Privacy — Pump Chump

Privacy, plainly

The short version: if you give us your email, we use it to send the newsletter — the occasional nudge, never more than one a week. We don’t sell it, rent it, or hand it to anyone beyond the service that delivers the email. That’s genuinely the whole deal. The longer version is below.

Last updated: June 12, 2026

Who we are

Pump Chump is a micromobility advocacy project at pumpchump.org. This note explains what data we collect and what we do with it.

What we collect

What you give us. When you take the pledge, we collect your email address and, optionally, a name (or your “chump alias”). That’s it. We don’t ask for anything else.
Basic technical logs. Like nearly every website, our host records standard request data (such as IP address, browser type, and pages requested) to serve and secure the site. We don’t use this to build a profile of you.
No tracking, no ad cookies. We don’t run third-party advertising or analytics trackers, and we don’t set tracking cookies.

Why we use it

To send you the newsletter you signed up for — never more than one email a week, usually less.
To operate, secure, and improve the site.
To reply if you contact us.

Who else touches it

Fewer people than you’d expect. Your email (and name, if given) is stored in Ghost, newsletter software running on our own server — not parked with a third-party list company. Beyond that:

Cloudflare — our hosting and content-delivery provider, which serves the site, relays the signup to our server, and handles the technical logs noted above.
An email delivery service — when we send a newsletter, the message itself travels through a standard delivery provider (the thing that keeps email out of spam folders). It relays mail; it doesn’t get to keep or use the list.

We never sell, rent, or trade your personal information.

Your choices

Unsubscribe anytime. Every newsletter has a one-click unsubscribe link. Use it and we stop emailing you.
Access or delete your data. Email us at hello@pumpchump.org and we’ll show you what we have or delete it.

Children

This site isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their personal information.

Security

We take reasonable steps to protect the little data we hold, but no method of transmission or storage is ever 100% secure.

Changes

If we change how we handle data, we’ll update this page and the “last updated” date above.

Contact

Questions? Email hello@pumpchump.org.