Privacy policy.

Personal information is collected in two places. The email newsletter sign-up appears on the home page, on the For Everyone page, on the newsletter page, and at the end of the research summary; it asks for two things — a first name and an email address. The two pamphlet pages ask for the same two things in exchange for the PDF.

Nothing else here asks for personal information. There is no account to create, no login, no payment details, and no free-text field. Reading a page, downloading a graphic, or opening a research report requires nothing at all.

A newsletter sign-up exists for one purpose: to send Neighborhood Bitcoin’s email updates to the person who asked for them. The first name is used to address those emails and for nothing else.

A pamphlet request exists to send that pamphlet, and then a short series of six educational emails about it over three weeks. Because a request is a sign-up as well as a download, the address also joins Neighborhood Bitcoin’s general email updates — the pamphlet pages say so plainly, above the button. That series can be stopped on its own at any time, from a link in every one of its emails, without leaving the updates list.

An address is used only for what the form that collected it offered, as set out above, and is not used for unrelated marketing.

Neighborhood Bitcoin does not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise share personal information with anyone for their own purposes.

Two service providers handle it so that email can be sent. SureContact receives form submissions and stores the contact record. Postmark delivers the emails that follow. Both act only on Neighborhood Bitcoin’s instructions, and neither may use the information for its own ends.

One technical detail, stated plainly rather than buried: the sign-up and a pamphlet request are both submitted straight from your browser to SureContact, so — as with any request a browser makes — SureContact’s servers also see your IP address and which browser you used. This site sends only the two fields you typed, plus a short label naming where on the site you signed up, which pamphlet you asked for if that is what you did, and, if you arrived by scanning the QR code on one of Neighborhood Bitcoin’s printed pamphlets, which pamphlet it was. No cookies travel with them.

This site uses Fathom Analytics to count how often each page is read. Fathom is built for privacy: it sets no cookies, follows nobody between websites, builds no advertising profiles, and does not sell or share what it collects.

What comes back is aggregate — which pages are being read, which links brought people to them, roughly which part of the world visitors are in, and how many newsletter sign-ups and pamphlet requests were completed. A pamphlet request sends the name of the pamphlet and nothing else. None of it identifies a person, and none of it is connected to the name or address anyone types into a form.

This site sets no cookies. Not for sessions, not for preferences, not for advertising. Nothing is written to your browser’s local storage either.

That is also why there is no cookie banner. There is nothing to consent to.

There are no advertising pixels, no session-replay tools, and no third-party code that runs on its own anywhere on this site. The share buttons in the footer are ordinary links rather than embedded widgets: they do nothing until clicked, and the link they carry points at the home page, so following one does not reveal which page you were reading.

Fonts are served from this site rather than fetched from a third party, and there are no maps or chat widgets. One press page carries a video published on X. Nothing is requested from X until you press play — until then the page shows a still image drawn by this site, and X is not contacted at all. Press play and the video is fetched from X, which then sees your IP address the way any site you open does; the player is asked not to use the visit for personalization. Apart from that, the analytics above, and the forms described here, loading a page here contacts no other company.

The media toolkit, the research reports, and every graphic and guide supporting the foundational research Neighborhood Bitcoin is built upon are ungated. No email address is required to download any of them, and those downloads are not individually logged or tied to a person.

A few optional resources do ask for one. The two printed pamphlets are offered as PDFs in exchange for a first name and an email address, for anyone who would like to carry their Bitcoin education on by email. A request records which pamphlet was asked for, so the emails that follow are about that pamphlet. Nothing needed to understand the research itself sits behind that.

Anyone who has signed up for the newsletter or requested a pamphlet can ask what is held, have it corrected, or have it deleted outright. Write to the address below and the request will be honored — there is no form to fill out, and no reason has to be given.

Requests to stop receiving email are handled the same way, and every newsletter and automated message carries an unsubscribe link of its own. The emails in a pamphlet series carry two: one that stops just that series and leaves the address on the updates list, and the ordinary unsubscribe link, which stops everything.

This site is not directed at children under 13, and information about children is not knowingly collected. If you believe a child has submitted information here, write to the address below and it will be removed.

When this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it. Meaningful changes will be described here rather than made quietly.