Privacy

No analytics, no tracking pixels, no advertising network, and no code anywhere on this site that reads your IP address. What each form collects, what happens to it, and the honest limits of any promise of secrecy.

What this site collects, what it does not, and what happens to anything you send us.

The short version

• We do not run analytics. There is no tracking pixel, no advertising network and no third-party analytics script anywhere on this site.
• We do not log your IP address. Not on any form, not on any page. There is no code here that reads one.
• We never sell, rent or trade anything you send us, and we never hand it to the School District of Lee County.
• Most of what we collect is optional. Every form on this site works without your name, and most work without any way to reach you at all.

The one page that uploads nothing at all

The grading-floor letter builder reads your child’s class schedule entirely on your own device. There is no endpoint on this site that accepts a schedule, no storage for one, and no view where anyone here could look at one. The text recognition runs in your browser and the finished letter is handed to your own mail program, which you send yourself.

A class schedule names a minor child, their school, their student ID and their location hour by hour. The safest thing to do with a document like that is never to receive it, so we built the page that way and we are not going to change it.

What each form collects

Everything below is stored in a private database that only we can read. Nothing is published automatically. A person reads every submission and decides, and most are never published at all.

• Share a story — Your role and topic if you choose them, your story, and a way to reach you only if you fill that box in. — The story may be published anonymously, with identifying details removed. Your contact never is.
• School ratings — The school, your connection to it, the star rating, the topics, your comment, the name you type into the integrity pledge, and a way to reach you (required for a one-star or five-star rating). An optional photo. — The rating and comment may be published. Your name, your contact and your role details are never shown beside it.
• School repairs — The school, the area, the category, what is broken, how long, whether students are in the room, an optional photo, and an optional contact. — The condition may be published. Never an employee’s name, never your contact.
• Postcards to the board — Your message, whether you want it read aloud, whether you allow it to be published, and an optional email. — Only if you tick the box. Your email is never printed on a card or published.
• Reader survey — Your answers, an optional free-text comment, whether you allow us to quote it, and an optional email. — Only totals. Individual responses are never published. A comment is quoted only if you ticked that box.
• Teacher wishlists — Your name, school and wishlist link, and an optional email. — Your name, school and link appear on the page. That is the point of it. Your email is never published.
• Business listings — Your business details, your offer and a contact so we can verify it. — The business and the offer are published. Your contact never is.
• Op-ed and fact-check submissions — What you send us, and a contact if you provide one. — Only after we have checked it, and on the terms you asked for.

Photos, and the location data inside them

Every photo you attach is re-encoded by your own browser before it is uploaded. That removes the GPS coordinates, the camera details and the timestamp your phone writes invisibly into the file, so what reaches us cannot say where the picture was taken. We have tested this with a deliberately GPS-tagged image and confirmed nothing survives.

That protects you. It does nothing about what is actually visible in the frame, which is why we ask for photographs of conditions and not of people, and why we set aside any photo showing a person or a name rather than cropping it and publishing it.

The address lookup

If you type an address into the district finder, we send it to Lee County’s own address service and to the U.S. Census geocoder to work out which school board district you are in. We do not store it. The answer is cached at our host’s edge for about ten minutes, and the county and Census lookups for about a day, which means the address you typed exists briefly in a cache key outside our control. If that matters to you, use the map instead of the box.

Who else touches anything

• Cloudflare hosts this site and stores the submissions. Like any host, it processes the network requests that reach it.
• Google Translate is the only third-party script on the site. If you use the language dropdown, Google receives the page text. If you never touch it, the widget still loads, which we are telling you because it is the one thing here that phones home.
• Videos are embedded through youtube-nocookie.com, which does not set YouTube’s usual tracking cookies unless you press play.
• A one-star or five-star rating triggers an alert to a notification service so we see it quickly. That alert contains the star count and the school name and nothing else — never your comment, your contact or your name.
• Links out to Amazon, DonorsChoose, the Supervisor of Elections, news sites and social platforms are ordinary links. Once you follow one you are on their site under their rules.

What we do not do

• No analytics of any kind. We genuinely do not know how many people read a page.
• No advertising, no ad networks, no retargeting, no tracking pixels.
• No IP logging. No form on this site reads your IP address or any header that identifies your device.
• No selling, renting, trading or sharing your information with anyone for any purpose.
• No handing anything to the School District of Lee County. Not a name, not a contact, not a list of who submitted.
• No location access. The site tells your browser to refuse geolocation, microphone and camera outright.
• No account, no password, no login. There is nothing to sign up for.

How long we keep things

Submissions are kept while they are still useful to the work: a rating stays as long as it counts toward a school’s score, an account stays while the issue it describes is live. We review and clear out what is no longer needed. If you want something you sent removed, email us and describe it well enough for us to find it, and we will delete it.

Students and children

Students of any age can tell us what they are seeing. If you are under 13, a parent or guardian needs to read what you wrote and send it from their own device. We do not ask a student for their name, their student ID, their teacher’s name or their class schedule, and we do not want them.

Anything published from a student is published without a name, without a grade level tied to a school, and with anything else stripped that could narrow it down to one person.

The honest limit

We are a volunteer project, not a government body, so Florida’s public records law does not apply to us and nobody can file a request for what you sent. But no promise of secrecy is absolute: a database can be breached, and a court can order somebody to produce what they hold.

That is the whole reason the contact box is optional almost everywhere. A blank field cannot be breached, subpoenaed or handed over by anyone, including us. If you are worried about retaliation, leaving it blank is the safer choice and we would rather tell you that than have you find out later.