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Privacy

What this website collects, why we collect it, and who to ask about it.

Who we are

This website is run by Living Free Charleston, a personal-development and community-strengthening program of People In Partnership, serving the Charleston, South Carolina area. Our address is The Hub at CenterPoint, 1520 Remount Rd, North Charleston, SC 29406.

The best way to reach us about anything on this page is by email at ken@livingfreecharleston.org.

The contact form

When you send a message through our contact form, we receive what you enter: your email address and your message. If you also fill in your name or choose a subject, we receive that too.

Your message is saved in the system that runs this website's forms, and usually a copy is emailed to our team. Members of our team who have a login to that system can read it. The system may also add your name and email address to our contact list, with a note that you sent the form.

Along with your message, the system records your internet address (IP address), your browser and device type, the address of our website, and the page you sent it from. The internet address is used to limit how many messages one visitor can send. That helps keep out spam.

We use what you send to reply to you and to connect you with the right person.

Counting visits with Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to see how many people visit and which pages are helpful. It starts when a page loads, on every page.

It uses cookies and records things like the pages you view, how you found the site, your device and browser, your screen size and language, and your approximate location, which Google works out from your internet address. It does not tell us your name or email address. Google handles this information under the Google Privacy Policy.

You can turn it off in your browser with Google's opt-out browser add-on. You can also block or clear cookies in your browser's settings. That keeps Google Analytics from recognizing your browser from one visit to the next.

What is kept in your browser

The site's own code does not set any cookies. The Google tools we use for visitor statistics keep these items in your browser:

  • _ga (cookie). A random ID that lets Google Analytics tell one browser from another. By Google's default it is set to last two years.
  • A second cookie whose name starts with _ga_. It keeps track of your current visit. By Google's default it is also set to last two years.
  • firebase-installations-database (browser storage). A random ID for this browser and its registration details. Firebase, the Google service that loads Google Analytics on this site, needs it.
  • firebase-heartbeat-database (browser storage). The dates the Firebase code ran in your browser, so it can report its version to Google once a day.

When the Firebase code starts, a short test entry is also created and removed right away to check that your browser allows storage.

You can remove all of these at any time by clearing cookies and site data for livingfreecharleston.org in your browser's settings.

Giving and links to other sites

Online gifts are made on a separate giving website, donate.mazloweb.com, not on this site. The Donate button at the top of every page and the Donate Now buttons open it in a new tab. Other Donate links open our Donate page on this site. Gifts are processed through our fiscal sponsor, People In Partnership.

Some links on this site open other websites:

  • The Open in Google Maps button on our Events page opens Google Maps.
  • The partner links on our Resources and Education pages open those organizations' websites.
  • The Bytesize Data Solutions link at the bottom of every page opens Bytesize's website.

Nothing is sent to those sites until you click. After that, each site handles your information in its own way, and this page no longer applies.

Who helps us run this site

We do not sell your information. These companies handle it for us so the site can work:

  • Google. Google hosts this website and the system behind its forms, including the saved messages. It also provides Google Analytics. Our email is with Google too. As our host, Google receives your internet address, your browser details, and the page you asked for each time a page loads, as any web host does. The system's logs at Google note your internet address and browser each time you send a form. They also note the address that each copy of a form message is sent to.
  • Amazon Web Services. It delivers the emails the system sends, such as the copy of your message that goes to our team.
  • Bytesize Data Solutions. Bytesize builds and looks after this website and the system behind its forms. Its staff can see messages as part of that work, and may get the email copies of form messages. The system's emails are sent through Bytesize's account at Amazon Web Services.

How long we keep things

We keep messages and contact details until you ask us to remove them or we no longer need them. The system does not delete them on its own.

The system's own copy of each email it sends, and of most that fail, is deleted after about 30 days. The Google Analytics cookies are set to last two years, and you can clear them sooner in your browser.

Children

This website is not directed at children under 13, and its forms do not ask for information about children. If you believe a child has sent us information through this site, email ken@livingfreecharleston.org so we can remove it.

Questions and requests

If you have a question about your information, or you would like to see, correct, or delete what we have about you, email ken@livingfreecharleston.org.

Last updated November 14, 2026.