Privacy
Short answer: almost nothing, unless you become a coaching client. Then quite a lot, and I take it seriously.
Last updated 14 October 2026
This site and the coaching described on it are run by CaminoLife Coaching, LLC, a Wisconsin limited liability company, and by me personally, Dave Hall. I am the person who decides what happens to your information, and I am the person who answers when you ask about it.
You can reach me at dave@caminolife.app.
This is a plain website. It does not try to learn anything about you.
Two honest footnotes. First, the typefaces on this site are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser asks Google's servers for them, and that request carries your IP address, as every web request does. I get nothing from it and I see nothing from it. Second, the site is hosted on Vercel, and like every web host they keep brief server logs that include IP addresses, for security and to keep the site running.
If you follow a link from here to Substack, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, or anywhere else, you are on their website under their rules, not mine.
The buttons on this site open your own email program. If you write to me, I have your email address and whatever you chose to put in the message, which is how email has always worked.
I keep enquiries that do not turn into coaching for up to two years, in case you come back, and then I delete them. Ask me to delete yours sooner and I will.
This is where there is real information, and where it matters.
To do the work you are paying me for. The assessment and the worksheets are the material we coach on. The notes are how I can tell you in week six where you were in week one, which is most of the value of the last call. The contact details are how we arrange calls. The payment record is how I keep honest books.
This program is for people carrying grief, and in the Twelve Step version, for people in recovery. What you tell me is some of the most personal information there is. I treat it that way. I collect it because you have chosen to do this work with me and we have agreed it in writing, and for no other reason.
Nobody, in the ordinary course. I do not share your material, I do not use your name or your story in my writing, teaching, speaking or marketing without asking you separately and in writing, and I never sell anything to anyone.
A small number of ordinary business services necessarily handle some of it on my behalf: an email provider, a video calling provider, cloud storage for documents, and a payment processor. They are bound to keep it confidential and to use it only to provide their service to me.
The narrow exceptions where I may have to disclose something are set out in your coaching agreement: where I reasonably believe it is necessary to prevent serious harm to you or someone else, where there is a reasonable suspicion of abuse or neglect of a child, an elderly person or a vulnerable adult, or where the law requires it.
One thing you should know plainly. Coaching is not a legally privileged relationship. Unlike a conversation with a licensed therapist, an attorney or a member of the clergy, what you tell a coach is generally not protected by law and could in principle be compelled in legal proceedings. That is true of all coaching, not just mine, and you deserve to know it before you start.
Session notes and assessments are kept for seven years and then deleted. Payment records are kept as long as tax and accounting rules require. If you ask me to delete your material sooner, I will, unless I am legally required to keep a particular record.
After your application and our conversation, I send accepted pilgrims a private sign-up page. It is not linked from anywhere and search engines are asked not to list it.
The sign-up and the signed release are stored with Supabase, a database service in the United States. Your name, email, phone and payment choice also go to MailerLite, my email service, so I can write to you about the pilgrimage. Your allergies and dietary needs never go to the email service. Payments are made through Stripe; I see that you paid and how much, never your card or bank details.
I share allergies and dietary needs only with the people feeding the group, and your emergency contact only if I ever need to use it.
The signed release and your sign-up are kept for seven years after the pilgrimage and then deleted. Ask me for a copy of what you signed at any time.
I work from Wisconsin, in the United States, and the services I use store information there. If you are writing to me from Europe, the United Kingdom, or anywhere else outside the US, your information will be handled in the United States, which may not give it the same legal protections your own country does. By working with me you are agreeing to that.
Wherever you live, you can ask me to:
Email me and I will do it, normally within 30 days. I will not charge you and I will not make it difficult.
If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you also have the right to object to certain processing, to ask for your information in a portable format, and to complain to your national data protection authority if you think I have handled your information badly. I would much rather you told me first and gave me the chance to put it right.
This coaching is for adults. I do not knowingly collect information about anyone under 18. If you believe I have, tell me and I will delete it.
I will change the date at the top. If a change actually matters to you as a current client, I will email you about it rather than quietly editing the page and hoping you notice.
Write to me at dave@caminolife.app. A real person reads it, and the real person is me.
Buen Camino.
Camino Coach Dave