PRIVACY NOTICE

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Updated October 22, 2026

Donations and donor controls

Stripe processes direct payments using secure embedded components. Card credentials go directly to Stripe and are not stored by FIELDWATER. We retain gift amounts, designation, payment references, email addresses, payment and refund status, and recurring-gift settings to administer support and keep financial records.

Resend delivers transactional acknowledgments, secure access links and payment or account messages from our verified sending domain, with open and click tracking disabled. Private acknowledgment and access links provide access to donor records; keep them private. Donor access uses a short-lived essential session cookie.

Donor names are not displayed in our public totals. Birthday and personal-challenge pages are hosted on fieldwater.org, with payments through Stripe. We store the creator’s email privately for verification and page management. Published titles, stories, goals and end dates are public; donor names and contact details are not displayed. Private management links create short-lived essential session cookies. Historical Zeffy records remain with that provider.

School Partners inquiries

The School Partners form is for adults. We store the contact details and optional message you provide privately to respond to your interest, along with the submission time, notice version and notification status. Our email service sends an internal notification to Andrew. Submitting this form does not enroll you in a classroom match, start fundraising or add you to Field Notes. Please leave out individual student names and personal details. Contact us using the address below to ask about access, corrections or deletion.

Field Notes and consent

Mailchimp manages our separate marketing list. Signup requests your email and records its time, source and preference. Field Notes uses single opt-in. Joining the list is optional and never a condition of donating.

For consenting subscribers, we synchronize donor status so active monthly donors are excluded from acquisition appeals. A one-time donor waits at least 30 days before a monthly invitation; canceled monthly donors are excluded for 90 days. Donors without marketing consent receive payment and account communications only.

Earlier giving-intention forms recorded nonbinding interest and a separate Field Notes preference. We preserve those choices. An intention is not a donation, subscription or permission for unrelated marketing.

Your choices

Unsubscribe or update preferences through the links in marketing emails. Essential payment and account communications continue when needed to manage your gifts. Contact hello@fieldwater.org about access, corrections or deletion. Some records must be retained for accounting and legal obligations.

Analytics and advertising measurement

Google Analytics measures visits to public pages and referring websites. Private donor-management and acknowledgment pages are excluded. We strip unapproved URL parameters and do not send names, email addresses, payment details or private access links. Automatic form tracking and Google signals are disabled.

Google Ads uses advertising cookies and click identifiers to measure which ads lead to successful gifts or new Field Notes signups. We share the gift amount, currency and an opaque transaction reference. We do not send donor names, email addresses, payment details, private receipt links or account-access tokens to advertising tags. Monthly renewals are not counted as new supporters. We do not use enhanced conversions or personalized advertising in this launch.

Analytics and advertising measurement are enabled automatically unless you turn them off in Privacy choices. Turning them off does not affect giving or subscribing. Use Privacy choices to change your choice. Approved campaign codes identify Facebook, Instagram, public shares and Google visits. These codes are stored for 30 days when measurement is enabled and retained with a gift for source reporting; arbitrary URL text is not collected. Bali sponsorship quantity is measured separately from general giving. Advertising click identifiers expire after 90 days; your preference is remembered for 180 days. Browser blocking and consent choices can leave gaps in advertising attribution. Financial records remain separate.

Other services and security

Embedded YouTube videos and service providers may process technical data under their own policies. We use limited technical information to prevent abuse and protect access. We do not sell donor information.

Read the privacy policies for Stripe, Resend, Mailchimp / Intuit, Zeffy and Google / YouTube.