Librarians read policies for a living, so we kept ours honest and one page long.
The booking form collects what you type: your name, email, organization, class choice, and message. It is used to write you back and schedule a class. It goes on no marketing list, gets shared with no one, and you can ask us to delete it in any reply.
The email signup collects one thing: your email address. It is used to send the Monday and Friday AI updates you asked for, and nothing else. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing works the first time. Asking about a booking never adds you to the email list. They are separate forms on purpose.
The directory lists public information about public libraries: names, addresses, phone numbers and official websites, taken from the library systems' own directories and each library's site. A listing is not an endorsement, a partnership, or a promise that a class is scheduled there. If a library asks us to correct or remove a detail, we do it.
We use Microsoft Clarity to count visits and see how the site gets used: which pages people open, where they click, how far they scroll, and short replays of a visit. We look at it to find pages that confuse people and fix them. That is the whole reason.
What it never sees: anything you type. Form fields are masked, so your email address, name and messages are hidden before a recording is saved. Clarity sets two small cookies to do its counting, and its work is covered by Microsoft's privacy statement. We run no advertising trackers and we sell no data. Most privacy and ad blockers switch Clarity off completely, and that is fine with us.
Why no pop-up banner: banner laws are built for sites tracking visitors across the web and for visitors in places like the EU. This site is for neighbors in Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess and the Harlem Valley, and Clarity only watches this site, with typing masked. If the tracking ever grows past that, this page changes first and a banner comes with it.
Library photos come from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses, with the photographer and license credited on each page. We never hotlink or scrape a library's own photos.
We build to the WCAG 2.1 AA standard here: AA color contrast, full keyboard navigation with visible focus, plain language, and reduced motion respected. The same thinking runs the classes: large print handouts, a microphone every time regardless of room size, one presenter dedicated to individual help, and pacing set by the slowest hand in the room, never the fastest.
If anything on this site gives you or a patron trouble, tell us at alex@libraryaicourses.com. Accessibility bugs jump the queue.
Our classes teach technology. Nothing on this site or in a session is medical, legal, or financial advice, and we repeat that in the room whenever the topic comes up.