DPNC Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 25, 2025

The Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or interact with us online.

1. Information We Collect

We collect personal information when you:

  • Leave a comment on a blog post,
  • Fill out a volunteer interest form,
  • Sign up for our email newsletter,
  • Submit a preschool interest form,
  • Make a donation through our online Altru donation forms,
  • Register for a program via Altru, and/or
  • Interact with our website through search engines (via Google SEO tools).

Information collected may include your name, email address, phone number, mailing address, donation amount, payment method (processed securely), and any additional details you choose to share.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information you provide to:

  • Respond to inquiries and communicate with you,
  • Process donations and registrations,
  • Share updates, program information, and fundraising appeals,
  • Track website usage and improve content and functionality, and/or
  • Maintain internal records for engagement and reporting.

We do not sell or rent your personal information. Your data may be shared only with trusted third-party service providers, solely for the purposes outlined in this policy.

3. Third-Party Service Providers

We partner with the following trusted services to support our operations:

  • Altru: Our content management system (CMS) for donations, program registrations, and constituent data.
  • Flodesk: Our email marketing platform used to send newsletters, event updates, and fundraising emails.
  • Jotform: Used to collect information via online forms, including volunteer signups and preschool interest forms.
  • Google SEO / Google Analytics: Tools used to monitor web traffic and improve our website performance.

These providers only access your data as necessary to perform their services, and each maintains its own privacy and security practices.

Articles and pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website: these websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

4. Donations and Financial Information

Donations made through our website are securely processed via Altru. We may collect your name, address, donation amount, and limited payment information (such as the last four digits of your card) for processing and acknowledgement. We do not store full credit card numbers or other sensitive financial information.

5. Cookies and Website Analytics

Our website uses cookies and tools like Google Analytics to gather anonymous data about how visitors use our site. This helps us understand trends, measure engagement, and improve your experience. You can adjust your browser settings to manage cookie preferences. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

6. Data Retention Policy

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected:

  • Donor and program participant information: retained as required for financial and tax reporting, and for future engagement. Anonymization of your data available upon request.
  • Newsletter and form submissions: retained until you unsubscribe or request removal.
  • Preschool and volunteer inquiries: retained until you request removal.
  • Comments on articles: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

You may contact us at any time to request that we update or delete your information from our records.

7. Your Rights and Choices

You may:

  • Unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the link at the bottom of any email,
  • Request access to the information we hold about you, and/or
  • Ask us to update or delete your personal information.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please contact:

Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center
109 Pequotsepos Rd, Mystic, CT 06355
(860) 536-1216
[email protected]