Privacy Policy

This policy describes what information P9NW collects from readers, how it is used, with whom it is shared, and the rights you have over it. The aim is plain: keep what is needed to publish the work and run the business, share only with the partners required to do so, and never sell or rent reader data.

Scope of this policy.

This policy applies to information collected through the website at p9nw.com and any of its subdomains, the email newsletter (the journal) and any related correspondence, and any purchases made through P9NW. It does not cover the privacy practices of third-party websites linked from P9NW — those sites operate under their own policies, and you should review them independently.

Who we are.

P9NW (the “Power Nine Network”) is an editorial project operated by Jim Davis as a sole proprietorship in Pennsylvania, United States. For the purposes of data-protection law, the data controller is Jim Davis, doing business as P9NW.

The working contact route is the editor at p9nw.com/contact/. Postal contact for legal notice can be made via the same route; a working address will be provided on request.

What we collect.

P9NW collects two general kinds of information: what you give directly, and what is collected automatically when you use the site.

Information you give directly.

Email subscription. If you subscribe to the journal, you provide your email address. You may also be asked for a first name (optional, used for friendlier salutation in emails) and may indicate preferences about which kinds of communications you wish to receive.
Purchases. If you purchase a treatise, book, membership, or other offering, you provide billing information — name, email, billing address, and payment details. Payment-card information is handled by the payment processor (currently Stripe) and is not stored on P9NW’s servers; see Payments and purchase data below.
Correspondence. If you write to the editor, you provide the email address and content of your message. Letters are read by the writer personally and not shared except as needed to respond, comply with law, or address abuse.

Information collected automatically.

Server logs. The web host (Hostinger) automatically records, for each visit, the IP address of the requesting device, browser type and version, operating system, the URL of the referring page, the URLs visited on the site, and timestamps. These logs are used for security, abuse-prevention, and aggregate traffic analysis.
Analytics. P9NW uses Google Analytics (via Site Kit) and the OptimizePress dashboard’s built-in analytics to understand how readers find and use the site — which essays are read, where readers come from, how long they stay. These tools may set cookies and may collect device identifiers as described below.
Advertising and conversion pixels. Where active, P9NW may use the Meta (Facebook) Pixel to measure the effectiveness of any paid promotion of the journal or its offerings. When in use, the pixel records page views and conversion events (e.g., signup) and shares them with Meta. The pixel can be disabled by browser-level tracking-protection settings, or by declining cookies where a consent banner is shown.
Content delivery and security. The site is served through Cloudflare, which acts as a content delivery network and security layer. Cloudflare receives the same kind of request metadata as the web host (IP, headers, request paths) and uses it to route traffic, block abuse, and provide caching.
Statistics widget. The site may use Jetpack Stats, a WordPress-bundled analytics service operated by Automattic, for basic aggregate page-view counts.

Cookies and similar technologies.

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. P9NW and its third-party service providers use cookies and similar technologies (web beacons, local storage) for the following purposes:

Strictly necessary. Cookies required for the site to function — session management, security tokens, preserving form input across page loads. The site does not function correctly without these.
Analytics. Cookies set by Google Analytics, the OP dashboard, and Jetpack to record aggregate, mostly-anonymous usage data. These can be declined; the site still functions.
Advertising / conversion measurement. Where active, cookies set by the Meta Pixel and any future advertising network to measure conversions and (where you have opted into it elsewhere) personalise advertising. These can be declined.
Affiliate attribution. When you click an affiliate link from P9NW, the destination retailer (e.g., Amazon, a ClickBank vendor) sets its own cookies to credit P9NW with a referral if you make a qualifying purchase. These cookies are set by the destination retailer, not by P9NW, and are governed by that retailer’s privacy policy.

You can control cookies through your browser settings — most browsers allow you to refuse cookies, refuse third-party cookies only, or delete existing cookies. Refusing certain cookies may degrade site features but will not prevent reading.

How information is used.

