Privacy.

This website sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and keeps no database. Loading a page tells us almost nothing and tells nobody else anything at all.

The only personal information we handle is what you choose to type into one of our forms, and each form sends it to exactly one place: an inbox we own, or the newsletter service we use. We do not sell, rent, or trade any of it, and there is no third party watching you read this.

The rest of this page is the same statement in detail.

The newsletter form. Your email address, your first name if you give one, and a short label recording which page you signed up from. This goes to Mailchimp, which sends the newsletter on our behalf.

The contact form. Your name, your email address, your organization if you give one, the subject you selected, your message, and whether you asked to join the newsletter at the same time. This is delivered as an email to a mailbox at t7f.org. It is not saved anywhere on the website.

Donations. If you give by card, you enter your card details on Stripe's own secure checkout — they never reach our servers, and we never see them. What we send Stripe is the amount, whether the gift is one-time or monthly, and whether you chose to cover the processing fee. Stripe returns your name and email so we can send a receipt and acknowledge the gift.

Choosing PayPal takes you to PayPal, where their privacy policy applies. Bitcoin donations are handled by a BTCPay Server instance; a Bitcoin transaction is public on the blockchain by its nature, but nothing on the chain carries your name unless you tell us who you are.

Server records. Like every website, ours sits on a server that records requests: an IP address, a timestamp, the page requested, and the browser's self-description. Our hosting provider keeps these for security and troubleshooting. We also use your IP address for a few seconds to limit how many times a form can be submitted in a minute, which is how we keep the forms from being used to send spam. That check is held in memory and never written down.

Some of what a privacy policy usually has to explain does not apply here, because we do not do it:

• We set no cookies. Not analytics cookies, not preference cookies, not any. There is no consent banner on this site because there is nothing to consent to.
• We run no analytics, no tracking pixels, no advertising tags, and no session recording. We do not know how many people read this sentence.
• We do not sell, rent, trade, or share your personal information for anyone else's marketing.
• Our typefaces are served from this domain rather than a font provider's, so opening a page does not report your visit to a third party.
• We keep no database. Nothing you type into this site is stored by the site itself.

We use what you send us to:

• reply to you, if you wrote to us;
• send the newsletter, if you asked for it, and nothing else;
• process your donation, send a receipt, and thank you;
• keep the donation records a 501(c)(3) organization is required to keep; and
• keep the forms from being abused.

We do not use it to build a profile of you, and we do not combine it with information from anywhere else.

Only the services that make each of those things work, and only the part each one needs:

• Mailchimp — stores the newsletter list and sends the newsletter.
• Stripe — processes card donations and handles card details directly, so that we never do.
• PayPal — processes donations made through PayPal.
• BTCPay Server — processes Bitcoin donations.
• Our hosting and email providers — carry the site and deliver contact messages to our inbox.

Each of these is bound by its own privacy terms, and each is used for that one purpose. Beyond them, we disclose personal information only if the law requires it, or to protect the safety of someone we serve.

Newsletter subscriptions stay on the list until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove you, at which point the record is deleted.

Contact messages live in our mailbox for as long as the conversation is useful, and are deleted when it is not.

Donation records are kept for as long as tax and charitable reporting law requires, because a 501(c)(3) has to be able to substantiate what it received and what it did with it.

Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link, and it works immediately.

For anything else, write to info@t7f.org. You can ask us what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, and we will do it. We will not treat you differently for asking, and we will not ask you to create an account to make the request.

Several states — California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia and others — give residents specific rights to know, correct, delete, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. We honor all of them for everyone who writes to us, wherever you live. There is nothing to opt out of on the last one: we have never sold or shared personal information, and we do not intend to.

If you are outside the United States, the same applies: ask, and we will show you, fix it, or delete it.

This website is written for adults — donors, partners, educators, and people who want to bring a session to their community. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them here.

Our programs serve students, but students take part through their schools and through partner organizations, under those organizations' own consent processes — not through a form on this site. If you believe a child has given us information through this website, write to info@t7f.org and we will delete it.

The 7eventh Foundation, Inc. is based in North Carolina, in the United States, and the services listed above process information in the United States. If you write to us or subscribe from another country — and our work reaches communities well beyond this one — your information is transferred to and handled in the United States, where privacy law may differ from the law where you live.

The site is served over an encrypted connection. Card details are handled entirely by our payment processor and never touch our servers. Access to our mailbox and our newsletter account is limited to the people who need it.

No organization can promise perfect security, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we can say is that we hold as little as possible, which is the most reliable protection there is: information we never collected cannot be lost.

This site links out — to our social accounts, to our payment processors, and to organizations we work alongside. Once you follow one of those links you are on somebody else's website, under their privacy policy and not this one. We would encourage you to read theirs too.

If we change how this site handles information, this page changes in the same breath, and the effective date at the top of it moves. If a change is significant — a new service handling your data, or a new kind of information collected — we will say so plainly here rather than quietly amending a sentence.

Questions about this policy, or about anything we hold, go to info@t7f.org, or by post to The 7eventh Foundation, Inc., 120 S. Main St. Ste. 270, Graham, NC 27753.

The 7eventh Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization, EIN 92-3772790. Your donation is tax-deductible as allowed by law. EIN 92-3772790. You can also use the contact form, though for a privacy request email reaches us just as quickly.