Privacy Policy: Useful AI Weekly
Effective and last updated: October 20, 2026
Useful AI Weekly is a free weekly email newsletter with practical, step-by-step AI tricks for people who don’t code. It’s run by Brandon Coates in Washington State, USA (“we,” “us”). This page explains what information we collect, why, and the choices you have.
What we collect
Your email address, when you sign up at https://usefulaiweekly.beehiiv.com (usefulaiweekly.com). That’s the only thing our signup form asks for.
Basic newsletter analytics from our email platform, beehiiv, which tracks opens and clicks by default. This means whether an email was delivered and opened, which links were clicked, how you found us (for example, a link tagged as coming from X), and general technical details such as device or browser type and approximate location based on your internet address. Open tracking isn’t perfect, so the numbers are estimates.
Anything you choose to send us, such as a reply to an issue.
Why we collect it
To send you the newsletter and the welcome email with links to your free gifts.
To understand, in general, what readers find useful so we can make it better.
To answer your replies and questions.
To keep the list healthy, for example by removing addresses that bounce.
Our email platform (beehiiv)
We use beehiiv to run the newsletter, host our website, and store our subscriber list. beehiiv processes subscriber information on our behalf to provide that service, and also handles some information for its own purposes, such as security and preventing spam and abuse. Learn more in beehiiv’s Privacy Policy.
Recommendations: when you sign up, we may show other newsletters you can choose to join. If you opt in to one, your email address is shared with that newsletter so it can subscribe you. Nothing is shared unless you choose it.
Our Gumroad store
The store is run by Brandon Coates and also offers products from his other newsletters, such as Living Longer Using AI Today! Everything sold or given away on our Gumroad store (https://usefulai1.gumroad.com), including free downloads, paid guides, and kits, is delivered through Gumroad, an online shop. When you download or buy any of them, Gumroad asks for your email address to send you a receipt with your download link, and we can see that address in our Gumroad account. Gumroad processes payment under its own Privacy Policy; card details go to Gumroad and its payment processors. Downloading or buying doesn’t sign you up for the newsletter, and we don’t add Gumroad email addresses to our list or email them marketing unless you’ve separately agreed.
What we don’t do
We don’t sell your personal information or rent our list to anyone.
We don’t share your email address with sponsors or advertisers. Sponsors may see overall numbers, such as subscriber count or a typical open rate, but never your individual details.
Sponsors and our own products
Sponsored sections, if any, are always labeled with the sponsor’s name. We sometimes mention our own products, labeled “From us.” When you click a link to another company’s site, its own privacy policy and cookies apply there.
Your choices
Unsubscribe anytime: click “Unsubscribe” at the bottom of any email. It usually takes effect right away, and always within 10 business days.
Ask us to delete your information: email [email protected] with the subject “Delete my data,” from the address you subscribed with. We’ll delete your subscriber record from our beehiiv account and confirm by email. (beehiiv may keep limited records, such as backups or abuse-prevention logs, as its own policy describes.) If you downloaded or bought anything from our Gumroad store, tell us and we’ll also remove your record from our Gumroad account where Gumroad allows it.
Ask what we hold about you, or correct it: email the same address.
Children
Useful AI Weekly is written for adults. It isn’t directed to children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has signed up, email us and we’ll delete the information.
Where we are
Useful AI Weekly is run from Washington State in the United States, and subscriber information is stored by beehiiv, which is based in the United States. If you sign up from outside the US, your information will be handled in the US.
Changes
If we change this policy in a meaningful way, we’ll update the date at the top and mention it in the newsletter.
Contact
Questions? Email [email protected].