What we know about you, and what we do not.
People arrive at this site in the worst weeks of their working lives, and some of them cannot afford to be identified. So this is short, specific and true rather than a page of legal furniture.
Last updated 31 August 2026.
The short version
We collect what you type into a form and nothing else. There are no analytics on this site, no advertising, no tracking pixels, no cookies, and no third-party scripts of any kind. Nothing you read here is reported to anybody. We do not sell or share anything with anyone, ever, and there is no arrangement under which we could.
When you write to us
The form at Begin a conversation stores your name, your email address, your church if you name one, the role you pick, and your message. That is the whole of it. We do not record your IP address on that form. What you write is read by a person on the team so they can answer you, and it is kept so that the conversation makes sense the second time you write.
Writing without your name
The form at writing without your name is built to know less. It stores your message, and the church, role and contact details only if you choose to give them. It does not store your IP address, your browser, or the page you came from. That is not an oversight, it is the reason the page exists: if you work at the church, sit on the board that is deciding, or are the person this happened to, we would rather be unable to identify you than promise not to try. The code you are given afterwards is generated on our server, shown to you once, and never sent anywhere.
Offering help
If you offer help through the progress pages we store your email address, your name if you give one, what you are offering, and your message. This one form also stores a scrambled fingerprint of your IP address, which cannot be turned back into an address and is used for one thing: stopping the same source from submitting the form hundreds of times. We send you a newsletter only if you checked the box yourself. That box is never checked for you and never assumed.
The listening project
If you were invited to the practitioner survey, your answers are stored against the invitation code you were given rather than your name. Two of the questions ask about your own experience, and there is a box beside them: unless you check it, those answers are stored but excluded from the analysis. Nothing from the survey is published in a form that identifies a person or a church.
What the site itself records
This site is served by Vercel and its data is held by Supabase. Like every web host, Vercel keeps short-lived server logs of requests, which include IP addresses; we do not use them and cannot connect them to anything you have written. We deliberately serve our typeface from our own server rather than from Google, so that visiting this site does not tell Google you were here. There is nothing else. No page on this site makes a request to any other company.
What is kept in your browser
Two things, both optional, both stored on your own device and never sent to us. If you check the box to remember your anonymous code, that code is kept in this browser until you clear it. If you change anything under Display at the bottom of the page, that choice is kept the same way. Neither is a cookie and neither is readable by anyone but you.
How long we keep things
We do not currently delete messages on a schedule. A conversation that began two years ago is often the reason we can be useful when somebody writes again, so messages are kept unless you ask us to remove them. If you would rather we did not, say so and we will.
Asking us to delete something
Write to us through Begin a conversation and ask, and we will delete what you sent and tell you when it is done. You do not have to give a reason. The one thing we cannot do is find a message sent without a name: we have no way to tell which one is yours, which is the point of that door. If you have the code, send it and we can.
Children
This site is written for adults and we do not knowingly collect anything from a child. If a child is being harmed, please do not write to us and wait. Call the police or your local child protection agency. In the United States the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline is 1-800-422-4453, day or night.
Changes, and how to ask
If this changes, the date at the top changes with it. If anything here is unclear, or you want to know exactly what we hold about you, ask through Begin a conversation and a person will answer.