Last updated November 17, 2025

Thank you for accessing our website and this Privacy Policy (“Policy”). Faunalytics (“we,” “our,” “Faunalytics,” “us”) is a nonprofit federally-recognized 501(c)(3) corporation that was established under the laws of the state of Washington. We value your privacy and as an organization, are committed to ensure that your information is safeguarded and handled in accordance to applicable law. This Privacy Policy applies to all Faunalytics sites, including faunalytics.org, other social media platforms, as well as research data provided to us through third party sites. Please click here to read our Research Ethics and Data Handling Policy.

Applicability

This Policy applies to all website visitors, registered users, and all other users of our Services. It applies to information collected:

• When you enter information while utilizing our website, included but not limited to registration documents, searches and questionnaires. This information is collected through your volitional input.
• By email, text, and other forms of electronic messages sent between you and us. These types of communications are often initiated by you.
• Through mobile and desktop applications that we provide.
• By interaction with any campaigns or advertisements we may launch, and/or applications on third-party websites, if those applications link to our website(s).

Expressly Excluded

This Policy does not apply to information we may obtain through any other means, including information obtained from a website that is operated by another company or any third party, including affiliates, partners or when applicable, subsidiaries, since those entities will have their own Privacy Policy.

By accessing our website or utilizing our offerings therein, you agree to this Privacy Policy and your implied consent is acknowledged and relied upon by us. This Policy may be amended from time to time, so your continued use after changes are made will be deemed an acceptance of those changes, so we ask that you check the Policy for changes periodically. Thank you.

Information We Collect

Faunalytics may collect information about you as follows:

• Information provided by you when using our website. An example would be registration that includes your name, phone number and email address. Another example would be if you generously make a donation. Please note that some electronic payment systems require your full name, home address, billing address, payment type and credit card details to ensure secure, non-fraudulent transactions.
• It is also possible that some information, such as your domain name, IP address, browser type, and referral information, may be collected automatically when you access our website or contact us by phone or email.
• We may obtain information about you from third parties.

Additionally, Faunalytics recognizes that certain governmental privacy platforms classify the following data as “personal information:”

• First Name
• Middle Name
• Last Name
• Date of Birth
• Postal Address
• Telephone Numbers
• Email Address
• Company Name
• Credit Card (only storing last 4 digits)
• Bank information or Bank Billing for payment authorization
• Information related to any application for employment or to volunteer, including employment and education history
• Demographic information, which may include but not be limited to, age, birthdate, gender identification, state of residence, marital status, home ownership status, donation history, occupation, education, and ethnicity, information that is utilized for purposes of analysis.

Some Privacy Platforms define Sensitive Personal Information as information that reveals:

• Racial or ethnic origin
• Religious beliefs
• A mental or physical health condition or diagnosis
• Sexual Orientation or Sexual Activity
• Citizenship Status
• Genetic or Biometric Data

Please further note that we may, in addition to the categories above, collect and process information about your interactions with us. Examples include our interactions with you by email, SMS, U.S. Postal Service, on the phone or in person (examples: date/time/method of contact), details about donations you generously make to us, events or activities that you register for or attend and any other support such as written materials provided to us to provide information or to render an opinion, by way of examples. We may also collect and record other relevant information you share with us about yourself, including your interests or affiliations with other charities, community groups, or your employer.

Automated Collection of Information & Utilization

Our software programs automatically collect the following information when you access our website:

• Technical Information;
• IP address, browser type and plug-in details;
• Information about how you interact with our website;
• Device type (e.g. desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone);
• Operating systems information; and
• Local time zone.

We collect this information that is generated and sent to us automatically by your web browser and we may use this information to aggregate statistics about visitors to our Website. We may use this information for accounting purposes, to provide and improve upon website user services, or to prevent fraud, including violations of the Faunalytics Terms of Use.

Donor Privacy

Faunalytics is deeply committed to upholding the privacy and trust of our donors. Our principles of data ethics extend to our fundraising and philanthropic efforts, and we approach the use of AI in this area with the utmost caution. To protect donor privacy, we will not share or upload private contact information, specifically email and physical addresses, with any Large Language Models (LLMs) or other external AI platforms for analysis or marketing. 

Disclosure to Others

It is our strict policy to not disclose your personal information to third parties (including by selling, renting, sharing, or exchanging your email address), except as follows:

• As requested by you or if you have provided your consent (including, without limitation, by your participation in forums, mailing lists and other community services that may display or otherwise make available your personal information);
• To the extent that we or our advisors deem it necessary to comply with legal requests which, at our sole discretion, we may take legally permissible actions to challenge. In addition, we may provide notice to individuals or entities about whom information is subpoenaed or requested;
• To others that perform services for us or on our behalf, but only after signing a non-disclosure agreement and confirming, through contractual clauses, that their commitment to privacy equals our commitment.

Please, finally note that we reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event we transfer all or a portion of Faunalytics or its assets, or in the event of dissolution.

Anonymous Information

We may collect, use and share anonymous information (i.e., information which cannot be used to identify you) for any non-commercial purpose. For example, in the annual Faunalytics community survey, we collect feedback about our programs and priorities and may share the aggregated feedback publicly.

