Privacy Policy

Who we are

HayWire Ag LLC ("HayWire," "we," "us") publishes haywireag.com, The Wire newsletter and HayWire Pro. This policy covers the personal information those services handle. Questions, or a request about your data: haywireagprices@gmail.com.

When you subscribe to The Wire

We send your email address, and the name of the form you signed up through, to Beehiiv, the platform that stores our subscriber list and sends the newsletter and a welcome email.

Beehiiv records whether each email is opened and which links are clicked. We look at those numbers per issue and in total. Links in the newsletter carry tags (for example utm_source=newsletter) so we can tell which issue a visit came from.

Each subscriber gets a personal referral link from Beehiiv. When someone subscribes through yours, Beehiiv counts it toward your referral reward.

Every issue has an unsubscribe link.

When you join HayWire Pro

Payment. You join and pay through Beehiiv's checkout; Stripe processes the payment for Beehiiv. HayWire never receives or stores your card details. We read from Beehiiv whether your email address has an active Pro subscription.

Your account. We store, in our database:

• your email address;
• your password, only as a one-way scrypt hash, if you set one;
• your two-step verification secret, encrypted, and your recovery codes, only as one-way hashes, if you turn two-step verification on;
• your Google account ID, if you sign in with Google (Section 5);
• the dashboard settings you choose: your state, hay type, budget, display name, whether you buy or sell, and whether you want alerts;
• the hay purchases or sales you log: date, hay type, grade, tons, price and your state.

Signing in. A sign-in gives your browser a random session token in a secure cookie (Section 6); we keep only a one-way hash of it. Sessions last up to 30 days.

Security log. We record sign-in attempts, including failed ones, with the email address and IP address they came from. We use this log to stop password guessing and account probing.

Trades you log. A purchase or sale you log is also copied, with your email address, into our private review queue. If we approve it, its price may appear in our market data, credited to your state, never to your name or email address.

Market alerts. Your dashboard lets you turn on email alerts for new reports from your state. Alert emails are not being sent yet. When they are, they will go through Resend, our email provider, which will receive your email address and the alert. You can turn alerts off in your dashboard.

When you report a price or write to us

Reporting a price (haywireag.com/report). We store the location, price, hay details and date you enter, plus your name and email address if you give them, in our private review queue. We also store a one-way hash of your IP address to limit how many reports one address can send. If we approve a report, it is published in the newsletter and on our pages credited to your region (for example, "Oklahoma producer"), never to your name or email address. We use your email address only to reply about your report.

Sponsor inquiries (the media kit form). We store your company, name, email address, the package you picked and your message, plus a one-way hash of your IP address, and send the inquiry to our team's Telegram chat so someone answers quickly.

Email. Replies to the newsletter and messages to haywireagprices@gmail.com stay in that mailbox. Auction houses sometimes email us their sale results; our team may use an AI tool from Anthropic to transcribe the prices from those emails. If we answer your question in the newsletter, we credit it to your region only, never to your name or email address.

Businesses we contact. To find sponsors, we research businesses on their own public websites and keep the contact details they publish there (the company, a published name or role, an email address or phone number) in our own spreadsheet. We use them only to contact the business about sponsoring HayWire, and remove them on request.

Google user data

Sign in with Google. When you use it, Google tells us your email address, whether Google has verified it, and your Google account ID. We use them only to sign you in to your HayWire Pro account. We do not receive your Google password, contacts, files or mail, and we do not use Google sign-in data for advertising.

HayWire's own tools. Some of our internal tools use Google APIs with HayWire's own Google account, to create email drafts in our own Gmail and to update our own spreadsheet. They never access a reader's or member's Google account.

Limited Use. HayWire's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Analytics, advertising tags and cookies

• Netlify, our web host, logs each request, including the IP address, and gives us page and traffic counts. We keep daily totals, not records of individual visitors.
• Google Analytics and Google Ads. Our pages load Google's tag (gtag.js) to count visits and to measure whether our ads lead to sign-ups and Pro checkouts. It sets Google cookies such as _ga and _gcl_au.
• Meta Pixel. Our pages tell Meta about page views and send a "Lead" event when you subscribe, so Meta can measure and target our ads. It sets Meta cookies such as _fbp.
• Google Fonts. Our fonts load from Google's servers, which receive your IP address.
• Our own cookies. __Host-hw_session keeps you signed in to Pro (secure, not readable by page scripts, up to 30 days). hw_signed_in only tells our pages that you are signed in and holds no account data.
• Your browser's storage. hw_slidein_off and hw_subscribed remember that you closed or completed our signup prompt. They stay in your browser.

Your choices. The site works with these tags blocked by your browser or an ad blocker. You can also use Google's ad settings, the Google Analytics opt-out add-on, and your Facebook or Instagram ad preferences.

Who processes your information

We use these services to run HayWire. Each receives only what it needs for its part:

• Beehiiv: the subscriber list, newsletter delivery, open and click tracking, referrals, and Pro checkout.
• Stripe: Pro payments, on Beehiiv's behalf.
• Supabase: our database (Pro accounts, logged trades, price reports, sponsor inquiries, the security log).
• Netlify: hosting, the server functions behind our forms and sign-in, and request logs.
• Google: sign-in with Google, Analytics and Ads tags, fonts, and HayWire's own Gmail and spreadsheet.
• Meta: the Meta Pixel.
• Resend: Pro market alert emails, once alerts are switched on (not yet).
• Telegram: our team's alerts, including sponsor inquiries.
• Anthropic: the AI that drafts our newsletter and analysis from market data and transcribes auction emails. We do not send it our subscriber list or account data.
• GitHub: runs our scheduled jobs and stores our code and encrypted backups of our database.

We do not sell your personal information.

How long we keep it

We keep subscription and account data while your subscription or account is active, and delete it when you ask. Approved price reports stay in our published market record, credited only to a region. We keep the security log to protect accounts.

Your choices

• Unsubscribe with the link in any issue.
• Turn Pro market alerts off in your dashboard.
• Ask to see, correct or delete your personal information by emailing haywireagprices@gmail.com. We will reply within 30 days.

Children

HayWire is for people who buy, sell and price hay. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Security

Passwords and session tokens are stored only as one-way hashes, two-step verification secrets are encrypted, database backups are encrypted, and only HayWire's operators can reach the database.

Changes and contact

When this policy changes, we update the date at the top of this page. HayWire Ag LLC, haywireagprices@gmail.com.