Last Updated: Aug 18, 2025
This PSE Privacy Policy describes how our non-profit organization, Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy (collectively,] “PSE,” “we,” or “us”), collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes information about you. This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect when you access or use our websites, including our Methane Risk Map website, and other online products and services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, our “Services”) and when you otherwise interact with us online, such as through our customer support channels or on social media. We may provide different or additional notices of our privacy practices for certain offerings, in which case those notices will supplement or replace the disclosures in this Privacy Policy.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy. If we make material changes, we will provide you with additional notice (such as by adding a statement to the Services or sending you a notification). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.
Collection of information
The information we collect about you depends on how you interact with us. In this section, we describe the categories of information we collect and the sources of this information.
Information you provide to us
We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information directly from you when you fill out a form, submit or post content through our Services, make a donation, communicate with us via third-party platforms, sign up updates or marketing communications from us, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us. The types of information that we collect directly from you include your:
- your name
- email address
- postal address
- phone number
- payment card information or financial account information, if you make a donation to us, and
- any other information you choose to provide.
If you make a donation to us, we work with a third-party payment processor to process your payment information.
Information we collect automatically
We automatically collect information about your interactions with us or our Services, including:
- Transactional Information: When you make donation, we collect information about the transaction, such as donation amount and the date and location of the transaction.
- Device, Usage, and Activity Information: We collect information about how you access our Services, including data about the device and network you use, such as your hardware model, operating system version, mobile network, IP address, unique device identifiers, browser type, and app version. We also collect information about your activity on our Services, such as the route by which you access our Services, access dates and times, browsing behavior (such as pages viewed and links clicked), and information about your activity on specific pages (such as mouse movements and keystrokes).
- Precise Geolocation Information: With your consent, we may collect information about the precise location of your device. You may stop the collection of precise location information at any time (see the Your Privacy Choices section below for details).
- Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We use tracking technologies, such as cookies, pixels, and session replay, to collect information about your interactions with the Services and our marketing communications. These technologies help us improve our Services and marketing communications, personalize your experience, and analyze your interactions with us, including to see which areas and features of our Services are popular and count visits. For more information about the cookies and similar tracking technologies we use, and the choices available to you, see the Targeted Advertising and Analytics and the Your Privacy Choices sections below.
Information we collect from other sources
We obtain information from other sources. For example, we may collect information from identity verification services, data brokers, advertising networks, data analytics providers, and mailing list providers.
Information we derive
We may derive information or draw inferences about you based on the information we collect. For example, we may make inferences about your approximate location based on your IP address or infer that you are considering making a donation based on your browsing behavior.
Use of information
We use the information we collect to provide our Services to you. We also use the information we collect to:
- Provide, maintain, and improve our products and services;
- Personalize your experience with us;
- Process your donations;
- Send you technical notices, security alerts, support messages, and other transactional or relationship messages;
- Send you marketing communications (see the Your Privacy Choices section below for information about how to opt out of these communications at any time);
- Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our products and services;
- Target advertisements to you on third-party platforms and websites (for more information and to opt out, see the Targeted Advertising and Analytics section below);
- Detect, investigate, respond to, prosecute, and help protect against security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and help protect the rights and property of PSE and others;
- Comply with our legal and financial obligations; and
- Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.
Targeted advertising and analytics
We engage others to provide analytics services, serve advertisements, and perform related services across the web and in mobile applications. To do this, PSE and these partners may use cookies, pixels, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our Services and other websites and mobile apps, including your IP address, web browser and mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in mobile apps, links clicked, order information, items added to cart, and conversion information. This information is used to deliver advertising targeted to you on other companies’ sites or mobile apps, understand the effectiveness of this advertising, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand your activity.
In addition to ad targeting activities that rely on cookies and similar technologies, we work with advertising partners to translate other identifiers, such as your email address or phone number, into a unique identifier (called a hashed value) that such partners can then use to show ads that promote PSE that are more relevant to you across the web and in mobile apps.
You can also learn more about interest-based ads, or opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes by companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance, by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices. Your device may also include a feature that allows you to opt out of having certain information collected through mobile apps used for behavioral advertising purposes.
Disclosure of information
We disclose personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and in the following ways:
- Vendors and Service Providers: We make personal information available to our vendors, service providers, contractors and consultants who perform services on our behalf, such as companies that assist us with web hosting, payment processing, fraud prevention, analytics, and
- Third-Party Business Partners: We may disclose personal information to third parties for their own marketing and advertising purposes, which enables us to expand the reach and effectiveness of our own marketing campaigns. To opt out, send a request to info@psehealthyenergy.org.
- Law Enforcement Authorities and Individuals Involved in Legal Proceedings: We disclose personal information in response to a request for information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation, or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
- To Protect the Rights of PSE and Others: We may disclose personal information if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, if we believe that you have violated the law, or if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of PSE, our users, the public, or others.
- Professional Advisors: We disclose personal information to our legal, financial, insurance, and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests.
- Corporate Transactions: We disclose personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, certain corporate transactions, including a merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
- With Your Consent and at Your Direction: We make personal information available to third parties when we have your consent or you intentionally direct us to do so.
We also disclose aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you. We maintain and use this information only in a de-identified fashion and will not attempt to re-identify such information, except as permitted by law.
Data retention
We store other personal information for as long as necessary to carry out the purposes for which we originally collected it and for other business purposes explained in this Privacy Policy.
Your privacy choices
Cookies and similar tracking technologies
PSE uses cookies and similar tracking technologies, as described above (Targeted Advertising and Analytics Section). You can usually adjust your browser settings to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect some of the functionality of our Services.
Contact us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@psehealthyenergy.org.