Privacy Policy
Last Updated: October 1, 2026
Organic Inquisition is operated by Kevin Burgess and individuals authorized by him to access and administer the website (“Organic Inquisition,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, who may have access to it, how long we keep it, and the choices and rights available to you when you use organicinquisition.org (the “Website”).
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal information, please contact us at:
Email: organicinqusition@gmail.com
1. Information We Collect
We collect information that you provide directly to us when you use the Website.
Account Information
An account is required to access the Organic Inquisition digital workbook.
When you register for an account, we collect:
Your name
Your email address
Your password
Information associated with your Organic Inquisition user account
Your email address must be verified before you can access the digital workbook. When you register, we send a verification email containing a link that allows you to verify your email address.
We do not have access to your password in readable form.
Workbook Activity and Question Difficulty Ratings
While using the digital workbook, you may rate the difficulty of individual questions.
When you submit a difficulty rating, we may store:
Your Organic Inquisition account or user ID
The workbook and question associated with the rating
The difficulty rating you selected
Information associated with your submission, such as when it was submitted or updated
Difficulty ratings are associated with your account so that you can return to a question and change your rating.
We use these ratings internally to understand how students experience the workbook and to help us improve the workbook. We do not currently intend to publicly publish individual users’ ratings or share them with unrelated third parties.
Issue Reports
Users can report problems they find in the digital workbook through our issue-reporting form.
The form may ask you to provide:
The chapter title
The page number
A description of the issue
Any additional information you choose to include in the description
The description fields are free-response fields and do not have a specified word limit.
Issue reports are associated with the Organic Inquisition account used to submit them. Issue reports are not anonymous.
Issue reports are used to identify and correct problems such as typographical errors, unclear explanations, incorrect diagrams, broken links, formatting problems, and other issues with the digital workbook.
Chapter and Section Feedback
Users may also submit feedback at the end of sections of the digital workbook.
The feedback form may collect:
A difficulty rating
A clarity rating
What you liked about the chapter
What could be improved
Additional comments
The difficulty and clarity questions use multiple-choice responses. The other questions are free-response fields and do not have a specified word limit.
Chapter feedback is associated with the Organic Inquisition account used to submit it and is not anonymous.
We use this information internally to improve the digital workbook and make its chapters clearer, more useful, and more effective for students.
Payment and Donation Information
Organic Inquisition currently allows users to access the digital workbook without making a payment. Users may optionally make a donation through Stripe.
In the future, Organic Inquisition may require payment or a paid subscription to access the digital workbook. We may also continue to offer optional donations in connection with paid access.
When payment or donation features are used, payment processing is handled through Stripe. Organic Inquisition does not receive or store your complete payment-card number.
Our membership and payment system may retain information associated with a payment or subscription, such as:
Your Organic Inquisition user account
Subscription or access type
Amount paid
Date and time of the transaction
Transaction or payment identifier
Payment or subscription status
Other information necessary to administer your subscription or payment
Stripe separately processes personal and payment information according to its own privacy practices.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for purposes including:
Creating and maintaining your Organic Inquisition account
Verifying your email address
Providing access to the digital workbook
Managing paid subscriptions, donations, and future paid access
Processing account-related requests
Allowing you to change or reset your password
Recording and managing your workbook difficulty ratings
Reviewing chapter feedback
Reviewing and responding to issue reports
Identifying problems with the digital workbook
Improving the content, clarity, organization, and usability of the digital workbook
Maintaining and securing the Website
Preventing abuse, unauthorized access, and other security problems
Maintaining backups of the Website
Communicating with you about your account, subscription, or other necessary administrative matters
Complying with applicable legal obligations
We do not currently use your information to send marketing or promotional email.
3. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal information.
We may provide information to service providers that help us operate the Website and provide its features. These service providers may process information on our behalf or as necessary to provide their services.
Depending on which features you use, these services may include:
Stripe
Stripe processes payments, donations, and subscriptions.
Brevo
We use Brevo to send transactional and account-related emails, including email verification and certain account or password-related communications.
We do not currently use Brevo to send marketing newsletters or promotional emails.
Cloudflare
We use Cloudflare in connection with the security and operation of the Website. Cloudflare may process technical information associated with visitors and Website traffic as necessary to provide its services.
Google Drive
We use Google Drive to store backups of the Organic Inquisition Website. Website backups may contain information that is stored on the Website at the time the backup is created.
Other Authorized Persons
Kevin Burgess and individuals whom he authorizes to administer or work on Organic Inquisition may have access to information necessary to operate the Website, review feedback, address reported issues, maintain accounts, or improve the digital workbook.
We limit access to personal information to individuals and services that need access for these purposes.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, legal process, court orders, or lawful governmental requests, or to protect the rights, security, and property of Organic Inquisition, its users, or others.
