What we collect
What you choose to give us:
- Your answer to "What's one thing missing from Marianna?"
- Optionally: a category, your first name, where in town you live, and how long you have lived in the area.
What we collect automatically when you send an answer:
- Your IP address. This is a number that identifies your internet connection. It may be shared by everyone on the same home, business or phone network.
- An approximate location (usually the town or city and state) worked out from your IP address.
- Your device and browser type.
- The date and time of your answer.
We do not ask for your email address, phone number or home address. Please do not put them in your answer.
Why we collect it
- To read and understand what people in and around Marianna say is missing.
- To spot repeat or junk submissions, such as the same connection sending many answers.
Who can see it, and who we share it with
Answers are visible only to the people who run this site. We do not post answers publicly, sell them, or use them for advertising.
We use two service providers to run the site, and your information passes through them:
- Google stores answers in a Google Form and Google Sheet that we control.
- Cloudflare hosts and delivers this website, so it handles your connection (including your IP address) like any web host. Cloudflare also counts visits (page views, country, browser and device type). Cloudflare describes this as working without cookies.
We may share information if the law requires it, or to protect the safety of people or the site.
Cookies and similar technologies
This site does not set cookies. It keeps one small note in your own browser: a count of how many answers you sent today, used to limit repeat sending. That note stays on your device and is not sent to us.
How long we keep it
We keep answers for as long as this project runs.
How we protect it
We keep answers in a private Google account with limited access, and the site uses an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. No method of storing or sending information is perfectly secure, so we cannot promise absolute security.
Children
This site is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.
Changes to this notice
If we change this notice, we will update the date at the top. If we ever collect something new, we will say so here and on the form first.
Photo credit
The photo behind the headline on the home page is "Chipola River access" by Mike Tilley, via Wikimedia Commons, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (CC BY 3.0). It was cropped and tinted for this site.