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Mission Loteria

Privacy Policy

Last updated 8 August 2026

Who we are

Mission Lotería is a volunteer-run community organization in San Francisco's Mission District. This page explains what information we collect through this website, who else handles it, how long we keep it, and how to have it removed.

It is written to be read. If anything here is unclear, email admin@mission-loteria.com and ask.

What we collect, and when

We only collect information you type into one of our forms. Browsing the site does not require an account and does not ask you for anything — the one exception, covered in “Cookies and tracking” below, is a background bot check that runs automatically on any page with a form.

  • Contact form — your name, email address, subject, and your message. This is emailed to our team; the website itself stores nothing.
  • Volunteer sign-up — your first and last name, your email address, and your phone number if you give one. Signing up also adds you to our volunteer email list.
  • Vendor application — your business details, along with your contact name, email address, phone number, and any website or social links you share.
  • Stay Connected sign-up — your name and email address, plus your birthday (month and day) and your business name if you choose to add them.

Who else handles your information

Running this site means a handful of outside services handle some of your information on our behalf. Each one only receives what it needs to do its job.

Cloudflare
Checks that visitors are a person, not a bot, before a form can be submitted
Receives: Your IP address and basic information about your browser
When: When a page with one of our forms loads — the check starts in the background before you type anything, not only when you press submit
Airtable
Stores volunteer sign-ups and vendor applications
Receives: Everything you entered on the volunteer or vendor form
When: When you submit one of those two forms
Airtable (photo hosting)
Hosts the photos shown on our gallery, blog and event pages
Receives: The photo files themselves
When: Our site fetches them from Airtable and serves them from our own domain, so your browser never contacts Airtable directly
Mailchimp
Stores our mailing list and sends our emails
Receives: Your name and email address, plus your birthday or business name if you gave one
When: When you sign up to volunteer, or through Stay Connected
Resend
Delivers email from this site to our team
Receives: Your contact form message. Also a volunteer or vendor submission if saving it failed, so we can follow up instead of losing it
When: When you send us a message, or if a save fails
Sentry
Tells us when something on the site breaks so we can fix it
Receives: An error report. No IP addresses, no cookies, and never your form submission itself — see "Error reports" below for the one narrow exception
When: When an error happens while you are using the site
YouTube
Plays the video on our home page
Receives: Nothing at all unless you press play. We embed the video through youtube-nocookie.com, which sets no tracking cookies before that
When: Only if you choose to play the video
Our web host
Serves this website to your browser
Receives: Standard server request logs, which include IP addresses
When: Every page you load

Cookies and tracking

We do not use analytics, advertising, or tracking cookies, and we set no cookies of our own. We do not know who you are when you browse this site.

Two outside things are worth naming:

  • Videos on our site — on the home page and in blog posts — are embedded through youtube-nocookie.com. YouTube sets no tracking cookies unless you press play.
  • Every page with one of our forms runs a bot check from Cloudflare Turnstile as soon as the page loads — not only when you press submit. It usually runs invisibly and set no cookie when we tested it; if Cloudflare asks you to complete a visible check, it may set a short-lived one for that session. Cloudflare receives your IP address either way.

Do Not Track.Some browsers can send a “Do Not Track” signal. This site does not respond to it, because there is nothing to switch off — we do not follow you across other websites in the first place.

How long we keep it, and how to have it removed

We keep volunteer and vendor information indefinitely — and the same is true of contact-form emails, which sit in our team inbox, and Stay Connected sign-ups, which sit in Mailchimp. We are a small organization and we do not delete old records on a schedule.

You can unsubscribe from our emails at any time using the link at the bottom of every one. To see, correct, or delete anything else we hold about you, email admin@mission-loteria.com and we will take care of it.

Who can see it

Access is limited to the Mission Lotería organizer who administers our Airtable and Mailchimp accounts. No one else on the team sees form submissions.

We do not sell your information, and we do not give it to other organizations. The services listed above handle it on our behalf and are not permitted to use it for anything else.

Email

We send our emails through Mailchimp. You are added to our list only when you sign up through a form on this site — we do not buy lists or add addresses from anywhere else. Every email we send has an unsubscribe link.

One thing worth being straightforward about: for a Stay Connected sign-up, the only record that you signed up, and when, is the timestamp Mailchimp stores. We deliberately do not keep a second copy. Volunteer sign-ups also have a record in our volunteer list.

Error reports

When something breaks on the site, we receive an automatic error report through Sentry so we can fix it. These reports are configured to leave personal information out:

  • No IP addresses, no cookies, and never your form submission itself.
  • Email addresses and phone numbers are stripped out of the error text before the report leaves our server. Occasionally that text quotes part of what was submitted — if one of the other services we use rejects a submission and echoes it back in its response, that response can end up in the error message. We strip emails and phone numbers from it before it leaves our server, though not every field.
  • No performance tracking. A report can name the page the error happened on and the page you arrived from, but not a record of everywhere else you went.

A report tells us what broke and where — it is not built to tell us who was using the site.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has sent us information, email admin@mission-loteria.com and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of this page. Changes are posted here rather than emailed, so it is worth checking back if this matters to you.

Getting in touch

Questions about this policy, or about information we hold about you? Email admin@mission-loteria.com, or use our contact form.