Privacy Policy

Open Speech Society, Inc. ("Open Speech Society," "we") is a Florida nonprofit corporation. This policy explains what this website collects, why, and what we do with it. In short: we collect only what you type into our forms, we use it only to run Open Speech Society, and we never sell it.

What we collect

• Start a Chapter applications: your name, email, phone, year in school, school, state, whether your school is public or private, how many students are ready to join, whether you have an advisor in mind, when your school registers new clubs, and anything else you tell us.
• Newsletter: your email address.
• Contact form: what you type into it, such as your name, email and message.
• Spam protection: when you send a form, we count submissions using a one-way code made from your IP address, so we can stop floods of fake submissions. We don't store the address itself with your submission, and we keep these codes only briefly.

Our hosting and database providers also handle standard technical data, like your IP address, to deliver the site, and keep it in short-lived security logs.

We don't use analytics or advertising cookies. Apart from our host, our pages load nothing from other companies until you press play on a YouTube video. YouTube (Google) may then collect your IP address and set cookies under Google's Privacy Policy.

How we use it

• To review your application and contact you by email, phone or text about starting a chapter.
• To send the newsletter you signed up for.
• To answer your messages.
• To keep our forms free of spam.

Calls and texts

If you give us your phone number on the application, you agree that we may call or text you about your application and your chapter. We don't send marketing texts. To stop calls or texts, reply STOP or tell us any other way, and we will stop. Message and data rates may apply.

Who we share it with

We never sell or rent your information, and we never use it to promote any business, including any business of our founders, directors or speakers. Only our signed-in team can see it. These service providers store or deliver it for us, and only for us:

• Supabase: our database.
• Netlify: hosts this site and runs its forms.
• Resend: sends our emails.
• Our team's email: receives notices of new applications and messages.

We share information beyond that only with your permission, when the law requires it, or to protect someone's safety.

How long we keep it

• Applications: while we work with you on your chapter and keep our records, or until you ask us to delete yours.
• Newsletter: until you unsubscribe.
• Messages: as long as we need to answer them and keep our records.

Your choices

• Every newsletter email has a one-click unsubscribe link.
• To see, correct or delete the information we have about you, write to us through the contact form on this site. We respond within 30 days.

Children

This site is for college and university students. It isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child under 13 sent us information, tell us and we'll delete it.

Security

Connections to this site are encrypted, and our database lets only signed-in staff read your information. No system is perfectly secure, but we protect what you give us and keep only what we need.

Do Not Track

We don't track you across other websites, so there is nothing of ours for a Do Not Track signal to turn off. Once you press play on a YouTube video, Google's own practices apply.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll post the new version here with a new date. If a change affects how we use information we already have, we'll email the people affected before it applies.

Contact

For questions or requests, use the contact form on this site. Open Speech Society, Inc., Miami, Florida.