Privacy notice
Effective date: October 4, 2026.
The Stoic Strategist provides digital educational products and decision-making resources. This notice covers thestoicstrategist.com and our resource and purchase pages at go.thestoicstrategist.com, including visits, resource requests, purchases and contact messages. Decision Red Team and other tools at tools.thestoicstrategist.com have a separate tools privacy notice describing account information and submitted decision content.
Business operator: Jason Conley, trading as The Stoic Strategist.
You can contact us at jason@thestoicstrategist.com, or write to The Stoic Strategist, 101 Churchill Blvd, San Angelo, TX 76903, United States.
Information we collect
When you request a resource or join an email list, we collect your email address and the preferences you submit. When you purchase, we collect your name, email address, order details, payment status, and any billing information needed to complete the transaction or calculate tax. We also receive information you choose to include in support messages.
Our hosting, email, and payment services process technical information, which can include IP address, device and browser information, visited pages, transaction identifiers, and timestamps. Consent records can include the checkbox wording, your selection, and the time and technical details associated with your submission. Email services may record delivery, opening, and link-click activity where that functionality is enabled.
Payment information is handled by the payment provider displayed at checkout. Our checkout offers card payments through Stripe and payments through PayPal. We receive transaction information to fulfill orders, provide support, and process refunds. Please do not send payment credentials or full card numbers to our support email.
How we use information
We use information to deliver requested resources and purchases, maintain purchase records, answer support requests, process refunds, protect our services, and meet legal or accounting obligations. Where you have agreed to receive marketing, we also send practical decision-making guidance and relevant offers.
Requesting a free resource or buying a toolkit does not require you to agree to unrelated promotional emails. Course-release updates are a separate signup. We use your purchase and subscription information to avoid sending inappropriate offers, such as invitations to buy a product you already own.
Service providers and other disclosures
We use Squarespace to host the main website and provide site analytics, and systeme.io to host funnel pages, manage contact records, and deliver email. We use Stripe and PayPal for payments. These providers process information needed to supply their services. Their own notices explain their practices: Squarespace privacy policy, systeme.io privacy policy, Stripe privacy policy and PayPal privacy statement.
We may also disclose information when required by law or when necessary to address fraud, protect rights, or respond to a legitimate legal request. We do not publish your contact details or decision exercises.
Cookies, analytics and advertising
Necessary technologies support site delivery, security, forms, checkout and remembering privacy choices. Our hosting and payment providers also process technical information needed to operate their services.
Main website: thestoicstrategist.com
Squarespace Analytics and Google Analytics are configured on the main website. The cookie banner lets you accept, decline or manage optional cookies. Analytics and performance cookies are restricted until accepted. You can reopen Cookie Settings below the footer to change your choice. Squarespace normally remembers cookie preferences for 30 days.
Cookieless measurement: Squarespace's built-in Google Analytics integration uses Google Consent Mode. When analytics cookies are declined, the integration can still send limited cookieless requests to Google, including consent status and information about a page visit and the browser/device. These requests do not use analytics cookies to identify a returning visitor and can support aggregate measurement and modelling. Declining cookies is therefore not a promise that no information reaches Google. Squarespace also measures some traffic without analytics cookies. We have disabled the individual visitor activity log in Squarespace.
Resource and purchase pages: go.thestoicstrategist.com
Google Analytics and Meta Pixel are available as separate optional categories. Their tracking scripts stay off until you accept the corresponding category. Choose Decline optional to keep both off, Accept all to accept both, or Cookie Settings to choose separately. Downloads, purchases and email subscriptions do not require optional tracking.
Use the Cookie Settings button at the bottom of any funnel page to change or withdraw permission. Your choices are stored in this browser for up to 180 days under ss_cookie_choices_v1. Withdrawing a category reloads the page to stop its active scripts and removes the analytics or Meta cookies that our code can access on this domain. It does not erase information already sent to a provider or cookies on that provider's own domain. If your browser blocks preference storage, you may be asked again on another page.
