Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Second Saturday ("we," "us," or "our") operates the Second Saturday platform, a group newsletter service that helps friends stay connected through monthly updates. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you use our website and services.

2. Information We Collect

Account Information

When you create an account, we collect your name and email address through our authentication provider, Clerk.

User Content

We collect the text contributions you submit to your group newsletters.

Group Membership Data

We store information about which groups you belong to and your role within those groups.

Usage and Analytics Data

We automatically collect certain information about how you use our service, including page views, feature usage, and technical data such as browser type and device information. This data is collected through Vercel Analytics and PostHog.

Error Data

We use Sentry to collect error reports and performance data to help us identify and fix issues with our service.

3. How We Use Your Information

• Providing the service: Managing your account, group memberships, and newsletter contributions.
• Delivering newsletters: Compiling and sending group newsletters to members via our email delivery provider, Resend.
• Improving our product: Analyzing usage patterns to make Second Saturday better.
• Error monitoring: Identifying and resolving technical issues to maintain service reliability.
• Communication: Sending you service-related notifications.

4. Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services to operate Second Saturday:

• Clerk — Authentication and user account management
• Convex — Database and backend infrastructure
• Resend — Email delivery for newsletters
• Vercel Analytics — Website analytics
• PostHog — Product analytics
• Sentry — Error tracking and performance monitoring

Each of these services has its own privacy policy governing how they handle your data. We may add additional analytics services in the future and will update this policy accordingly.

5. Cookies

We use cookies for authentication session management (provided by Clerk) and analytics purposes. These cookies are essential for the service to function properly. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies beyond what is necessary for analytics.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as your account is active. If you request deletion of your account, we will delete your personal data within 30 days, except where we are required to retain it by law.

7. Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you
• Correct any inaccurate personal information
• Delete your personal information and account
• Export your data in a portable format

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at hello@secondsaturday.app.

8. Children's Privacy

Second Saturday is not directed at children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that information promptly.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated policy on our website and updating the effective date. Your continued use of the service after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@secondsaturday.app.