The Nature Institute’s
Privacy and Cookie Policy

This policy gives an overview of the types of data that The Nature Institute website collects and why.

 
 

Visitor data collected

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects basic data when you visit this website that they describe as necessary in order to run, improve, and protect the website. Squarespace has affirmed that they only analyze the data in a de-personalized form. Such data includes:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

In addition, this website collects data to power our site analytics, which allows us to learn about site traffic and activity. This information includes the above data, and may also include additional details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace as they provide us with our website analytics.

 
 

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when your visit a website. For information about what cookies are dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses. If you would prefer not to have cookies dropped on your device, you can do so by going into your browser’s settings and changing your permissions. Some restrictions might not allow you to experience the full functionality of the website while others will limit the website’s ability to gather data for analytics.

Analytics are useful for The Nature Institute in order to make sure there are no problems with the website, as well as to help us share with funders a picture of the reach of our work.

 
 

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

 
 

3rd Party Services

This website uses very few 3rd party services, though at the time of the writing of this policy (October, 2020) the site was using some Google services such as Google Maps (for an embedded map of the Institute on the Visit page) and Google Drive (to allow people to sign up easily for the newsletter). Such services also collect basic data when used. To find out more about what information Google collects, visit Google’s Privacy and Terms page.