Youth Climate Lab
Privacy Policy
Youth Climate Lab is committed to protecting the personal information shared with us through our website, programs, workshops, newsletters, donations, collaborations, and related communications.
Effective date:
1. Who We Are
Youth Climate Lab is a Canada-based, global non-profit organization of youth mobilizing youth to create just, climate-resilient futures.
For privacy questions, access requests, corrections, deletion requests, or concerns about how we handle personal information, contact:
2. Personal Information We Collect
We may collect personal information that you choose to provide to us, including:
- Name, email address, phone number, organization, role, and location.
- Information submitted through contact, collaboration, program, newsletter, donation, workshop, or event forms.
- Donation and payment-related information processed through our payment or donation providers.
- Newsletter subscription preferences and email engagement information.
- Program, workshop, survey, application, or feedback responses.
- Communications you send to us by email, form, social media, or other direct contact.
- Website usage information, including device, browser, pages viewed, referring links, approximate location, cookies, analytics, and embedded content interactions.
3. How We Use Personal Information
We use personal information for purposes including:
- Responding to inquiries, collaboration requests, and program or workshop interest.
- Operating, improving, and evaluating our programs, workshops, resources, events, and website.
- Sending newsletters, updates, invitations, reports, and other communications you have requested or consented to receive.
- Processing donations and issuing related records or receipts where applicable.
- Managing relationships with participants, partners, supporters, volunteers, donors, and community members.
- Preparing aggregated reports, impact summaries, research, communications, and funding updates.
- Protecting the security and integrity of our website, systems, programs, and records.
- Meeting legal, accounting, reporting, or regulatory obligations.
We do not sell or rent personal information.
4. Consent and Communications
By submitting personal information to Youth Climate Lab, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of that information for the purposes identified at the time of collection and in this Privacy Policy.
You may withdraw consent to future communications at any time. Newsletter and email updates will include an unsubscribe option where required. You may also contact us directly at hello@youthclimatelab.org.
5. Sharing With Service Providers
We may share personal information with service providers that help us operate our website, communications, newsletters, donations, events, forms, analytics, storage, and administrative systems.
These providers may include website hosting platforms, newsletter tools, payment or donation processors, analytics providers, embedded social media services, document tools, and email systems. They are only authorized to use personal information as needed to provide services to Youth Climate Lab or as otherwise required by law.
6. Cookies, Analytics, and Embedded Content
Our website may use cookies, analytics tools, and embedded third-party content to understand website performance, improve user experience, display social content, process forms, and support site functionality.
Third-party services may collect information according to their own privacy policies. You can control cookies through your browser settings, although disabling cookies may affect some website features.
7. Aggregated and De-Identified Information
We may use aggregated or de-identified information for communications, reporting, research, funding, evaluation, and impact measurement. We do not publicly report individual personal information unless we have consent or are legally permitted to do so.
8. Retention
We keep personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, including inquiries, newsletter records, donation records, program records, financial records, consent records, and legal or reporting obligations.
9. Safeguards
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect personal information against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.
No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. If you believe personal information shared with Youth Climate Lab has been affected by a privacy or security issue, contact us promptly.
10. Storage and Transfers
Youth Climate Lab is based in Canada, but some of our service providers may process or store information in other jurisdictions. When information is processed outside Canada, it may be subject to the laws of that jurisdiction.
11. Access, Correction, and Deletion
You may contact us to request that we:
- Confirm whether we hold personal information about you.
- Provide access to personal information we hold about you, where required by law.
- Correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
- Delete personal information, subject to legal, contractual, operational, or reporting requirements.
- Withdraw consent to future communications or certain uses of your information.
We may need to verify your identity before responding to a request.
12. Youth and Program Participants
Youth Climate Lab works with youth and youth-serving communities. Where programs, workshops, surveys, or events involve younger participants, we will collect only the information reasonably needed for the activity and will provide additional notice or consent steps where required.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.
14. Contact Us
If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or Youth Climate Lab's privacy practices, contact: