Privacy Policy

I. PRIVACY PRINCIPLES

This website is owned and operated by The Sierra Fund doing business as Indigenous Futures Society. Our site is intended to serve as a resource for those interested in Indigenous-led environmental, cultural, and community resilience efforts in the Sierra Nevada. We are also committed to providing meaningful ways for our community to engage with our mission. We recognize that visitors to our site may be concerned about the information they provide and how that information is treated. Indigenous Futures Society is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy.

To this end, Indigenous Futures Society upholds the following principles:

Consumer Choice

We believe a visitor to our site is the one to best determine:

• When—and under what conditions—to provide “personally identifiable information” (e.g. data that may be used to identify, contact, or locate a person).
• When such information may be shared with other organizations.
• When to remain anonymous.

Informed Consent

If personally identifiable information is collected, we believe a visitor to our site has the right to:

• Know when we are collecting personal information.
• Know what personal information is collected, and the purpose of collection.
• Expect the opportunity to choose whether or not personal information will be provided to any third parties.
• Expect reasonable steps to be taken to protect personal information from unauthorized use.
• Review the accuracy of personal information and update it.

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II. PRIVACY POLICY

Your right to privacy is very important to Indigenous Futures Society. Providing us with personal information is an act of trust, and we are committed to protecting it.

This policy covers websites owned or operated by Indigenous Futures Society. This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website, not to information collected offline. By using our site, you consent to this policy.

Below is a summary of Indigenous Futures Society’s online privacy policy.

Personal Information Collected

In general, you can visit our website without revealing any personal information. Registration is not required to access the site.

However, we may collect information when you:

• Register for an event

• Subscribe to our newsletter

• Respond to a survey

• Fill out a form

This information helps us better understand your needs and provide relevant services.

Use of Information

We do not share personally identifiable information with other nonprofit or for-profit organizations. Any information collected may be used to send you updates about our work, programs, events, and services.

Links to Third Party Sites

Our website may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third-party sites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing any personal information.

Cookies

What are “Cookies”?
“Cookies” are small files sent from a Web server to your computer through your browser program. There are two types of cookies: non-persistent and persistent cookies.

A non-persistent cookie enables a Web site to temporarily keep information on your computer as you travel from one page to another on our site. This cookie is automatically deleted from your machine when you close your browser. Because these cookies are necessary to provide some functions, failure to allow such cookies may make some of the functions on our Web site unavailable to you.

A persistent cookie is kept even when you close your browser. You can manually delete these cookies using commands specific to your browser and computer system. These cookies store information that would generally not change from session to session. They also contain information that would need to be reentered by you each time you visit the Web site. For example, a common use of persistent cookies is to allow a registered site visitor to enter the site without having to specify their user-id and password.

Use of Cookies

Indigenous Futures Society may use cookies for various reasons. Indigenous Futures Society may only read cookies written by our site. We do not use cookies to obtain information on other Web sites that you may visit. We may use cookies to store some history about the parts of our sites that you have visited to help you navigate our site more easily or to alert you to related pages on our site that may interest you.

How to unsubscribe from Indigenous Futures Society’s e-newsletter or our Email List

If at any time you wish to stop receiving our electronic newsletter, or to be removed from our email list, you can unsubscribe from that list as explained in each message. We do not share email addresses with other organizations.

Electronic Mail sent to us containing personal information

You may decide to send Indigenous Futures Society personally identifying information, for example, in a message containing information about your contribution. We will only use this information to identify you as a donor to Indigenous Futures Society and to determine how to respond to the electronic mail. We will not use this information for any purpose other than to resolve the matter identified in the email.

Questions

Indigenous Futures Society welcomes comments and questions on this policy. We are dedicated to protecting your personal information, and will make every reasonable effort to keep that information secure.

If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected] or call us at (530) 265-8454.

You can help Indigenous Futures Society maintain the accuracy of your information by notifying us of any changes to your address, title, phone number or email address. To update your donor file, contact us online, or write us at:

Indigenous Futures Society
411 Grass Valley Hwy #1004
Auburn, CA 95603

The information you provide to us will also be covered by this policy.

Due to the rapidly evolving technologies on the Internet, we may occasionally update this policy. All revisions will be posted to this site. A revised Privacy Policy will apply only to data collected subsequent to its effective date.

Last Revised: May 19, 2025.