Privacy Policy

Short, because there is not much to tell. Coppernook was built so that this page would be boring.

Draft of August 10, 2026 · Grizzly Mining Company LLC

The short version

• Your town's Coppernook runs on one server, and what is on it stays on it.
• There are no analytics, no tracking pixels, no advertising, and no third-party scripts or fonts. Nothing about you is sold, rented, shared, or syndicated. There is no business model here that would want it.
• There is no public directory. Your phone number and email are not on a page a stranger can open.
• You can ask for everything about you to be deleted, and it will be.

What Coppernook keeps

• Who you are: your name, and whichever of a phone number, an email address, and a neighborhood or town you choose to give.
• What you told the board: the kinds of help you can offer, a short note about yourself if you write one, and whether you are currently available.
• What you asked for: your requests, when you needed them, how urgent they were, and whether they were filled.
• What you offered: offers you made on someone else's request and the message you sent with them.
• Roughly where you are, only if you provide it, and only so the board can tell you how far away something is.

That is the whole list. Coppernook has no payment system, so there is no card number, no bank detail, and no billing history anywhere in it.

If you put your name in on this website

The sign-in page on this site asks for two things, a name and an email address, and it keeps exactly those two things plus the date you sent them. They go into a single file on the same server that sent you this page. There is no mailing-list company in the middle, no marketing platform, and no third party of any kind holding your address.

That address is used to write back to you about your town's board, and for nothing else. It is never shown on a board, never sold or shared, and you can have it taken off the list at any time by writing to contact@coppernook.com.

Keeping machines from filling that list with junk takes no outside help either. There is no captcha on the page, so nothing about you is handed to Google or anyone like it. Instead the form carries a signed slip issued by this same server, and the server briefly counts how many names arrive from one internet connection so a script cannot flood the list. That count is held in memory for a quarter of an hour and written down nowhere.

Location, and why it is deliberately imprecise

A neighbor-help board needs distance, not addresses. If you share a location, Coppernook blurs it before it goes on the map, and what other neighbors see is a phrase rather than a pin on your door: a few hundred yards, about four miles from you. The blurring happens before the point is stored, so there is no exact coordinate sitting in the file waiting to leak.

Sharing a location is optional. Coppernook works without it.

About the map

Coppernook ships with the map drawn as plain geometry on a warm field, with no imagery pulled from anywhere. In that mode, which is the default, opening the map tab contacts no one but your own town's server.

A town may choose to turn on a photographic or street basemap instead. If your town has done that, your browser requests those map images from the mapping provider while the map is open, the same way any website with a map does, which means that provider can see that a request was made. No Coppernook post, name, phone number, or request detail is sent with it. If you would rather your town not do this, say so — on a board this size, that is a conversation, not a support ticket.

Who can see what

• Your neighbors on your town's board can see your posts, your offers, and the profile you wrote.
• Contact details are not on display. A phone number or email surfaces between two people once one has offered and the other has accepted — and you control whether each is shown at all.
• The people who run your town's board can see what is on it, because someone has to be able to take down a bad post.
• Nobody else. Coppernook is not connected to any social network, advertising network, data broker, or analytics service.

What Coppernook will never do

• Sell, rent, or trade anything about you.
• Use what you post to target advertising, here or anywhere else.
• Email you marketing you did not ask for.
• Follow you around the internet.

When we would hand something over

Only if we are legally required to, or if someone's safety is at stake. If that ever happens and we are permitted to tell you, we will.

How long it stays

Your profile stays while you are on the board. Requests and offers stay as a record of what happened, which is how a completed ask stops being an open one. When you leave, ask us to remove you and your profile and contact details go with you.

Changing or deleting your information

You can edit your own details in the app at any time. To have your information removed altogether, write to contact@coppernook.com. There is no retention department and no form to fight with.

Children

Coppernook is for adults. You must be 18 or older to have an account, to post a request, or to offer help. We do not ask for information about children and we do not want any, and we do not knowingly collect anything from a child under 13.

If we learn that a child under 13 has given us information, we delete it. A parent or guardian who believes their child has an account, or appears on a board, can write to contact@coppernook.com and we will take it down. You do not have to explain yourself to get that done.

When a request involves your own child, say only what the ask actually requires. A child's full name, school, photograph, or daily schedule belongs to that child and not to a board, even a small one.

Changes to this page

If what Coppernook keeps ever changes, this page changes first, and the change is shown in the app rather than slipped in quietly.

See also the Terms of Use, which covers what the board is for, what it is not, and what ends access.