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Privacy Policy
Last updated October 17, 2026
Smart Generosity ("we", "us") teaches donors a method for giving to U.S. charities by credit card. This policy explains what we collect when you use smartgenerosity.com, why, and the choices you have. We don't sell your personal information.
What we collect
- Your application: your name, email address, phone number if you give it, and your answers about where and how much you give.
- Your membership: your email address, sign-in history, profile photo if you add one, your giving checklist progress and your reminder preferences.
- Payments: membership payments are processed by Stripe. We receive your name, email, the amount and the payment status. We never see or store your full card number.
- Your donations: donations go straight from you to a third-party giving platform and on to your charities. They don't pass through us, and we never see the card you donate with.
- Reviews: if you leave a review, your rating, words, the name and city you choose to show, your headshot, any video you send, the email for your gift card and any optional details you add, such as how much you've given.
- Messages: what you send us through the contact form or by email.
- Email activity: our emails contain a small image and tracked links that tell us whether a message was opened or a link was clicked. We use this to check delivery and to stop sending when someone isn't reading.
- Website use: Google Analytics records the pages you visit, your device and browser, and your approximate location. Our host and Cloudflare see your IP address, which helps keep the site fast and secure.
Cookies
We use a session cookie to keep you signed in and to protect forms, a longer-lasting cookie if you choose "Keep me signed in", and Google Analytics cookies to measure how the site is used. You can block or delete cookies in your browser; signing in needs the session cookie.
How we use it
- To review your application, show you the right membership and take payment.
- To run your members area and send sign-in links, receipts and service emails.
- To follow up, at most three times, if you start an application and don't finish it, and to send optional yearly giving reminders. Every one of these emails has an unsubscribe link.
- To answer your questions and keep records of our conversation.
- To publish your review, only if you give permission, and to send your gift card.
- To improve the site, prevent fraud and abuse, and meet legal and accounting duties.
Who we share it with
Only the companies that help us run Smart Generosity, and only what they need:
- Stripe for membership payments
- toSend for sending email
- Google Analytics for website measurement
- Cloudflare for website security and speed
- BigScoots, our web host
- Amazon, when we send a review gift card to the email you give us
We may also share information if the law requires it, or to protect our rights or someone's safety.
How long we keep it
We keep your account and payment records for as long as you're a member, and afterwards as long as tax and accounting rules require. Unfinished applications and review materials are kept until you ask us to delete them. You can ask us to delete your information at any time.
Your choices
- Unsubscribe from any marketing or follow-up email with the link at the bottom.
- Turn yearly reminders off in your account.
- Ask to see, correct or delete your information, or to stop using your review, by emailing [email protected]. We'll reply within 30 days.
How we protect it
The site runs over encrypted connections. Sign-in links work once and expire, and we store only a scrambled version of them. Profile photos, headshots and videos are kept privately on our server and shown only to you and to us unless you agree to publish them.
Children
Smart Generosity is for adults. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.
Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the date above. If a change is significant, we'll tell members by email.
Contact us
Smart Generosity
13395 Voyager Pkwy, Suite 130, Box 725
Colorado Springs, CO 80921
[email protected]