Cookie Policy

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.

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
1001 G Street, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20001
202-797-4319
Info@EarthjusticeAction.org