Privacy

Short version: Baby Dispatch holds your email address, any gear you tick on the sign-up form, where you signed up, and your reply if you send one. That's the whole list. It never asks for a due date, a birth date or a baby's age.

Who runs it

Baby Dispatch is run by Alex Vita in Bucharest, Romania. Anything about this page, or about what's held on you, goes to hello@babydispatch.com.

What's held, and why

Your email address. You typed it in yourself and confirmed it with one click, and that click is the permission to write to you (consent, in the law's word). You can take it back whenever you like: every issue has an unsubscribe link, and an email to hello@ does the same job.

The gear you ticked, if you ticked any. The form has seven optional boxes, such as Cribs and bassinets or Car seats. Each tick is saved as a tag that names the gear and nothing else. No tag, form name or list segment says expecting, pregnant, newborn or a baby's stage, and no stage is worked out from your ticks or your clicks.

Where you signed up. A sign-up from a forwarded issue saves that issue's number, and one from a link on another site saves a short name for that site. It shows how readers find Baby Dispatch, and it's only ever counted in totals.

Your replies. They land in a mailbox, and a person reads them.

What Kit sees when you read. Like most email services, Kit records whether an issue was opened and which links in it were clicked. Baby Dispatch reads only the totals, such as how many readers opened an issue, and works out nothing about any one reader from them.

Server logs. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, keeps the standard logs a host keeps for security.

Who else handles it

Kit, the company that sends the email, stores your address, your gear tags and where you signed up on its servers in the US and handles them under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Cloudflare hosts the site. Google Workspace handles mail to hello@babydispatch.com, which is where your replies land. That's everyone. The list is never sold, rented or swapped, and it isn't uploaded to any ad platform.

How long it's kept

Your address, your tags and where you signed up stay on the list until you unsubscribe. Kit then keeps a record of the unsubscribe itself, so a slip can't put you back on. Replies stay in the mailbox unless you ask to have them deleted, except that a reply holding health details is deleted within 30 days whether you ask or not.

Your rights

You can ask to see what's held on you, have it corrected, have it deleted, or take back your permission to email you, and all four start with an email to hello@babydispatch.com. If you think your data has been handled badly, you can complain to ANSPDCP, Romania's data protection authority, or to the one where you live.

Consumer health data

A list about a baby's first year can say something about the people on it, so Baby Dispatch treats it as consumer health data under Washington's My Health My Data Act. That has its own page: the consumer health data policy.

Cookies

The site sets no cookies and loads nothing from any other company, so nobody else's cookies turn up here either.