Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, subscriptionscore.com, and any other sites we own and operate.

This is an out of date version of our privacy policy. This document is no longer in effect. You can view the latest version here.

Last updated 26th December 2019.
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Personal information

We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide the service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we're collecting it and how it will be used.

We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. What data we store, we protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

You are free to refuse our request for your personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some or all of our service.

GDPR

If you are an EU resident then you have the right at any time to request all the personal information we have for you as dictated by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Under the same regulation, we will also delete any or all of this information at your request.

If you are not an EU resident then we will still provide this information to you if you ask for it, because we believe you should have these rights regardless of where in the world you live.

In addition, you can also choose to delete your account manually from the plugin settings page, which results in your data being automatically removed irreversibly from our system and your browser.

The Service

The browser plugin

To provide the service that the browser plugin uses, we request the URL of the tab that is currently active in your browser.
We then use the domain of this URL (eg. facebook.com) to search our database for mailing list records.

For our internal use in developing accurate scores, we count how frequently a mailing list is returned in a search, as well as how many times a user blocks or allows access to it through the plugin.
These counts are not associated with any user information, so it is NOT possible for us to identify the websites that any user visits for example.

That said, we are dedicated to upholding the privacy of all our information and promise to never do anything with this metadata except provide you an excellent service through our websites and plugins.

The website

Through our webite, visitors can manually submit email addresses to check their scores. These are recorded as public hits against our API and the details of the requests are discarded.

The Mailing Lists & Scores

Although individually submitted email addresses are used to generate the scores, we do not expose these via our service, and thus the scores and information we display should not be considered personally identifiable information.

If you want us to remove a specific score from our system because you think it is exposing personal information, then please let us know immediately.

Third parties

We don't share any user data publicly or with third-parties, except when required to by law. To date this has never been requested and we can't imagine why it would be.

We do use a few third-party scripts with whom we share non-personal data for the following purposes;

  1. Page view analytics (Simple Analytics)

  2. In-app support chat built by us: (Squarechat)

  3. Cookie consent (Metomic)

  4. Error handling (Sentry)

  5. Payment processing (Stripe)

We have ensured that the respective privacy policies of these companies align with our own values.

External sources

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.

Open Startup statistics

We collect statistical information such as the total number of requests to our APIs and the bost frequently blocked mailing lists. As well as various financial details.

This data does not contain any personal identifying information and is only stored as counts or percentages.

We periodically share this information publicly with our followers on social media for the sole purpose of documenting and sharing our successes and failures as an "open startup", for the benefit of others and to keep ourselves accountable.

You can see an example of what we do with this data on our open page for Leave Me Alone.


We believe that by following these rules we can keep your data as safe as possible, but if you have any suggestions on how we can improve then let us know!

Your continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle any of our data, feel free to contact us.


This policy was last updated on the 26th December 2019.

Previous versions:

For accountability we will keep the old versions of our privacy policy around to view here.