Last updated: November 8, 2026
Who we are
The Older & Wiser Project is an educational and informational public service campaign owned and managed by Native American Broadcasting Company, PO Box 571, Durango, Colorado 81302. This website is reachable at olderwiser.org.
You can contact us about anything in this policy at [email protected].
The short version
We do not sell your information. We do not have user accounts. We do not run advertising. The only cookies on this site are Google Analytics' own, which count visits. We collect anonymous statistics about how the site is used, and nothing you type into the Transit Savings Calculator ever leaves your own device.
Information we collect
Information you give us
The only way to give us information through this site is to email us. If you do, we receive your email address and whatever you choose to write, and we keep that correspondence so we can respond to it.
This site has no contact form, no comment system, no newsletter signup, and no user accounts.
The Transit Savings Calculator
The Transit Savings Calculator runs entirely in your browser. The figures you enter — mileage, fuel price, car payment, insurance and the rest — are never sent to us, never stored, and never leave your device. Closing the page discards them.
Information collected automatically
This project is funded by a public grant, and we report to the grant on how the site is used. We use three tools for that.
Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views and visits. It sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser, and does not use your IP address or a device fingerprint to follow you. Cloudflare's handling of this data is described in the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
Microsoft Clarity shows us how pages are read: how far down a page people scroll, where they click, and how long they stay. It records your approximate location, the pages you view, the site that referred you, and general details about your browser and device, and it can replay a visit's scrolling and clicks so we can see where a page is hard to use. We have switched Clarity's cookies off, so it stores nothing in your browser and cannot recognise you on a later visit. The Transit Savings Calculator is hidden from Clarity, so the figures you enter are not recorded. Microsoft keeps Clarity's recordings for 30 days. Its handling of this data is described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
Google Analytics counts visits, the pages viewed, how visitors arrived at the site, and general details about their browser, device and approximate location. It stores cookies in your browser so that it can tell a returning visitor from a new one. Google Analytics does not record the figures you enter in the Transit Savings Calculator. Its handling of this data is described in How Google uses information from sites that use its services, and you can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
We look at this information only as aggregate statistics. We do not use it to identify individual visitors, we have not enabled advertising or remarketing features, and we do not sell it or share it with anyone. Our grant reports contain totals, not information about any individual.
Our hosting provider also records standard server access information, including IP addresses, as part of delivering the site securely and defending it against abuse.
Cookies
Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. This site itself sets none. Google Analytics, described above, sets its own cookies (named _ga and _ga_ followed by an ID) to count returning visitors; they expire after two years. Cloudflare Web Analytics and Microsoft Clarity set none. You can block or delete cookies in your browser's settings, and the site works the same without them.
Links to other websites
This site links extensively to transit agencies, government departments, tourism boards and non-profit organizations. Those links are provided as a resource. We do not control those websites, we are not responsible for their content or their privacy practices, and a link is not an endorsement. Once you follow a link away from this site, this policy no longer applies to you.
How long we keep information
Email correspondence is kept as long as it is useful for answering you and for our records. Each day we save a copy of the previous day's analytics totals, per page, for our grant reports. Because the grant can be audited for up to three years, we keep those copies for at least that long.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to ask us to correct or delete it, and to opt out of its sale or sharing. We do not sell or share personal information. To make any request, email [email protected] and we will respond as quickly as we can.
Children
This site is intended for adults, and particularly for drivers aged 65 and older, their families and their caregivers. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.
Funding
This public service project is funded by a Colorado Department of Transportation Highway Safety Grant, with funds provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of this page.