Plain language, no dark patterns
The short version: the board is here to be looked at, not to look back at you. We measure how it's used in aggregate, we never sell anything, and we never try to work out who you are.
On The Board and these marketing pages we use Microsoft Clarity (and, if the operator turns it on, Google Analytics) to understand how people use the site — which boards get attention, and roughly which countries visitors come from. This is aggregate and anonymous: it is counts by country, never a name, an address, or a way to identify you as a person. On personal devices these load only after you accept the cookie notice.
We set one small first-party cookie to count unique screens and phones (so "3 watching" is honest) and to remember your cookie choice. It's a random tag — no name, no tracking across other websites, no sharing. The same tag is what lets the board remember your game streaks and passport stamps without ever knowing your name.
If you accept the cookie notice, we look up the rough city your visit comes from (from your IP address) so we can show a map of where the board is watched. The IP is used for that lookup and then discarded — we keep only the city count, never your address, and never the IP itself. The per-device record behind that count expires after about 90 days; only the aggregate town totals remain. Decline and none of this happens.
If you tap to tell The Board which town you're in, send a shoutout, answer the daily question, or play the games and the passport, we use exactly what you gave it and nothing more. Public surfaces — leaderboards, champion boards — show only the two or three initials you chose. Town reports appear only as aggregate totals; a real person reviews every shoutout before it airs.
Speaker's Corner is the one place the board shows a face — and only because you put it there, from your own phone. Before anything airs, the photo and text are checked by two automated screening services (Microsoft Azure Content Safety and Sightengine); anything they can't clear waits for a human instead. An aired post retires after about an hour and its photo is permanently deleted; rejected photos are deleted immediately; the operator can take a post down at any moment. Your post is used for that hour on the board and for nothing else.
The big screen in a venue is that venue's own display. It isn't your personal device and doesn't profile the people in the room — it just shows the board.
Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. There is no market in it here.
The analytics we use report groups and places, not people. We couldn't tell you who visited even if we wanted to — and we don't want to. Anything that does carry your initials or your face is on the board because you chose to put it there.
No advertising pixels, no cross-site trackers, no retargeting. Sponsor slots on the board are supplied by the businesses themselves — they don't watch you back.
The "where people watch from" map is drawn at the country level — plus, for viewers who opted in, an approximate city. It shows reach, not addresses: a pin for a town at most, never a pin on a person or a home.
On The Board and these pages, non-essential analytics cookies are set only if you click Accept. Decline and none are set. The one essential cookie (the random device tag and your saved choice) is needed for the site to work and count screens honestly. You can change your mind any time:
You can also clear cookies in your browser, or use your browser's Do-Not-Track / privacy settings. Because we don't build profiles, there's nothing to "opt out" of beyond the analytics cookies themselves.
The Snoqualmie Towne Crier is operated by ITMedic (Green IT Consulting LLC), Snoqualmie, Washington.
If you're in a place with data-protection rights (the EU/UK and others), you can ask what we hold about you — realistically an anonymous device tag, game progress under initials you chose, and aggregate counts — and ask us to delete it. Email and we'll help.
Questions, requests, or a security report:
flapcast@itmedic.ai · 425-242-3378
If this policy changes, the updated version lives here. Last updated August 2026.