Privacy policy.
Last updated: August 2025
The Geopolitical Insight and Education Foundation (GIEF) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard information when you visit our website: https://www.giefoundation.net.
Personal Information We Collect
This website collects personal data 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 share this information with 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 only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Form Submissions
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 share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with our Google Workspace email system for storage.
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We use automatically collected information to:
Understand how visitors interact with the site
Monitor site performance and improve functionality
Ensure the security and stability of our platform
Comply with legal obligations
We do not sell or share personal information with third parties for advertising or marketing purposes.
Do Not Track
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
Your Rights
If you are a European Union resident, you have the right to:
Access Personal Information we hold about you
Request that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted
Object to or restrict certain types of processing
Withdraw consent where applicable
To exercise these rights, please contact us at info@giefoundation.net.
If you are a European resident, note that your information may be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States. We rely on appropriate legal safeguards in such cases.
Data Retention
When you enter information to the Site, we will maintain your Personal Information until you ask us to delete it for you.
Changes
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
Contact Us
If you have questions or requests related to this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Email: info@giefoundation.net
Mailing address: 1717 N Street, NW, Suite 1, Washington, DC, USA, 20036