Website Privacy Policy

Flick-dry Initiative is a youth-led public education project based in Ottawa, Canada. This policy covers the website flick-dryinitiative.org. In this policy, “we” means Flick-dry Initiative. Flick-dry Initiative is responsible for the personal information it receives, and handles privacy questions and requests through contact@flick-dryinitiative.org.

This policy does not cover the Flick-dry app. The app’s privacy information is in the app.

In short

• The website uses cookieless Cloudflare Web Analytics for aggregate statistics. No analytics cookies, advertising tracking or session replay.
• YouTube videos load in privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com).
• GitHub Pages hosts the site and logs IP addresses for security.
• We receive information directly from you only when you choose to email us.

Website services

Analytics

Our homepage, research pages, video pages, sticker page and this page load a Cloudflare analytics script in your browser. It sends page-view and loading-performance measurements to Cloudflare so we can understand website reach and usability. Reports can include page paths, referring websites, country, and browser/device categories. Cloudflare states that Web Analytics does not track individuals across websites. We use no analytics cookies, no advertising tracking and no session replay.

Cloudflare receives the network requests, including the IP address needed to deliver them; cookieless analytics does not mean no data is processed. Cloudflare currently describes access to the previous six months of analytics, with unsampled beacon data retained for seven days and reduced data used afterward. See Cloudflare’s analytics documentation and privacy policy for its current practices.

Website analytics is separate from the Flick-dry app and research records. We do not add names, email addresses, recordings or participant identifiers to analytics. The website remains usable if your browser blocks the analytics script or JavaScript is disabled.

Embedded videos

The hand-dryer and paper-towel videos are embedded from YouTube in its privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). On the homepage, your browser loads the players when you scroll to them; on each video page, it loads the player when the page opens. Loading a player sends YouTube your IP address and browser details, and playing a video is subject to Google’s privacy policy. You can also watch the hand-dryer video or the paper-towel video on YouTube directly.

Hosting

The site is hosted on GitHub Pages, which logs visitor IP addresses for security purposes.

Email to us

If you email us, we receive your email address, your message and any attachments. We use them only to reply to you. We do not sell or share them for advertising. We keep emails and attachments for up to 12 months after we finish responding, then delete them. Only Flick-dry Initiative team members who handle the contact inbox can read them. Email passes through your email provider and ours, so please do not send sensitive information.

Young people

You can use this website without giving us any personal information. If you are a young person, please check with a parent, guardian or teacher before emailing us, and do not include more personal details than you need to.

Access, correction and concerns

For information you emailed to us, you may ask what we hold, request a copy, ask us to correct or delete it, or raise a privacy concern by writing to contact@flick-dryinitiative.org. Please describe the message or information involved. We may ask you to confirm it came from you before we act, and we will explain any limits. If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Changes and contact

We will update this page when the website changes how information is handled, and change the effective date above. Questions about privacy: contact@flick-dryinitiative.org.