Privacy policy

This webpage sets out how and when we collect, use and share your personal information that you, or others, provide to us.

This privacy policy was last updated in July 2025.

Who we are

We are Constructive (“we”, “our”, “us”). We are an independent nonprofit with headquarters at 2300 N St. NW, Suite 501A, Washington, DC 20037. We own and operate this website.

General policy

Constructive respects the privacy of its online visitors. We do not collect personally identifiable information such as names and e-mail addresses from individuals unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly.

Email consent

We provide a form to sign up for Constructive’s e-newsletter on our contact page. If you submit your name and email through this form and opt in to receive emails, we will send you our e-newsletter as well as other occasional updates about our events and programming. You can always unsubscribe by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We store your contact information on a secure database and share it with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf. We do not share your information with any other third parties.

External links

Our website contains links to other websites belonging to third parties. These websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices within any other website. When you leave this website by following an external link, we encourage you to read the privacy statements of other websites.

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. These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Website analytics

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects 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

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. 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.

Disclosure of information

Personal information is disclosed to the following parties:

  • to employees and independent contractors of Constructive, and other service providers and suppliers if the disclosure will enable that party to perform a business, professional, or technical support function for Constructive or to perform a service that you have requested

  • if we are required to do so to comply with a legal requirement or request from a competent court, regulator or other authority

We take reasonable steps to ensure that any personal information about you that we pass to a service provider or other third party will be held securely by that party and only be used for the purposes for which it was provided to them. Except as noted above, information we collect from Constructive website visitors will not be shared with individuals or other companies unrelated to Constructive, or that do not perform a business, professional or technical function for Constructive.

Accessing your information

You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. You may also request that we delete the information we hold about you. Please address requests (with a return email address where possible) to info@constructive.org.

If you are resident of the European Economic Area, in addition to your right to access and have your personal information rectified or erased, you also have the right to object to its processing or to restrict access to it. You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority if you are unhappy with how we process your personal information. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to receive a copy of your personal information in a machine-readable format or to have your personal information sent to another company.

Updates & contact

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email or post. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Any questions, comments or requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@constructive.org.