What we collect, and why.

When you book a meeting, we collect what you type into the form, plus a few details your browser sends along. We use them to set up the meeting. We also count page views to see which pages people read.

We don’t sell your information, and we don’t use it for ads. Questions, or want something deleted? Write to Jacob at jacob@open-civ.com.

Open·Civ is run by Jacob Ramos through Open Civic Intelligence Ventures LLC, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. This page covers this website, www.open-civ.com.

The booking form asks for your name and email. A phone number and a note are up to you. You also pick a time and a place: one of four spots in downtown Saint Paul, or Google Meet.

When you confirm, the site puts the meeting on Jacob’s Google Calendar with you as a guest, by name and email. Google then emails you the invite, with a Meet link if you picked Google Meet. Your name is in the event title. Your note and phone number go in the description, so they’re on your copy and on Jacob’s.

Jacob’s copy also carries a private tag. It says the meeting was booked here, which kind of meeting you picked and, if the link you followed carried it, which button on our site sent you. That’s how we learn which pages lead to real conversations. The tag never shows on your invite.

The site itself keeps no copy of your booking. It lives in Google Calendar.

Once you pick a time, the form that opens uses Cloudflare Turnstile, running invisibly, to keep bots out. Most people never see it. As soon as the form opens, your browser loads the check from Cloudflare and sends it details about your browser and device, plus your IP address, even if you never book.

When you confirm, we send Cloudflare the check’s one-time code and your IP address, so it can tell us you passed. This site doesn’t save either one, though the booking passes through Vercel’s logs like every request here. What Cloudflare collects and how it uses it is covered by Cloudflare’s Turnstile Privacy Addendum.

The iOS beta has ended, and its sign-up form is gone. If you signed up while it ran, we kept your email, your name and note if you gave them, when you signed up, and which browser and page you used.

Jacob keeps those sign-ups in private files on his own computer, and he has an email about each one in his inbox. Those emails went through a service called Resend, which keeps its own copies on its own schedule. Ask and Jacob will delete yours.

Mail to jacob@open-civ.com lands in Jacob’s inbox, which runs on Google Workspace. We use what you send to write back to you.

This site doesn’t set any cookies of its own, and it runs no ads. It keeps one note in your browser so the intro animation doesn’t replay. That note never leaves your browser and clears when you close the tab.

We use Vercel Web Analytics to count page views. Vercel says each view can record the page, the site you came from, your approximate location, and your browser, operating system and device type. It also says it uses no third-party cookies and doesn’t tie views to you or your IP address.

The live skyway map on some of our pages, like the home page and the Proof page, loads from our skyway map site, spskyway.com. That map uses Google Analytics, which can set cookies and tells Google about your visit to the map. The map’s privacy page explains it and links Google’s opt-out.

A few pages on this site are display screens, not pages for visitors. They load their fonts from Google Fonts, so opening one sends Google your IP address and basic browser details.

Some browsers send a “Do Not Track” signal. There’s no agreed standard for it, so this site works the same either way.

Passive sensing keeps counts, not identities. A phone is linked to a person only if that person opts in through the app.

We don’t sell your information. These services handle it for us so the site can work:

Google, through Google Workspace, runs Jacob’s calendar and email, and sends your invite and any Meet link.

Cloudflare runs the bot check on the booking form, under its Turnstile Privacy Addendum.

Vercel hosts the site and counts page views. Like any web host, it logs each request, including your IP address and browser type.

Google also learns of visits to the embedded map and the display-screen pages, as described above. Beyond that, we’d share your information only if the law requires it, to keep someone safe, or if Open·Civ ever changes hands.

We don’t run an automatic deletion schedule, so here’s what actually happens.

A booking stays on Jacob’s calendar as the record of the meeting until he deletes it or you ask us to. Emails you send us, and the old beta sign-ups, stay until we delete them.

Vercel’s logs and page-view counts, Cloudflare’s records from the bot check and Resend’s copies of the old beta emails are kept on those services’ schedules, not ours.

Email jacob@open-civ.com to ask what we have about you, correct it or have it deleted. We may ask you to confirm it’s you, usually by writing from the address you used. Then we’ll delete what we hold (the calendar event, your emails and any beta sign-up) and tell you when it’s done, unless the law says we must keep something. If the meeting hasn’t happened yet, deleting it cancels it. We can’t erase what Vercel, Cloudflare and Resend keep in their own logs.

To cancel a meeting yourself, decline the invite, and Jacob’s calendar will show it. Your details stay on his calendar until he deletes the event, so email him if you want them gone too.

This site isn’t meant for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their information. If you think a child has sent us something, email us and we’ll delete it.

If we change how we handle information, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.

Questions about any of this go to Jacob Ramos at jacob@open-civ.com. Open Civic Intelligence Ventures LLC, Saint Paul, Minnesota.