Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 3, 2026

publish.law is operated by Wilde Media LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“we,” “us”). This policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have.

It covers publish.law itself and every site we host for our publishers, including *.publish.law subdomains and publisher sites served at custom domains. When you visit an attorney’s site hosted by publish.law, this is the privacy policy that applies to the hosting platform. The publisher is responsible for their own content and for how they use information you send them.

The short version

• We collect what we need to run a publishing platform: your account details, the content you publish, subscriber emails, and billing information.
• Published content is public by design. That’s the point of the product.
• Our analytics are cookieless and aggregate. We don’t run third-party ads, we don’t use advertising cookies, and we don’t sell personal information. The only promotions you’ll ever see on our platform are for publish.law itself, and they don’t track you.
• Card payments go directly to Stripe. We never see or store your card number.
• You can delete your account yourself, and deletion removes your data, not just your login.

Information we collect

If you create a publisher account. Your email address and password (stored by our authentication provider in hashed form, never plaintext), your chosen subdomain, and your display name. If you sign up with LinkedIn, we receive your name, email address, profile photo, and public profile URL from LinkedIn, and we use them to pre-fill your profile. If you use our share-to-LinkedIn feature, we store the access tokens LinkedIn issues so we can post on your behalf when you ask us to, and only then.

Profile and published content. Your bio, photo, professional background, links, posts, pages, and notes exist to be published. See “Public by design” below.

If you subscribe to a publisher’s newsletter. Your email address, an optional name, and your subscription status. We create a lightweight, passwordless account record to manage your subscription and let you interact with publishers (for example, commenting). Every subscription is confirmed by email before anything is sent (double opt-in), and every newsletter includes an unsubscribe link.

If you comment or reply. The text you write, tied to your account.

If you send a publisher a contact-form inquiry. Your name, email address, phone number if you provide one, and your message. We deliver these to the publisher and store them in the publisher’s inbox on our platform. We also record a one-way hash of your IP address and basic browser information with the submission, to prevent spam and abuse.

Billing. If you buy a paid plan, payment is handled by Stripe. We send Stripe your email address so it can create a customer record, and we store the subscription status Stripe reports back. Your card details go directly to Stripe and never touch our servers.

Technical and security data. Like almost every web service, our infrastructure processes IP addresses to serve requests and to rate-limit abuse. Where we store IP addresses at all (rate limiting, abuse prevention, audit logs), we store them in one-way hashed form, not as raw addresses. Raw addresses are handled transiently to serve requests and appear durably only in internal administrative audit records.

Public by design

publish.law is a publishing platform built on an open identity protocol. When you publish, the following is public: your profile (name, bio, photo, and any links or background you add), your posts, pages, and notes, your follows, and your machine-readable identity document (olpn.json). Public content is also available through standard open channels: RSS feeds, sitemaps, and machine-readable endpoints compatible with open protocols like ActivityPub. As federation features roll out, copies of public content may come to be stored on other servers we don’t control. And as with anything public on the web, third parties can copy, cache, or archive what you publish; deleting content here can’t reach copies others have made.

Don’t put anything in your public profile or published content that you want to keep private. The optional email field on your public profile is exactly that: public and optional.

How we use information

We use the information above to provide the service: hosting your site, delivering newsletters, routing inquiries, processing payments, and showing you your own analytics. We also use it to secure the platform (rate limiting, abuse and spam prevention, audit logs), to communicate with you about your account, and to improve the product using aggregate, non-identifying data.

We use automated systems, including third-party AI services, to screen comments and replies for spam and abuse before they reach a publisher’s site. The text of a comment is processed for classification and is not used to train anyone’s models.

We don’t sell personal information, we don’t share it with data brokers, and we don’t use it to advertise anyone else’s products. Sites on our free plan may display promotions for publish.law itself; these are served without cookies, tracking, or any third party.

Cookies

We use a small number of first-party cookies, all functional:

• Session cookies that keep you signed in.
• A referral cookie, set only if you arrive through a referral link, so we can credit the person who referred you. It expires after 90 days.
• Short-lived security cookies used during sign-in and password-reset flows.

That’s the list. No advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking, which is why you don’t see a cookie banner.

Analytics

We use privacy-focused, cookieless analytics that count page views in aggregate. They don’t identify individual visitors, don’t set cookies, and don’t follow anyone across the web. Publishers see aggregate view counts for their own sites.

Service providers

We share personal information only with the vendors that run the platform, and only what each needs to do its job: cloud database, authentication, and file-storage providers; Stripe for payment processing; an email delivery service for transactional email and newsletters; content-delivery and security infrastructure; an automated content-moderation service; and a referral-tracking service (which receives the email address of a referred signup). Each processes data on our instructions.

We’ll disclose information if the law genuinely requires it, and if we’re ever part of a merger or acquisition, this policy would continue to apply to existing data until changed with notice.

Publishers and their audiences

When you subscribe to a publisher’s newsletter or send them an inquiry, you’re sharing your information with that publisher as well as with us. Publishers can see and export their own subscriber lists and inquiry inboxes. We host that data on the publisher’s behalf; the publisher decides how to use it, subject to our terms and to applicable law. If you want a publisher to stop emailing you, use the unsubscribe link in any newsletter, or contact us and we’ll help.

Connected AI assistants

Publishers can connect an AI assistant (like Claude or ChatGPT) to manage their own site. A connected assistant acts only on the connecting publisher’s account, only with permissions granted through a standard OAuth authorization that the publisher can revoke. We keep an audit log of assistant activity in which content values are redacted; we log that a tool ran, not what you wrote.

Retention and deletion

We keep personal information while your account is active or while it’s needed for the purposes above. If you delete your account, your content, profile, subscribers, and inquiries are deleted, your billing subscription is canceled, and the deletion cascades through our systems. We also remove your uploaded files; if a storage cleanup step fails, stragglers are removed as we find them. Copies may persist for a limited time in backups and caches, a few records survive where we have a legitimate security need (such as internal audit trails and unsubscribe records, kept so we don’t email someone who opted out), and public content that third parties copied or archived is beyond our reach.

Newsletter unsubscribes take effect immediately. If you’re a subscriber and want your data removed entirely rather than just unsubscribed, email us and we’ll do it.

Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live, you may have legal rights to access, correct, export, or delete your personal information. We honor these requests for everyone, not just where a statute makes us: email privacy@publish.law and we’ll respond within 30 days. Publishers can export a portable copy of their identity and published posts from the dashboard at any time, can export their subscriber list separately, and can delete their account without asking us.

A few things some state laws ask us to say explicitly: we don’t sell personal information or share it for cross-context advertising, and we have no plans to start (if that ever changed, this policy would change first, with notice). We won’t treat you differently for exercising a privacy right. And we use the limited sensitive information we hold only to provide and secure the service.

Security

We use industry-standard measures to protect personal information: encrypted connections everywhere, hashed passwords, access controls that scope every account to its own data, and hashed rather than raw IP addresses in our logs wherever possible. No online service can promise perfect security, but we build with the assumption that boring, careful defaults beat clever ones.

Children

publish.law is a professional publishing platform. It isn’t directed to children, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we’ll delete it.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we’ll update the effective date at the top, and for material changes we’ll give account holders reasonable notice by email or in the dashboard.

Contact

Questions or requests: privacy@publish.law

Wilde Media LLC 3225 South MacDill Avenue, #129-307 Tampa, FL 33629