Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 13, 2026

Last Updated: August 13, 2026

1. Introduction

Cultivating Resilience, LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the website located at cultivatingresilience.com (the “Site”), through which we provide consulting, speaking, research, and educational services related to resilience thinking and climate adaptation. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect through the Site, how we use and disclose it, and the rights available to you under applicable U.S. state and federal privacy law.

2. Personal Information We Collect

We collect only two kinds of personal information through the Site:

Contact form information — the name, email address, and phone number you provide when you submit our contact form.
Automatically collected technical information — through cookies and similar technologies used by the Site, described in Section 6 below.

We do not otherwise collect personal information through the Site (for example, we do not operate e-commerce checkout, online scheduling, or account log-in features that would collect additional personal information).

3. Sources of Personal Information

We collect personal information directly from you when you submit the contact form, and automatically through your use of the Site via cookies and similar technologies.

4. How We Use Personal Information

Responding to your inquiry submitted through the contact form.
Operating, securing, and maintaining the Site (e.g., spam and bot prevention, caching, and content delivery).
Understanding how visitors use the Site so we can improve it (site statistics).

5. How We Disclose Personal Information

We do not sell personal information, and we are not aware of any current use of the Site’s cookies or scripts for cross-context behavioral advertising. We disclose personal information only to the service providers described in Section 6 below, each of which processes information as part of operating the Site (e.g., hosting, security, spam prevention, and site-statistics functions), and to law enforcement or other parties where required by law or to protect rights, safety, and property.

6. Cookies and Site Technologies

The Site uses the following categories of cookies and third-party technologies, consistent with the current listing at our cookie preferences page:

Functional/technical cookies — required for the Site to work correctly, including cookies set by WordPress (our website platform) and LiteSpeed (our web hosting/caching service).
Security cookies — Wordfence (security and fraud prevention) and Cloudflare (content delivery and bot mitigation, cookie __cf_bm).

You can review the current, detailed list of cookies in use and set your preferences at: cultivatingresilience.com/opt-out-preferences/. Our Site does not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals separately from the cookie preference tool linked above.

7. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to know or access, delete, and correct the personal information we hold about you, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. Because we collect only contact-form information (name, email, phone) and standard site-operation cookies, and do not sell personal information, exercising these rights with us principally means asking us to tell you what contact-form information we have from you, correcting it, or deleting it.

To make a request, contact us using the contact form at https://cultivatingresilience.com. We will respond within a reasonable time, generally within 45 days.

8. California Privacy Rights

Cultivating Resilience does not believe it currently meets the CCPA/CPRA’s applicability thresholds. As a courtesy, we will still honor a California resident’s request to know, delete, or correct the contact-form information described above; email the address in Section 7 to make a request. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under California law, so no “Do Not Sell or Share” opt-out link is provided. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, so California’s “Shine the Light” law (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.83) disclosure does not apply.

The Site is a general commercial informational website subject to the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 22575–22579) regardless of size. This Policy is posted to satisfy CalOPPA’s requirements: it identifies the categories of information we collect and the third parties described in Section 6, describes how you can request changes to your information (Section 7), states our Do Not Track practice (Section 6), and states the effective date above; we will note any changes as described in Section 12.

9. Other State Privacy Rights

Cultivating Resilience does not believe it currently meets the applicability thresholds of the other state comprehensive privacy laws (Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Florida, Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maryland, Minnesota, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky, or Rhode Island), each of which requires a substantially larger volume of state residents’ data or revenue than this Site processes. As a courtesy, residents of these states may contact us using the method in Section 7 to ask what contact-form information we hold, and to request its correction or deletion.

10. Children’s Privacy

The Site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has submitted personal information through the contact form, we will delete it.

11. Data Security and Retention

We use commercially reasonable measures appropriate to a small business website, including the security tools listed in Section 6 (Wordfence and Cloudflare), to help protect personal information. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. We retain contact-form submissions only as long as reasonably necessary to respond to your inquiry and for our business records, and delete or anonymize them thereafter.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or in applicable law. We will post the revised Policy on this page and update the “Last Updated” date above.

13. Contact Us

Cultivating Resilience, LLC

Asheville, North Carolina