Privacy Policy for The 5% Pledge

Last Updated: 12/9/25

1. Introduction

Welcome to The 5% Pledge. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and use our carbon footprint calculator.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information to help you track your environmental impact and to grow our movement.

A. Personal Information You Provide:

  • Contact Information: Email address upon using The Carbon Footprint Calculator.

  • Calculator Data: Information you voluntarily enter into our Carbon Footprint Calculator. This may include:

    • Home energy usage and region.

    • Travel habits (flight frequency, vehicle mileage).

    • Dietary preferences (e.g., meat consumption).

    • Spending habits (for estimating embodied carbon).

B. Information Automatically Collected (via Squarespace):

  • Usage Data: This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

    • Information about your browser, network, and device.

    • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website.

    • Your IP address.

  • Analytics: Squarespace requires this data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the data we collect for the following purposes:

  • To Track Long-Term Progress: To calculate your estimated carbon footprint and track your reductions year-over-year in accordance with the 5% Pledge.

  • To Provide Services: To provide personalized reduction targets.

  • Communication: To send you updates about The 5% Pledge, reduction tips, and newsletter content (only if you have opted in).

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.

  • Managed by Squarespace: These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

  • Analytics Cookies: These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

5. Data Retention

We retain your calculator inputs indefinitely. Because the core mission of The 5% Pledge involves tracking environmental impact over many years to ensure a 5% annual reduction, we maintain your historical data permanently to provide you with long-term trend analysis and progress reporting. This data may be used in aggregate with other users to find trends of our community, but will never be attached to you outside of emails directly to you. You may request the deletion of your data at any time by contacting us.

6. Third-Party Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification regarding visitors and users with our partners and advertisers. Note, The 5% Pledge currently does not have any partners or advertisers nor plans to in the near term.

7. Data Security

We implement appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: Email: info@fivepercentpledge.org