Who we are
MenLiving is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that runs facilitated circles for men, online and in person, and an online community between gatherings. This policy covers the website you are reading. Questions about it go to todd@menliving.org.
What this website collects
Nothing that identifies you, unless you give it to us. Reading this website’s own pages requires no account and sets no cookie, and the website has no database of visitors. The giving, newsletter and retreat pages are different — they run on our WordPress system, described below.
Request access form. If you ask to be brought into the community without giving, the form takes your name, your email address, and anything you choose to tell us. It never asks about your finances. What you enter is sent, through our email-delivery service (Resend), as an email to the person on the MenLiving team who welcomes new members, and it is used only to bring you in and to answer you. It is not added to a marketing list.
Notices you close. When you dismiss a notice on the site (for example the Men Walking Day reminder), the site remembers that in your own browser’s storage so it does not show again. That stays on your device and is never sent to us.
Hosting logs. Like every website, ours is served by a hosting provider (Vercel) that keeps standard server logs — IP address, browser type, time and page requested — for security and to keep the site running. Pages from our WordPress system also pass through its host, Kinsta, which keeps the same kind of logs. We do not use these to identify you.
Visit counts. To learn which pages are useful, the site counts visits with Vercel Web Analytics, which is part of our hosting. For each page view it records the page, the page that sent you there, your approximate location (country, region and city), and your browser, operating system and type of device. It sets no cookie and is not tied to your IP address; a returning visitor is recognized only by an anonymous code that is discarded after 24 hours. It does not follow you to other websites, and we do not use it to identify you.
A few actions. The same tool also counts a handful of moments: pressing one of the main buttons (to RSVP, give, open the community or a profile, or share a page by email), choosing an option on the home page, playing a podcast episode, sending the request form, and reaching a page that doesn’t exist. Each count notes the page you were on and where the button leads. It never records what you type into a form.
No advertising trackers on these pages. The pages described above load no advertising script. If what we measure changes, this page will say so first.
Pages run by our WordPress system
Some pages at this address are still served by MenLiving’s WordPress system: the full donation pages, the donor dashboard, recurring-gift management, the gift thank-you page, the newsletter sign-up page, and retreat registration and checkout. Those pages load tools that the rest of this website does not:
- Google Analytics (Google), which sets cookies to count visits and see how people move through those pages.
- HubSpot, our contact-management system, which sets cookies to recognize a returning visitor and can link those visits to your contact record if you have given us your email address.
- Mailchimp, our newsletter service, whose site script reports activity on those pages back to Mailchimp.
- Stripe, which processes card payments and uses cookies to help prevent fraud.
- PayPal, offered as a way to pay on the gift form and on retreat pages.
- Facebook, whose software kit loads on the meditation-retreat page and connects your browser to Facebook.
The gift form on our Gift page, and the donation forms our Donate buttons open, load only the payment tools (Stripe, and PayPal on the gift form) and typefaces from Google Fonts, which means your browser requests them from Google. Each of these companies’ own privacy policy covers what it receives.
Giving
Gifts and donations are made through forms provided by GiveWP on MenLiving’s WordPress system and processed by Stripe or PayPal. Card details go to Stripe; MenLiving never sees your full card number. GiveWP keeps your name, email address and giving history so you can receive receipts, manage a recurring gift, and see your own donation history. Stripe’s privacy policy governs payment data; GiveWP’s governs the form.
The online community
MenLiving’s online community is hosted by Circle. Creating a profile there, joining a space, or RSVPing to a gathering is governed by Circle’s privacy policy and by the community agreements every member accepts. What you share inside a circle is covered by those agreements, not by this website.
Newsletter and podcast
Signing up for the newsletter happens on our mailing-list page, run by our email provider; every email carries an unsubscribe link. Playing an episode of our podcast streams the audio from the show’s host (RSS.com), which receives a request from your browser when you press play.
Children
MenLiving’s gatherings are for adults and this website is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13; if you believe a child has sent us information, write to us and we will remove it.
Your choices
You can ask us what information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it — write to todd@menliving.org. For giving records, the donor dashboard and Stripe receipts are the source; for the community, your Circle profile is. If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom you have these rights under law; we extend them to everyone.
Changes
When this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. We will not quietly widen what we collect.
See also the terms of service.