Who we are
The mission of the Citizen Scientist Project is to use citizen and professional scientists to monitor and to protect resources, and to share information on the most critical natural resources of Key Biscayne and Virginia Key. Our vision is a future Key Biscayne characterized by the same bounty and quality of natural resources that exist today, thus maintaining the title of Island Paradise.
The Citizen Scientist Project falls under the charitable umbrella of the Key Biscayne Community Foundation whose mission is to enable, facilitate, and empower residents to make a positive difference in the local, greater, and global community through programs, grant making, fiscal scholarship, and community leadership.
Our website address is: https://www.keyscience.org.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
We do not accept comments on any posts or pages contained within this website, so we never ask for or store your personal data for comments.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Data submitted to us via contact forms are immediately transmitted via email and never stored on our server. We have intentionally refrained from asking questions in our contact forms that could present a vulnerability for our users.
We do not use the information submitted through contact forms for marketing purposes.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
Any of the above data is shared solely within Key Biscayne Community Foundation, Key Biscayne Citizen Scientist Project, and select contractors used to maintain this site’s security, content, and design.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
No personal contact information is stored on this site.
Additional information
How we protect your data
The best protection of you data is to store as little of it as possible for the shortest amount of time possible. As well, we work with Wordfence & Bluehost to better guarantee the security of your and our data.
What third parties we receive data from
WordPress Jetpack and Wordfence are the only third party entities that this site interacts with. You can learn more about their protections here and here respectively.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
We do not use automated decision making and/or profiling with your data.