Privacy Policy

Who we are

This policy covers goodyearfoundation.org, run by the Goodyear Foundation, a Wyoming-based nonprofit initiative currently pursuing 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. Questions about this policy or your information can go to hello@goodyearfoundation.org.

Forms on this site, and where they go

Every form that submits to us — contact, sharing your story, volunteering, partnering, and the newsletter signup — saves directly into our database (Supabase). Here is what each one collects:

• Contact form: your name, email, an optional subject, and your message.
• Share your story: your name, email, your story, an optional comfort level and relationship to the person affected, and whether you consent to us sharing it publicly and contacting you about it. Your story is the most sensitive thing we collect — see below for how it's handled differently.
• Volunteer and partner inquiries: your name, email, optional phone/organization, and your message.
• Newsletter signup: your email and, if you give it, your name.

We also record which page you submitted from and a one-way hashed version of your IP address (see "Spam protection" below) — never the raw address.

How your story is protected differently

If you share your story with us, the free-text summary you write is not forwarded anywhere else — not to our CRM, not into any notification email. It stays in our database, insert-only, until a real person reads it there. Contact and volunteer/partner messages are forwarded to our CRM in full so we can follow up.

The security model, in one sentence

This website can add a submission to our database. It cannot read, change, or delete one back. That is enforced by the database itself, not by trusting our code to behave — so even if the website's public key were ever exposed, the worst outcome is junk rows, not someone else's story being read.

Spam protection

Forms use a hidden field bots fill in but people don't, a minimum-time-to-submit check, and a database-level limit on how many submissions can come from one network per hour. None of this is used to identify you — it exists to keep the inbox usable.

Tools that stay on your device — "Adaptive Memory"

Several tools on this site — the symptom tracker, diagnosis prep, doctor-visit and family-meeting prep, the grant matching quiz, pathways, the "Gentle Mode" display toggle, and the message drafts in "Send to Someone I Trust" — remember what you enter using a single, shared store saved in your own browser's local storage. Nothing here is an account: there's no login, no name or email required, and it is never sent to us — we cannot see it. Clearing your browser data, or using a different device or browser, clears it too.

A small "🧠 Adaptive Memory" button, visible near the top of every page, shows exactly what's currently saved and lets you change or erase any of it on the spot. You can also clear everything from right here:

Clearing is instant and permanent — there is no undo, no backup copy, and nothing left for us to restore, because we never had it in the first place.

Analytics

When enabled, this site uses Google Analytics (GA4) to understand overall traffic — which pages get visited, general location at the city/country level, device type, and how people move through the site. It is not used to identify you personally. We do not use advertising or retargeting pixels.

Cookies

This site does not set its own cookies. If analytics is enabled, Google Analytics may set its own cookies under its privacy practices — see Google's own privacy policy for details on those.

Ask us to delete your information

Email hello@goodyearfoundation.orgwith what you submitted and roughly when, and we will delete it from our database. Because the website itself cannot read or delete records — only a privileged, human-operated login can — this is a manual process on our end, not instant, but we will confirm once it's done.

Children's privacy

This site isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child submitted information to us, contact us and we'll remove it.

Changes to this policy

If how we handle your information changes in a meaningful way, we'll update this page and change the date at the top.