Privacy & community alerts
SLO Trees is a community effort for significant trees in San Luis Obispo. Names and email addresses collected here are never sold, rented, traded, or shared for marketing.
That information is used only to send rare alerts about significant San Luis Obispo trees that are threatened, plus the messages needed to run the list: an address confirmation and an unsubscribe confirmation. No public alert is sent automatically. A person on the committee approves each alert, and alerts are expected to be infrequent. Enrollment is described next to the form button and begins only after you confirm your email address. Scanning a QR code does not subscribe you.
Every alert includes an unsubscribe link. Unsubscribe requests are honored promptly, and that address is suppressed from later alerts. The form collects your name, email address, the talking points you choose, an optional message, and the time you submit. Deletion requests are honored. These records are not published in the project source. Contact the site operator through the forthcoming published contact address to ask for deletion. Authorized committee administrators may use subscriber information to operate this service, and an email delivery provider sends the confirmations and alerts. Subscription records are kept until removed, and minimal audit events are kept for security.
A letter to the City requires verification. Submitting the form sends one verification email. That same confirmation click enrolls you for alerts and, when server sending is turned on, sends one letter to the City recipients. The letter comes from the SLO Trees address, shown as "Name via SLO Trees". The reply-to address is the resident. A copy goes to the resident. The resident's address is not the From address. One letter is sent per resident per tree. When server sending is off, SLO Trees does not send the letter; you can still open or copy it in your own email app. Newsrooms are not copied on those letters.
When the owner turns newsroom briefs on, a message to a published newsroom address may include tree facts, the count of letters sent after verification, and how many letters are still pending verification. It does not include a resident's or subscriber's name, email address, or personal statement. A committee member can pause that sending. A media sign-in opens a read-only page of scores, hearings, and those same totals. That page does not list names or email addresses. Subscriber alerts stay human-approved.
When both Turnstile settings are present, the letter form loads a Cloudflare Turnstile check before accepting a submission. When either setting is empty, the form does not load that check. A hidden field and a limit on repeated submissions still apply. SLO Trees is an independent community initiative, and its scores are not City determinations.