Last updated: July 14, 2026 · Plain English, on purpose
We collect as little as possible: your email if you subscribe or buy, your message if you write to us, and an anonymous cookie if you vote in the bet. We publish our numbers, never yours. We don't sell data, run ad trackers, or use advertising cookies.
The data controller is Schwab Consulting, the operator of minihustles.com. For anything privacy-related: hello@minihustles.com.
Newsletter: your email address and which page you subscribed from, processed by beehiiv to send you the Sunday email and the Experiment Kit. Legal basis: your consent — unsubscribe anytime with one click.
Purchases: your email and payment details, processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card number. We keep purchase records as required for tax and to deliver what you bought. Legal basis: contract.
Contact form: your name, email, and message, delivered to our inbox via Resend so we can reply. Legal basis: legitimate interest (answering you).
The bet: a signed cookie remembering your pick, so one visitor gets one vote. It contains no identity — we can't tell who you are from it. Aggregate counts only.
Hosting & logs: the site runs on Vercel, which processes IP addresses in standard server logs (security and rate-limiting). We don't use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
Strictly functional only: the bet cookie (your pick), a session cookie if the site owner logs into admin, and localStorage for small preferences (e.g. whether you've seen the quiz prompt, or your bet before the vote store is reached). No consent banner is needed because there are no analytics or advertising cookies. If we ever add analytics, it will be a cookieless, privacy-first tool — and this page will say so.
Only the processors named above (beehiiv, Stripe, Resend, Vercel, and Skool if you join The Lab), each under their own privacy terms, and only for the purposes described. Some are US-based; transfers rely on their standard contractual safeguards. We never sell or rent your data.
Newsletter data: until you unsubscribe (then per beehiiv's deletion cycle). Contact emails: as long as the conversation is useful. Purchase records: as long as tax law requires. Bet cookie: expires by itself within ~4 months.
Under UK/EU GDPR (and similar laws) you can ask for a copy of your data, correction, deletion, restriction, or portability, and you can object to processing or withdraw consent at any time. Email hello@minihustles.com and it'll be handled promptly. You can also complain to your local data-protection authority (in the UK, the ICO).
If this policy changes materially, the date above changes with it and significant updates get a mention in the Sunday email. No quiet edits — same rule as the ledger.