Chad Who’s responsible. Chad Kempel LLC runs chadkempel.com. That’s me, Chad, a one-person Idaho company. Anything in this policy you want to ask about, change or delete: chad@chadkempel.com, (208) 391-2959, or PO Box 22, Eagle, ID 83616.
What I collect, and where it comes from
- Forms you fill out. The booking and contact forms ask for your name, email, phone, school or organization, your role, the event date and type, audience size, what you’re hoping for, and a message. The faith booking form and the one-sheet form ask for a shorter version of the same. Netlify, the company that hosts this site, stores those submissions and emails them to me.
- Newsletter signups. Your email, which audience you picked, and sometimes a first and last name. MailerLite stores the list and sends the emails. Every email has an unsubscribe link at the bottom.
- The One Decision tool. On the home page you can type the thing you keep putting off and get a written reply. An AI model writes that reply (Claude, made by Anthropic), so your text is sent to Anthropic to produce it. I also keep a log of what was typed and the reply, with a timestamp and nothing else: no name, no email, no IP address. I read it to see what people are wrestling with and to make the tool better. Please don’t type anything that identifies you or someone else. If what you type sounds like someone could be in danger, it never goes to the AI and isn’t logged; the page shows crisis lines instead. To stop abuse, the tool counts how many times a connection uses it each hour. It does that with a scrambled, one-way version of the address that changes every day, kept only as a counter and never stored with what you typed.
- The student page. It doesn’t ask for a name, an email or anything else, and nothing typed into its tools is sent to this site. “Say It Out Loud” can turn your voice into text using the speech recognition built into your browser. This site never records the audio and never receives your words. Your browser’s maker, Apple or Google, may process the audio the same way it does for dictation, under its own privacy policy. Reminders you build there go into your own calendar. None of it reaches me.
- Usage data. Google Analytics tells me which pages get read, roughly where visitors are (city level), what kind of device they used and how they got here. It uses cookies (
_gaand_ga_*) to tell one visit from another. It doesn’t give me names, and Google doesn’t give me full IP addresses. Pages also load their fonts from Google Fonts, so Google sees your IP address when a font loads. Netlify keeps ordinary server logs. MailerLite’s signup script runs on pages with a signup box and may set its own cookie to remember whether you’ve already seen a form.
What I do with it
Answer you. Book the assembly. Send the documents you asked for. Send the newsletter you signed up for. Read feedback from schools. See which pages are useful and which aren’t. That’s the list.
I don’t sell personal information, rent it, trade it or use it for advertising. There are no ads on this site.
Who sees it
- The companies that run things for me. Netlify (hosting, forms and the One Decision function), MailerLite (email), Google (analytics and fonts) and Anthropic (the AI reply). Each one gets only what it needs to do its job and handles it under its own privacy policy: Netlify, MailerLite, Google, Anthropic.
- Your school. When a school books me, I share what the school needs about its own event. Survey results go to the school as totals only.
- Safety and the law. If a message makes me believe someone is in immediate danger, I may contact the school, a parent or emergency services. I’d rather make that call than live with the alternative. I’ll also share information if a court or the law requires it.
- Nobody else.
Students, parents and schools
- Who the site is for. Adults who book assemblies, and the general public. The student page is written for high school students. I don’t knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you’re a parent and think your child under 13 sent me something, email me and I’ll delete it.
- The assembly survey. The three-question survey after a talk is anonymous. No names, email addresses, phone numbers, student IDs or sign-ins. Results are reported only as totals, and any group with fewer than 10 answers is combined or left out.
- School records. I never receive student education records, and nothing here is designed to create one. Opt-out slips and parent letters stay at the school.
- Filming. I only film at a school with the school’s OK in writing, on terms we agree to at the time.
Cookies and “Do Not Track”
The cookies on this site come from Google Analytics and MailerLite, described above. I don’t set any of my own. You can block or clear cookies in your browser and the site still works. This site doesn’t respond to “Do Not Track” browser signals, because there’s still no agreed standard for what a site should do with one. If you’d rather not be counted by Google Analytics, Google’s opt-out add-on or any tracker blocker takes care of it.
How long I keep things
- Form submissions and email about a booking or a payment: up to seven years, because tax records work that way. Everything else: as long as it’s useful, then it goes.
- Newsletter: until you unsubscribe.
- The One Decision log: I review it and clear it at least once a school year.
- Analytics: Google keeps its visitor-level data for 14 months.
Security
The site runs over HTTPS. I’m the only person with access to the form submissions and the mailing list. I never take card numbers here: the guide is sold through Gumroad and the books through Amazon, and they handle payment under their own policies. Email isn’t a vault, so please don’t send me anything you’d be upset to see forwarded, like a student’s file.
Your choices
- See, fix or delete what I have about you: email me. I’ll do it within 30 days. No forms, no hoops.
- Unsubscribe: the link at the bottom of any email.
- Analytics: see the cookies section above.
- California residents: this policy is written to meet California’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The extra rights under the CCPA apply to businesses far bigger than this one, but I’ll honor a request to know or delete your information from anyone, anywhere.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, I’ll update the date at the top and say what changed right here. If I ever wanted to use your information in a way you wouldn’t expect from reading this, I’d ask you first.