This Cookie Policy explains Earthjustice Action’s use of cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website, earthjusticeaction.org (the “Site”) or individual microsites through third parties that refer to this policy (each a “Microsite,” and collectively, “Microsites”). It provides you with information about how and when we use cookies on the Site and Microsites.
We use cookies and similar technologies as permitted by applicable law and, where required, based on your consent. Disabling cookies may affect your experience of the Site or Microsite. You may also choose to delete cookies after you complete your Site or Microsite visit.
For information about the personal information Earthjustice Action collects and how we use it, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
What are cookies and similar technologies, and why do we use them?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device, through your browser, by the websites that you visit. These text files can be read by these websites, through the browser, and help to identify you when you return to a website. Cookies do not run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Some cookies are set by Earthjustice Action, and some are set by third parties. The cookies that third parties set can recognize the device you use to visit our Site or Microsite as well as when you visit other websites. Cookies are used to make the Site or Microsite work properly, help make the user experience more efficient, to track metrics to help us improve our Site or Microsite and the information we provide, and to help us provide personalized advertising and fundraising experiences for users. Similar technologies include any technology that, comparable to cookies, stores or accesses information on your device. Such technologies may include, for example, HTML5 storage, Local Shared Objects, fingerprinting techniques as well as scripts and tracking pixels.
What cookies are set on Earthjustice Action’s Site?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device, through your browser, by the websites that you visit. These text files can be read by these websites, through the browser, and help to identify you when you return to a website. Cookies do not run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Some cookies are set by Earthjustice Action, and some are set by third parties. The cookies that third parties set can recognize the device you use to visit our Site or Microsite as well as when you visit other websites. Cookies are used to make the Site or Microsite work properly, help make the user experience more efficient, to track metrics to help us improve our Site or Microsite and the information we provide, and to help us provide personalized advertising and fundraising experiences for users. Similar technologies include any technology that, comparable to cookies, stores or accesses information on your device. Such technologies may include, for example, HTML5 storage, Local Shared Objects, fingerprinting techniques as well as scripts and tracking pixels.
What cookies are set on Earthjustice Action’s Site or Microsite?
Most of the cookies set during your visit to the Site or Microsite come from third-party companies that we use to monitor and improve the user’s experience. We also set a small number of cookies to ensure the website platform functions properly and securely. Cookies fall into the following categories:
- Necessary Cookies: These cookies either have the sole purpose of allowing or facilitating electronic communication (e.g., transmit communications over the Internet) or are strictly necessary to provide a service you have explicitly requested (e.g., securely authenticating users when they log into the Site or Microsite or when a donation is made online to support our work).
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies help us create a better user experience by enabling personalization and engagement, such as displaying certain popup notifications one-time only.
- Analytics/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to monitor our Site’s and Microsite’s performance. We use them to understand how people use our Site or Microsite and your experience when you visit.
- Marketing Cookies: These cookies help us better understand the outcomes of advertising and fundraising efforts by tracking ad conversions and performance of ad traffic coming from third-party platforms.
- Third-Party Cookies: Third-party cookies installed through the Site or Microsites and are managed by the third party setting the cookie. For example, YouTube may set cookies when you visit a page on our Site or Microsites containing a video or other resource embedded from that third-party service. To better understand how these third parties use cookies, please review their policies.
The Site or the Microsites use the following first-party cookies:
| Cookie Control |
CookieControl, |
Necessary | Remembers cookie consent preferences | 365 days | No |
| Google Tag Manager | _dc_gtm_* | Necessary | Tag management system. Used to throttle request rate | 1 minute | No |
| EveryAction | incap_ses_* | Necessary | Enables functionality on Earthjustice Action's action, donation, and signup forms. Used to map HTTP requests to sessions to enable DDoS and web application firewall protection. (Source: Imperva) | Session | No |
| EveryAction | nlbi_* | Necessary | Enables functionality on Earthjustice Action's action, donation, and signup forms. Used to ensure requests by a client are sent to the origin server to enable DDoS and web application firewall protection. (Source: Imperva) | Session | No |
| EveryAction | visid_incap_* | Necessary | Enables functionality on Earthjustice Action's action, donation, and signup forms. Used to relate sessions to a visitor's device to determine which clients have already visited to enable DDoS protection and web application firewall protection. (Source: Imperva) | 1 year | No |
| EveryAction |
.AspNet. |
Necessary | Enables functionality on Earthjustice Action's action, donation, and signup forms. Used to store session key information required for logging in to Attendee Check-In pages. | Session | No |
| EveryAction |
Session |
Necessary | Enables functionality on Earthjustice Action's action, donation, and signup forms. Used to allow access to features requiring login. | 8 hours | No |
| EveryAction | __cflb | Necessary | Enables Cloudflare Load Balancer to optimize network resource usage | 1 hour | Yes |
