Privacy Policy

Who we are

West Africa Blue (“Blue” or “we” or “us” or “our”, as applicable) is a large-scale, community-centric developer of mangrove conservation and restoration projects funded through the issuance of high quality, certified blue carbon credits. For more information or to contact us please visit our About Us page.

Summary

Blue is committed to upholding the privacy and security of the information supplied by every person accessing and using our websites. This privacy policy (“Policy”) governs the manner in which we collect, use, maintain, and disclose information collected from users (“User”) accessing our website.

By accessing or using our website, you signify that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by this Policy. We reserve the right to update or modify this Policy at any time. If we make changes, we will notify the User by revising the date at the top of this Policy and, in some cases, we may provide the User with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our website or providing you with a notification). We encourage the User to review this Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to the User.

What data we collect

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

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

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

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

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. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Contact Forms and Comments

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. Any messages sent will be retained indefinitely.

Embedded Content

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

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.

This website uses font files from several repositories, such as Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including but not limited to:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

In addition to embedding content from external sites, we may link to external sites. In either case, the use of your data by such third parties is governed by their respective privacy policies.

Where we send your data

We do not sell, trade, or rent your data with third parties. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and Users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above. However, we will comply with valid legal requests, including court order or a subpoena, for your information. Where we do collect your personal information, we will seek to protect your privacy.

Protection of User Data

We have adopted adequate data collection, storage, and processing practices that are consistent with best practices to protect User data from any form of unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. While in transit, your data is transmitted over a secure socket layer encrypted channel to us and back to you.

How long we retain your information

We will only retain your data for as long as we need it to fulfil our purposes, including any relating to legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Your rights

If you have sent us comments or other data, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. 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.

To make a data protection request, please contact our data protection officer at info@westafricablue.org with the subject “Data protection request”.

If you have any questions relating to this policy, please contact us.