Last revised: October 30, 2023

We are World Resources Institute, a global research nonprofit headquartered at 10 G Street NE Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20002, USA (together with our affiliates and subsidiaries, “WRI”, “we”, “our” or “us”).

Our organization and network of affiliates spans more than 50 countries. You may interact with WRI online through various websites, applications, emails, social media pages and other online services (collectively, “Services”).

For each of these Services, this Privacy Policy tells you what to expect we’ll do with your personal information when you make contact with us or use one of our services. In particular, this Privacy Policy explains how:

Donor privacy: WRI and its affiliates do not sell, share, or trade donors’ names or identifying personal information with other entities or send mailings on behalf of other organizations. With your permission, on occasion, we may share information with related organizations in connection with a particular project or campaign you are interested in. For example, if we are co-hosting an event with a partner organization and you sign up to attend that event, we may ask your permission to share your contact details with our partner. See our Donor Privacy Policy.

Personal Information We Collect

We collect different kinds of information from you, depending on how you interact with us.

Online collection: We collect personal information from you when you register to receive email communications, make donations, apply for jobs, send email inquiries, register for events, or participate in other parts of our Services.

Depending on the Services you interact with, the information collected may vary and may include, for example:

Offline collection: We also collect personal information from you when you provide us with it at conferences or similar events or otherwise interact with us offline. Such personal information will typically consist of your organizational or personal contact details, donation information, or other information you choose to give us.

Our Use of Your Information

We use the personal information we collect about you for any of the following purposes:

Outreach and Communications

Where you consent, we use your personal information to provide you with communications about WRI, including, but not limited to email communications or information about WRI projects around the world and ways that you can contribute to our efforts.

We send such communications by:

You can opt-out of receiving communications from WRI at any time by writing to us at privacy@wri.org or by following the unsubscribe instructions in our communications. However, we may still need to contact you for important administrative reasons, such as in the event of a material change to our Services, related policies, or accounts you create with us.

Disclosure of Information

Personal information is disclosed to the following parties:

We also may disclose online information about you to third parties, including social media companies like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn (Microsoft) and X for outreach and marketing purposes. See the “Manage Cookie Preference” link above to adjust your relevant settings.

We take reasonable steps to ensure that any personal information about you that we pass to a service provider or other third party will be held securely by that party and only be used for the purposes for which it was provided to them. Except as noted above, information we collect from WRI website visitors will not be shared with individuals or other companies unrelated to WRI, or that do not perform a business, professional or technical function for WRI.

Security and Quality

WRI takes reasonable steps to protect the personal information that you provide. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on secured computer servers that are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, when we transmit sensitive personal information over the internet, we protect it through the use of appropriate technological and administrative means.

We do our best to maintain the accuracy of any personal information you supply to us. You can help WRI update and maintain the accuracy of any personal information you supply by notifying WRI of any changes to your address, title, phone number or e-mail address. In some parts of the WRI Services, you may do this online by following the instructions on membership profile pages. You may also do this by using the contact information provided below.

Transmission of information on the internet is not completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of information sent on our Services. Transmission of such information is at your own risk.

Transfers

Where necessary, we may need to transfer your personal information to another country. These transfers can take place within the WRI group but also may be made to selected third parties (as explained in the ‘Disclosure of information’ section of this Privacy Policy). Such transfers take place to enable us to provide you with our services and/or to communicate with you. Countries that we transfer your personal information to may not have the same personal information protection standards as the country you live in.

Links to External Websites

WRI’s Services may contain links to other websites belonging to third parties. These websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices within any other website. You should be aware of this when you leave a WRI area, including our websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy statements of other websites.

Personal information Access and Deletion

You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. You may also request that we delete the information we hold about you. Please address requests (with a return email address where possible) to:

WRI Communications
privacy@wri.org

Or by post to:

World Resources Institute
10 G Street NE, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20002
Attn: General Counsel

If you are resident in the European Economic Area, please also read the ‘Information for Individuals Located in the European Economic Area’ section of this Privacy Policy. You may have additional rights in relation to your personal information.

Information for individuals located in the European Economic Area

European Economic Area (“EEA”) data protection laws offer additional rights and protections for individuals located in the EEA. Further to the information set out at the ‘Personal information access and deletion’ section of this Privacy Policy, the following additional information applies to you if you are located in the EEA:

Donation processing partner

WRI has partnered with a third-party service provider, iATS Payments, to process your online donations. Where you make a donation to WRI online, your personal information will be shared between WRI and iATS Payments as necessary to complete your donation, communicate with you about your donation, and as may be necessary to comply with our legal obligations. Information provided to iATS Payments is not used for any other purposes.

We encourage you to read the Deluxe Privacy Center policy for information about how they process your personal information. You will be given an opportunity to review their privacy policy before you make a WRI donation online.

WRI takes its donors’ privacy seriously. For more information, please see our Donor Privacy Policy.

Changes, Oversight and Questions

WRI welcomes comments and questions on this Privacy Policy. We are dedicated to protecting your privacy and will make every reasonable effort to keep your information secure. Due to the rapidly evolving changes on the internet, we may update this Privacy Policy. All revisions will be posted to the relevant WRI website. Regularly viewing this Privacy Policy ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we will share it with third parties. If you do not agree to the changes, please do not continue to use the particular WRI website or WRI service through which you have provided us with your personal information.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

World Resources Institute
10 G Street NE, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20002
privacy@wri.org

Comments and questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to the Legal Department.