Privacy Statement - EcoResilience Initiative
Last updated: June 24th 2025
Who we are
EcoResilience Initiative (ERI) is a research organization that promotes the world's most effective biodiversity and ecosystem interventions for donors. We conduct research, advocacy, and plan to forward donations to recommended interventions. We operate internationally with team members in the US, EU, and UK.
Contact Information:
What Personal Data We Collect
We collect the following types of personal data:
Contact and Professional Information:
- Names and email addresses
- Company or organizational affiliations
- Professional roles and areas of expertise
- Professional interests related to biodiversity and environmental work
Communication Accounts:
- Social media and professional platform accounts (LinkedIn, Telegram, Slack, Signal, Effective Altruism Forum, GatherTown, Discord, Calendly, WhatsApp) when publicly available or shared with us
Interaction Records:
- Dates and contexts of our communications
- Content and outcomes of meetings, emails, and messages
- Involvement with relevant advocacy organizations (e.g., Effective Environmentalism, Rainforest Alliance Network)
Website Analytics Data:
- IP addresses (masked/anonymized)
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- Pages visited on our website
- Time spent on pages
- Referral sources
- General geographic location (country/city level)
How We Collect Your Data
We collect personal data through:
- Publicly available information from websites and social media profiles
- Direct communication via meetings, emails, and messages
- Occasional referrals from partner organizations
- Information you voluntarily share with us during interactions
- Automated collection through our website via Google Analytics when you visit ecoresilienceinitiative.com
Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal data based on our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) to:
- Identify and connect with professionals who can advise our research
- Find potential contractors, volunteers, and collaborators
- Reach potential funders and supporters
- Advance our mission of promoting effective biodiversity interventions
- Analyze website usage to improve our online presence and understand visitor interests
For website analytics, we also rely on consent where required, which you can provide or withdraw through our cookie banner.
We have assessed that these interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.
How We Use Your Data
We use your personal data to:
- Contact you regarding potential professional collaborations, advisory roles, or contract work
- Invite you to participate in research projects or thesis opportunities
- Reach out about funding or partnership opportunities
- Maintain records of our professional interactions
- Occasionally create aggregated insights about sector trends (without identifying individuals)
- Analyze website traffic and user behavior to improve our website and understand our audience.
We do not:
- Make automated decisions about you
- Share your data with third parties without your consent (except as described below)
- Use your data for marketing unrelated to our mission
Data Storage and Security
Your data is stored securely using:
- Notion (our CRM platform)
- MailChimp (for email communications)
- Google Workspace (for email management)
- Google Analytics (for website analytics)
These platforms implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures. As US-based services, they transfer data outside the EU under appropriate safeguards including Standard Contractual Clauses.
International Transfers
Since we operate internationally and use US-based platforms, your data may be transferred outside the EU. We ensure these transfers are protected by:
- Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission
- The platforms' compliance with international data protection frameworks
How Long We Keep Your Data
We retain your personal data for:
- Active contacts: Up to 5 years from last meaningful interaction
- Inactive contacts: Reviewed annually and deleted if no longer relevant to our mission
- Communication records: Retained alongside contact information
- Website analytics data: Automatically deleted by Google Analytics after 26 months
We conduct annual data cleanup reviews to ensure we only retain data that remains relevant and necessary.
Your Rights Under GDPR
You have the right to:
- Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
- Rectification: Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data
- Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data
- Restriction: Ask us to limit how we process your data
- Portability: Receive your data in a portable format
- Objection: Object to processing based on legitimate interests
- Withdraw consent: Where we rely on consent (rare in our case)
To exercise these rights, contact us at . We will respond within one month.
Opting Out
You can opt out of our communications at any time by:
For website tracking:
- Use our cookie banner to decline analytics cookies
- Adjust your browser settings to block cookies
- Use browser extensions that block tracking
We will promptly remove you from our contact lists and, if requested, delete your data entirely.
Data Protection Officer
Given our size, we have not appointed a formal Data Protection Officer. For privacy-related inquiries, contact Iska Knuuttila, ecoresilienceinitiative@gmail.com .
Complaints
If you believe we have not handled your personal data properly, you can lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
Changes to This Privacy Statement
We may update this privacy statement to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will notify you of significant changes via email or our website.
Contact Us
For questions about this privacy statement or our data practices:
This privacy statement complies with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable privacy laws.