whether you place your own trades. If you subscribed through a form that asked. It is used to decide whether to keep mailing you and for nothing else.

What you have bought. Which series and whether you hold the Implementation Kit, so the right issues are sent. Card details are entered on Stripe's own checkout and never reach us; we hold a customer reference, not a card number.

Delivery outcomes. Our email provider tells us when a message bounced or was marked as spam. Both suppress the address permanently, which is the point of recording them.

Which links were pressed. Links in the mail redirect through our email provider, which records that one was followed before sending you on. It is how we know whether an offer is worth making at all. The unsubscribe link is exempt and goes straight through.

Site analytics. Aggregate page traffic through Google Analytics, and advertising measurement through the Meta pixel, both of which set cookies. Neither is joined to your subscription.

What we do not do

• We do not sell, rent or trade your address. Not to anyone, at any price.
• We do not send you other companies' offers.
• We do not ask for, want, or have any way to see your brokerage account, your holdings, your balances or your trades. Nothing on this site connects to a brokerage.
• We do not tailor an issue to you. Every subscriber to a series receives the same signal at the same moment, which is both the product and the reason there is nothing personal to profile.
• We do not record whether you opened anything. No issue and no offer carries a tracking pixel, an image or a web font, so an unread message and a read one look identical to us.

Who else sees it

Only the services that make the thing work: Amazon Web Services, which hosts the site and sends the mail; Stripe, which takes payment; Google Analytics and Meta, for traffic and advertising measurement. Each sees only what its job needs. We disclose nothing else, to anyone, unless the law requires it.

How long we keep it

While you are subscribed, and after you unsubscribe we keep the address on a suppression list so that we do not mail you again by accident. That list is the one thing deleting your record would break, which is why unsubscribing removes you from the mail rather than from the file.

Ending it

Every issue carries a one-click unsubscribe and it works immediately, with no conversation and no retention offer. To have your data deleted outright, or to ask what we hold, write to privacy@theclosingmark.com and we will act on it.

Changes

If this notice changes materially, the change is announced in an issue rather than made quietly to this page.