Your newsletter is connected to our website through MailerLite. MailerLite’s privacy policy can be found here https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy. We have chosen MailerLite because in many ways this email marketing platform aligns with our values. MailerLite embodies simplicity while still offering advanced, highly functional features. The platform has a strong focus on community, relationship and team work, and employs an inclusive, multicultural team. The company values transparency, openness and responsibility, and operates in compliance with European GDPR data privacy requirements. Nonetheless there are tracking options which are not in alignment with the ethics of www.sunbeings.org and we will therefore do more research into alternative platforms and may move away from MailerLite in the near future. We use MailerLite options that turn off the tracking of your engagement behaviour with our newsletters because we feel that whether or not you open, forward or otherwise share our newsletters is not our business. Yet communication with the MailerLite team has revealed that the tracking of your engagement with links we share in our newsletters cannot be disabled, much to our dismay.

Information submitted via our forms on the ‘Contact’ page and ‘Share a story’ page are processed by WordPress. The WordPress privacy policy can be found here https://wordpress.org/about/privacy. WordPress is an open source project and – like MailerLite – values simplicity without compromising functionality. Freedom, inclusivity and community are priorities. These things are in alignment with what we also stand for. Hence our choice of this host.