Privacy

Website submissions

The contact form prepares an email draft containing your name, email address, general location, topic, and the information you choose to provide. Do not submit medical records, financial account information, Social Security numbers, or other sensitive information through the public form.

Watershed Eye accounts

Passwordless sign-in is provided through Supabase and uses your email address, a secure sign-in session, and basic account timestamps. Restoring What Was Lost stores a separate member record so verified reports and service history can remain connected if the sign-in provider changes.

Reports, photos, and location

Watershed Eye stores the photo, coordinates, time, report category, project review, and completion history needed to assess and coordinate a report. Normal field evidence is limited to signed-in members with the appropriate project role. A private household-support photo and exact location are restricted to the reporter and project leads and are not sent for automated image analysis.

Community profiles and messages

Your bio, profile photo, skills, contact visibility, private-message permission, volunteer-recognition permission, and newsletter permission are controlled separately. Contact details are never public. Messages are visible to the sender and recipient unless one is reported for a private project-lead safety review. A reported item is copied into the review record so it cannot be changed before review.

Sharing and outside services

Information is not sold or used for unrelated marketing. It may be shared with a project partner, emergency service, public agency, or contractor only when reasonably needed to assess or complete the request, protect someone, comply with law, or operate the service. Account authentication is processed by Supabase; automated image analysis may be provided by OpenAI for ordinary field reports. Private household-support images are excluded from automated analysis.

Retention and choices

Account and community records are kept while the account or project remains active. Field records may be retained as project history, grant evidence, or a legal or safety record. Private household-support records should be reviewed for deletion or de-identification after the need is closed. You may ask to correct profile information, withdraw optional recognition or newsletter permission, or request account and content deletion. Some records may need to remain in restricted form for safety, legal, financial, grant, or audit purposes.

Contact

Privacy, correction, export, and deletion requests may be sent to brandon@restoringwhatwaslost.com. Include only enough information to locate the record.

Effective August 20, 2026. Review this notice as project practices and service providers change.