Privacy and Cookies 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 or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

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.

Visitor Data

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We provide this information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us and help us manage our relationship with you. We also store submitted form information in Google Drive.

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 your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.

This site may use Google reCAPTCHA to help prevent spam submissions. Use of reCAPTCHA is subject to Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, 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

How We Use Your Information

We use the information collected through this website to:

  • Provide and operate the website

  • Respond to inquiries submitted through forms

  • Send email updates if you subscribe to our newsletter

  • Understand how visitors use the website so we can improve it

  • Maintain the security and integrity of the website

We do not sell, rent, or share personal information for advertising purposes.

Your Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you may have the right to request information about the personal data we collect about you and how it is used.

You may also request that we delete personal information you have submitted to us, subject to certain exceptions.

To make a request regarding your data, please contact us at: chris@rainesgeostrategy.com

We do not sell personal information.

Email Communications

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your email address to send occasional updates and insights from Raines Geostrategy. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link included in our emails.

We use a double opt-in process to confirm newsletter subscriptions.


Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your data is handled, you may contact us at chris@rainesgeostrategy.com.

Last Updated: March 2026