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USER PRIVACY POLICY & PLAIN-ENGLISH SECURITY STANDARDS

Privacy Policy & Security Standards

At Prepper Field Guide, we believe your family's emergency preparedness plans belong strictly to you. Below is a straightforward, plain-English explanation of why we intentionally never store your personal emergency records or passwords, and how you control your own data via printable sheets, .CSV spreadsheets, and .JSON files.

1. Our 5-Step Preparedness & Security Approach (Plain-English NIST Overview)

To keep both your digital privacy and your household readiness organized without complicated jargon, we structure our tools around the five everyday pillars of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) resilience framework:

1. Identify

Know what supplies you already have on hand, understand the natural hazards in your region, and organize your family emergency worksheet in one place.

2. Protect

For your operational security (OPSEC), we intentionally do NOT store your phone numbers, home addresses, rally points, medical details, or GPS caches long-term on any server or browser database. Paid VIP authentication is 100% passwordless via Stripe Subscription Verification + a 6-Digit Email Code.

3. Detect

Our live alert center pulls directly from official public weather, earthquake, and power-grid feeds (NOAA, USGS, and EIA) so you can spot severe weather or outages early.

4. Respond

Every alert and field manual links straight to clear 72-hour family checklists, topographic evacuation maps, and exact water, food, and first-aid calculators.

5. Recover

You can print physical 3-ring binder sheets or download your session worksheet as a .CSV spreadsheet (for Excel / Google Sheets) and a .JSON data file to your own private computer or USB flash drive.

2. Reliable Math & Real-World Safety Verification

When you calculate how much water your family needs, how to purify water with unscented household bleach, how many calories to store, or how to size a solar battery bank, you need reliable math—not guesswork:

Consistent, Standard Formulas

Every calculator on this site—from water purification and oral rehydration salts to food storage, pack weight, solar sizing, and compass declination—runs fixed mathematical formulas based on published EPA, WHO, and USGS guidelines.

Clear Safety Checklists & Lookalike Warnings

Every wild plant and mushroom profile highlights dangerous lookalikes side-by-side and reminds you to obtain 100% in-person verification from a qualified local expert before consuming any wild species.

3. Intentional Zero Storage of Personal Records, .CSV / .JSON Exports & Passwordless Stripe Auth
  • Intentional Zero Long-Term Storage of Phone Numbers, Addresses, Medical Info, or Caches: For your privacy and operational security (OPSEC), Prepper Field Guide and FORAGE WITH ME LLC intentionally do NOT store your phone numbers, home addresses, emergency rally points, family medical details, or GPS cache coordinates on any server or in persistent browser storage. Instead, our worksheets operate in temporary memory during your active session so you can print physical binder sheets, download a .CSV spreadsheet (to view and edit in Excel, Google Sheets, Apple Numbers, or LibreOffice), or download a .JSON data file (to save on your private computer or USB drive and reload anytime).
  • 100% Passwordless Stripe-Backed Authentication (6-Digit One-Time Email Code): We never ask for, hash, or store user passwords anywhere. Paid VIP sign-in verifies directly with Stripe that your email has an active paid VIP subscription ($39/yr or $4.99/mo) and emails you a single-use 6-digit security code valid for 10 minutes. Unpaid visitors browse free tools in Guest Mode.
  • Email Collection & Communications: When you request free starter sheets, join our field dispatch list, or purchase a VIP membership through Stripe, we use your email address to verify your subscription status, send 6-digit sign-in codes, deliver survival manual updates, and share occasional curated preparedness resources or partner offers. You may unsubscribe at any time.
  • Sponsorships & Recommended Gear: Prepper Field Guide may feature selected sponsorships, partner integrations, or recommended preparedness gear. Sponsorships never influence the mathematical formulas inside our calculators or our field safety warnings.
  • Device Hardware Permissions (Flashlight, Radio Audio & GPS): Camera torch access (for the Morse code flashlight), audio microphone/speaker access (for the walkie-talkie acoustic modem), and GPS location access (for centering topographic maps) are used strictly on-device when you explicitly activate those tools.
For any privacy questions or account data requests, contact:prepperfieldguide@gmail.com