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Here you can access the Privacy and Security Policy of this website, as well as information about the use of our illustrations.

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Your privacy is important to us. It is Climate Observatory’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect on our website. We only ask for Personal Data when we truly need it to provide a service to you (such as newsletter subscriptions, campaign participation, transactional forms or participate in a specific activity). We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used.

We only retain collected data for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. What data we store, we’ll protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

Your Consent

Whenever you provide information through this website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of information in accordance with this Privacy and Security Policy and applicable law.

Our commitment is to maintain absolute confidentiality of any and all information of our users, obtained through our website, respecting the exceptions provided for in this Privacy and Security Policy and applicable legislation.

We undertake not to commercialize, share with third parties without a direct link to the Climate Observatory or carry out international transfers of your personal data without your prior consent, except when required by law.

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.

You are free to refuse our request for your personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services.

Your continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, feel free to contact us.

What are your rights over your data?

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Cookies Policy

What are cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disable cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

Cookies we set

Cookies related to newsletters, e-newsletters, communications and email campaigns:
This site offers newsletter and email newsletter subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
Forms related cookies:
When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Site preferences cookies:
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

Our websites use Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information about Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google page.

Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or the pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be changed by Climate Observatory from time to time, in whole or in part, and the user should therefore check it periodically, especially before providing any personal data. This policy does not create any contractual relationship between Climate Observatory and any other party. This Privacy Policy was updated on January 28, 2025.