How we handle what you share

What we collect

• If you stay connected: your email address, plus basic technical context (the time you signed up and your browser type) to operate the list. If you then choose to add a note or tell us how you'd like to help, that note and those choices are stored together with your email.
• If you leave words of chizuk: your reflection, and optionally a name to display and a location. An email is optional; if you provide one it is kept private, never shown on the site, and used only so we can reach you about your reflection.
• If you simply visit: an anonymous record of the visit — which page, which site or campaign link you came from, your country, and your browser and device type — tied to a random ID, not to your name or email. See “Counting visits” below.

How we use it

• Your email is used only to send occasional vision, learning, and build updates about this project. By subscribing you agree to receive that occasional email, and you can unsubscribe from any update.
• Submitted reflections are reviewed before publication. Approved reflections — with the name or initials and optional location you provided — may be displayed publicly on this site as words of chizuk. Please do not include private information in a reflection.

Where it is stored

Data is stored using established service providers used to run this site — currently Google Firebase (Firestore) for contacts and reflections, Brevo for sending email updates (it receives your email address and language preference), PostHog (in the United States) for the anonymous visit count described below, and Cloudflare for hosting. These providers process the data on our behalf.

Counting visits

To learn how many people visit and what is useful to them, this site uses PostHog, an analytics service hosted in the United States. When you open a page, it records that the page was viewed, how you arrived (the site or campaign link you came from), your approximate country, your browser, device and language, and which links and buttons you press, including the sign-up steps. We never attach your name, your email address or anything you type to these records, and we do not record sessions or your screen. To tell a returning visitor from a new one, PostHog keeps one cookie in your browser (with a copy in the browser's local storage) — it holds a random ID and nothing about who you are — which lasts up to a year and works across this site and its subdomains. PostHog also receives your IP address, which it uses to work out your country and may keep with the record.

We respect your browser's Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control settings: when either is on, nothing is loaded or stored. You can also stop being counted at any time with the button below; it removes the random ID from your browser and remembers your choice (in this browser's local storage, for this site only) so your later visits are not counted.

What we do not do

• We do not sell your information.
• We do not share your email with other organizations for their own marketing.
• We do not run advertising or third-party ad tracking on this site. The anonymous visit count (see “Counting visits”) is not advertising and is not shared with advertisers.

Your choices

You can unsubscribe from updates at any time. To unsubscribe, to have your email removed, or to ask that a published reflection be taken down, contact us and we will take care of it. You can also stop your visits from being counted with the button under “Counting visits”, above.

Contact

For any privacy question or request, reach the project through the same channels linked on the home page. This note may be updated as the project develops; material changes will be reflected here.