Privacy policy

The Shorty Gorge

When you sign up for our e-mail listserv or for classes, we collect your e-mail address. Whatever information we directly collect from you will remain private and confidential and will never be used for any purpose other than distribution of information about the Shorty Gorge, our classes and events, or your registration for those classes and events.

The Shorty Gorge will never release any personal information submitted by you to any outside party, nor will we distribute any submitted email addresses to any outside organization or group.

Square Space

The Shorty Gorge’s website is hosted and managed by Square Space. They collect some information about our website visitors directly, which we list now.

Square Space Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Square Space Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Fonts and other integrations

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. We also show an embedded map and Calendar using Google Maps and Calendars. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address