Privacy

In short

  • We count visits and actions anonymously to improve the site. We never track you as a person. We only know what you choose to tell us.

What we never do

  • You never need an account to use this site. We use no tracking cookies, advertising pixels, Google Analytics, session recording or heatmaps.
  • We never store or pass on your IP address. Fonts and images are served from this site.
  • Our visit counts run on our own analytics server and contain only which page was viewed and simple actions such as "a form was sent". If your browser asks sites not to track you, we count nothing at all.
  • The class map shows church pins without contacting anyone. If you tap "Show street map", your browser loads map tiles from OpenFreeMap, which sees your network address like any website you visit. Searching by ZIP or city happens in your browser and is never sent to us.

What the teacher application collects

  • Your name, email, ZIP code, home church, the arts you teach and days you are free, your experience and your pastor's name and email, plus your agreement to a background check.
  • Everything except the arts and days is encrypted before it is saved, the same way as the contact form, so our team can match teachers to rooms without opening applications.

What the church listing collects

  • Your church's name and address, a contact name and email or phone, the rooms and days available and any notes.
  • Everything except the rooms and days is encrypted before it is saved.

What the contact form collects

  • An optional name, your email, the topic you choose and your message.
  • Your name, email and message are encrypted on our server before they are saved. The website itself cannot read them back; only a separate key held for our team can.
  • To stop spam we use Cloudflare Turnstile on forms, and short-lived rate limits keyed on a scrambled, irreversible form of your network address that we never store.

When it is deleted

  • Messages are deleted 90 days after we handle them. Messages left untouched are archived after 180 days.
  • Declined teacher applications and church listings are deleted 180 days after the decision. Approved ones are kept while the teacher or church works with us.
  • Anonymous feedback is deleted after one year.

Contact

  • Questions about privacy: hello@livingwaterarts.org