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Effective: 2026-05-31 · Last updated: 2026-05-31

This Privacy Policy explains what My Teen's World (“we,” “us,” “our”) collects, how we use it, who we share it with, and the choices and rights you have — including the specific rights of California residents under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA/CPRA”). It is not legal advice; if anything here is unclear, email us and we'll explain.

1. What we collect

When you sign up for the Friday Reading we collect:

• Your email address.
• The number of children you're asking about (1–4).
• For each child: an optional nickname (up to 40 characters), an age range (10–12 / 13–15 / 16–18), gender, optional tags about your teen's profile, optional tags about your family context, and an optional free-text note (up to 600 characters).

We also collect basic technical information from your browser (IP address, user-agent string, pages viewed) for security and to understand how the site is used. This happens via Cloudflare Web Analytics (cookieless, aggregated) and Microsoft Clarity (session recordings with cookies — opt out below).

2. How we use it

• To write your reading — your teen's age, profile, and family context determine which Friday Reading we write for you.
• To send you emails — the Friday Reading itself, the occasional announcement (e.g., a new free resource).
• To run your membership, if you choose the paid tier — Stripe handles your payment; we never see your card number.
• To improve the site — aggregate analytics tell us which readings land, which trends parents are reading, where the site loads slowly.
• To secure the service and comply with law — detect abuse, prevent fraud, and meet legal, tax, and payment-record obligations.

We do not use your information for automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects about you.

3. Who else sees it (service providers)

• MailerLite — sends the Friday Reading and stores your subscription record.
• Resend — sends transactional email (your welcome message and password-reset links).
• Cloudflare — hosts the site and the API. Cloudflare sees your IP and request data because every page load goes through them.
• Stripe — processes payments if you become a member. Stripe is the only party that sees your card details.
• Microsoft Clarity — session recordings, with cookies. Opt out by clearing the Clarity cookie or contacting us.

These are our service providers (also called “processors”). They act on our instructions and are contractually limited to using your data only to provide their service to us. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising except as described for the Meta Pixel in Section 4. We do not share your data with any other party except as required by law or to protect the safety of a person.

4. Cookies and tracking

• Cloudflare Web Analytics — no cookies.
• Microsoft Clarity — sets cookies to record sessions.
• mtw_member / mtw_session — set after you sign in or pay; remembers that it's you. These are strictly necessary for the membership to work.
• Local storage (mtw_signup_v1) — your saved questionnaire answers, kept on your device only.
• Meta Pixel — only on the paid-ad landing pages (/looksmaxxing-guide, /newsletter). Meta uses this to measure ad performance, which can count as “sharing” under CCPA/CPRA. None on the rest of the site. You can opt out — see Your Privacy Choices.

We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. If your browser sends a GPC signal, we treat it as a valid request to opt out of any sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising.

5. Children (COPPA)

Our site is for parents to read about their teens, not for teens to use directly. The service is directed to parents and guardians who are adults. We collect information from parents; we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 13, consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). The age range and profile tags you provide about your child are stored as data about a person, provided by you — not personal data collected from a child who uses our service.

We do not sell or share the personal information of any consumer we know to be under 16. If you believe a child under 13 has signed up directly through our site, please email admin@myteensworld.com and we will delete the account promptly.

6. How long we keep it

• If you're an active subscriber or member, we keep your record until you ask us to delete it or until you unsubscribe.
• After unsubscribe, we keep an unsubscribed-status record for 30 days, then delete the personal data and keep only an irreversible hash so we don't accidentally re-add you.
• Payment and tax records are retained as long as required by law (Stripe holds these on its side).
• Aggregate analytics may be retained longer in anonymized form.

7. Your rights & data deletion (everyone)

Wherever you live, you can:

• See what we have about you — email us and we'll send it.
• Correct it — sign in and resubmit the signup form, or email us.
• Delete it — email us; we'll confirm and remove your record.
• Stop emails — the unsubscribe link is at the bottom of every email we send.

Email all requests to admin@myteensworld.com. We acknowledge requests within 7 business days and complete them within the timelines required by law (see Section 8 for California timing).

8. California privacy rights (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have specific rights over your personal information. The categories below use the labels from the CCPA/CPRA.

Categories of personal information we collect

• Identifiers — email address, IP address.
• Internet/network activity — pages viewed, user-agent, session recordings.
• Commercial information — membership status and billing handled through Stripe.
• Inferences / profile data you provide — the age range, profile tags, family-context tags, and free-text notes you enter about your child.
• Sensitive personal information — because the tags you provide can describe a minor's characteristics, we treat them as sensitive. We use this information only to write and personalize your reading — never to infer characteristics about you, and never for advertising. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information beyond the purposes permitted by the CCPA/CPRA, so the separate “limit the use of my sensitive personal information” right does not change how we handle it.

Sources and purposes

We collect this information directly from you (signup and questionnaire) and automatically from your device (analytics). We use it for the business purposes in Section 2.

Your California rights

• Know / access — request the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
• Delete — request deletion of your personal information, subject to legal exceptions.
• Correct — request correction of inaccurate personal information.
• Opt out of sale/sharing — see Your Privacy Choices.
• Limit use of sensitive personal information — as noted above, we already restrict this use to permitted purposes.
• Non-discrimination — we will never deny service, charge a different price, or give you a lesser experience for exercising any of these rights.

To exercise these rights, email admin@myteensworld.com with “California privacy request” in the subject line. We will verify your request using the email on file and respond within 45 days, extendable by up to another 45 days where permitted, with notice to you. You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf; we may ask the agent for proof of authorization and may ask you to verify your own identity directly.

“Shine the Light” (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.83). We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing, so there is nothing to report under this law.

9. Do Not Sell or Share — Your Privacy Choices

We do not sell your personal information for money. The only activity that may qualify as “sharing” under CCPA/CPRA is the Meta Pixel on our two paid-ad landing pages (/looksmaxxing-guide and /newsletter), used to measure ad performance.

You can opt out of that sharing in any of these ways:

• Turn on Global Privacy Control (GPC) in your browser — we honor it automatically.
• Email admin@myteensworld.com with “Do Not Sell or Share” in the subject line.
• Avoid the two ad landing pages, or block third-party trackers in your browser.

10. Changes to this policy

We'll update the “Last updated” date at the top and, for material changes, send a one-time notice to your registered email before the new policy takes effect.

11. Contact

My Teen's World · admin@myteensworld.com