P9NW uses the information collected for these purposes, and no others:

To deliver the journal, treatises, and other editorial work to subscribers
To fulfil purchases — processing payment, delivering the purchased product, providing receipts and customer support
To improve the site — understanding which essays land, which pages are slow, where readers drop off
To prevent abuse and protect the site from attack
To respond to correspondence from readers
To comply with legal obligations — tax, accounting, lawful requests from authorities, defence of legal claims
To send transactional emails related to a purchase, subscription, or correspondence you have initiated
To send editorial communications (the journal and occasional announcements of related work) to readers who have subscribed

P9NW does not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise commercially share reader data with third parties for their own marketing purposes. The legal bases for processing personal data, where required by EU or UK law, are described in the GDPR section below.

Email and other communications.

P9NW uses MailerLite as its email service provider. When you subscribe to the journal, your email address (and any other details you provide) is transmitted to and stored on MailerLite’s servers. MailerLite’s own privacy policy governs how it processes that data on P9NW’s behalf as a processor.

The kinds of email that may be sent through MailerLite include:

The journal — long-form essays, on a deliberate cadence
Occasional editorial announcements — new treatise published, new investigation, a particular reading recommended
Transactional emails — receipts, delivery of purchased items, customer service replies, subscription renewals
Notices about changes to this policy, the terms of use, or other matters that materially affect your relationship with P9NW

Every editorial and promotional email includes a one-click unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing removes you from the marketing list immediately. Transactional emails (e.g., receipts for a purchase you have made) may continue as required to complete or service that transaction.

P9NW does not engage in launch-style email funnels, urgency-driven sequences, or automated outreach that disregards reader preferences. The cadence is deliberate, the volume is modest, and the editorial register is sentence case.

P9NW shares information with the following categories of third parties, only as needed to operate the site and the business:

Web host and infrastructure: Hostinger (hosting), Cloudflare (CDN and security)
Email service: MailerLite (newsletter delivery, list management, deliverability)
Analytics and statistics: Google (Google Analytics via Site Kit), Automattic (Jetpack Stats), OptimizePress (built-in dashboard analytics)
Advertising and conversion measurement (where active): Meta Platforms (Meta Pixel)
Payment processing (where active): Stripe
Affiliate networks: Amazon Services LLC (the Amazon Associates Program) and ClickBank, when you follow an affiliate link from P9NW to one of their merchants — though the data sharing here is initiated by your click, not by P9NW transmitting your information to them
Legal and regulatory authorities: only when required by law, court order, or to defend legal claims
A buyer or successor — if the P9NW business were sold, merged, or otherwise transferred (an unlikely but legally-foreseeable event), subscriber and customer data may be transferred to the new owner, subject to the same protections described in this policy

None of these parties is permitted to use P9NW’s data for its own marketing purposes; each acts as a service provider or business partner under contract, with use limited to providing the relevant service.

Affiliate-link tracking.

P9NW participates in affiliate programs (currently the Amazon Associates Program and selected ClickBank vendors). When you click an affiliate link from P9NW, the destination merchant may set a cookie or use other tracking that credits P9NW with a referral if you make a qualifying purchase. The data collected by these merchants — what you click on their site, what you ultimately purchase — is governed by their own privacy policies, not by P9NW’s, and P9NW does not receive that browsing or purchase data in any individually-identifying form. Commission reports are aggregate.

If you prefer not to participate in affiliate tracking, you can type destination URLs directly rather than following links, use browser settings or extensions to block third-party cookies, or use private/incognito browsing.

Payments and purchase data.

If P9NW offers paid products in the future — the treatise as a paid edition, books, memberships, or other editorial work — payments will be processed by Stripe. When you make a purchase:

Your payment card number, CVC, and expiry date are entered directly into Stripe’s secure form. P9NW never sees or stores those values.
P9NW receives, from Stripe, the information needed to fulfil the order: the name on the card, billing email and address, the amount and items purchased, and a transaction reference. This information is retained as required by tax and accounting law.
Stripe processes the transaction under its own privacy policy and PCI-DSS-compliant security practices.

Refunds are handled per the published refund and returns policy and the specific terms displayed at point of sale.

