Privacy Policy

IndigiNews ReFocus Photojournalism Fellowship (Mi’kma’ki)

IndigiNews ReFocus Photojournalism Fellowship (“we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit this website or submit information through our forms.

Website Hosting and Analytics

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information 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

Squarespace needs the data to run this website and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses site usage information of end users in their Privacy Policy.

Analytics

This website collects personal information to power our site analytics, including:

Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to 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 provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

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.

Squarespace uses necessary and required cookies to securely serve this website. These cookies are always used.

This website also uses analytics and performance cookies, which are used only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. These cookies help us understand site traffic, activity, and other usage data.

For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Contact Forms (Squarespace)

This website may include a contact form that allows visitors to contact us directly. When you submit information to this website via a contact form, we collect the data requested in the form in order to track and respond to your inquiry.

We provide this information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us and help us manage our communications. Submissions are delivered to an IndigiNews email address and are not used for marketing purposes.

Application Forms (Jotform)

Applications for the IndigiNews ReFocus Photojournalism Fellowship Mi’kma’ki are collected through an embedded third-party form provided by Jotform.

When you submit an application, we collect the personal information requested in the application form in order to review and administer the fellowship. This information is processed and stored through Jotform’s platform.

We recommend reviewing Jotform’s Privacy Policy to understand how they collect, use, and store personal information.

Use of Personal Information

We use personal information collected through this website only for purposes related to:

Operating and improving the website
Responding to inquiries submitted through the contact form
Reviewing and administering fellowship applications

We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

Information about your browser, network, or device
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Your IP address

Data Retention

Personal information is retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law or program reporting obligations.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices or legal requirements. Updates will be posted on this page.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact us at IndigiNews.