Privacy Notice and Cookies

The Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit (CIPT) is a project run by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), an independent social change organisation working to support and speed up the transition to a more equitable and just future, free from poverty where people and planet can flourish. We are a company limited by guarantee (12132713) and a registered charity (Scotland: SC049712; England and Wales: 1184957).

The address of our head office is: The Homestead, 40 Water End, York YO30 6WP.

Please view our organisation’s privacy notice on the main JRF website.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is the data controller for this website.

Canopy run the Collective Imagination Practice Community, a related project. There is a seperate Canopy privacy notice for the Collective Imagination Practice Community. Canopy is the data controller for the Collective Imagination Practice Community.

How this website uses your data 

Analytics are automatically embedded in the header of this website by Squarespace. It is configured to collect data only when you have positively opted in to cookies.

If you submit a feedback form through our website, or opt in to join the learning practices mailing list, the data you provide will be processed by Squarespace, sent by email to a shared monitored jrf.org email address, and will also be stored in a document in a Google Workspace Spreadsheet. The email and the spreadsheet are password protected, and access restricted to nominated staff members.

If you sign up for membership of the Collective Imagination Practice Community, the data you provide will be stored in a document in a Google Workplace Spreadsheet managed by Canopy.

Services we use on this website

We use third party services and online platforms to host this website, store files, process and manage data submitted via forms, and embed content.

These services manage the data from these tools on our behalf, governed by the contracts we have with them,  and their terms of service and privacy policies. 

This website is built using Squarespace, which stores data in data centres across the United States. This is their Privacy Policy. We have agreed to their Terms of Service and signed their Data Processing Addendum.

We also embed content from third party sites to offer document, video and audio sharing and embeds.

• YouTube - for sharing video. YouTube is covered by Google’s Privacy Policies. They provide more information about privacy on YouTube

• Vimeo - for sharing and embedding video. Vimeo Privacy Notice

• Soundcloud - for sharing and embedding audio. SoundCloud Privacy Notice.

• Google Workspace - for sharing and embedding slide decks, and for storing data provided via Squarespace forms on the website. Google Workspace is covered by Google’s Privacy Policies.

• Google Fonts - for providing font files to display text on the website, via Squarespace. Google Fonts does not set cookies, and limits data collection to that necessary to serve and display the fonts on our site.  More information is available in the Google Developer documentation.

If a platform or service we use has data centres outside the UK or EU, we may transfer your information outside the UK or European Economic Area. We take reasonable steps to make sure your personal information is treated securely and is protected by Standard Contractual Clauses and data processing agreements.

How we use Cookies

We use essential cookies to help our website work properly, including one which stores your consent to our use of these essential cookies.

Using Cookies helps us to:-

• remember if you’ve ticked the cookie opt in

• make forms work properly on the site

• show content from social media or video sites on our website

• understand how you use the site, in order that we can improve it or spot problems and bugs.

Squarespace uses functional, analytics and required cookies to keep the site running and to gather analytics about how you use the site, in order to improve it. You can find out more about the cookies set by Squarespace at the Squarespace Cookie Policy.

We also embed content from external sites like Google Documents, YouTube, Vimeo or Soundcloud. These sites may set their own 3rd party social cookies. Their privacy notices are linked in the section above. If you disable third party cookies in your browser, this embedded content might not work properly.

The ICO Website has good information about what cookies are, and how to opt out of them in your browser and across other websites.

Our website contains links to other websites. The JRF privacy notice applies only to the Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.