Legal · provisional
Privacy Notice
Effective 18 July 2026
China Snapshot is not yet accepting paid subscriptions. This notice describes the current public site and the infrastructure prepared for a future paid beta. It will be updated with the incorporated controller’s legal name and jurisdiction before live billing.
What we collect
The public site records a small allowlist of first-party aggregate events such as page views, briefing calls to action, source clicks, and archive opens. These event rows do not store email addresses, query text, cookies, IP addresses, or user-agent strings.
If you join the briefing list, we store your email address, the time and version of your consent, subscription status, and delivery-sync status. If member accounts open later, Neon Auth will store account and session data. Stripe will process payment and billing information; China Snapshot’s database will store provider identifiers, subscription status, entitlements, and billing period metadata, not complete card details.
Why we use it
- Operate, secure, and improve the site.
- Send requested briefings and launch updates.
- Provide and administer future subscriber access.
- Measure aggregate acquisition, activation, retention, and reliability.
- Meet legal, fraud-prevention, and accounting obligations when applicable.
Service providers
Neon hosts the database and authentication records. Vercel hosts the site and serverless APIs, processes ordinary network and deployment logs, and provides cookie-free Web Analytics using a short-lived hash derived from request data. Resend delivers consented email. GitHub stores source code and public generated data. Stripe will process future payments. DeepSeek and Jina support content processing; subscriber email addresses and billing data are not sent to them by the application.
Email choices
Briefing email is opt-in. You can unsubscribe using the link in a message or contact contact@china-snapshot.com. Unsubscribing stops marketing delivery but may not erase records needed to honor the suppression request.
Retention and security
We retain waitlist and account records while you remain subscribed or while reasonably needed for service, security, accounting, dispute, or legal purposes. Access is restricted through provider controls, server-side APIs, least-privilege database roles, and row-level policies. No internet service can guarantee absolute security.
Your requests
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or receive a copy of personal data, and to withdraw consent. Send requests to contact@china-snapshot.com. Identity verification may be required.
International processing and updates
Providers may process data in countries other than your own. Applicable transfer and controller details will be finalized before paid launch. Material updates will be posted here with a new effective date.