PRIVACY
Privacy Policy
Effective September 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, and handled when you visit the Acceleration Initiative website.
Website Platform
This website is hosted by Squarespace.
Squarespace provides the website hosting, infrastructure, analytics, security, and related technologies used to operate this site. In providing those services, Squarespace may collect and process information about visitors in accordance with its own privacy practices.
Information Collected Through Website Analytics
This website may collect information to help understand website traffic, performance, and visitor activity.
Information collected may include:
browser, network, and device information;
webpages visited before arriving at this website;
IP address;
pages viewed on this website;
clicks and internal links;
scrolling activity;
searches;
timestamps; and
other information regarding interaction with the site.
This information may be processed through Squarespace and related website technologies to help evaluate site traffic, functionality, performance, and usage.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies.
Squarespace uses certain necessary cookies to securely operate and serve the website. These cookies support core functionality and may be used regardless of a visitor’s cookie preferences where permitted by applicable law.
The site may also use analytics and performance cookies to help understand website traffic, visitor activity, and site performance.
Where required or enabled, visitors may be provided with controls to accept, decline, or manage non-essential cookies.
Cookie Preferences
Where available, visitors may use the website’s cookie banner or cookie-preference controls to manage non-essential cookies.
Necessary cookies required for the secure and effective operation of the site may continue to be used regardless of those preferences.
The availability and operation of cookie controls may vary depending on website configuration, visitor location, browser settings, and applicable law.
Embedded Media and Third-Party Services
This website may include video, links, analytics technologies, or other content or services provided by third parties.
Those third-party services may independently collect information when visitors interact with embedded content or follow external links. Their collection and use of information is governed by their own privacy policies and terms.
Information You Provide
This website does not currently maintain a dedicated contact form or email account for the Acceleration Initiative.
The site provides links to Heartland Development Foundation and AVARIS.
If you choose to contact either organization through its website, any information you provide will be handled according to that organization’s own privacy policies, systems, and practices.
How Information May Be Used
Information collected through this website may be used to:
operate, maintain, and secure the website;
understand website traffic and usage;
analyze site performance;
improve website content and usability;
identify technical or security issues;
support accessibility and functionality; and
comply with applicable legal obligations.
The website is not intended to solicit or collect sensitive personal information.
Information Sharing
Information associated with website operation may be shared with service providers that support hosting, analytics, security, website functionality, and related technical services.
Information may also be disclosed where required by applicable law, legal process, governmental request, or where reasonably necessary to protect legal rights, security, or the integrity of the website.
Personal information collected through this website is not sold to advertisers.
Data Retention
Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary for website operation, analytics, security, legal compliance, and other legitimate purposes.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information collected and the systems or service providers involved.
Data Security
Reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures may be used to protect information associated with the website.
However, no method of transmission over the internet, electronic storage system, or website can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, applicable privacy laws may provide rights relating to personal information, including rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or information regarding certain data practices.
Requests concerning information submitted directly to AVARIS or Heartland Development Foundation should be directed to the applicable organization through its own website.
Children’s Privacy
This website is intended for a general professional, civic, and institutional audience and is not directed to children under 13.
The website does not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children.
External Links
This website may contain links to websites operated by Heartland Development Foundation, AVARIS, project participants, service providers, or other third parties.
Those websites operate independently and are subject to their own privacy policies, terms, and practices.
The inclusion of an external link does not imply responsibility for the privacy practices or content of the linked website.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically as the website, technologies used on the site, applicable legal requirements, or associated activities evolve.
The effective date above will be updated when material changes are made.
Privacy Questions
This website does not currently maintain a separate privacy contact channel.
Questions relating to activities conducted by AVARIS or Heartland Development Foundation should be directed to the applicable organization through the links provided on this website.