| EveryAction | _cfuvid | Necessary | Allows Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address and prevent bots. | Session | Yes |
| Pay Pal | ts, ts_c | Necessary | Enables donations through PayPal | 767 days | No |
| Pay Pal | enforce_policy | Necessary | Enables donations through PayPal | 36 days | No |
| Stripe | __pxvid, _pxvid, _px3 | Necessary | Set by a third party captcha platform, Human Security, to detect bot activity. | 365 days | Yes |
| Stripe | pxcts | Necessary | Set by a third party captcha platform, Human Security, to detect bot activity. | Session | Yes |
| Earthjustice Action | modal-* | Functional | When popup lightbox is in use on the website, this cookie determines if the lightbox should display for the visitor, based on the display frequency. | 3 days | No |
| Earthjustice Action | STYXKEY_large-banner- | Functional | Set when visitor closes a donation banner. Determines if the banner should display for returning visitors, based on the display frequency. | 3 days | No |
| EveryAction |
FastAction |
Functional | Used to remember and pre-fill payment and contact information on forms if users have signed up for the FastAction network. | 10 years | No |
| EveryAction | connect.sid | Functional | Used to remember and pre-fill payment and contact information if users have signed up for the FastAction network. | 3 years | No |
| EveryAction |
Profile |
Functional | Used to remember and pre-fill contact information on forms. | 10 years | No |
| Stripe | __stripe_mid, __stripe_sid | Functional | Set for fraud prevention purposes and helps us assess the risk associated with an attempted transaction. | 1 year | No |
| EveryAction | ai_session | Analytics | Enables functionality on Earthjustice Action's action, donation, and signup forms. Used to collect statistical usage and troubleshooting information for the web application. (Source: Microsoft) | 30 minutes | No |
| EveryAction | ai_user | Analytics | Enables functionality on Earthjustice Action's action, donation, and signup forms. Used to enable counting of the number of users accessing the application over time to collect statistical usage and troubleshooting information for the web application. (Source: Microsoft) | 1 year | No |
| Google Analytics | _ga, _ga_* | Analytics | Google Analytics provides statistics on website visits. These cookies are used to distinguish users and persist session state | 1 year | No |
| Google Analytics | _gat_* | Analytics | Used to throttle request rate | 1 minute | No |
| Google Analytics | _gid | Analytics | Used to distinguish users | 24 hours | No |
| Google Analytics | __utma | Analytics | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 years | No |
| Google Analytics | __utmc | Analytics | Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. | Session | No |
| Google Analytics | __utmz | Analytics | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 months | No |
| Meta (Facebook) | _fbp | Marketing | Tracks performance of ad traffic coming from Facebook. Unique identifier for Meta (Facebook) Pixel | 3 months | No |
| datr | Marketing | Used to prevent creation of fake / spam accounts. | 2 years | Yes | |
| fr | Marketing | Contains a unique browser and user ID, used for targeted advertising. | 90 days | Yes | |
| sb | Marketing | Facebook browser identification, authentication, marketing, and other Facebook-specific function cookies. | 2 years | Yes |
How can I disable or delete cookies?
We use cookies and similar technologies as permitted by applicable law and, where required, based on your consent through a cookie banner and consent management service. You can control cookies and other types of automatic data collection and storage through your browser and/or mobile device settings. Please check your software or device manufacturer’s instructions to learn more about your options.
Learn how to disable or enable cookies for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, or Microsoft Internet Explorer or Edge.
What other similar technologies do we use?
- Social Media Plug-Ins: To enable people to share our content across social platforms, some pages include social media plug-ins that are managed by social media platforms. Pages on the Site or Microsite where posts from social media platforms are embedded include plug-ins from that social media platform. When you browse a page with a plug-in, it connects with the social network platform and sends information, including which pages you viewed, length of visit, and so forth. If you have an account with one of those social networks, this information can be stored in your account. Earthjustice Action does not have direct access to information stored in your social media account.
- Tracking Pixels: On our Site and Microsites, we may use a limited number of “tracking pixels” — small snippets of code — from third-party services to help us learn about and improve your digital experience. These services collect information from your visit to our Site or Microsites, such as the pages visited, and the search keywords used to reach our Site or Microsites. We use this technology to better understand how visitors respond to our social media posts and ad campaigns, to learn about common interests among our visitors, and to display relevant advertisements through these third-party services to you or audiences with similar interests. We may also use these third-party tracking pixels for the purposes of retargeting (also called “remarketing”). In retargeting, we reach out to you on other websites you visit by displaying personalized advertisements about our work, based on data collected during your visits to our Site or Microsites. We use tracking pixels as permitted by applicable law and, where required, based on your consent.
To block website tracking pixels, you can use the Mozilla Firefox browser (on desktop or on Android mobile devices), which blocks tracking content by default. Browser add-ons, such as Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and other ad-blockers also can be used to customize the trackers you choose to decline or accept. You can specifically opt-out of Google’s cookies and device identifiers through Google’s Ads Settings.
We also include a tracking pixel in our emails. The tracking pixel lets us know whether you opened the email. You can unsubscribe from our emails at any time by contacting us by mail, phone, or email:
Earthjustice Action
1400 L St NW Lobby 2, Unit 34117
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202-797-4319
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