Privacy
The short version: Mitten Draw has no accounts and no backend. Names and matches for a draw are never sent to us or stored on a server. Some pages (not the reveal page) use Google AdSense, which may use cookies as described below.
What you enter
Event names, participant names, wish notes, budgets, dates and rules are used only inside your browser to run the draw. They are not sent to us, not sent to advertisers, and not saved on any server. The draw itself is not saved in cookies or local storage; refresh or close the organizer page and it's gone. (Google AdSense, on the pages that load it, may set its own cookies. Those are separate from the draw and are described below.)
The private links
Each participant's link holds their own match, encrypted, in the part of the web address after the #. Browsers do not send that part to websites, so it never reaches our server or its logs. Whoever holds a link can open it, so share each link only with its owner.
What our host sees
This is a static website served by Netlify. Like any web host, Netlify may keep ordinary technical request logs (such as IP address, the page requested, and time) to run and secure the service. We don't run our own analytics, tracking pixels, or fingerprinting. A small “Powered by Netlify” badge that Netlify's free hosting plan adds may appear on pages; it is served by Netlify itself. On every page except the reveal page, we also load Google AdSense, described below.
Accounts, email and children
We have no accounts and ask for no email addresses or phone numbers. We don't have a database of users or draws, so there is no draw information for us to share, sell, or delete. Advertising on some pages is handled by Google, as described below.
Advertising
Some pages of this site — the home page, About, Privacy, and the guide pages — include Google AdSense. The private reveal page, where someone sees who they drew, never loads ad code and never shows ads.
Google and its partner sites may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads, including ads based on prior visits to this site or other sites. Those cookies are not used to run the draw. Draw names, matches, and wish notes stay in your browser (and, for a match, in the private link after the #) and are never sent to Google or to advertisers.
To learn how Google uses data for advertising, see Google's advertising privacy page. You can opt out of personalized ads at Google's ad settings.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date above will change with it.