The funnel respects Global Privacy Control by keeping Meta advertising tracking off, even if you select Accept all. Cookie choices on the Squarespace website and the funnel are separate: accepting on one does not grant permission on the other. Changing one site's settings does not automatically change the other site's choice.
What these services receive
Google Analytics: Measures visits, traffic sources, device/browser information and interactions such as downloads, resource requests and checkout visits. When analytics cookies are accepted, identifiers such as ga and ga_R4HC4YQF2P can connect activity across visits; Google Analytics cookies can last up to two years. Google processes the information under its service terms. See how Google uses information from partner sites. The funnel's configuration disables Google signals and advertising-personalization signals. We do not use your email signup as permission for Google advertising.
Meta Pixel: Used on the funnel after advertising consent to measure advertising results and support relevant audiences. Meta can receive page URLs, event times, browser/device information, IP address, cookie identifiers, and relevant event details such as product value and currency. Cookies such as fbp and fbc can last around 90 days. Meta may connect these events with a Facebook or Instagram account and information it receives elsewhere. See Meta's privacy policy and cookie policy. Where this disclosure constitutes sharing, sale or targeted advertising under applicable law, you can opt out by declining Advertising in Cookie Settings or by enabling Global Privacy Control.
Cookie names and durations can change with provider updates. Our preference-storage duration is separate from the lifetime of a provider's cookies. You can also restrict or delete cookies using your browser; blocking necessary cookies may affect checkout or sign-in.
Additional provider-level controls include the Google Analytics browser opt-out, Google My Ad Center and Meta ad preferences. These controls have their own scope and do not replace the choices provided on our pages.
Please do not include sensitive workplace information, completed decision exercises, payment credentials or contact details in public URLs. Email marketing permission is separate from cookie and advertising permission. We will update this notice and the applicable controls before introducing materially different tracking purposes.
Email choices
You can stop promotional emails through the unsubscribe link in those emails or by contacting us. Unsubscribing from marketing does not prevent us from sending necessary purchase, access, refund, or support messages. It does not cancel an existing purchase.
Retention and security
We keep information for as long as needed to fulfill the purposes described here, including applicable accounting, legal, and dispute-handling requirements. We retain limited suppression information when needed to honor an unsubscribe request. We use safeguards appropriate to the information we handle, but no online service can guarantee absolute security.
Retention depends on the record: purchase and tax records may need to be kept for legal and accounting obligations; support correspondence is kept while needed to resolve the issue and related disputes; marketing records are used while you remain subscribed, with limited suppression and consent evidence retained where needed to respect your choices and establish how permission was obtained. You may contact us to ask about a particular record or request deletion, subject to applicable retention obligations.
Your requests
Contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights to object, restrict processing, receive a copy, withdraw consent, or appeal a decision. You can submit an appeal by replying to our response or emailing the support address with “Privacy appeal” in the subject. Where applicable, you may complain to the relevant regulator. We will not discriminate against you for exercising applicable privacy rights. We will handle requests under the law that applies and may ask for information needed to verify your identity. Some records may need to be retained for legal obligations or to honor your communication preferences.
Our materials are intended for adults making workplace decisions. We do not direct this funnel to children under 13. If you believe a child has provided information, please contact us.
International customers
We offer products to customers worldwide, subject to legal and payment-provider restrictions. Jason Conley is the controller of information handled for this business. Information may be processed in the United States and other countries where our providers operate, whose privacy laws may differ from yours.
Where EEA or UK data-protection law applies, we rely on performance of a contract to fulfill purchases, legal obligations for required records, consent for optional marketing and tracking, and legitimate interests for proportionate security and support activities where those interests are not overridden by your rights. You may withdraw consent without affecting processing that was lawful before withdrawal. You may also complain to your local data-protection authority.
Where required, international transfers must use an applicable approved safeguard, such as standard contractual clauses, an adequacy decision, or another lawful mechanism. Contact us to ask about the safeguard used for your information. Any applicable regional requirements and mandatory privacy rights continue to apply. You may contact us for information about the providers and transfer arrangements relevant to your request.
Changes
We will update this notice when our practices change and show the effective date. Where required, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent before using information in a materially different way.