Climate Change Community Privacy Policy

🌱 Climate Change Community Privacy Policy

Because privacy should feel safe — not hidden in fine print.

Effective / Last Updated: September 2026

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information Climate Change Community LLC (“we,” “us,” “our”) collects, why we collect it, how we use and protect it, and the choices you have. It applies to every space in our network, including:

  • ClimateChangeCommunity.com (cCc), our primary website
  • Climate Tribe Social (ClimateTribe.Social), our community platform, hosted on Mighty Networks
  • SDL5.org
  • GreenRumba.com, our shop
  • Any current or future site, circle, event, or project operated by Climate Change Community LLC that links to this Policy

Even if this Policy appears on only one site, it covers all of them. It works together with our Shared Terms of Service & Community Agreement.

In plain words: We collect only what we need to run safe, useful community spaces. We never sell your personal information. You can ask to see, correct, export, or delete your data at any time.

1. Who We Are

Climate Change Community LLC is a small, purpose-driven organization based in New York, United States. We create digital learning and community spaces devoted to Adaptive Resiliency, from the standpoint of both self and collective preservation, in the face of the Five Emergencies: the Climate, Ecological, Humanity, Democracy, and Displacement Emergencies.

We cannot teach sustainability while neglecting digital ethics. We hold ourselves to the same standards of honesty, transparency, and care that we ask of our members.

2. Information We Collect

Information you give us

  • Account and membership details: name or display name, email address, username, password, profile information, and the membership plan you choose.
  • Purchase details: when you buy a membership or product, payment is handled by third-party payment processors (for web purchases) or by Apple (for purchases made through the Apple App Store). We receive confirmation of your purchase and limited billing details (such as name, plan, amount, and date). We do not store full card numbers.
  • Content you share: posts, comments, messages, event responses, uploads, and anything else you contribute to our spaces.
  • Communications: emails, contact-form messages, invitation or early-access requests, and feedback you send us.
  • Dialogue sessions and events: if you join a video session or live event, your name and whatever you choose to share during it.

Information collected automatically

  • Comment data: when you leave a comment, we collect the information in the comment form along with your IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
  • Cookies: small files described in Section 5.
  • Basic technical data: information needed to keep our sites secure and working, such as IP address, browser and device type, and pages requested.

Information from others

  • Gravatar: an anonymized string created from your email address (called a hash) may be shared with the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. After your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes visible to the public alongside your comment.
  • Invitations: if you are personally invited to join one of our spaces, we hold your name and email address for the purpose of that invitation.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use personal information only to:

  • Provide and operate our sites, accounts, memberships, and events
  • Process payments and manage subscriptions and renewals
  • Send invitations, service notices, and updates you have asked to receive
  • Moderate our spaces and protect members from spam, fraud, harassment, and abuse
  • Answer your questions and support requests
  • Improve our content, features, and educational programs
  • Meet our legal, tax, and accounting obligations

We do not use your information for behavioral advertising, and we do not build profiles of you to sell or share with advertisers.

4. Comments, Profiles, and Media

  • Comments: approved comments, and the name and profile picture attached to them, are publicly visible.
  • Community profiles: on member platforms such as Climate Tribe Social, your profile and posts are visible to other members according to that space’s settings.
  • Images: if you upload images, please remove embedded location data (such as EXIF GPS) first. Visitors may be able to download images and extract that location data.
  • Remember: anything you post in a public or member area can be seen, and possibly copied, by others. Please share with care.

5. Cookies

Cookies help our sites remember you and function properly. On our WordPress sites:

  • If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These last one year.
  • If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check whether your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.
  • When you log in, cookies store your login information and display preferences. Login cookies last two days (or two weeks if you select “Remember Me”). Screen-option cookies last one year. Post-edit cookies last one day and contain no personal data.

Our community platform and payment processors set their own cookies needed for sign-in, security, and checkout. We avoid hidden trackers, fingerprinting tools, and behavior-mining cookies. You can manage cookies in your browser settings, though blocking some may prevent login or checkout from working.

6. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Our articles may include embedded content such as videos, images, or articles. Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you had visited those sites directly. Those sites may collect data, use cookies, and track your interaction with the embedded material, especially if you have an account and are logged in to that service.

