Privacy statement
Dutch Readers collects as little about you as it can. This page says what is stored, where, for how long and why, and how you can change your mind. Last updated: 25 October 2026.
Who is responsible
Dutch Readers is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The person responsible for the personal data on this site is its founder, Andrew Demianenko. For any question about your data, write to newsletter@dutchreaders.com or reply to any email from the newsletter.
You do not have to give us any data to use the site; without an email address we cannot send you the newsletter. We make no automated decisions about you.
The newsletter
When you sign up, we store your email address, the level you picked, the language of the page where you signed up and the first text we pick for you. If you signed up after the level test, your result is stored as well, and if you signed up on a book page, which book you want to hear about. We use this only to send you the newsletter. The legal basis is your consent.
Your browser remembers which texts on this site you have opened. When you sign up, the form sends that list with your address, and we use it once to choose a first text you have not opened yet; we do not keep the list.
The emails are sent by Sender (sender.net, based in Lithuania), which stores this data for us. Sender tells us whether an email was opened and which links in it were clicked, so we can see what readers like. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and one click stops the emails. Sender then keeps your address marked as unsubscribed, so you are not added again by mistake. Write to us and we delete it completely.
Google Analytics, only if you say yes
With your consent we use Google Analytics to see which pages and texts people read, so we know what to write next. Nothing from Google loads until you click yes in the cookie bar. If you say no, or do nothing, Google Analytics is not used.
With your consent, Google Analytics sets cookies whose names begin with _ga; they last up to 13 months, and it sends Google data about your visit: the pages you open, roughly where you are, your device and browser, and how you came to the site. Google Analytics does not store your IP address: it uses it only to estimate roughly where you are and then discards it. We switched off Google signals, ad personalization and data sharing with Google. Google deletes the detailed data about single visits after 2 months; only totals, such as visits per page, are kept.
Google Ireland Limited processes this data for us, and some of it can go to Google in the United States, which takes part in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The legal basis is your consent.
You can change your choice at any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of every page. If you withdraw your consent, Google Analytics stops on that page and its cookies are removed; this does not affect what was collected before. Your choice is kept in your browser for a year; then the bar asks again.
Hosting and visit counts without cookies
The site runs on Vercel (Vercel Inc., United States, part of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework). Like every web server, it handles your IP address to deliver the pages, and it passes your signup on to Sender. Vercel keeps its server logs only for a short time. Vercel Web Analytics counts visits without cookies and without storing anything that identifies you. Images and audio files come from Sanity, where the texts are stored; like any server, it sees your IP address when it sends you a file. The legal basis for all this is our legitimate interest in running a safe, working site and knowing how many people visit it.
The level test and the search run in your browser: your answers and your searches are not sent anywhere unless you sign up.
What stays in your browser
Some small settings are kept in your own browser: the text size you chose, the speed and the place where you stopped in a recording, whether you have seen the tip about underlined words, your cookie choice, and the texts you opened. Only that last list ever leaves your browser, once, when you sign up (see above). You can clear all of it by clearing the site data in your browser.
Links to Amazon
Some book links go to Amazon, and as an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Amazon learns that you came from this site only when you click such a link. On Amazon, its own privacy notice applies.
Your rights
You can ask to see the data we have about you, to correct it, to delete it, to limit or object to its use, or to get a copy to take elsewhere, and you can withdraw your consent at any time; this does not affect what was done before you withdrew it. Write to newsletter@dutchreaders.com and you get an answer within a month. If you think we handle your data wrongly, you can complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.