Last Updated: October 19, 2026
The Origins Foundation respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly. This Privacy & Cookie Policy explains how we may collect, use, and share information when you visit our website, make a donation, subscribe to communications, participate in an event, contact us, or otherwise interact with The Origins Foundation. It also explains how cookies and similar technologies are used on our website and how you can manage your preferences.
Information We Collect
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, including your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, donation information, organization or company information, and other information you choose to provide when you:
- Make a one-time or recurring donation
- Contact us or request information
- Subscribe to news, updates, or other communications
- Participate in or inquire about an event
- Support or inquire about a conservation project
- Participate in a sponsorship or partnership
- Submit a website form
- Communicate with our team
- Otherwise interact with The Origins Foundation
Certain technical information may also be collected automatically when you visit our website. This may include your IP address, browser and device information, pages visited, referring website, approximate location derived from your IP address, and information about how you interact with the website.
Donations and Payment Information
When you make a donation or other payment through our website, we may collect information necessary to process and document the transaction, including your name, contact information, donation amount, donation frequency, and information necessary to provide donation confirmations or receipts.
Payment card and other financial information may be processed by third-party payment processors and financial institutions that assist us in completing transactions.
We may retain records relating to donations and transactions as reasonably necessary for accounting, tax, regulatory, reporting, donor-service, and other legitimate nonprofit purposes.
If you establish a recurring donation, information necessary to administer that recurring contribution may be maintained by us and/or our payment service providers.
How We Use Information
We may use information we collect to operate our organization and further our mission, including to:
- Process and acknowledge donations
- Administer recurring donations
- Provide donation confirmations and receipts
- Communicate with donors and supporters
- Respond to inquiries and requests
- Provide information about conservation projects, documentaries, programs, and initiatives
- Communicate about events and opportunities to support our mission
- Administer sponsorships, partnerships, and supporter programs
- Send newsletters, updates, and other communications where permitted
- Maintain donor, supporter, and organizational records
- Improve our website and user experience
- Measure website traffic and performance
- Understand the effectiveness of outreach, fundraising, and marketing activities
- Support advertising and outreach activities where permitted
- Maintain the security and operation of our website and systems
- Prevent fraud, misuse, or unauthorized activity
- Comply with applicable legal, accounting, tax, and regulatory requirements
Communications and Fundraising
If you provide your contact information, make a donation, or subscribe to our communications, we may use your information to communicate with you about The Origins Foundation, conservation projects, documentaries, events, fundraising efforts, organizational updates, and opportunities to support our mission.
You may unsubscribe from marketing or fundraising emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the communication or through other opt-out methods we make available.
Opting out of promotional communications does not prevent us from sending communications necessary to process or acknowledge a donation, respond to your request, administer an existing relationship, or provide other non-promotional information.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small files stored on your device that can help websites function, remember preferences, understand how visitors use a website, and support analytics, outreach, and advertising.
Cookies used on our website may include:
Necessary Cookies
These cookies help provide essential website functionality and may be required for features such as security, forms, donation functionality, payment processing, or remembering privacy choices.
Preference Cookies
These cookies may allow the website to remember information that changes how the website behaves or appears.
Statistics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting information about website usage and performance.
Marketing Cookies
These cookies may be used to measure advertising or outreach effectiveness, understand visitor activity, or support marketing and fundraising activities.
Depending on your location and applicable law, certain non-essential cookies and tracking technologies may require your consent before they are activated.
Cookie Consent and Your Choices
The Origins Foundation uses a consent management platform to help manage cookies and tracking technologies on our website.
When required, you may choose which categories of non-essential cookies you wish to allow. You may also change or withdraw your consent through the cookie settings available on our website.
Necessary cookies required for security, donations, payment processing, and other essential website functionality may operate regardless of your preferences regarding non-essential cookies.
Disabling certain cookies may affect some website features, but declining non-essential cookies will not prevent you from accessing the basic content of our website.
