Last updated 28 July 2026
The Foundation runs no database. There is no donor file here and no contact list, and we build no record of who read what. Everything you send passes through a company we use to do one specific job — carry a message, take a card, deliver an email — and it is kept in that company’s records rather than in ours.
The contact form
The form on the contact page does not post to a Foundation server. It posts directly to formsubmit.co, a third-party relay. FormSubmit receives your name, your email address, the topic you chose, and the message you wrote. It stores that submission and forwards it by email to a Foundation mailbox.
This page once said a message goes to the Foundation and nowhere else. That was not accurate, so here it is plainly: FormSubmit has your message first, and it reaches us through them. Past that point it goes no further — it is not passed to anyone else, added to any list, or used for anything but answering you.
If you would rather not send a message through a third party, write to j@columbuslegacyfoundation.org directly, or use the post. Both reach the same people.
Making a gift
Donations are processed by Stripe, using Stripe Checkout. When you start a gift you leave this site for a page Stripe hosts. Your card number is entered there and goes to Stripe. It never reaches a Foundation server, and no one at the Foundation ever sees it.
Stripe collects and keeps your name, your email address, the amount, and the card details, along with a billing address if your card requires one. Paying with Link, Stripe’s saved-payment option, also involves a phone number for the one-time code, and Link remembers that payment method for other merchants who use it — that arrangement is between you and Stripe. Details of the gift itself are recorded on the Stripe record: the fund you chose, the frequency, and that it came from this site. Nothing about the gift is stored here.
The acknowledgment that follows a gift is delivered by Resend, the service that sends the Foundation’s transactional mail. Resend handles your email address and the contents of that message in order to deliver it. Stripe emails you as well — it issues its own payment receipt for every gift — so a single donation normally produces mail from both.
Asking to manage a monthly gift
At the manage page you enter the email address you gave with. That address reaches a Foundation server, which asks Stripe whether an active monthly gift exists for it and, if one does, sends a signed link to that address through Resend. The Foundation keeps no copy of it. Stripe and Resend each log the request as part of doing the lookup and sending the mail, and if the lookup fails the error is written to our host’s server log.
The link expires in 45 minutes. This is not instant self-service: you need access to that mailbox to get in. The page’s answer is deliberately identical whether or not a gift was found, so that the form cannot be used to find out whether a particular person gives to the Foundation.
Reading the site
Reading these pages requires no account. The pages we serve set no cookies, run no analytics script, and carry no advertising pixel. Nothing here measures which pages you read or follows you after you leave. Stripe’s checkout page, which you are sent to when you give, is Stripe’s own and sets cookies under its terms.
The site is hosted by Vercel, which serves every page and, as any web host does, logs requests to its servers — the address a request came from, the page asked for, and the time. Those logs are Vercel’s, kept to run and protect the service, and we do not build anything from them.
The companies that handle it
These are the third parties this site hands your information to directly. Each has its own privacy terms, and each is used for one purpose:
- FormSubmit — receives, stores, and forwards contact-form submissions
- Stripe — takes and stores payment details and the record of every gift
- Resend — delivers acknowledgments and manage-gift links
- Vercel — hosts the site and logs requests to it
It is not a closed list beyond that point. Mail we receive sits with whoever provides the Foundation’s mailbox, and Stripe uses its own sub-processors and the card networks to move money. Those relationships are theirs to describe, not ours.
Where the records live, and for how long
Because there is no Foundation database, gift records live in Stripe and we read them there when we need them. Contact messages live in FormSubmit’s system and in a Foundation mailbox.
Gift records are kept as long as the Foundation needs to be able to account for the gift. A charity must be able to substantiate the contributions it receives, and a donor may need a receipt reissued years later, so those records are not deleted on a short schedule. Contact messages are kept while the matter is open and in the mailbox they arrived in.
What we do not do
- No mailing list — there is no newsletter, and giving or writing does not sign you up for one
- No selling or renting — donor and visitor information is never sold, rented, traded, or handed to another organization for its own use
- No advertising — no advertising pixel, and no audience built from anyone who gave
- No tracking — no analytics, no session recording, no tracking or advertising cookies
Asking what is held, or asking to be removed
Write and ask. If you have given, we can tell you what the Stripe record shows and correct anything wrong in it. We can ask Stripe to delete what the Foundation is not required to keep for its tax and accounting obligations; what we are required to keep, we will tell you we are keeping rather than pretend otherwise.
If you want a message you sent removed, say so and it will be deleted from the Foundation’s mailbox. FormSubmit holds its own copy of submissions under its terms, not ours.
If this changes
A new processor, a changed flow, or a different retention practice changes the text above and the date at the top of this page. If you want to know whether anything has moved since you last read it, that date is the thing to check.
Reaching the Foundation
Questions about any of this go to a person, not a queue. The contact form is the quickest route, and it travels through FormSubmit as described above. Email and post do not.
j@columbuslegacyfoundation.org
The Columbus Legacy Foundation
1035 Canyon Drive, Spanish Fork, Utah 84660