Privacy and safety
Two separate things are covered here. What happens to what you and your student tell us during an engagement, and what this website itself does. They have different answers.
This website
This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads nothing from any other company.
There is no form on it, no account to create, and nothing to sign up for, so there is nothing here for you to fill in and nothing for us to store.
One thing is worth being exact about, because a privacy page that overstates itself is worth nothing. The company that serves this page keeps ordinary web server logs, which record an IP address for every visit, as every website on the internet does. That is not something we set up and it is not something this site adds. If you want to reach us, the only way this site offers is an email address you choose to write to.
Where your answers actually live
The forms are not on this website. They run on Tally, a form company, and your answers and your student's sit on Tally's servers until I take them off. From there they come to my mailbox at bryan@overlap.report, which is Google Workspace. The report itself is written and kept on an encrypted drive in my house, backed up to a second drive here. Nothing about your family is in cloud storage.
There is a fourth place, and it is the one worth asking about first. I use an AI tool to get a first read of the answers, so the answers go to that company too. What I take out before they go, and what I do with what comes back, is set out on the how it works page.
Those four are everywhere anything you send exists. When you ask me to delete your family's forms and report, I delete them everywhere I hold them and tell you when it is done. Two things are not mine to promise. I do not control those companies' own backups. And if the AI company's automated safety systems ever flag a conversation as breaking their rules, that company keeps it for up to two years whatever I do, and I am not told when it happens.
What is confidential, and what is not
What you tell me about money, health, or the household never appears in anything your student reads. That stays between you and me. What you say you hope for them does appear, marked clearly as yours, next to what they said they want.
It does not run both ways, and your student is told so on their form before they answer a single question. The report is my read of your student and it quotes what they wrote to show how I got there, so what they write does reach you.
Two things bound that. Nothing your student writes reaches you outside the report. And the report lands with them at the same moment it lands with you, with the red pen on my read of them.
The one thing I would tell you outside the report
A person reads every submission within 24 hours. If your student writes something that suggests they may not be safe, we will tell you, and we tell them up front that we would. That is the only thing I would tell you that is not in the report, and it is stated on their form before they start. Every student form carries the 988 help line.
This is not a monitored crisis service.
Overlap is one person. Reading every submission within 24 hours is a commitment to read your student's answers promptly. Nobody is watching for an alert in between. If your student needs someone now, rather than within a day, call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, at any time. If they are in immediate danger, call 911.
Nothing is published without asking you
We do not publish anything you or your student writes without asking you first, in writing, for that specific use. Saying no does not change anything about what you get. Ask us to delete your family's forms and report at any time and we will, and we will confirm when it is done. Where that sits, and what I cannot promise about it, is set out above.
Nothing is required of you beyond the intake
Paying families owe us nothing but the intake. No survey or referral is any part of the price. Testimony is appreciated but not required.
Last reviewed 21 August 2026.