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A subscription-based newsletter platform that enables writers to publish content directly to subscribers and monetize their work through paid subscriptions. The platform hosts independent journalists, writers, and content creators who distribute everything from political commentary to specialized industry analysis. Their policies are significant because they govern content moderation decisions, payment processing for creator income, and data handling practices that affect both writers and their subscriber audiences.
High, provisions that significantly limit your legal rights, authorize broad data collection, or create material financial exposure. Medium, provisions worth knowing about but with partial protections or limited scope. Low, standard terms with minimal consumer impact.
The class action waiver prevents users from pooling claims, which is often the only economically viable path to challenging low-dollar or widespread harms caused by a platform.
Mandatory arbitration in a specific venue and under a specific set of rules removes disputes from public courts, limits procedural options available to users, and requires users outside California to…
The indemnification obligation requires users to bear the financial cost of defending and satisfying claims brought against Substack and its associated parties, including consequential damages—the sa…
The right to change Terms at any time means the obligations governing use of Substack are not fixed, though the notification requirement ensures users receive some form of notice before or upon chang…
The absence of any cause requirement means users have no contractual protection against termination or suspension, regardless of their compliance with the Terms.
Substack collects your personal information whenever you use its services or subscribe to any publication, free or paid. When you subscribe to a Creator's publication, your name and email address …
These terms govern what you can do on Substack and what Substack can do with your content and account. You keep ownership of what you post, but Substack gets a …
Substack updated its privacy policy on May 5, 2026 to disclose that it shares account identifiers with child safety organizations to detect child sexual abuse material, added a one-month deadline …
View change record →Substack's updated privacy policy removes language describing a one-month response timeline for certain privacy rights requests and eliminates explicit disclosure about sharing account identifiers with child safety consortia. The policy …
View change record →ConductAtlas tracks 2 Substack documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
Substack has made 11 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 35 provisions across Substack's tracked documents. 2 are rated high severity, 23 medium, and 10 low.
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