What we keep, and why

Nothing is stored about you. There is no analytics service, no advertising pixel, and no third-party tracker on this site. Fonts are served from the site itself. The only cookies are the ones that keep you logged in, which is why you will not find a cookie banner here.

We keep what you give us and what the site needs to work:

• Your name and email address, so you can log in and we can reach you.
• Your church or organization, and its city and state, when you choose to add them.
• Which resources you have opened and saved, so your account can show them back to you.
• Every download, including a download of the whole library, logged against your account with the date. Your account lists them for you, and the site’s own reports count them.
• If you record the commitment, the name, role, and organization you entered, which version of the words you agreed to, the date, and the IP address the request came from. That last one is there so the record means something. It is not used for anything else.
• If you use the assistant, what you typed, so the conversation makes sense.

We hold the National Association of Marriage Enhancement’s own contact records: names and email addresses, and for some people a church or organization, a phone number, or a mailing address. They are never shown to the public, and they are used for three things:

• To send one announcement that NAME has closed and that its archive is free here. It is sent through Resend. Every message has a one-click unsubscribe, and there is no open or click tracking.
• To check the archive for names before anything is published. A file that names someone on the list is held back for a person to decide. Only two kinds can go out without that: a document that a second, stricter check judges to be public teaching material whose names belong to the ministry or to public authors and leaders, and a recording whose own file name carries the name, usually the speaker’s, as described below.
• To show the small team that looks after the site where NAME’s work reached. Mailing addresses are placed on a map with OpenStreetMap’s free address lookup, which receives the address but not the name.

If you unsubscribe, or a message to you bounces, we keep a note of your address so you are never emailed again, even if the list is imported a second time.

Only the services that make the site run:

• Google, if you choose to log in with a Google account.
• Resend, which delivers the log-in links, the announcement, and any other email we send you.
• Google Drive, which stores the archive files themselves.
• OpenStreetMap, which turns contact mailing addresses into map points.
• Anthropic, which powers the assistant and helps screen the archive. Your messages to the assistant are sent there to be answered, and archive files are sent there to be checked, as explained below.

We do not sell, rent, or share your information with anyone else, and we never will.

For as long as the library is open, which is planned through the end of 2027. Ask us to delete your account and we will delete it, along with your saved items, your viewing and download history, and your conversations with the assistant.

One thing stays. If you recorded the commitment, its entry (the name and organization you entered, and the date) is kept, because those entries are the lasting record of who carried NAME’s work forward. We remove the role you entered and the IP address from it, and clear your email address and every other detail from the account it belongs to.

When the site closes for good, the accounts and the activity logs go with it.

This library was assembled from a ministry’s own files, so nothing was published without being screened first. Every file was checked automatically for personal information: names from NAME’s contact list, contact details, addresses, identifying numbers, and anything that reads like a record about a person. A document was published only when the screening found nothing; when the only things found were contact details or a name, and a second, stricter check judged it public teaching material whose details belong to the ministry, other organizations, or public authors and leaders; or when a person decided it could go.

Photographs showing personal details on a document or screen, or anything sensitive, were held back for a person to decide, and so were photographs whose hidden details, such as where they were taken, could not be removed. A photograph whose only finding was that someone in it could be recognized was published only by a deliberate decision of the people who closed NAME, never on the screening alone. Recordings were published only from folders a person had checked by listening to samples. Even there, a recording whose file name or folder used words such as “intake” or “confidential” was held back, and one carrying a name from the contact list went out only when the name was in its own file name, usually the speaker’s, and neither its name nor its folder used words such as counseling, session, or appointment.

Part of that check uses Anthropic’s Claude. The text of documents, and preview images of photographs, are sent to Anthropic’s API under Anthropic’s commercial terms, to look for personal information before anything is published. The short descriptions of some documents were drafted the same way, from their text.

Screening is careful, but it is not perfect. If you find a document, a photograph, or a record that involves you and should not be public, tell us and we will take it down first and discuss it afterwards.

How to reach us.