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Privacy Policy
How this website handles your information. Effective August 5, 2026.
This policy covers this website, sparktroops.org. The SparkTroops platform, where families and volunteers hold accounts, has its own privacy practices — see below.
What this site collects
This website uses cookies and similar measurement tools, including Google Analytics and Google Ads conversion tracking, to understand how visitors interact with our site, measure program outreach, and improve user experience. These tools collect standard usage data — the pages you visit, how you arrived, your device type, and your approximate location — which we use in aggregate only; it never identifies you to us by name. You can control or block cookies through your web browser settings at any time, or use Google’s opt-out tools at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Google describes its own handling of this data at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Email you send us
If you email us, we use your address to reply and for nothing else. We keep the correspondence only as long as we need it to answer you and to keep a record of what was agreed. We never sell it, and we never add you to a mailing list unless you ask.
The SparkTroops platform
Registration, enrollment, and member accounts live on the SparkTroops platform at app.sparktroops.org, which has its own privacy practices and protections designed around children’s data. The same organization, Spark Troops, Inc., runs both — but this website holds none of the platform’s data, and nothing you do here creates a record there.
Donations
Donations are handled by PayPal on PayPal’s own pages, under PayPal’s privacy policy. We never see or store your card details. PayPal tells us who gave and how much, so that we can thank you and send your receipt, and we keep that record for seven years because tax rules require it.
Children’s images
We never publish a recognizable image of a child without a signed photo/media release from their parent or guardian.
Contact
Privacy questions: info@sparktroops.org. Effective date: August 5, 2026.