As Hypothesis I want to be able to capture users comms opt-in consent on signup.

[dawachan]

Justification: We are unable at present to email our users for marketing, product or user research purposes and it is proposed that we introduce a form field on sign up to capture this opt-in preference which will unblock us from being able to contact our user base for research/testing, marketing and product improvements.

High level SOW

Add a checkbox with to the login screen to: https://hypothes.is/signup

Acceptance criteria:

Done when:

• The revised sign up form contains an explicit opt-in to product and research communications checkbox with the copy "I agree to receive occasional communication for product and research purposes."- checked by default.

Out of Scope:

• Don't need to supply a way to opt-out (as it is in the marketing comms).
• Opt-in to privacy policy checkbox is covered in GDPR: Implement UI for opt-in checkbox on signup form #611

Mock up:
Revised Sign up form with opt-in to comms consent

Current Sign up form

[dawachan]

Updated the opt-in copy to say: "I agree to receive occasional communication for product and research purposes." as per @dwhly's recommendation.

[xolotl]

I'm not sure that we don't need a way for users to opt out in H. itself. I think the best solution would be for users to have communication toggles in their H. account view. All such toggles would communicate via API with whatever email provider H. is using (currently MailChimp) to create/toggle the subscription for that user's email address.

[klemay]

See also: #354

[ajpeddakotla]

Business Viability	User Engagement	Building Community	Level of Effort
1	3	3	2

[klemay]

Closing in favor of #1086