Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies to the Gallatin Forest Partnership (“the GFP”) website (www.greateryellowstoneact.org) and services.

Website Visitors

Except as described below, the GFP does not collect or require visitors to its website to furnish personally-identifying information such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers. Like most website operators, the GFP does collect non-personally-identifying information that web browsers and servers typically make available, which are the browser type, language preference, referring site, and date and time of each visitor request. The GFP also collects potentially-personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, which are non-personally-identifying in and of themselves but could be used in conjunction with other information to personally identify users.

The GFP’s purpose in collecting this information is to better understand how the GFP’s visitors use its website. To that end, the GFP may share potentially-personally-identifying information with its employees, contractors, service providers, and subsidiaries and related organizations. The GFP may also release non-personally-identifying information about visitors (e.g., by publishing a report on website usage trends). Otherwise, the GFP will not publicly release potentially-personally-identifying information except under the same circumstances as the GFP releases personally-identifying information. Those circumstances are explained below.

When you visit the GFP website and use our services, you agree that:

The GFP may process your personal data. We may give access to your personal data the GFP as necessary to provide our services on our website(s).

The GFP process your personally-identifying information to deliver the services the GFP provides according to the principles set forth in this privacy policy.

Community Members

Certain members of the GFP community (contributors, customers, etc.) choose to interact with the GFP in ways that require the GFP and others to know more about them. The amount and type of information that the GFP gathers from those members depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, members who wish to post content to certain portions of the GFP’s website or participate in live chat session(s) are asked to provide usernames that identify that content as having been posted by a particular member. The GFP collects personally-identifying information only insofar as is necessary to fulfill the purpose of the community member’s interaction with the GFP.

The GFP is an open organization that believes in sharing as much information as possible about its services, its operations and its associations. Accordingly, community members should assume – as should most folks who interact with the GFP – that any personally-identifying information provided to the GFP will be made available to the public. There are three broad exceptions to that rule:

The GFP does not make publicly available information that is used to authenticate users, the publication of which would compromise the security of the GFP’s website (e.g., passwords).
The GFP may collect personally-identifying information used to organize events that community members attend. The information collected via a web form is not used for other purposes than organizing the logistics of events organized by GFP. Users have the right to ask to review, correct, as well as delete their personally-identifying information stored in this application by contacting gallatinforestpartners@gmail.com.
The GFP does not make publicly available information that it specifically promises at the time of collection to maintain in confidence.

Outside of these three contexts, users should assume that personally-identifying information provided through the GFP’s website will be made available to the public.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Where the GFP has collected personally-identifying information subject to one of the three exceptions described in the Community Members section, above, it discloses that information only to those of its employees, contractors, service providers, and subsidiaries and related organizations, that need to know that information in order to process it on the GFP’s behalf and that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, service providers, and subsidiaries and related organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using the GFP’s website, you consent to the transfer of your information to other countries, which may provide a different level of data protection than your home country. The GFP does not rent or sell such information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, service providers, and subsidiaries and related organizations, as described above, the GFP discloses such information only when required to do so by law, or when the GFP believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of the GFP, members of the GFP community, or the public at large. The GFP takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of such information.

Updating of Personally-Identifying Information

The GFP permits users to freely review, update, correct, and suppress their personally-identifying information as maintained by the GFP. To do so, users should look for links or contact information available on whichever the GFP website stores the relevant information. Users have the right to ask to review, correct, as well as delete their personally-identifying information stored in web applications managed by the GFP by contacting gallatinforestpartners@gmail.com.

Cookies and Tracking Pixels

What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Most major websites use cookies. Because the browser provides this cookie information to the website at each visit, cookies serve as a sort of label that allows a website to “recognize” a browser when it returns to the site.

What Are Tracking Pixels?

Tracking pixels (also known as web beacons) are used in combination with cookies to help website operators understand how visitors interact with their websites. A tracking pixel is typically a transparent graphic image (usually 1 pixel x 1 pixel) that is placed on a site. The use of a tracking pixel allows the site to measure the actions of the visitor opening the page that contains the tracking pixel. It makes it easier to follow and record the activities of a recognized browser, such as the path of pages visited at a website.

How We Use Cookies and Tracking Pixels.

The GFP’s website uses cookies to help the GFP identify and track visitors, their usage of the GFP website, and their website access preferences across multiple requests and visits to the GFP’s website. The website, and advertisements that the GFP may run occasionally on third‑party advertising networks, also may use tracking pixels for these purposes. The basic idea is to gather aggregate data about how people use the GFP website. The term usually used to describe this is “web analytics,” and the cookies and tracking pixels are the tools by which a website owner collects this web analytics data.

The GFP will use the web analytics data only to determine aggregate usage patterns for our website as described above. The GFP website does this by using either its own internal analytics software or by sending this information to a third-party service provider to help the GFP analyze this data. The GFP has agreements with its third-party service providers that they will not share this information with others or use the information for purposes other than to maintain the services they provide to the GFP. It is possible to link cookies and tracking pixels to personally-identifying information, thereby permitting website operators, including our third-party analytics providers, to track the online movements of particular individuals. The GFP does not do so, and its third-party service providers are not allowed to correlate the GFP data with any other data.

The GFP uses the information provided by cookies and tracking pixels to develop a better understanding of how the GFP’s visitors use the GFP’s website, and to facilitate those visitors’ interactions with the GFP’s website. The GFP may make the aggregate data obtained from web analytics (including from our third-party analytics providers, if applicable) publicly available. If this data is made available, none of the information will be personally-identifying information or potentially-personally-identifying information.

How to Control the Use of Cookies. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. The GFP visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers by the GFP, its contractors, or third-party service providers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before linking to the GFP’s website. Certain features of the GFP’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Opt-out Procedures

If you do not want to allow your session visitation information on the GFP website to be aggregated and analyzed by the GFP (or its third-party analytics providers, if you are using www.greateryellowstoneact.org) you may utilize the following opt-out mechanisms listed here.

Privacy Policy Changes

The GFP may change its privacy policy from time to time. Any and all changes will be reflected on this page. Substantive changes will also be announced through the standard mechanisms through which the GFP communicates with the GFP community.

By using the GFP website, you agree to the terms and conditions of this privacy policy. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this privacy policy, please do not use the GFP website. You can determine when this privacy policy was last revised by referring to the “Last Updated” legend at the bottom of this page. Any changes to this privacy policy will become effective upon our posting of the revised privacy policy on the website. By using our website following any changes, you accept the revised privacy policy then in effect.

For More Information

If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact the GFP team at gallatinforestpartners@gmail.com.

Last updated on July 30, 2025.