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Lake Sawyer Hawks
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About the Lake Sawyer Hawks Website
What this site is, how it's built, and how we handle privacy & cookies.
About the Site
Welcome to the official website of the Lake Sawyer Hawks — a platform designed to keep our members informed, connected, and engaged with everything happening at the field and in the club.
How the Site Is Built
The Hawks website is a custom-built web application — not a template or drag-and-drop builder. It runs on the Laravel framework with a MySQL database, and is hosted on professional infrastructure with SSL security.
Behind the public pages, the site includes a full membership management system: online applications and renewals, a members-only directory and document library, event and meeting calendars, a classifieds board, email campaigns to members, gate code distribution, and an admin dashboard for managing all of it. Each feature is built from scratch to fit how the Hawks actually operate — nothing off-the-shelf.
The design is responsive, so the site works equally well on phones, tablets, and desktops, with both light and dark viewing modes for logged-in members.
How we handle your data
What we collect
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Essential cookies:
a small consent cookie (
lsh_cookie_consent) plus session and security cookies. - Form submissions: information you choose to provide so we can manage membership and respond.
- Basic server logs: used for reliability and security only.
- reCAPTCHA: used to prevent spam on forms.
What we do not do
- We do not sell or share personal information.
- No advertising trackers.
Managing cookies
Blocking cookies may affect forms, reCAPTCHA, or sign-in features.
Data retention
Records are retained only as needed for club administration.