Privacy Policy

This Statement of Privacy applies to quoin.pub and Quoin LLC and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Quoin LLC include quoin.pub, read.quoin.pub, the Quoin newsletter, and all related properties and communications (collectively, "Quoin"). The Quoin website is a digital media and professional services platform. The Quoin newsletter is a branded email publication produced and distributed by Quoin. By using the Quoin website or subscribing to any of its email newsletters, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of Your Personal Information

Access to our free newsletter only requires a working email address. Access to paid memberships or services may require additional information, as detailed below.

In order to better provide you with products and services offered, Quoin may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

  • First and last name

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • Birthday or birth date

  • Preferences

  • Professional title and organizational affiliation

If you purchase Quoin's products, paid media, or services, we collect billing and credit card information via Stripe, our payment partner. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. This information is recorded by them — not us.

Quoin may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:

  • Age

  • Geographic region

  • Professional sector

In addition, when you interact with our newsletter or website content, we may receive further anonymous information about your interactions from our third-party providers. This information includes:

  • Geographic location

  • Time zone

  • Type of interaction (email click or open, number of opens, number of clicks, links or buttons clicked)

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account or membership; (b) signing up for special offers or communications from selected third parties; (c) sending us an email message; (d) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services; (e) engaging Quoin for advisory or consulting services. We will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future related to these services.

Use of Your Personal Information

Quoin collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.

Quoin may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Quoin and its affiliates.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Quoin does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties.

Quoin may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (email, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. Quoin may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Quoin, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Quoin may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Quoin or the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Quoin; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Quoin, or the public.

Service Providers

Quoin uses the following third-party service providers in the operation of its website, newsletter, and related services. These providers may receive or process personal information on Quoin's behalf in accordance with their own privacy policies:

  • Ghost (Ghost Foundation) — website hosting, newsletter distribution, and membership management

  • Stripe — payment processing for subscriptions and purchases

  • Google Analytics (or comparable analytics platform) — website traffic analysis and usage statistics

Quoin may add or change service providers from time to time. All service providers are contractually required to handle your data in accordance with applicable privacy standards and are prohibited from using your personal information for any purpose other than providing services to Quoin.

Advisory Client Data

This Privacy Policy governs data collected through the Site, newsletters, and related digital properties. Quoin also collects and handles information in connection with its advisory and consulting practice, which may include institutional data, strategic materials, financial information, grantmaking portfolios, and other confidential information provided by clients in the course of an engagement. The collection, use, protection, and handling of advisory client data is governed by the terms of the applicable engagement agreement between Quoin and the client. In the absence of specific provisions in an engagement agreement, Quoin treats all client data as confidential, does not share it with third parties without the client's prior written consent, and applies the same security standards described in this policy. If you are an advisory client with questions about how your data is handled, please contact us directly at inquire@quoin.pub.

Tracking User Behavior

Quoin may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within the Site, emails newsletter subscribers open, or links within emails newsletter subscribers click, in order to determine what Quoin services and content are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content within Quoin to users whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Quoin. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Quoin website.

Use of Cookies

The Quoin website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Quoin pages or register with the Site or its services, a cookie helps Quoin recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information. When you return to the same Quoin website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Quoin services or websites you visit.

Do Not Track Signals

Some web browsers offer a "Do Not Track" setting that sends a signal to websites you visit indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. At this time, Quoin does not respond to "Do Not Track" signals. We may update this practice as industry standards evolve.

Links

The Site and Quoin's newsletters contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security of Your Personal Information

Quoin secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Quoin uses the following methods for this purpose:

  • SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Data Retention

Quoin retains your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the services you have requested, maintain your account, fulfill our legal and contractual obligations, and resolve disputes. If you unsubscribe from the Quoin newsletter, we will delete your personal information from our active mailing lists within a reasonable period, though certain records may be retained as required by law or for legitimate business purposes such as fraud prevention and record-keeping. For advisory clients, data retention is governed by the terms of the applicable engagement agreement. If you have questions about the retention of your data, please contact us at inquire@quoin.pub.

Right to Deletion

Deletion requests apply to quoin.pub and read.quoin.pub. Please specify the platform you are inquiring about when submitting a request. Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

  • Delete your personal information from our records; and

  • Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

  • Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

  • Honor an existing subscription or active service engagement. Please ensure you have unsubscribed completely or concluded any active engagement prior to making any personal information deletion requests;

  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for that activity;

  • Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;

  • Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

  • Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), including:

  • Right to know. You have the right to request that Quoin disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which your personal information was collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting your personal information, and the categories of third parties with whom we share your personal information.

  • Right to delete. You have the right to request that Quoin delete your personal information, subject to the exceptions described in the Right to Deletion section above.

  • Right to opt out of sale. Quoin does not sell your personal information to third parties. If this practice changes, we will provide you with an opt-out mechanism and update this policy accordingly.

  • Right to non-discrimination. Quoin will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights. We will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices, or provide you a different level or quality of service because you exercised your rights under this policy.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at inquire@quoin.pub. We will respond to verifiable requests within the timeframe required by applicable law.

Children Under Thirteen

Quoin does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

In addition, Quoin targets its content, services, and advertising to individuals over the age of 18.

Email Communications

From time to time, Quoin may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Quoin or click on a link therein.

In addition, Quoin maintains email newsletters you may subscribe to.

If you would like to stop receiving newsletters, marketing, or promotional communications via email from Quoin, you may opt out of such communications by clicking the unsubscribe button included in each email.

Contributor Data

If you contribute content to Quoin — whether through an invited article, interview, essay, or other submission — we may collect and publish your name, professional title, organizational affiliation, biographical information, photograph, and any other information you provide in connection with your contribution. This information is published on the Site and in the Quoin newsletter as part of the contributed content and may remain publicly accessible for as long as the content is published. By contributing, you acknowledge that this information becomes part of Quoin's published editorial record. Contributors may request updates to their biographical information (such as a change in title or affiliation) by contacting us at inquire@quoin.pub. Requests to remove contributed content or associated personal information from published materials are subject to Quoin's editorial discretion and the license granted under our Terms and Conditions.

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third-party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to This Statement

Quoin reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

If you have questions about this policy or wish to request a copy of or make updates to your personal information collected by Quoin, please contact us at inquire@quoin.pub.

Effective as of May 23, 2026

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