Privacy & Cookie Policy

Who we are

Rico Geothermal Coalition (RGC)
ricogeothermalcoalition@gmail.com
Our website address is: https://ricogeothermal.org

Website Visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects some personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Squarespace Analytics

This website collects some personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We only share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Google Analytics

We use google analytics to monitor interaction on our website. We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

Opting out:
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Other Websites

Our site and services offer links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website for which RGC has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may differ from ours.

Donations

When you make a donation by clicking the Donate link in the menu, we must share some of your personally identifiable information with third parties in order to process the transaction. For example, we must share your credit card number with our credit card processor in order to process your payment. These third parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services. We do not share any of your personally identifiable information with unrelated third parties for their own marketing purposes without your consent.

Form Block Submissions

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with RGC staff members for responding.

Notification of Policy Changes

We reserve the right to change, modify or add to our privacy policy to protect the ethical standards provided or to meet the changing demands of digital advocacy. Notification of any changes to RGC’s privacy policy will be posted here so as to adequately inform digital service users of these revisions. We encourage you to please review it frequently.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We make every effort to keep your personal information private and use a 3rd party gateway to process all financial transactions. 

What we share with others

We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; for example Paypal.

Payments

We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details. 

Facebook

Our website includes plugins for the social network Facebook, Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. For an overview of Facebook plugins, see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server is established via the plugin. This enables Facebook to receive information that you have visited our site from your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like button” while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our site to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate visits to our site with your user account. Please note that, as the operator of this site, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted to Facebook or of how Facebook uses these data. For more information, please see Facebook’s privacy policy at https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to our site with your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook account.  

Contacting the Website

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact:

Rico Geothermal Coalition
ricogeothermalcoalition@gmail.com