If you are located in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or the European Economic Area, the General Data Protection Regulation (and the equivalent UK GDPR) grant you the following rights with respect to your personal data:

Access. The right to confirm whether P9NW holds personal data about you and to receive a copy of it.
Rectification. The right to have inaccurate data corrected.
Erasure (“right to be forgotten”). The right to request deletion of your data, subject to limited exceptions for legal compliance or defence of legal claims.
Restriction. The right to restrict processing in certain circumstances.
Portability. The right to receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller.
Objection. The right to object to processing based on legitimate interests, and the absolute right to object to direct marketing.
Withdrawal of consent. Where processing is based on consent, the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing prior to withdrawal.
Complaint to a supervisory authority. The right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority.

The legal bases on which P9NW processes personal data are: consent (for marketing emails and non-essential cookies), contract (for fulfilling purchases and delivering subscriptions you have signed up for), legitimate interests (for security, abuse prevention, basic analytics, and editorial communications to existing readers about closely related editorial work), and legal obligation (for tax records, lawful requests, etc.).

To exercise any of these rights, write to the editor. Requests will be responded to within thirty days; identity verification may be required for security.

Your rights — California (CCPA/CPRA).

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, grants you the following rights:

Right to know. The right to request disclosure of the categories of personal information P9NW has collected about you, the categories of sources, the purposes for collection, the categories of third parties with whom it is shared, and the specific pieces of personal information collected.
Right to delete. The right to request deletion of personal information collected from you, subject to legal exceptions.
Right to correct. The right to request correction of inaccurate personal information.
Right to opt out of sale or sharing. P9NW does not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA/CPRA. Should that ever change, an opt-out mechanism will be added to this page.
Right to limit use of sensitive personal information. P9NW does not collect sensitive personal information as defined by the CPRA.
Right to non-discrimination. P9NW will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

To exercise any California right, write to the editor. Authorised agents may submit requests on your behalf with appropriate verification.

How long information is kept.

P9NW retains personal data only as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy:

Subscriber email and preferences: for as long as you remain subscribed, plus a short period after unsubscribing for housekeeping (e.g., to ensure you are not re-added in error). On request, deletion is immediate.
Purchase and tax records: as long as required by U.S. tax law (typically seven years) for financial-record purposes.
Server logs: typically thirty to ninety days, then deleted or rolled into aggregate statistics.
Analytics data: retained per the configuration of the analytics provider (Google Analytics: currently 14 months for event-level data by default, subject to change with provider settings).
Correspondence: for as long as useful to the editorial work, generally indefinitely unless deletion is requested.

Children.

P9NW is not intended for, and does not knowingly collect data from, anyone under the age of thirteen. If you believe a child under thirteen has provided personal information to P9NW, write to the editor and the information will be deleted promptly.

Security.

P9NW takes reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information — encryption in transit (HTTPS sitewide), reputable processors with their own enterprise-grade security, access limited to those who need it, and standard hardening of the WordPress installation.

No system is perfectly secure, and no transmission over the internet can be guaranteed against interception. By using P9NW, you acknowledge this inherent limitation. In the event of a breach affecting personal data, P9NW will notify affected individuals and the relevant authorities as required by applicable law.

International transfers.

P9NW operates from the United States, and its primary processors (Hostinger, Cloudflare, Google, Meta, MailerLite, Stripe, Automattic) operate across multiple jurisdictions. If you are located outside the United States, your personal data may be transferred to, processed in, and stored in the United States or in any country where P9NW or its processors operate.

For transfers from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland to the United States, P9NW relies on the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and equivalent UK frameworks, or on the processor’s certification under any applicable adequacy regime.

Changes to this policy.

This policy may be updated as the editorial work and its operations evolve. The current version is always the one published at this URL; the “effective” date in the header above reflects the most recent material revision.

For material changes affecting subscriber rights or significant new categories of data processing, existing subscribers will be notified by email at least thirty days before the change takes effect. Continued use of P9NW after that period constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

How to contact us.

For privacy questions, requests to exercise your rights, or any other matter related to this policy, write to the editor at p9nw.com/contact/. Identify the nature of your request clearly in the subject line; responses are typically issued within thirty days, sooner where law requires.