Privacy Policy

Who operates Akari Earth

Akari Earth™ is an evolving research and design initiative of Brainbyte LLC.

For privacy-related questions or requests, contact hello@akariearth.com .

Information we may collect

• Contact-form details, such as your name, email address, organization, area of interest, and message.
• Information you voluntarily provide during interviews, questionnaires, research conversations, or follow-up communications.
• Research preferences and permissions, such as whether you wish to remain anonymous, whether you may be contacted again, and whether a quotation may be used.
• Meeting, scheduling, correspondence, or communication details you choose to provide.
• Basic technical, hosting, security, and site-usage information used to operate, protect, and understand the website.

How we may use information

• To respond to inquiries and requested communications.
• To conduct, organize, and improve Akari Earth research and design work.
• To identify themes, questions, risks, differing perspectives, and areas requiring further research.
• To contact you about follow-up research only when you have indicated that you are open to further contact.
• To schedule, prepare for, document, and manage conversations.
• To operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website.
• To comply with applicable legal obligations and protect legitimate rights and interests.

Research participation

• Participation in Akari Earth research is voluntary.
• You may skip questions you do not wish to answer.
• Where an anonymous submission option is offered, you may choose not to provide identifying information.
• Direct quotations will not be publicly attributed to you without permission.
• Research responses may be summarized, coded, grouped into themes, or paraphrased for internal analysis and model development.
• Participation does not constitute an application for housing, membership, employment, funding, services, or future participation.

Sharing and service providers

We do not sell personal information. Information may be processed by service providers that help operate website hosting, form submission, analytics, scheduling, email, communications, data storage, security, and related services.

We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to valid legal process, protect rights or safety, or investigate misuse of the website.

Analytics and technical data

This website uses analytics and may generate hosting or security logs. These tools may collect limited technical information, such as pages visited, approximate location derived from network information, device or browser type, referral information, and timing of visits.

This information is used to understand site activity, maintain reliability, and identify technical or security issues.

Retention and security

We retain information for as long as reasonably needed to respond to inquiries, conduct and document research, manage relationships, operate the website, preserve legitimate project records, and meet legal or business needs.

We use reasonable measures to protect information, but no method of transmission or storage is completely secure.

Your choices

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information by contacting us. You may also withdraw from follow-up communications or request deletion of identifiable research responses, subject to reasonable verification and any information we must retain for legal, security, or recordkeeping purposes.

You may choose not to submit a form and instead contact us directly by email.

Children's information

This website and its general research outreach are not directed to children under 13. Do not submit personal information about a child under 13 without appropriate authorization.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as Akari Earth’s research activities, website, or data practices evolve. When we do, we will update the effective date shown above.