7. Who We Share Your Data With

We share personal information only with trusted service providers that help us run our spaces, and only as much as they need to do their job:

  • Community platform hosting: Climate Tribe Social runs on Mighty Networks. Information you provide there is also governed by Mighty Networks’ own privacy policy.
  • Website hosting and site software for ClimateChangeCommunity.com and SDL5.org.
  • Payment processors that handle membership and product purchases, and Apple for purchases made through the App Store.
  • Email and communication tools, including video-meeting services used for dialogue sessions.
  • Automated spam-detection services, which may check visitor comments.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email to help prevent misuse.

We may also disclose information when required by law, to respond to valid legal requests, or to protect the safety of our members and the public. If stewardship of Climate Change Community LLC changes hands in the future, member information would transfer only under commitments at least as protective as this Policy.

8. Artificial Intelligence and Your Data

We use artificial intelligence as a practical tool for research, writing, education, and communication, and we say so openly when AI helps shape our content.

We do not sell members’ personal information, and we do not provide private messages, account details, or other member content to third parties for the purpose of training their artificial-intelligence models.

Our community platform, Mighty Networks, may offer optional AI-powered features. When an authorized user chooses to use an AI feature, the information selected or required for that feature may be processed through Mighty Networks’ integrations with Anthropic and/or OpenAI to generate the requested result. According to Mighty Networks, content processed through those integrations is not used to train or improve Anthropic’s or OpenAI’s models.

We may enable, disable, or limit AI features in our community spaces. Please avoid submitting sensitive personal information to an AI feature unless it is necessary for what you are asking it to do.

9. How Long We Keep Your Data

  • Comments: comments and their metadata are kept indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them for moderation.
  • Accounts: for registered users, we store the personal information provided in your profile while your account is active. You can view, edit, or delete your personal information at any time, except your username. Site administrators can view and edit that information for security and support purposes.
  • Purchase records: kept for as long as tax, accounting, and legal rules require.
  • Backups: security backups are replaced on their normal schedule, so deleted information may remain in a backup for a limited time before it is overwritten.

10. Your Rights and Choices

Wherever you live, you may ask us to:

  • See the personal information we hold about you, or receive an exported copy of it
  • Correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete
  • Delete your personal information or close your account
  • Stop sending you non-essential emails (every such email includes a way to opt out)

Depending on where you live, including the European Union, the United Kingdom, California, and other U.S. states, you may have additional rights, such as the right to object to or restrict certain uses of your data, to withdraw consent, and to complain to your local data-protection authority. We will never treat you differently for exercising your rights.

Deletion does not cover information we are legally required to keep for administrative, legal, or security reasons. To make a request, email us at the address in Section 16. We may need to confirm your identity, and we will respond within 30 days where possible, and always within the time the law requires.

11. How We Protect Your Data

No digital system is perfectly secure, but we act in good faith to protect your information. We limit who has administrative access, keep our software updated, use secure connections, and perform regular backups where possible. If a security incident affects your personal information, we will notify you as required by law, share what we reasonably can as soon as we can, and work to reduce harm.

12. Age Requirement and Children

Our membership spaces are for adults 18 years of age and older. We do not knowingly allow anyone under 18 to hold an account, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Younger family members may take part in learning alongside a subscribing parent or guardian, under that adult’s account and supervision. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child, we will delete it. If you believe this has happened, please contact us.

13. International Members and Visitors

Climate Change Community LLC is based in the United States, and our service providers may store or process information in the United States and other countries. By using our spaces from outside the U.S., you understand that your information may be transferred there. We take reasonable steps to make sure it continues to be protected as described in this Policy.

14. Our Promise

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. Our mission is to cultivate trust and digital sustainability, where technology serves humanity and the planet, not the other way around.

15. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy as our tools, spaces, and legal obligations evolve. When we make meaningful changes, we will update the date at the top and make a reasonable effort to let members know, such as through a site notice or an announcement in our community spaces.

16. Contact Us

For questions, requests, or concerns about your privacy, write to:

Climate Change Community LLC

New York, United States

hello@climatechangecommunity.com

Plain-Language Summary

  • We collect only the information needed to run our spaces safely and responsibly.
  • We use it to operate memberships, prevent spam and abuse, and build a respectful community.
  • Trusted providers such as our community platform and payment processors help us, and only get what they need.
  • Our membership spaces are for adults 18 and older.
  • You can always access, correct, export, or erase your data.
  • We never sell your personal information — ever.

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