Privacy Policy

We believe in data minimization. We only collect or process information that is necessary to deliver our website content, operate our newsletter, respond to inquiries, or fulfill transactions.

• Email Correspondence: If you contact us via email at any of our official addresses (e.g., sahin@builderhustle.com, privacy@builderhustle.com), we receive your email address, name, and any information included in your message. We use this information solely to respond to your inquiry and manage our business relationship.
• Newsletter Subscriptions: If you choose to subscribe to the Builder Hustle newsletter via our signup forms, your email address is collected to deliver newsletter issues, weekly briefings, and occasional product announcements. Our newsletter distribution is hosted via Substack.

• Server & Edge Logs: When you access our static website hosted via Cloudflare Pages, standard technical information is automatically generated, including your IP address, browser user-agent, operating system, referring URL, and timestamp. This data is processed at the network edge to ensure site security, mitigate DDoS attacks, and diagnose network errors.
• Aggregated Analytics: We may review aggregated, non-personally identifiable traffic metrics (such as page views, popular articles, and country-level geographic distribution) to understand which tutorials and tools are most helpful to our readers.

A cookie is a small text file stored on your browser. Builder Hustle uses minimal cookies directly, but third-party services integrated into or linked from our site may use cookies:

• Functional & Session Cookies: Essential cookies used by our content delivery network (Cloudflare) for security validation and bot detection.
• Affiliate Tracking Cookies: When you click on an external affiliate link, the affiliate network or merchant may place a temporary tracking cookie on your browser to attribute referrals if a purchase occurs. These cookies are subject to the respective third-party merchant's privacy policy.
• Advertising Technologies (Google AdSense): If advertising is enabled on Builder Hustle, third-party advertising providers such as Google may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads based on your visits to this website or other sites on the internet. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to our site and/or other sites on the internet.

Our website connects with select third-party platforms to provide specific functionality:

• Substack: We use Substack to manage email subscription lists and newsletter dispatch. When you subscribe, your data is processed according to Substack's Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe at any time via the one-click unsubscribe link at the footer of every newsletter.
• Gumroad: Digital template products (such as our newsletter website templates) are sold and fulfilled via Gumroad. When you click "Buy Template" or complete a transaction on Gumroad, your payment details, billing address, and transaction processing are handled directly by Gumroad under Gumroad's Privacy Policy. Builder Hustle does not collect, receive, or store your credit card or payment credentials.
• Cloudflare: Our site is served and secured through Cloudflare Pages, subject to Cloudflare's Privacy Policy.
• Social & Support Platforms: Links to external platforms (including social networks such as X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and reader support via Buy Me a Coffee) connect directly to those respective services. Interacting with those platforms is governed by their independent privacy policies.

We retain email inquiries only as long as necessary to answer questions or complete business client engagements. Newsletter subscriber records are retained until a subscriber unsubscribes or requests removal.

We implement appropriate technical protections—including full HTTPS encryption via modern TLS protocols, strict security headers (Content Security Policy, Referrer-Policy, and X-Content-Type-Options)—to safeguard the transmission of data to and from our site.

Regardless of your geographic location, we respect your control over your personal information:

• Access & Review: You may contact us at any time to inquire what personal data (such as past email correspondence) we hold associated with your email address.
• Correction & Deletion: You can request that we update, correct, or permanently delete any email messages or records you have sent us.
• Unsubscribe: You can immediately remove yourself from our newsletter list by clicking the "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email received from us.

Builder Hustle is intended for a general audience of professionals, makers, and creators. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If you believe that a minor has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately so we can remove the data.

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our operational practices, new features, or updated legal guidelines. Any revisions will be published directly to this page with an updated revision date.

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact our designated channels: