At Strong Towns, we will never give or sell your information to any third party. We collect the following information for the following purposes:

Information Provided to Us Directly

This includes information such as your name, email address, phone number, address, social media handles, and survey information that you may choose to provide when signing up for our email list. We use this information to correspond with you and to create a tailored, personal experience for you as a subscriber. We may use the information you provide to contact you about your particular Strong Towns interests or regionally specific articles and events. You may opt out of our communications at any time through the unsubscribe link included in the email or through our contact form.

Donation and Membership Information

Strong Towns uses Fundraise Up as an online donation platform. All donation data collected is subject to the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), and other applicable privacy laws. Non-Personal Information that is collected remains anonymous or non-personally identifiable. All Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is encrypted. Financial information, such as banking information or credit card number, name, CVV code, or date of expiration, is collected and stored by a third-party payment processor. Financial information is not stored by Fundraise Up.

When making a donation, information collected may include:

  • Contact and account information, such as name, email address, physical address, location data, phone number, and social media information.

  • Technical information. Such information may include standard web log entries that contain IP address, cookies (first party, third party, session, persistent, and flash), web beacons, page URL, and timestamp.

For more information, please see Fundraise Up’s privacy policy.

Cookies and Similar Tracking Methods

We use a variety of tracker methods. This list is intended to include all categories that we use, although the categories may vary depending on the use of our site.

Cookies

A cookie is a small string of text that a website (or online service) stores on a user’s browser. It saves data on your browser about your visit to our site or other sites. It often includes a unique identifier (e.g., cookie #123).

“First-party cookies” are cookies set by us (or on our behalf) on our site. “Third-party cookies” are cookies set by other companies whose functionality is embedded into our site (e.g., google.com).

“Session cookies” are temporary cookies stored on your device while you visit our site. They expire when you close your browser. “Persistent cookies” are stored on your browser for a period of time after you leave our site. Persistent cookies expire on a set expiration date, or when they are deleted manually.

You can choose whether to accept cookies by editing your browser settings. However, if cookies are refused, your experience on our site may be worse, and some features may not work as intended.

Pixels

Pixels (also known as “web beacons,” “GIFs,” or “bugs”) are one-pixel transparent images located on web pages or messages. They track whether you have opened these web pages or messages. Upon firing, a pixel logs a visit to the current page or message and may read or set cookies.

Pixels often rely on cookies to work, so turning off cookies can impair them. But even if you turn off cookies, pixels can still detect a web page visit.

Javascript

JavaScript is a programming language. It can be used to write trackers that, when embedded into a page, allow us to measure how you interact with our site.

Analytics Trackers

Analytics trackers collect or use information about your site use, which helps us improve our site. Among the uses of analytics trackers are to show us which pages are most frequently visited, help us record difficulties you have with our site, track subscription purchases and behaviors leading to subscription purchases, and measure how well ads perform.

These trackers add up our readers’ visits to show us larger patterns in our audience. We look at these larger patterns to analyze site traffic.

List of Cookies and Trackers We Presently Use

Strong Towns currently utilizes tracking from Google, Meta, LinkedIn, Chartbeat, CrazyEgg, and Fundraise Up.

We greatly value your privacy and the security of your information. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please let us know here.



Last updated: October 5, 2022.