Privacy
One form, one place it goes, and a sentence for every field it asks you about. If something here doesn't match what you were expecting, email me and I'll fix the page or the practice, whichever is wrong.
Last updated September 20, 2026
- Your name and email
- Step one. Without these there is nothing to reply to.
- Where you're thinking of going, and when
- Including a rough answer. “Somewhere warm in February” is stored exactly as you typed it.
- How many people are traveling, and the children's ages if you give them
- Ages change which hotels can take you and which rooms exist. That is the only reason they're asked.
- Your phone number and preferred way to be reached
- Step two, and only if you choose to give them. The form works without both.
- Your pronouns
- Optional. So the first email addresses you correctly.
- What you're looking for, roughly what you're comfortable spending, and what you'd optimize for
- Budget is a band, never an exact figure. It decides which hotels are worth showing you.
- Who referred you, and anything you write in the notes
- Both optional. The notes box is free text — it holds whatever you put in it.
The form saves after step one, so if you start it and stop, the name, email and destination you already typed are stored. That's deliberate — it means a half-finished form still reaches me and you don't lose what you wrote. If you'd rather it hadn't been kept, say so and it's gone.
No web form of mine asks for any of this, and none of it should ever be sent to me through one:
- Passport numbers or copies of a passport
- Dates of birth
- Credit card or bank details
- Known Traveler, Global Entry or loyalty numbers
- Anything about your health
Once you've decided to book, some of it becomes necessary — a hotel needs a card to hold a room and an airline needs the name as printed on your passport. That happens through Fora's booking system, which is built for it, and never by replying to an email with a photograph of your passport. If you ever get a message from me asking you to do that, it isn't from me.
Straight into Airtable, which is the database I run my practice out of. I'm the only person who looks at it. It isn't sold, it isn't traded, and it isn't handed to a marketing list — there is no marketing list.
Two companies touch this in the ordinary course of it working: Vercel, which hosts the site and sees the request your browser makes, and Airtable, which stores the record. That is the whole list. The fonts are served from this site rather than from Google's servers, so loading this page doesn't tell a third party your IP address.
Once you become a client, Fora Travel is involved too — I'm an advisor with Fora and all bookings are made through them, so your booking details live in their systems as well as mine. Hotels and airlines get what they need to hold the reservation, and nothing beyond it.
This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and carries no advertising pixels. Nothing follows you off this page.
If we never end up working together, I keep the inquiry for two years and then delete it. Two years because travel plans are slow — people write to me about a trip, life happens, and they come back eighteen months later expecting me to remember the conversation. I'd like to.
If we do work together, the booking record stays as long as I'm required to keep it — receipts, supplier confirmations, anything the tax rules reach.
Email alden.schell@fora.travel and ask. You can ask to see what I hold, to have it corrected, or to have it deleted, and I'll do it within thirty days. You don't need to cite a statute or live in a particular state — it's your information and this is a small enough practice that the answer is just yes.
The one thing I can't delete is a record I'm legally required to keep, which in practice means completed bookings. If that applies I'll tell you which records and why rather than sending a form letter.
This page describes a one-person practice, not a platform. If anything on it stops being accurate, it's a mistake and I want to know. The form is here if you'd rather talk about a trip instead.