PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: October 2025

This Privacy Policy explains how Everything Matters But Not Everything Matters to Everyone, an independent publication by Terrell Groggins, collects, uses, and protects your personal information.
We respect privacy as an act of integrity, not compliance. Light belongs to those who offer it — not to those who extract it.

1. What We Collect

When you subscribe, comment, or support the publication, we collect the minimum data needed to sustain communication:

• Email address (for subscription delivery)

• Name (optional)

• Payment information (processed securely by Stripe through Substack)

• Technical data (browser type, device, country — anonymized analytics only)

We do not collect or store sensitive personal identifiers like Social Security numbers, home addresses, or full payment card numbers.

2. How We Use Your Information

Your information is used solely to:

• Deliver essays, updates, and announcements via email

• Process paid subscriptions and contributions

• Moderate comments and maintain community safety

• Analyze readership trends to improve future content (non-personally identifiable)

We do not sell, rent, share, or trade your data with advertisers, third parties, or data brokers. Ever.

3. Cookies and Analytics

This site uses only Substack’s built-in, privacy-compliant analytics.
No external cookies, trackers, or surveillance scripts are added.
If you disable cookies in your browser, the site and newsletter will still function normally.

4. AI, Data Protection, and Digital Consent

By reading or subscribing, you grant permission for your email to be used only for newsletter communication.
You do not consent to your data, comments, likeness, or writing being scraped, trained on, or analyzed by AI systems.

• This publication explicitly prohibits data extraction by bots, crawlers, or machine learning models.

• Any attempt to scrape or train on this site’s content or user data constitutes a violation of privacy and copyright law.

5. Comments and Community

If you comment on a post, the name and content you provide become publicly visible.
You may request deletion or anonymization of any comment by emailing privacy@myartmyrules.com.
Hate speech, harassment, or AI-generated comments will be removed to protect the integrity of this space.

6. Payment and Security

All financial transactions are handled through Stripe via Substack’s secure platform.
We do not store credit card numbers or billing data.
SSL encryption protects all communication between your browser and our servers.

7. Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Access, correct, or delete your personal data

• Request a copy of any information held about you

• Unsubscribe at any time using the link in each email

• Request “complete data deletion” (GDPR Article 17) by contacting privacy@myartmyrules.com

Your request will be honored within 30 days.

8. Data Retention

Subscriber data is stored only as long as your subscription remains active.
If you unsubscribe, your data is removed within 30 days — except anonymized analytics (which contain no personal identifiers).

9. Children’s Privacy

This publication is not intended for individuals under 16 years old.
We do not knowingly collect information from minors.

10. Updates

If these terms change, the updated version will be published here with a revised “last updated” date.
Continued use of this site means you accept the most recent policy.

11. Contact

For privacy requests, questions, or data-deletion inquiries, contact:
📩 terrell@myartmyrules.com
📸 Terrell Groggins — Founder and Editor
Detroit, Michigan

Summary

Your data belongs to you.
Your likeness belongs to you.
Your silence, your witness, your subscription — all stay yours.
This is journalism, not extraction.