Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 14, 2026

Privacy Statement

This website is owned and operated by Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS). Our intention is to inform and educate visitors about our work as a public charity. CGS is committed to honoring the privacy of visitors to our website and to protecting online (as well as offline) information. This Privacy Policy is part of the terms and conditions that are set forth in the Terms and Conditions of Use of this site. It also covers Mondial (mondial.press), the journal CGS publishes with World Federalist Movement – Canada.

Information Collection and Use

The CGS website collects standard tracking information about each visitor to our website in four ways: (1) through your IP address, (2) through cookies, described under Cookies and Analytics below, (3) through any email correspondence you send to us, and (4) when you submit information using an online form on one of our web pages. Information from your browser, including your IP address, pages you visit, the length of time you spend on our site, and the files you download, is recorded in our website server logs. We use and analyze this data to develop site content and to provide you with a positive experience when you visit our website.

Online giving transactions are processed on a secure server. CGS uses industry accepted data collection and encryption methodologies in an attempt to ensure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive user information. Methodologies include, but are not limited to, SSL encryption, user authentication, Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards compliance, web application and traditional firewall use, anti-malware program use, timely software security patch application, and physical barriers. We occasionally have third parties perform services on our behalf, such as data processing, marketing, analytics, financial transaction and credit card processing. These third parties may have access to the personal information you provide us through the website only as needed to perform their services for CGS, and are contractually obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of the personal information. While we try our best to safeguard your personal information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

Except as provided in the previous paragraph regarding online giving transactions and the following paragraph dealing with disclosure to other non-profits, CGS will not disclose your personal information to any commercial organization, with the exception that CGS may use or disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary or appropriate.

Event registration. When you register for an event through this website we collect your name, email address and, if you provide them, your organization, location and how you heard about us. We use this to run the event and, if you opt in, to add you to our newsletter list at Mailchimp. Online events that issue personal join links share your name and email with Zoom for that purpose. Events may be recorded and photographed; see the Event Registration, Recordings and Photography section of our Terms and Conditions. You can ask us to delete your registration by emailing communications@globalsolutions.org.

Contact form messages. When you write to us through the contact form on this site, we email your message to the staff member who handles that topic and keep a record of it, with your name, email address and the page you wrote from, in Citizens for Global Solutions’ Google Workspace account. We delete the message from our website within 90 days; the record in Google Workspace is kept so we can follow up and is available only to CGS staff. To see or delete what we hold about you, write to communications@globalsolutions.org.

Cookies and Analytics

We use analytics to count visits and learn which pages and articles people read. We do not use advertising cookies, and we do not sell or share analytics data for advertising.

globalsolutions.org uses Google Analytics and WPMU DEV Analytics (built on Matomo), which set cookies in your browser to recognize a returning visitor. You can block these cookies in your browser settings, or turn off Google Analytics with Google’s opt-out add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Mondial (mondial.press) also uses Google Analytics. In the United States and most other countries it runs by default, and you can turn it off at any time from the “Cookie settings” link at the foot of every page. Where the law asks for consent first (including the European Union, the United Kingdom, Quebec, Brazil and India), Google Analytics does not load until you click Accept on the cookie banner. Mondial tells these regions apart by your device’s time zone, which is read in your browser and never stored or sent to us. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, Mondial treats it as a refusal.

Google Analytics records the pages you visit, how long you stay, the links and files you open, and general information about your device, browser and approximate location (city level). Google Analytics does not store IP addresses. For Mondial we keep analytics data for 14 months, with Google signals and advertising features turned off.

Mondial

Mondial (mondial.press) is the journal published by CGS and World Federalist Movement – Canada. Besides analytics, it:

  • loads its fonts from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when a page loads;
  • keeps the messages you send through its contact form or its “Report a problem” button so the editors can reply, and emails contact form messages to the editor;
  • sends you to Substack (mondialpress.substack.com) when you sign up for Mondial by email; Substack’s own privacy policy then applies;
  • is hosted by WP Engine, whose servers keep standard access logs.

CGS List Rental and Exchange

You should know that like many nonprofit membership organizations, CGS rents or exchanges membership and supporter lists or subscriber lists with other nonprofit organizations. In addition, we may share information with organizations that have goals similar to ours or with which we are engaged in a joint activity.

If you wish to opt-out of the CGS list rental or exchange, please contact CGS directly at business@globalsolutions.org.

If you are receiving a high volume of unwanted mailings, you may wish to consider writing to each of the organizations to which you belong and publications or catalogs to which you subscribe, requesting that your name be eliminated from lists made available for rental or exchange. CGS will honor such requests.

Choice, Opt-Out and Correction Procedures

If you previously chose to have your information shared, or to receive communications from CGS, you may opt-out or change your information at any time. Please contact us at business@globalsolutions.org with your requests.

Your Rights and Privacy Contact

You can ask us what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, by emailing communications@globalsolutions.org. The person responsible for the protection of personal information at CGS is our Outreach and Communications Officer. We will reply within 30 days.

Third Party Sites

Throughout our website, we offer links to third party sites. CGS is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such sites. Since we do not control those websites, we encourage you to review their privacy policies as well.

Children Under 13

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) governs how information is gathered online and how it is used when communication is received from children under the age of 13. Although CGS is a non-commercial, non-profit organization and is not subject to COPPA, we take children’s privacy and safety very seriously. We do not request, seek or intentionally collect personal information from children under the age of 13. Certain features on the Site require users to register and create an account, which involves the collection of personally identifiable information. If a child under age 13 provides personal information and we are able to determine that the sender is under the age of 13, we will not disclose any of the child’s information to a third party. Should a parent discover that his/her child has submitted personally identifiable information on any Site, the parent may ask to have the information deleted or refuse to allow any further collection or use of the child’s information.

Privacy Policy Changes

By using this site, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use our site. CGS reserves the right to modify or amend the terms of our Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. If you continue to use our site after we post changes to this Privacy Policy, it will mean you accept those changes.