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The Dauug House
223 Pinegrove Dr.
Bellbrook, OH 45305-2141
United States of America
+1 937 848 0942 voice only, no text
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Marc Abel Secretary, Executive Engineer, Alpha Dauug
Catherine Devlin Director
Kendall Goodrich Director
Cinamon Houston Director
Joshua Rupp Treasurer, Director
Paul Simon President, Director
Alpha Dauug is responsible for day-to-day operations, so he is the person to speak with first.
We applied for exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code on 27 May 2025. IRS takes more than six months to process these applications, so donations to The Dauug House are not tax deductible at this time. If IRS finds in our favor, a copy of their determination letter will be posted in this section.
IRS Form 1023 is our application for exemption. It will open in a new tab.
Our first annual tax return (IRS Form 990) will be due 15 May 2026. It will be posted in this section.
Why not? Here is a closer look at our wallpaper.
We too are bored by privacy policies, but a vendor demanded that we post one.
We do our best to not callously or recklessly collect or disclose information about you. We can’t get this perfect because there are factors that neither you nor we can control. We also can’t get this perfect because both you and we voluntarily disclose and collect some information in pursuit of constructive ends.
The effective date of this policy is May 27, 2025.
We live in an age of egregious surveillance. It is now canon that someone, somewhere has unlimited computing power, unlimited network access, unlimited funding, and/or unlimited legal authority. Infrastructure used by you and The Dauug House can be monitored, as can communication between you and The Dauug House.
The essential purpose of our organizational website at dauug.org, as well as our technical website at 36.dauug.org, is to present information. Not have stuff crawling on your screen or over your connection. So we have a rule about client-side scripting, popularly called JavaScript. We don’t allow it on our domains or servers. It makes our visitors’ experience less flashy, but we presume that when you visit us online, you wish to read and be left alone. We further presume you prefer to opt out of the security risks that come with client-side scripting.
In similar fashion, we employ no persistent client-side storage, popularly called cookies. We’re as nauseated as you are about those cookie consent buttons that European regulators impose on much of the connected world. We don’t anticipate enough of a presence in Europe to trigger their naively reasoned rules, but in any event, we shun the technologies that they fruitlessly pretend to constrain.
We likewise loathe third-party web tracking and stay clear of it. Our websites never load resources that are either outside of the dauug.org top-level domain or hosted on a different server.
To find our websites so you can visit them, your computer will generally disclose your intent to reach us to third parties such as gateways, switches, routers, domain name services, search engines, and other infrastructure.
Your web browser probably leaves a trail of information on your device, including a history of URLs visited and cached resources from our site. Anyone who gains access to your device, whether in person or remotely, can potentially infer information about your interest in us.
Our web server logs browsing you do at our site, and these logs may be retained for longer than you or we would hope. Any information we receive in an HTTP request header, Transmission Control Protocol header, Internet Protocol header, as well as any information exchanged to facilitate session encryption, may appear in these logs.
We intentionally collect, analyze, and retain these log data for three reasons. First off, charity regulators in dozens of jurisdictions expect The Dauug House to comply with their local rules. We need to know which jurisdictions our visitors come from, as well as estimate the extent to which we plausibly solicit donations in those jurisdictions.
The second and third reason we have these log data are to monitor friendly and non-friendly web crawlers. We monitor major aggregators of online information to determine how to better facilitate their access. We also monitor efforts by threat actors to break into or incapacitate our infrastructure.
Our websites have some outgoing links to domains we don’t control. Your web browser does not inform us when you visit those links, so you go dark to us when you browse them.
When you visit an outgoing link from our websites, you are crossing to a different website, operator, infrastructure, privacy policy, and possibly legal jurisdiction. The new website is not bound by, nor is likely even aware of, this privacy policy.
When you donate online to The Dauug House, our websites do not receive, collect, process, or store any payment information. Instead, a link takes you to one or more companies that specialize in receiving funds. These companies collect information at our request to accept and document your support. They do not follow this privacy policy. Instead, they display links to their own privacy policies on pages where they accept donations on our behalf.
The legal jurisdictions where we and you are located impose various recordkeeping requirements about donations you make to us. We must retain records about these transactions for at least five years to meet these obligations, including your identity, location, contact information, donation amount, and donation timing. We will not voluntarily disclose any of this information without your express consent.
Some donors may wish that a contribution to The Dauug House be publicly acknowledged. We are happy to do so at your request, but we will not otherwise voluntarily disclose anyone’s identity in relation to a donation.
If you give us $5,000 or more in a given tax year and we know your identity, we are in most cases required to disclose your identity and contribution to the Internal Revenue Service on our annual tax return. Unless you request otherwise, we will omit your identity on the copy of this return that we disclose to the public.
If you make a gift to us and we do not know your identity, we cannot respond with an acknowledgment of your contribution. This may affect your ability to itemize your gift as a tax deduction.
In the event tax exempt status is granted to us under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, we will be required to certify that at least a certain fraction of our funds come from “public support” to remain exempt. If you make a gift to us and we do not know your identity, we will be allowed to accept and use your funds, but we will not be allowed to claim that your anonymous donation is public support. It’s not likely you need to be concerned about this, but if our resources become dominated by unattributable gifts, tax exemption could be forfeited.
It is possible for someone else to improperly attribute to you a donation they send to us. Such a donation may be publicly acknowledged as having been made by you, even if you have never heard of us at all. We hope you do not become a victim of such a scheme, and if you do, we will do our best to uncover and share the truth.
Alpha Dauug wrote the text of this policy and decided how things would go down where there were options to choose from. Anything that could have been written or decided better is his fault, and he is the person to call first if there is any way it can improve. He is also responsible for our day-to-day operations including compliance with the terms of this policy. His contact information is easy to find on our websites, as is contact information for our Board of Directors.