Privacy Policy — The Consiliences Institute

Last updated: April 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how The Consiliences Institute (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, stores, and protects personal data when you use consiliences.com. It applies to all users regardless of location, and is designed to meet the requirements of:

the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation 2016/679);
the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018;
the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) / California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA);
Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD);
Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA);
and equivalent data protection legislation in other jurisdictions.

1. Data controller

The data controller for purposes of the GDPR and equivalent legislation is:

The Consiliences Institute
Email: info@consiliences.com

2. What data we collect and why

2.1 Data you provide

Contact form submissions
If you submit the contact form, we collect your name, email address, and message content. This data is processed for the purpose of responding to your enquiry (legal basis: legitimate interest / performance of pre-contractual measures). Contact form data is processed and stored by our third-party processor Formspree (formspree.io) under their own privacy policy.

Newsletter subscriptions
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address for the purpose of sending you research updates. The legal basis is your consent, which you may withdraw at any time. Newsletter subscriptions are managed by Buttondown (buttondown.email) under their own privacy policy. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email we send.

2.2 Data collected automatically

This is a static website. We do not use cookies, tracking pixels, session storage, or any client-side analytics scripts. We do not set any cookies.

Server-side access logs may be retained by our hosting provider Cloudflare (cloudflare.com) in accordance with Cloudflare’s own privacy policy. These logs may include IP addresses and request metadata. We do not access or process these logs for analytics purposes.

2.3 Data we do not collect

We do not collect:

payment data (we do not sell anything directly through this site);
sensitive personal data (special categories under GDPR Article 9);
data about children under 16;
device fingerprints or behavioural tracking data.

Purpose	Legal basis
Responding to contact form enquiries	Legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f))
Newsletter distribution	Consent (Article 6(1)(a))
Hosting and serving the website	Legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f))

4. Data retention

Contact form data: retained by Formspree in accordance with their data retention policy. We do not separately retain contact form submissions beyond what is necessary to respond to your enquiry.

Newsletter subscriptions: retained until you unsubscribe. You may unsubscribe at any time via the link in any newsletter email.

Server logs: retained by Cloudflare in accordance with their data retention policy.

5. International data transfers

Our third-party processors (Formspree, Buttondown, Cloudflare) may transfer and process personal data outside the European Economic Area. Where they do so, they implement appropriate safeguards in accordance with GDPR Chapter V (including Standard Contractual Clauses where applicable). Please refer to their respective privacy policies for details.

6. Your rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Under GDPR / UK GDPR (EU/EEA/UK residents):

Right of access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
Right to rectification — request correction of inaccurate data
Right to erasure — request deletion of your data (“right to be forgotten”)
Right to restriction of processing — request that we limit how we process your data
Right to data portability — receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format
Right to object — object to processing based on legitimate interest
Right to withdraw consent — where processing is based on consent, withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing

Under CCPA / CPRA (California residents):

Right to know what personal information is collected, used, shared, or sold
Right to delete personal information
Right to opt out of the sale of personal information (we do not sell personal information)
Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights

Under LGPD (Brazilian residents):

Rights equivalent to GDPR rights above, as provided under LGPD Articles 17–22

Under PIPEDA (Canadian residents):

Right to access personal information held about you
Right to challenge the accuracy of personal information

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at info@consiliences.com. We will respond within 30 days (GDPR) or as required by applicable law.

If you are in the EU/EEA and consider that our processing violates the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in your member state. Our lead supervisory authority is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (the Dutch Data Protection Authority).

7. Cookies

This site uses no cookies. No consent banner is required.

8. Links to third-party sites

This site contains links to external websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to consiliences.com. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third-party site.

9. Children

This site is not directed at children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe we have inadvertently collected data from a child, please contact us at info@consiliences.com and we will delete it promptly.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The current version is always the version published at this URL. We will notify newsletter subscribers of material changes.

11. Contact

Data protection enquiries: info@consiliences.com