PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: July 8, 2026

Worn In Worn Out respects reader privacy and treats personal information with the same standard that guides the archive itself: care, restraint, and stewardship.

This Privacy Policy explains how Worn In Worn Out may collect, use, and protect information connected to this publication, its related editorial work, and its associated vintage commerce activity.

WIWO is published through Substack. Substack’s own Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, Publisher Agreement, payment systems, account tools, email delivery, analytics, and platform functions also apply to your use of this publication.

I. Information We May Receive

When you subscribe, comment, message, purchase, or otherwise interact with Worn In Worn Out, WIWO may receive limited information such as:

• your name or display name

• your email address

• subscription status

• comments or replies you choose to publish

• messages you send directly

• purchase or order-related information if you buy through a connected marketplace

• general engagement information provided by Substack, such as opens, clicks, subscriptions, referrals, or reader activity

WIWO does not directly collect or store your credit card number through Substack. Payment processing is handled by Substack and its payment providers. Substack states that it uses Stripe as a third-party payment provider for credit card transactions.

II. How Information Is Used

WIWO may use reader or customer information to:

• deliver essays, notes, updates, and publication emails

• manage subscriptions and reader communication

• respond to direct messages, questions, or customer service issues

• understand which topics, essays, tags, or archives readers engage with

• improve the editorial archive, posting structure, and reader experience

• process or support vintage commerce activity when a reader becomes a buyer

• protect WIWO’s work, rights, intellectual property, and publication integrity

WIWO does not sell reader personal information.

III. Email & Subscription Communication

If you subscribe to Worn In Worn Out, you may receive publication emails through Substack.

You may unsubscribe or adjust your email settings through Substack’s tools at any time. Substack’s own Privacy Policy explains that users can unsubscribe from marketing communications through unsubscribe links or communication preferences.

IV. Comments, Notes & Public Interaction

If you comment, reply, like, repost, or otherwise interact publicly with WIWO on Substack, that activity may be visible to others depending on your Substack account settings.

Please do not post private, sensitive, confidential, medical, financial, legal, or identifying information in public comments or replies.

WIWO may remove, hide, block, or report comments or interactions that are abusive, threatening, spammy, exploitative, harassing, impersonating, or made in bad faith.

V. Direct Messages

If you send WIWO a direct message, email, or private communication, the information you provide may be used to respond to you, manage the publication, address customer service issues, or protect the brand.

Substack states that direct messages on its platform are not end-to-end encrypted and should not be treated as a substitute for secure messaging.

VI. Vintage Commerce & Marketplace Activity

WIWO may link to or operate through third-party marketplaces, storefronts, payment processors, shipping tools, or commerce platforms.

If you purchase from WIWO through eBay, Etsy, Poshmark, Mercari, PayPal, Stripe, GoDaddy, or another third-party service, that platform’s privacy policy, terms, payment rules, return rules, buyer protections, and data practices also apply.

WIWO may use order information only as needed to process, ship, document, support, or resolve the transaction.

VII. Cookies, Analytics

& Platform Tools

Substack may use cookies, analytics, device information, browser information, IP addresses, and other technical tools to operate the platform, deliver emails, secure accounts, process payments, measure engagement, and improve services. Substack’s Privacy Policy explains that it collects browser/device information, IP address, subscription status, and usage information through cookies and platform activity.

WIWO may review Substack-provided analytics to understand reader engagement, but does not use those analytics to personally profile readers outside the publication’s normal editorial and subscription activity.

VIII. Intellectual Property, Scraping & AI Training

WIWO does not authorize the scraping, copying, harvesting, dataset creation, automated extraction, commercial reuse, or use of WIWO writing, images, captions, frameworks, tag systems, or editorial concepts for generative AI training or machine-learning datasets without written permission.

This section does not limit a reader’s ability to share public WIWO links in good faith.

IX. Data Retention

WIWO keeps reader, subscriber, message, and commerce-related information only as long as reasonably necessary for publication management, communication, recordkeeping, customer support, legal protection, or platform functionality.

Some information may remain stored by Substack or third-party platforms according to their own privacy policies and retention practices.

X. Reader Choices

Depending on the platform and your location, you may be able to:

• unsubscribe from WIWO emails

• update your Substack profile or email preferences

• delete or adjust your Substack account settings

• request access, correction, or deletion of certain personal information

• contact Substack directly regarding platform-held information

• contact WIWO regarding information WIWO directly controls

For Substack account, payment, email delivery, app, and platform privacy issues, use Substack’s own privacy and account tools.

For WIWO-specific privacy questions, contact:

info@worninwornout.com

XI. Security

WIWO takes reasonable care in handling reader, subscriber, message, and commerce-related information.

However, no digital platform, email system, marketplace, payment processor, or online communication method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Readers should use care when sharing personal, sensitive, confidential, medical, financial, or identifying information online.

XII. Children’s Privacy

Worn In Worn Out is not directed to children.

WIWO does not knowingly collect personal information from children. If WIWO becomes aware that personal information from a child has been provided directly to the publication, WIWO will take reasonable steps to delete or remove it where appropriate.

XIII. Updates

WIWO may update this Privacy Policy as the publication, archive, storefront, platforms, or legal requirements evolve.

The current version will be posted on this page with the updated date above.

XIV. Governing Principle

WIWO exists to preserve what deserves another chapter.

That principle applies here too: reader information should be handled with care, used with restraint, and never treated as disposable.

Preserve what deserves another chapter.

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