between the river and Route 9

Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 28, 2026

We use your email to send local news and events Monday and Thursday. If you submit an event, we use the details to review it for a listing. We don't sell your information. You can unsubscribe anytime.

Who we are

Middletown Pulse is a free email newsletter about events and local happenings across Greater Middletown, Connecticut (Middletown, Cromwell, and Portland). You can reach us anytime at erik@middletownpulse.com.

What we collect

• Your email address, when you subscribe.
• Event submissions, including your name, email, venue address and event details. We use these to review the event, contact you about it and prepare approved listings. Your contact email stays private. Submitting an event doesn't subscribe you to the newsletter.
• Inquiries, including the contact details, business information and message you provide when asking a question or discussing advertising.
• How you found us, when you arrive from one of our ads. We pass along simple campaign tags (which ad you clicked) so we know what's working. No names, no profiles.
• Basic activity that any email service records, like whether an issue was opened or a link was clicked, so we can tell if the newsletter is useful.

You don't need to give us your name, address, phone number or payment details to subscribe. The newsletter is free.

How we use it

• To send you the Monday and Thursday newsletters and the welcome note.
• To measure how our ads and our content are performing, so we can make the newsletter better.
• To keep signups free of bots and spam.
• To respond to questions and advertising inquiries, and review submitted events.

The tools we use

Services we use for the newsletter, forms and communications include:

• Kit (ConvertKit) stores your email and sends the newsletter. (their privacy policy)
• Deftform hosts our event submission and advertising inquiry forms. Event submissions are emailed to our inbox for review. (their privacy policy)
• Google (Gmail) receives and stores messages in our Pulse inbox, including event submissions. (their privacy policy)
• Anthropic helps sort incoming inquiries and draft replies. The relevant email or form details are sent to its AI service. (their privacy information)
• Slack holds inquiry alerts and draft replies for review. (their privacy policy)
• Supabase stores inquiry details and processing records. (their privacy policy)
• Rybbit measures website visits and interactions, such as signups. (their privacy policy)
• Meta (Facebook and Instagram) runs our ads. We use the Meta pixel on this page to measure ad performance, so Meta can tell us a signup came from an ad. (their privacy policy)
• Cloudflare provides the bot check on the signup form and helps serve the site. (their privacy policy)
• Vercel hosts this website. (their privacy policy)

We don't sell your data. We use service providers to run the newsletter and handle submissions or inquiries.

Cookies and the Meta pixel

This site uses the Meta pixel, which sets cookies to measure whether visits and signups came from our ads. It's used for ad measurement, not to build a profile of you. You can limit ad tracking through your Meta ad settings or your browser and device privacy controls.

Your choices

• Unsubscribe anytime. Every email has an unsubscribe link at the bottom. One click and you're out, no questions.
• Ask what we have. Email erik@middletownpulse.com and we'll tell you.
• Have it deleted. See below.

Deleting your data

Children

Middletown Pulse is meant for adults in and around Greater Middletown. It isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information.

Changes to this policy

If we change how any of this works, we'll update this page and move the "last updated" date. Nothing sneaky.

Contact

Questions about your privacy or this policy? Email erik@middletownpulse.com and a real person (Erik) will answer.