Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy for the Public Environmental Data Partners (“PEDP,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) describes how we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our website and services (“services”), including when you:

• Visit our website at screening-tools.com, or any website belonging to us that links to this Privacy Policy
• Use the data and screening tools that we provide you access to
• Engage with us in other ways such as contacting us or filing out any of our feedback or forms to get involved, which are Google Forms (opens in a new tab).
  

Questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy should be sent to hello@publicenvirodata.org. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not visit and use our services.

When you visit, use, or interact with our services, we may process information about you depending on your interactions with us and our services, the choices you make, and the sites and features you use.

If you get involved with us as a partner or a volunteer, we may process your personal information such as your name and your email address. This information is processed in a secure way.

We do not collect any information from third parties.

We keep your information safe. We have adequate organizational and technical safeguards to protect your information. However, no electronic transfers over the internet or information storage technologies can be guaranteed to be 100% secure so we can not promise or guarantee that hackers, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to access, steal, or modify your information. We will store your information for no longer than two years. You may contact us at any time to request your information be deleted.

What information do we collect? We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in getting involved with us and our services or otherwise when you contact us. This may include the following:

Your name
Email address
Job title or organizational affiliation
Participation interests
Skill sets

We may automatically collect other information when a user visits, uses, or navigates with our services. This may include information about a user’s device and usage, such as which pages are visited, operating system, device location, information about how and when our services are used, and other technical data. This is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our services and is for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

What information do we share? We may share information you provide internally, but we do not sell or rent your personal information or opt you in to marketing materials from third parties or participating partners. When you fill out the Get Involved form, you also designate if you’d like to opt-in to having your name or affiliation publicly attributed to the work. We will never attribute you or your organization anywhere in the public domain without your consent.

Have questions or concerns? Contact us about our privacy practices at hello@publicenvirodata.org.