Analytics and Advertising
We may use third-party analytics, advertising, marketing, and measurement services, including services provided by Google and other technology providers.
These services may use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about website usage, interactions, and the effectiveness of our communications, fundraising, outreach, and advertising.
Where required by applicable law, these technologies are subject to the consent choices you make through our cookie consent system.
We may use information collected through these technologies to understand how visitors find and use our website, improve our website and programs, measure outreach and fundraising performance, and better communicate our mission.
Sharing of Information
We may share information with trusted companies and organizations that provide services on our behalf, including:
- Website hosting and technology providers
- Donation and payment processing providers
- Email and communication providers
- Donor management and relationship-management providers
- Analytics and advertising providers
- Event and registration providers
- Security and fraud-prevention providers
- Accounting, legal, and other professional service providers
We may also share information as reasonably necessary to administer programs, projects, donations, partnerships, sponsorships, events, or other activities associated with our mission.
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to lawful requests, protect our organization, donors, supporters, or property, investigate fraud or misuse, enforce our agreements, or facilitate an organizational restructuring or similar transaction.
We do not disclose personal information to third parties except as reasonably necessary for our operations, as described in this policy, with your consent, or as permitted or required by law.
Donor Privacy
We respect the privacy of our donors and supporters.
Donor information may be used to process and acknowledge contributions, maintain appropriate records, communicate with supporters, administer donor relationships, and further the mission and activities of The Origins Foundation.
We do not publicly identify individual donors or disclose their personal information solely because they have made a contribution unless they have consented to recognition or disclosure, or disclosure is otherwise permitted or required by law.
Certain information concerning donations may be subject to financial, tax, regulatory, auditing, or other recordkeeping and disclosure requirements applicable to nonprofit organizations.
Data Security and Retention
The Origins Foundation uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information.
However, no website, payment system, electronic transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
We may retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to process and document donations, administer programs and relationships, maintain financial and organizational records, comply with legal, accounting, tax, and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, and protect our legitimate organizational interests.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have certain rights concerning your personal information.
These rights may include the ability to:
- Request access to certain personal information we maintain about you
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information
- Request deletion of certain personal information
- Request a portable copy of certain personal information
- Obtain information about how certain personal information is used or disclosed
- Opt out of certain targeted advertising, sale, sharing, or profiling activities where applicable
- Withdraw or modify consent for non-essential cookies and tracking technologies
- Opt out of marketing or fundraising communications
Certain exceptions may apply, including where information must be retained to process or document donations, maintain financial or organizational records, comply with legal, accounting, tax, or regulatory requirements, prevent fraud, or exercise or defend legal claims.
To submit a privacy-related request, please contact The Origins Foundation using the contact information below.
If applicable law provides a right to appeal a decision regarding a privacy request, you may submit an appeal using the same contact information and indicate that your request is an appeal of a previous privacy decision.
You may separately manage your choices regarding non-essential cookies and tracking technologies through the cookie settings available on our website.
Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may contain links to or integrate with websites and services operated by third parties, including payment processors, social media platforms, video providers, event services, conservation partners, sponsors, and other organizations.
Information you provide directly to a third-party website or service may be governed by that provider’s own privacy and security practices.
The Origins Foundation is not responsible for the privacy, security, or data practices of independently operated third-party websites or services. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing personal information.
Children’s Privacy
Our website is intended for a general audience and is not specifically directed toward children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 through our website without appropriate authorization or consent where required by law.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy & Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes to our website, programs, technology, organizational practices, or legal requirements.
When this policy is updated, the revised version will be posted on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date.
Detailed Cookie Information
The following Cookie Declaration provides current information about cookies and similar technologies detected on this website, including their purpose, provider, category, and expiration period.
You may change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time using the cookie settings available on this website.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy & Cookie Policy, wish to exercise an applicable privacy right, or have questions about our privacy practices, please contact:
The Origins Foundation
Email: robbie@theoriginsfoundation.org