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Help build the useful daily briefing for York, Harrogate and North Leeds. Referral rewards and the leaderboard are not active. Your personal share link appears here in supported browsers.

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Privacy plan

Raw subscriber records, emails and referral tokens would stay out of any public leaderboard.

Openmetadata__referral_sourceIncoming subscribe URL ?ref= token Never displayed raw; used only to attribute a confirmed subscriber to an inviter.Openmetadata__reader_tokenBrowser-local share token generated on /share/ Can be mapped to an approved display name after opt-in.Openmetadata__signup_marketStatic hidden field Market filter for York, Harrogate and North Leeds referral dashboards.OpentagButtondown embedded form tag website-subscribe Operational filter only; never shown to readers.

Possible public columns

Only these redacted fields could appear after fraud checks and manual approval.

OpenRankSort by confirmed referral count after fraud checks.OpenDisplay nameInitials, first name plus area, or opted-in community name only.OpenAreaReader-selected broad area such as York, Harrogate, Wetherby, Ilkley, Knaresborough or Otley; no street-level data.OpenConfirmed referralsCount confirmed Buttondown subscribers with matching referral_source, excluding reversals and abuse.OpenReward tierShow reward label only; prize fulfilment remains manually approved.

Required checks

These checks must pass before any referral totals or sponsor-backed rewards are shown.

OpenButtondown subscriber.created or equivalent event is received with metadata fields intact.Required before public referral totals or sponsor-backed rewards are shown.OpenConfirmation state is checked before a referral increments public totals.Required before public referral totals or sponsor-backed rewards are shown.OpenSelf-referrals, duplicate aliases and same-household abuse patterns are excluded before scoring.Required before public referral totals or sponsor-backed rewards are shown.OpenA private attribution table exists separately from the public leaderboard view.Required before public referral totals or sponsor-backed rewards are shown.OpenLeaderboard cache can be rebuilt without exposing raw subscriber records.Required before public referral totals or sponsor-backed rewards are shown.OpenManual kill switch hides public rankings if abuse, privacy or sponsor-risk flags appear.Required before public referral totals or sponsor-backed rewards are shown.