How we handle your information
This page covers the "Get Involved" enquiry form on this site. It does not cover any future payment or adoption process, which will have its own terms when it is built.
What we collect
When you submit the enquiry form, we collect your name, email address, organisation or group (if you give one), what best describes you, your message (if you write one), and whether you've asked to receive occasional project updates.
Why we collect it
To reply to your enquiry personally, and — only if you tick the updates box — to occasionally email you when there's a confirmed project milestone or finding worth sharing. We don't use it for anything else.
Where it's stored
Submissions are stored in Cloudflare's KV data store. Cloudflare hosts this website and holds your enquiry on our behalf as our service provider. We don't sell your details or pass them to other organisations for their own use.
Who can see it
Only the person running Restoring Sealife, contactable at hello@restoringsealife.nz, reads submitted enquiries. As our hosting provider, Cloudflare also holds the data on our behalf.
Spam protection
To limit spam, our server briefly uses your IP address to count how many times a form is submitted from it. That count is deleted automatically after about an hour and is not kept with your enquiry. The form also has a hidden field that people never see, which helps catch automated bots.
How long we keep it
We keep enquiries until you ask us to delete them — there's no automatic expiry. Email us any time to have your information corrected or deleted.
Analytics and fonts
This site uses Google Analytics to understand how many people visit and which pages and links are used. Google Analytics typically uses cookies or similar identifiers and records approximate location and device details, so this activity should not be treated as anonymous to Google. The analytics tag records page views and clicks, and when you submit the enquiry form it records only which type of enquiry you chose (for example "funder"). Your name, email address, organisation and message are not sent to analytics.
The site also loads its fonts from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address when a page loads.
Questions
Email hello@restoringsealife.nz with any question about this page or your information. Email sent to that address is handled through Cloudflare's email service before it reaches us.
Last updated: 5 November 2026.