PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST PRIVACY POLICY
Terms of Agreement
Peninsula Open Space Trust (“POST,” “us,” “we,” or “our”) owns and operates the https://postdev.kinsta.cloud website and subdomains (hereinafter referred to as the “Site”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our Site and the choices you have associated with that data.
This policy is effective November 6, 2025.
By using our Website to participate in any of our programs or events, you agree to the use of your information as described in this policy.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at post@openspacetrust.org
What Data We Collect
POST collects personal information voluntarily provided by you for both registration and information purposes such as email address, first and last name, street address, city, state and ZIP/postal code. We do not collect any phone number information through our Website.
When making a donation on our site, information such as credit card data is not maintained or kept by POST. It is shared solely with the secure merchant service in order to execute an online donation and is not passed through or held by the POST website at any time.
Sharing Information
We protect the security of your information and we do NOT share and we do NOT sell your information to any other organization, except as may be required by law or legal process.
Marketing Emails
We may, from time to time, send you information on behalf of other affiliated or related organizations, this is done without sharing any of your information with those organizations.
You will receive confirmation emails when you register for events and activities or sign up to access content or be added to our email newsletter distribution. These emails are sent to notify you that your registration was successful and to provide you with a receipt of your registration.
Once provided, we use your contact information to send you electronic newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that supports our mission and your interest in open space preservation. You may generally opt out of solicitation campaigns, or opt out of receiving any email communications from us by following the unsubscribe link provided in our emails.
Visiting Our Website
When you visit our website, we collect information on how you access and browse our Site as well as the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, the device(s) you may have used and so forth. This data is used to improve our Site content, navigation, accessibility and the experience visitors have on our Site.
Website Cookies
We use first-party cookies and tracking technologies to measure the activity on our Site. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from our website and stored on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
Other tracking technologies are also used such as pixels, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Site.
California’s consumer privacy laws (CCPA/CPRA) generally do not apply to nonprofit organizations. Based on our nonprofit status and independence from any covered for-profit businesses, we are not required by those laws to display a cookie-consent banner.
Social Media
By posting comments on our social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, your comments become public information and may be viewed by others on the same social media pages. Our Site may connect from time to time with these services.
To the extent you interact with social networks or other third-party services (such as “liking” or “sharing” our content or otherwise connecting our Site to a third party service), understand that information collected and stored by third parties through your interaction with them remains subject to their policies and practices. We are not responsible for, and make no representations regarding the policies or business practices of any third-party services and encourage you to familiarize yourself with and consult their privacy policies and terms of use.
User-Provided Data for Analytics & Ads Measurement
We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Meta’s Conversions API to understand how people use our website and to improve our outreach and fundraising. If you provide an email address on our site, we may send that identifier for ads measurement and attribution improvement. To maintain your privacy, before sending the data, normalization and one-way SHA-256 hashing is applied. We never send sensitive data categories.
Security
We take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect your information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure of your information, POST has implemented business policies and industry best practices specific to both the Site and the operation as a whole. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information, but we strive to use the best available procedures and practices to protect your private information.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
POST reserves the right to change this policy at our discretion and will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know of changes by updating the “effective date” at the top of this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.