Privacy
Effective 4 September 2026
CourseChalk is a service of ChalkBox, the trading name of Ethan Bores in Norwalk, Ohio. The short version: your meet plan never leaves your computer. If you never buy a license, I never learn your name, your email address or anything else about you. There are no cookies, no analytics and no trackers on this site.
What never leaves your computer
CourseChalk runs entirely in your browser. Everything you put into it stays there:
- Your course drawings and the coordinates in them
- Race schedules, entry fees, awards, policies and every other word you type
- Athlete and coach names, schools, email addresses and phone numbers
- School logos, sponsor artwork and imported map scans
- The finished flyers and packets
None of that is uploaded, backed up, synced or transmitted anywhere. It is held in your browser while you work and saved as a file on your own machine when you save. There is no server copy because there is no server that would hold one. If you close the tab without saving, it is gone — from your machine and from everywhere, because everywhere was your machine.
What I actually receive
Only if you buy a season pass, and only this:
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address | To send you the license key, and to send it again when you lose it | Until you ask me to delete it |
| Which pass you bought and when it expires | To reissue the right key | Until you ask me to delete it |
| A random installation number, and the date it first appeared | To notice when one key is being used on dozens of machines | Until you ask me to delete it |
| The Stripe checkout reference | So a retried payment notification cannot issue you two keys | About 13 months, then deleted automatically |
The installation number is not a device fingerprint. It is eight random bytes generated in your browser the first time you enter a key. It is not derived from your hardware, your browser, your network or anything else about you, and it cannot be traced back to a machine or a person. Its only job is to let me count how many separate copies a key is running on.
I do not receive your card number. I never see it. Stripe is the merchant of record for the sale — it takes the payment and tells me only that a payment succeeded and which email address to send the key to.
What passes through, and is not kept
When you search for a venue address, the text you typed goes to the site, which forwards it to the US Census Bureau's geocoder and hands you back the answer. This exists for one boring reason: the Census service cannot be called directly from a web page.
That request is not logged, stored or associated with you. The answer is cached for a day so the next person looking up the same high school does not trouble the Census Bureau again.
What your browser talks to directly
Map images come to your browser straight from the USGS National Map, not through me. That means USGS can see your IP address and which map tiles you asked for — which is to say, roughly which part of the country you are looking at. I have no visibility into that and no way to connect it to you, but you should know it happens. The same applies to MapTiler if worldwide maps are switched on.
What is stored in your browser
CourseChalk keeps three small things in your browser's local storage. These stay on your device, are readable only by coursechalk.com in that one browser, and are never sent to me:
- Your license key, so you do not have to paste it in every time
- How wide you dragged the sidebar
- Recent address lookups, so repeating one is instant
Clearing your browser's site data removes all three. You would need to paste your key in again; nothing else is lost.
Cookies and analytics
There are none. No cookies are set by this site. There is no Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no session recorder, no A/B testing tool and no advertising network. There is no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to.
I do not know how many people visit this site beyond what Cloudflare shows me in aggregate — page counts and countries, with no identifiers I could tie to a person.
Who else touches anything
| Service | What it handles |
|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Serves the site and stores the license records described above. Keeps standard security and request logs. |
| Stripe | Is the merchant of record for the sale. Takes the payment, issues your receipt and invoice, handles sales tax and disputes, and answers billing questions. Collects your name, email and billing details under its own privacy policy. I see the email address and nothing more. |
| Resend | Sends the one email that carries your license key. |
| Google Fonts | Serves the two typefaces on this page. |
I do not sell your information, share it for advertising, or hand it to anyone else. There is no mailing list. Buying a license does not sign you up for anything, and you will never get marketing from me unless you ask for it.
Schools and student information
If you are a school administrator vetting this tool: CourseChalk receives no student data, ever. Athlete names typed into a meet packet stay in the coach's browser and in the file on the coach's computer. They are not transmitted to me, stored by me, or accessible to me.
That means there is no vendor here holding student records, and nothing for a data-sharing agreement to cover. The coach's own computer and the printed packets are where the information lives, and protecting those stays the district's responsibility exactly as it would with a spreadsheet.
Children
CourseChalk is a tool for meet directors and coaches, and it is not directed to children. I do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. The only personal information I collect at all is the email address of the adult who bought a license.
Your choices
Email me at ethanbores@gmail.com and I will, within a few days:
- Tell you everything I hold about you, which will fit in one short message
- Correct it
- Delete it
Deleting your record means I can no longer resend your key if you lose it, so keep the email. Your license itself keeps working — it is a signed file, not a database row, and deleting my copy does not switch it off.
I do not sell personal information and never have, so there is nothing to opt out of.
Security
The site is served over HTTPS only. License keys are signed with a private key held as an encrypted secret that never appears in the code or in any backup. Payment card details never reach my systems at all.
I am one person and this is a small operation. I am telling you what I actually do rather than describing a security program I do not have.
Where this operates
CourseChalk is run from the United States, for use in the United States — the aerial imagery and address search are US-only. If you use it from elsewhere, your information is handled in the United States.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, I will change the date at the top and say so on the site.
Contact
ChalkBox — Ethan Bores
Norwalk, Ohio, United States
ethanbores@gmail.com