Last updated: August 10, 2026

Manzanita Hydrology Consulting respects your privacy and is committed to being transparent about how information is collected and used when you visit our website.

This Privacy Policy explains the types of information we collect through this website, how we use and share that information, and the choices available to you.

Information You Provide to Us

When you submit a contact or inquiry form through this website, we collect the information you provide. This may include:

• Your name

• Your email address

• Your phone number, if provided

• Your organization or company, if provided

• The contents of your message or inquiry

• Any other information you choose to provide

We use this information to review and respond to your inquiry, communicate with you about potential or existing professional services, provide information you request, and maintain appropriate business records.

Please do not submit confidential or sensitive personal information through our website contact form unless it is necessary for your inquiry.

Website and Analytics Information

This website is hosted by Squarespace. When you visit this website, Squarespace may collect information to operate and secure the website and to provide website analytics.

This information may include:

• Information about your browser, network, and device

• Your IP address

• Web pages you visited before arriving at this website

• Pages you view while using this website

• Clicks and interactions with the website

• Internal links you select

• Scrolling activity

• Searches

• Timestamps

We use website analytics to understand general website traffic and activity and to help us maintain and improve our website.

Squarespace processes certain information in connection with providing its website hosting, analytics, security, and related services. You can learn more about Squarespace's privacy practices in the Squarespace Privacy Policy.

Contact Form Submissions

When you submit an inquiry through our website contact form, we collect the information requested by the form so that we can review and respond to your submission.

Squarespace, our website hosting provider, processes the form submission as part of providing website services to us. Form submission information may also be stored within our Squarespace account.

Form submissions are also delivered by email to an email account provided by Microsoft. As a result, the information you submit through the form is transmitted to and stored using Microsoft's email services.

Microsoft processes information in connection with providing its services according to its own privacy practices. You can learn more by reviewing the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information collected through this website to:

• Respond to questions, inquiries, and requests

• Communicate with prospective and existing clients, project partners, and other website visitors

• Evaluate inquiries regarding potential professional services

• Operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website

• Understand how visitors interact with our website

• Maintain appropriate business and correspondence records

• Comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements

• Protect our rights, property, security, and the security of others

We do not use information submitted through our contact form to add you to a marketing mailing list.

How We Share Information

Manzanita Hydrology Consulting does not sell personal information collected through this website.

We may provide personal information to service providers that help us operate our website and communicate with you. These currently include:

Squarespace — provides website hosting, forms, analytics, security, and related website services.

Microsoft — provides the email service through which we receive and maintain website inquiries and related correspondence.

These service providers may process information according to their respective terms and privacy policies.

We may also disclose information if reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law or lawful legal process, protect our rights or property, investigate fraud or misuse, or protect the safety and security of our business or others.

Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including responding to inquiries, maintaining appropriate project and business records, managing professional relationships, resolving disputes, and complying with legal or regulatory obligations.

Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the information and our relationship with you.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the website and, with your consent where applicable, understand how visitors interact with it.

Necessary cookies are used to provide essential website functionality. Analytics and performance cookies may be used to measure website traffic and activity.

When you visit our website, our cookie notice provides options for managing the use of non-essential cookies.

For more information, please review our Cookie Policy.

Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live and the laws applicable to you, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include rights to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we maintain about you.

You may contact us using the information below to make a privacy-related request. We may need to take reasonable steps to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

You may also manage non-essential cookies through the cookie preferences available on this website and through your browser settings.

Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. These websites have their own privacy practices, and Manzanita Hydrology Consulting is not responsible for their content, security, or privacy practices.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party websites you visit.

Data Security

We take reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect personal information in our possession.

However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted through our website or by email.

Children's Privacy

This website is intended to provide information about Manzanita Hydrology Consulting and our professional services and is not directed to children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through this website. If we learn that such information has been submitted to us, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our website, services, business practices, or applicable requirements.

When we update this policy, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or would like to make a request regarding your personal information, please contact Manzanita Hydrology Consulting through our Contact form..

Legal Basis for Processing

Where applicable data protection law requires us to identify a legal basis for processing personal information, we rely on one or more of the following bases, depending on the circumstances:

• Legitimate interests: We may process personal information as necessary for our legitimate business interests, including operating and securing our website, responding to inquiries, communicating with prospective and existing clients and project partners, and maintaining appropriate business records, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

• Steps prior to entering into a contract or performance of a contract: When you contact us regarding potential professional services, we may process information as necessary to respond to your request, evaluate potential services, or take steps at your request before entering into an agreement.

• Consent: Where we ask for your consent, such as for the use of optional analytics and performance cookies, we process information on the basis of that consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time through the cookie preferences available on our website. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

• Legal obligations: We may process or retain information when necessary to comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations.

International Visitors and Data Transfers

Manzanita Hydrology Consulting is based in the United States. If you access our website or contact us from outside the United States, your personal information may be transferred to, processed, or stored in the United States or other countries in which our service providers operate.

The privacy and data protection laws of these countries may differ from those in your country of residence. Where required by applicable law, we and our service providers use appropriate measures intended to protect personal information when it is transferred internationally.

Our website and related communications rely on service providers including Squarespace and Microsoft. Please refer to their respective privacy notices for additional information about their privacy practices and international processing of personal information.