Privacy Policy

The Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition is an all-volunteer nonprofit, and this is a simple website. Most of it can be read without telling us anything about yourself. This page explains what information the site does collect, what we do with it, and which other services are involved. It covers the pages served at tahoebike.org.

Information you send us

The only personal information this site collects is what you type into one of its own forms:

• The contact form: your first and last name, email address, phone number (optional), and message.

When you submit one of these forms, the site saves your answers in its database and emails them to the Coalition at info@tahoebike.org. The database copy means your message is not lost if an email goes astray. We use what you send us to reply to you and to run the program you asked about, and for nothing else. Submitting a form does not sign you up for our newsletter.

For this site's own forms, those notification emails are delivered by Resend (opens in a new tab), an email service, so the contents of your submission pass through Resend on the way to our inbox.

If you email the Coalition directly (the email links on this site open your own email program), we keep your message and reply from our email account. We use it only to reply to you.

The Bike Valet request form is a Google Form embedded on that page. What you enter there goes to Google and is kept in the Coalition's Google account, not in this site's database; Google's privacy policy (opens in a new tab) covers the form itself, and the Coalition uses your answers only to run that program.

Spam protection

Each form includes a Cloudflare Turnstile check, which tells people apart from automated spam. Turnstile loads a small script from Cloudflare in your browser, and when you submit a form the site sends the result of that check, together with your IP address, to Cloudflare to confirm it. The site does not keep your IP address with your submission. Cloudflare's privacy policy (opens in a new tab) describes what Cloudflare does with that information.

Newsletter and email lists

Our newsletter and other email lists are run through Constant Contact. When you use one of our email signup forms (for the newsletter on several pages of this site, and for the volunteer list on the Volunteer page), the site sends Constant Contact the email address you typed, your name and phone number if you gave them, and which of our newsletter topics you chose (general news, projects in the areas you picked, volunteer opportunities), and Constant Contact adds you to those lists. The site does not keep a copy. If Constant Contact cannot be reached, the form sends you to Constant Contact's own signup page to finish there instead. Some pages also link to Constant Contact's own volunteer signup page, and this site never sees what you enter there. Constant Contact holds the lists, and you can leave at any time with the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email we send. The past issues on the Newsletter page are hosted by Constant Contact too. Constant Contact's privacy notice (opens in a new tab) applies to the information you give it.

Membership and donations

Memberships and donations are handled by Memberful, a separate service. The Join and Donate buttons on this site take you to tahoebike.memberful.com, and the “choose what you pay” donation boxes send the amount you enter to Memberful's checkout page. Your name, email address, and payment details are entered on Memberful's pages and processed there; this website never sees your card number. Memberful's privacy policy (opens in a new tab) covers what you enter there.

Volunteer shifts

Volunteer shifts are scheduled through POINT. The Volunteer page embeds POINT's calendar of upcoming shifts (a frame and a small script loaded from pointapp.org). To sign up for a shift you create a POINT account; the information you give POINT is collected by POINT under its privacy policy (opens in a new tab), and POINT shows the Coalition who has signed up so that we can plan each shift.

Videos and other embedded content

A few pages include content served by other companies. Loading it works much like visiting their websites: they may set their own cookies and collect information about your visit, whether or not you have an account with them.

• The Bike Safety page plays YouTube videos through YouTube's privacy-enhanced player (youtube-nocookie.com), which YouTube says does not store information about you unless you play a video.
• The Advocacy page embeds a Google Drive folder of our comment letters.
• The Bike Valet page embeds a Google Form, described above.
• The Volunteer page embeds POINT's calendar, described above.
• The forms load the Cloudflare Turnstile check, described above.

YouTube, Google Drive, and Google Forms are covered by Google's privacy policy (opens in a new tab). Links to other websites, such as Tahoe Bike Month, our interactive bike map at map.tahoebike.org, the print map PDFs on Google Drive, and Google Maps directions for event locations, take you to sites with their own privacy policies.

Cookies and analytics

This site does not use analytics, advertising, or tracking cookies, and it does not run any analytics service. tahoebike.org sets no cookies at all for ordinary visitors; the only cookie it ever sets is a sign-in session cookie for the Coalition volunteers who edit the site, and only on their own browsers. Embedded content from other services may set its own cookies, as described above.

Hosting and server logs

The site runs on Vercel (opens in a new tab), and its database is provided through Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel keeps server logs of requests, which include your IP address, the page requested, and your browser, and which are used to keep the site running and secure.

Who we share information with

We do not sell your information. We share it only with the services named on this page, which we use to run the site and its programs, and if the law requires it. Within the Coalition, form submissions are read by the board members and volunteers who answer them.

Your choices

If you would like to see, correct, or delete anything you have sent us through this site, email info@tahoebike.org and we will take care of it. To stop receiving the newsletter or volunteer emails, use the unsubscribe link in any message from us, or email us. For information you have given Memberful, POINT, or Constant Contact directly, those services let you manage your own account, and we are happy to help.

Changes to this policy

If the way this site handles information changes, we will update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition
PO Box 1147, Zephyr Cove, NV 89448
info@tahoebike.org