Effective January 2026

Maine Youth for Climate Justice respects your right to privacy and is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust. We do not sell or rent any information you provide us through our website. We have created the following privacy policy to inform you about the ways in which we collect and use this information.

What personal data do we collect, and why do we collect it?

Maine Youth for Climate Justice does not collect any information from you without your knowledge and permission, and we do not ask that you enter any personal information to access or use our website. In order to subscribe to our newsletters and action alerts you must enter some identifying information. Information you provide us is stored in a secure location in the United States and is accessible only by our staff.

Passively collected data

This may include cookies, IP addresses, browser type, referring URL, and system type. This information is used to maintain the website and supporting systems.

Communications from Maine Youth for Climate Justice

When you provide Maine Youth for Climate Justice with your email address, we may contact you. If you have opted to receive our newsletters or action alerts by email, you can unsubscribe at any time by following the directions that appear in the email publication itself or by contacting us.

You control your data. You can contact us at anytime at info@mycj.orgto make edits or unsubscribe.

Secure Transactions

In addition to information you enter for subscribing, you may submit information directly to us for donating. We will not disclose this information to anyone except to manage our website and database.

When you donate to Maine Youth for Climate Justice via our website, your donation information is encrypted and transmitted via a secure connection. We work with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) compliant vendors. When personal information is transmitted, it is protected through the use of industry-standard security technology, such as the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the website from which the content originates.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Third-party data tools

Our site and vendor platforms, Wix and Mailchimp, have built-in traffic and viewer analytics. Their tools may use cookies or similar technologies to collect anonymous data that we use to improve our website and fulfill our mission. Their privacy policies govern their practices in processing this data, and MCAN has no control over their policies. If you are logged in to a Google account while visiting our website, this third party may track or identify you personally on our website. You may wish to review the privacy policies of third-party tools, such as: Google.

Data Hosting

Certain transactions on Maine Youth for Climate Justice’s website result in your data being stored with external data hosting providers. Maine Youth for Climate Justice works with Wix and Mailchimp as our primary data hosting services providers. Wix is located in New York, NY and Mailchimp is located in Atlanta, GA. Maine Youth for Climate Justice Now shares your data, including Personal Data, with our Data Hosting Service Providers for the purposes of processing your data pursuant to your use of the Services.

Who do we share your data with?

The information you provide is for Maine Youth for Climate Justice’s private use only. It is collected as a means of properly crediting and acknowledging your donation and communicating with you more effectively. As a matter of policy, we will not trade or sell any personal information collected from online or offline donations, advocacy, or by any other means to any other outside organization.

Maine Youth for Climate Justice does not disclose this information to anyone except to manage our website and database.

We require outside vendors to promise to keep your data confidential and use it only for what we’ve asked them to do. We limit data sharing with outside vendors to the minimum required to perform their tasks, such as for processing a donation.

How to contact us about privacy

For general questions; to see, correct, or delete personal data; or to withdraw consent, please contact us at: info@maineclimateaction.org.