Data Handling Promise

Short version: we handle data the way a good treasurer handles the club accounts. Carefully, transparently, and only for the purpose stated.

Plain-language definition

If you only read one box on this page, read this one: Harbor Commons shows public-record filing data and uses small amounts of site analytics to improve the product. If you send us private context or a correction, we use it to improve parsing and presentation, not to make that private material public.

What we display

IRS Form 990 filings are public record by statute. We display them. We structure, normalize, and make legible what the IRS already publishes. If a field isn't in the filing, it won't appear on the page — we don't estimate, extrapolate, or fill gaps.

What we never do

  • \u2013We don’t sell your data.
  • \u2013We don’t run ad trackers.
  • \u2013We don’t require a login to read public information.
  • \u2013We don’t capture leads or build contact lists.
  • \u2013We don’t publish club-submitted documents, internal reports, or anything beyond the IRS filing.
  • \u2013We don’t combine IRS data with other commercial data sources.
  • \u2013We don’t train general AI models on any data you share with us.

Public record vs. private submissions

Public record stays public. If it's in a 990 filing, we treat it as publicly displayable — because the IRS already does.

Private stays private. If you ever send us a correction, context, or a document not in the public record, we will not publish it. We use it only to improve our parsing or presentation, and we'll tell you what we changed.

Analytics

We use Vercel Analytics, which is cookieless and does not build individual profiles. We see aggregate page-level data — which pages are visited, rough geography, device type. We cannot identify individual visitors. No data is shared with advertising networks.

Mistakes

We make them. When we parse something wrong, label something incorrectly, or misrepresent a filing, we want to know. Send us a signal and we'll correct it and note what changed.