Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2026

We keep this simple, the same way we keep the show simple: we collect as little as we can, we tell you plainly what we do with it, and we never sell your information for money. Like most websites, we do use analytics and advertising tools. This page names them, tells you what they see, and shows you how to switch them off.

What we collect

Your email address, only if you subscribe to the morning brief or join a waitlist. That’s the whole point of the form you filled out.

Contact messages, if you write to us. We receive your name, email, and message so we can reply.

Basic visit information. Like most websites, our hosting, analytics and advertising tools record standard technical data: which pages you visit, your browser and device type, your general region, and how you arrived here. We read it as numbers and trends, not as a list of names. The tools themselves are named under Analytics and advertising below.

What we do with it

We send you the emails you asked for, we reply when you write to us, and we look at what people read and watch so the show gets better. That’s it.

We do not sell or rent your email address. The only companies that touch it are the services listed below, and only so they can deliver what you signed up for. Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing works immediately, no hoops.

Services we use

A few trusted services help this site run, and your data passes through them to do their job:

• Mailchimp, stores our email list and sends the morning brief (their privacy policy).
• YouTube, episode videos are hosted on YouTube; when you watch or click through, Google’s privacy policy applies.
• Google Analytics, tells us which episodes and pages people actually use (Google’s privacy policy).
• The Meta Pixel, measures whether our posts and ads on Facebook and Instagram bring people here (Meta’s privacy policy).
• Cloudflare, delivers this site quickly and safely worldwide and filters malicious traffic; your request passes through their network (their privacy policy).
• Our hosting provider, keeps the site online and maintains standard server logs.

Text messaging (SMS)

If you opt in to receive text messages from 647 with Chuck Frank, we use your phone number solely to send you the updates you signed up for (such as new-episode alerts). SMS consent is separate from email consent: you will only receive texts if you explicitly opt in to texting, and you will be asked to confirm your enrollment by text message before any messages are sent.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties, except with service providers acting on our behalf solely to deliver the messages (such as our messaging platform, Mailchimp).

Message frequency varies (typically up to 5 messages per week). Message and data rates may apply, depending on your carrier. You can cancel at any time by replying STOP to any message, and get assistance by replying HELP or contacting us at [email protected].

Analytics and advertising

Two of those services are worth explaining properly, because they are the ones that watch how the site gets used.

Google Analytics counts visits and shows us which episodes, quizzes and pages people read and watch. It sets cookies whose names begin with _ga and records things like the pages you view, your general location, and how you arrived. You can switch Google Analytics off for every site you visit using Google’s own browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

The Meta Pixel is a small piece of code from Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram. It tells us when someone who saw one of our posts or ads came to the site, and it lets us show 647 content to people on Meta’s platforms. It sets cookies named _fbp and _fbc and shares information about your visit with Meta, which Meta may connect to your account there. You can control how Meta uses it in your Facebook or Instagram ad settings, and you can opt out of interest-based advertising from many companies at once at optout.aboutads.info.

Both are third-party tools, which means the cookies they set and the information they collect go to Google and to Meta as well as to us. You can turn either one off for this site at any time in the cookie settings described below, and turning them off changes nothing else about how the site works for you.

Cookies

Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. Ours fall into four groups:

• Necessary, which keep the site working and remember the privacy choice you made.
• Analytics, set by Google Analytics.
• Advertising, set by the Meta Pixel.
• Functional, set by embedded YouTube videos once you press play.

The banner you saw on your first visit is where you choose. You can change your mind whenever you like: click the Consent Preferences button in the bottom-left corner of any page, and you will see every cookie this site uses, grouped by purpose, with a switch for each group. Switching a group off stops those cookies and stops the tool behind them.

If you are visiting from Europe or the United Kingdom, nothing but the necessary cookies runs until you accept. In the United States, analytics and advertising run unless you turn them off, which is the ordinary practice here, and if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal we treat that as turning advertising off for you automatically.

You can also clear or block cookies in your browser’s own settings. Blocking the necessary ones may make parts of the site behave oddly.

Your choices

Want off the email list? Click unsubscribe in any email. Want the texts to stop? Reply STOP to any of them. Want to change what runs on this site? Click the Consent Preferences button in the bottom-left corner of any page. Want your data deleted entirely, messages, email, all of it? Ask, and we’ll do it: contact us.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. No silent rewrites, that’s not how we do things around here.