Why I ask
The questionnaires ask about your organization’s technology — including sensitive ground like passwords, backups, and security — so that the free 30-minute review is about your organization rather than generic advice. Questions like these deserve a plain answer to the question behind them: what happens to what you tell me? This page is that answer, in full.
What is collected
Only your answers to the two questionnaires and the contact details you choose to provide. Nothing is gathered behind the scenes — no trackers, no analytics profiles, no lists bought or built.
What it is used for
One thing: preparing your technology review, and — where you accept help — planning that help. Your answers are never sold, never shared with vendors, and never used as marketing material.
Where your answers live
The moment you submit, your answers are transferred to systems under our own control. The questionnaire itself is collected through Tally, a form service; after the transfer is confirmed, your submission is deleted from Tally.
Honesty requires one more sentence: like any online service, Tally keeps internal backups that age out on their schedule, not ours. We cannot verify when those backups are gone — so we minimize what ever rests there, and we tell you so plainly rather than pretend otherwise.
Who sees them
Todd Ludington, alone. There is no staff, no partner list, and no automated processing beyond storage.
Aggregates serve the organizations
Anonymized statistics across all assessed organizations — “most heritage nonprofits have no tested backup” — exist for the organizations’ benefit: material for your fundraising, your grant applications, and the case for sponsors supporting this work. No aggregate will ever identify an organization without its written permission. The data is never the product.
We practice this ourselves
Everything above came from asking hard questions of our own tools — the same questions any organization should ask of any system it trusts. We wrote down the method: Vetting the tools you already trust.
Your answers are yours
Ask at any time for a complete copy of what we hold about your organization, or for its destruction, and it will be done: hello@thestarkeepers.org.