Accessing, Correcting, and Deleting Your Information

You have the right to access and correct the personal information you have provided to us and that we have retained. You can request a copy of your personal information stored by us by emailing [email protected]. You can also request that we delete all of your information by sending a request to the same email address.

Your Communication Preferences

The personal information you voluntarily provide for our mailing lists allows us to keep you updated on the latest research for effective animal advocacy and our latest announcements. If you no longer wish to be on our mailing lists, you can opt out anytime by updating your preferences. You may also update your preferences or request to unsubscribe from our mailing lists by using the “Update preferences” or “Unsubscribe” links at the bottom of any email that you receive from Faunalytics that was sent by Mailchimp or Mandrill. You may also send an email to [email protected] with a request to unsubscribe.

Information Security

Faunalytics takes reasonable efforts to prevent the loss or unauthorized disclosure of information. We utilize appropriate data collection, storage, processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information, or data stored on the site. Our site uses an SSL certificate for extra security.

As is the case with all online activities and services, the security of data transmitted over the internet cannot be completely guaranteed, and Faunalytics will not be responsible for any harm that users or any third party may suffer as a result of a breach of security with respect to use of the site or any information transmitted to the site. In the event of a security breach, we will make every attempt to notify affected users within 24 hours of us being made aware of such an event occurring.

Data Retention

We keep your information only as long as needed to provide Faunalytics’ services to you and fulfill the purposes described in this policy. This is also the case for anyone with whom we may share your information and who carries out services on our behalf. When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we’ll either remove it from our systems or depersonalize it so that we cannot identify you.

Your information may be stored on our web servers, which are hosted by SiteGround, a major hosting provider that routinely monitors the Faunalytics network. As part of our daily backup routine, your data may also be stored by Amazon Web Services and Amazon S3.

Data Transfer

You consent to the transfer of your personal information to or through any country, including, without limitation, countries outside of the European Economic Area (which may not provide the same protection for such information as your country provides). You understand that Faunalytics sites are hosted in the United States and thus, Faunalytics does NOT engage in cross-border transfers of information since our servers and data processors are located within the United States. As noted earlier, we do NOT sell your information.

Third-Party Links

You may find links to third parties on our website (e.g., Facebook, YouTube, Google Drive) or your information may be processed through third parties (e.g., PayPal, Stripe, MailChimp, Mandrill). These websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data, or solicit personal information from you when you visit them. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their privacy and security policies whatsoever, as we have no control over them. It is your responsibility to learn about their privacy policies prior to providing them with personal information.

Minors

Our website is not designed for nor does it target minors, defined as individuals who are 13 years of age or under. Individuals between the ages of 14 and 18, should only access our website with the direct permission, consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian.

We expressly prohibit individuals 13 and under from providing information through our website, including name, address, email address, telephone number, screen name or any other information that can be used to link it to a particular person. We further expressly prohibit individuals 13 and under from registering or making any purchase, donation or to provide commentary, unless under the direct and immediate supervision of their parent or legal guardian.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We may use cookie technology and/or web beacon technology. Cookies are pieces of information saved on your computer by our web server. A web beacon is a small graphic image placed on a web page or in an email that is designed to allow us to monitor visitors to our sites. Cookies and web beacons may be used to keep track of who you are as you navigate our sites, and provide us with greater details around when and how you navigate our sites. You can disable cookies through your browser, but your experience may be degraded, and you may not be able to log into our sites or otherwise perform tasks that require you to be logged into our sites.

Cookie Declaration

To learn more about cookies in general, you can visit aboutcookies.org.

Change your cookie settings: You can use the options in your web browser to notify you when you receive a cookie and/or change your cookie preferences in your browser or with third parties. You have control over the cookies stored by our site on your browser, and you have the ability to delete cookies used by our site at any time. If you don’t know how to change your individual cookie settings, you can visit whatismybrowser.com to determine what your current browser cookie settings are and find directions on how to change them. We are unable to assist you with the process as each computer system and personal preferences vary.

Third-Party cookies and information: Our Site uses third-party cookies and tools from Adobe, Facebook, Google Analytics, Google Advertising Features, YouTube, and WordPress.

While Google Analytics is a commonly-utilized tool amongst nonprofits, you can learn how to immediately opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics by accessing this URL.

Security

We take administrative, technical and physical safeguards, which are reasonable for an organization of our size, to prevent unauthorized access to your personal information, including taking reasonable measures to limit access to your personal information to those individuals who require it to perform their job duties. However, the Internet is an inherently insecure medium, and we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

Revisions to this Policy

We reserve the right to revise our Privacy Policy, and such revised policy will automatically become effective upon its posting at www.faunalytics.org. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will use reasonable efforts to include a notice on our homepage at www.faunalytics.org, for at least 30 days following the posting of the changes, that our Privacy Policy has changed, or alternatively, in our discretion, to notify you at your email address on record with us.

Queries

The operator of this site is Faunalytics, located at Post Office Box 152703, San Diego, CA 92195. If you have questions about this Faunalytics Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].