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Payment Processing
Processes card payments for memberships, Featured Business subscriptions, event tickets, and donations when a School, PTO, or business chooses to use a paid feature.
Features: Checkout, subscription billing, refunds.
Data involved: Payment card details (handled directly by Stripe, never stored on this installation's own servers), billing name and email, transaction amount and history.
Information sent: Yes, when the relevant feature is used.
Payment Processing
An alternative payment method for the same paid features Stripe supports, when a School, PTO, or business enables it and a member chooses to pay with PayPal.
Features: Checkout, refunds.
Data involved: PayPal account/transaction identifiers, billing name and email, transaction amount and history.
Information sent: Yes, when the relevant feature is used.
Email Delivery
Delivers transactional email — account verification, password reset, notification digests, and similar system messages — on this installation's behalf.
Features: Transactional email delivery only, no marketing/bulk email platform.
Data involved: Recipient email address, sender name, and the content of the specific email being sent.
Information sent: Yes, when the relevant feature is used.
Push Notifications
Delivers optional browser/mobile push notifications, only when an administrator enables the feature and a visitor separately opts in.
Features: Web push subscription management and delivery.
Data involved: Push subscription identifier, general device/browser type, notification interaction history. No account password or payment data is shared.
Information sent: Yes, when the relevant feature is used.
Bot & Spam Protection
An optional CAPTCHA alternative that verifies a form submission is from a human rather than an automated script, when enabled by the site administrator.
Features: Invisible/lightweight human-verification challenge on selected forms.
Data involved: Browser/device signals Cloudflare uses to assess automated traffic. No account data is shared with Cloudflare for this purpose.
Information sent: Yes, when the relevant feature is used.
Spam & Abuse Prevention
An optional lookup service checked against known spam sources when a new account or forum post is submitted, if enabled by the site administrator.
Features: IP/email/username reputation lookup at submission time only.
Data involved: The IP address, email address, and username submitted for the lookup.
Information sent: Yes, when the relevant feature is used.
Maps & Location
Displays an interactive map on a School or business page when the site administrator configures a Google Maps API key, as an alternative to the default map provider.
Features: Interactive map embed on organization location pages.
Data involved: The visitor's IP address and standard map-tile request data, per Google's own practices once the map is loaded.
Information sent: Yes, when the relevant feature is used.
Maps & Location
The default map provider for School and business location maps when no Google Maps API key is configured for this installation.
Features: Interactive map embed using openly licensed map tiles.
Data involved: The visitor's IP address, as with any request to an external tile server.
Information sent: Yes, when the relevant feature is used.
Embedded Content
Loads an embedded video or social post that a School, PTO, or business has chosen to share, only after a visitor consents or explicitly clicks to load that specific piece of content.
Features: Inline playback/display of content hosted by the third-party platform.
Data involved: Standard embed-request data the destination platform receives once its player or widget loads, per that platform's own practices.
Information sent: Yes, when the relevant feature is used.
Affiliate & Referral Links
When a School or organization includes an Amazon product link (for example, in a supply list) and a visitor clicks through, this installation may earn a referral commission.
Features: Outbound affiliate link tagging only — no product catalog data is exchanged.
Data involved: Standard referral/click data Amazon receives once the visitor lands on amazon.com, per Amazon's own practices. No SchoolCircle account data is shared.
Information sent: Yes, when the relevant feature is used.
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