How we handle your information

When you fill out a form on this site — a contact form, a get-involved route, or a program inquiry — we collect the details you choose to share: typically your name, email address, organization, and message.

If you make a contribution, our payment provider collects the information needed to process it and send a receipt. Washington Consortium does not receive or store your full card details.

Secure contribution checkout is provided by Stripe. Stripe processes payment details under its own privacy terms and may retain transaction records as required for payment, fraud prevention, compliance, refunds, and disputes.

We use contribution information only to administer the payment, provide an appropriate acknowledgement, and maintain accurate financial records. We do not use it to profile supporters.

We use what you share to respond to your inquiry and to continue the conversation you started. If a conversation grows into a program or partnership, we keep the details we need to do that work well.

We don't add you to mailing lists you didn't ask for, and we don't use your information for anything unrelated to why you reached out.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to anyone, for any reason. This site does not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

We may use basic, privacy-respecting analytics to understand which pages are useful to visitors — for example, which pages are visited and roughly where visits come from. This information is aggregated and is not used to identify or profile individual visitors.

We keep your details only as long as needed to handle your inquiry and any work that follows from it. If a conversation doesn't lead anywhere, we don't hold on to your information indefinitely.

Our programs serve young people, and we take their privacy seriously. This website is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children through it. Information about program participants is handled directly with schools and educators, under the agreements that govern each program.

You can ask us at any time to see what information we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it. Send us a message through our contact page and we'll take care of it.

If we change how we handle information, we'll update this page and note the date above. We won't quietly change the principles stated here.

Anything unclear? Ask us directly — a person will answer.