Subscription Terms

Subscriptions on The Blog Story mean email updates — being told when new writing appears. They are the only kind of subscription the platform has.

1. Everything here is free

There are no paid plans, no premium tiers and no paywalls. Reading, writing, publishing and subscribing all cost nothing. The site does not collect payment details, does not process payments, and has no billing or recurring-charge system, so there is nothing to be charged for and nothing to cancel other than the emails themselves.

2. What you can subscribe to

• New-post alerts — an email when writing you follow is published.
• Digests — a periodic summary of new posts rather than one email at a time.
• Notification emails — for activity on your own account, such as replies to your posts, if you are signed in and have enabled them.
• Author reports — if you write here, a periodic summary of how your posts are doing.

Separately from these, we always send transactional email that is part of running your account: address verification, password resets, email-change confirmations, and security or account-status notices. These are not marketing and cannot be unsubscribed from while your account exists.

3. Confirming a subscription

Subscribing sends a confirmation link to the address you entered. The subscription only starts once you click it. This protects people from being signed up by someone else. For privacy, our response to a subscribe request never reveals whether an address is already subscribed.

4. Cancelling

• Every subscription email carries a one-click unsubscribe link. It works immediately, without signing in, and can be used as often as you like.
• If you have an account, you can also manage every channel from notification settings, and review who you follow from your follows.
• Unsubscribing stops the emails. It does not delete your account, and it does not affect on-site notifications, which you control separately.

5. What we store

For a subscription we store the email address, what it is subscribed to, whether it was confirmed, and when. We do not sell or rent subscriber addresses, and we do not send other people's marketing to them. See the Privacy Policy for the full picture.

6. Delivery

We cannot guarantee delivery — mail providers may filter or delay messages, and addresses that bounce repeatedly may be dropped to protect deliverability for everyone. If you stop receiving expected emails, check your spam folder first, then contact us.

7. Changes

We may change what these subscriptions include or how often they are sent. If a change is significant we will say so in the emails themselves, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact us

Problems with a subscription or an unsubscribe link? Contact us:

• Contact form: send us a message — you will get a reference number to quote in any follow-up.