4. Workbook Feedback Is Not Anonymous
Please be aware that the following submissions are associated with the Organic Inquisition account used to submit them:
Question difficulty ratings
Chapter difficulty ratings
Chapter clarity ratings
Written chapter feedback
Additional comments
Digital workbook issue reports
These submissions are not anonymous.
Only Kevin Burgess and individuals authorized to access Organic Inquisition may access these submissions.
We use this information for internal purposes, primarily to improve the digital workbook and identify problems or areas that may need clarification.
5. Emails and Communications
We may send you necessary administrative or transactional emails related to your Organic Inquisition account.
These may include communications such as:
Email verification
Password-related communications
Account-related confirmations
Subscription or payment-related communications
Other communications necessary to provide or maintain your account or access to the Website
We do not currently send marketing or promotional email campaigns.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Organic Inquisition uses cookies and similar technologies that are necessary for the operation of the Website and its account and membership features.
Cookies may be used to:
Keep you logged into your account
Maintain your account session
Remember necessary account or Website settings
Support account registration and verification
Support membership and subscription functionality
Help protect the Website from unauthorized access or abuse
Some cookies may be set by WordPress or by plugins used to provide Website functionality.
We do not currently use Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, or similar advertising or analytics tracking services.
Some third-party services used by the Website may use their own cookies or similar technologies when providing their services. Their use of information is governed by their respective privacy policies.
If you are located in a jurisdiction that requires consent for certain non-essential cookies, we will provide the appropriate choices or notices where required.
7. Third-Party Links and Content
The Organic Inquisition digital workbook may contain links to external websites, including YouTube.
When you click a link and leave Organic Inquisition to visit another website, that website operates independently from Organic Inquisition and may collect information according to its own privacy policy and terms.
For example, if you follow a YouTube link, YouTube may collect information about your visit or interaction according to Google’s and YouTube’s applicable policies.
Organic Inquisition does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites.
The digital workbook is displayed through a PDF viewer on Organic Inquisition. The PDF viewer is used to display the digital workbook and is not intended to provide users with a downloadable copy of the workbook.
8. Website Plugins and Services
Organic Inquisition uses various WordPress plugins and services to operate the Website.
These include services and plugins used for purposes such as:
Website design and page management
User registration and account management
Membership and subscription management
PDF display
Forms and feedback collection
Website navigation
Website security
Email delivery
Website backups
Payment processing
Some plugins may process information necessary to provide their functionality.
We aim to configure these services in a manner consistent with the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
9. Website Backups
We periodically create backups of the Organic Inquisition Website.
Backups may contain information that existed on the Website at the time the backup was created, including account information and other Website data.
Backups are stored using Google Drive.
Because backups may be retained separately from the live Website, information that has been deleted from the live Website may continue to exist temporarily in a backup.
When backups are replaced or deleted as part of our normal backup process, information contained only in those backups will be removed in accordance with our backup practices.
10. How Long We Keep Your Information
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to provide Website services, maintain accounts, improve the digital workbook, maintain security, comply with legal obligations, and resolve disputes.
Account Information
We generally retain account information while your account remains active.
You may delete your Organic Inquisition account through the account features provided on the Website, or you may contact us at organicinqusition@gmail.com to request account deletion.
Workbook Ratings and Feedback
We may retain difficulty ratings, chapter feedback, and issue reports after an account is deleted when doing so allows us to preserve useful information for improving the digital workbook.
Where reasonably possible, we may remove or disconnect this information from the user’s account or other information that directly identifies the user.
Some information may also need to be retained for legal, security, accounting, payment, or other legitimate operational purposes.
Payment Information
Payment and subscription records may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to administer transactions, subscriptions, refunds, accounting, fraud prevention, legal requirements, and other legitimate business purposes.
11. Account Deletion and Your Choices
You may delete your Organic Inquisition account using the account-management features available on the Website.
You may also contact us at organicinqusition@gmail.com to request deletion of your account or ask questions about information associated with your account.
Deleting an account may not immediately remove every piece of information associated with that account. For example, information may remain temporarily in backups, or certain records may need to be retained for legal, payment, security, or legitimate operational purposes.
Where appropriate and reasonably possible, we will remove or disconnect information that no longer needs to remain associated with your account.
12. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and which privacy laws apply to you, you may have rights concerning your personal information.
These rights may include the right to:
Ask what personal information we hold about you
Request a copy of your personal information
Request correction of inaccurate information
Request deletion of personal information
Request restriction of certain processing
Object to certain uses of your information
Request portability of certain information
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
Ask questions about how your personal information is used
Some rights are subject to exceptions and limitations under applicable law.
To exercise a privacy right, contact us at:
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests in order to protect your information and your account.
13. California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident and California privacy law applies to your information, you may have additional rights regarding your personal information.
Depending on the circumstances, these rights may include rights to know about personal information collected about you, request access to or deletion of personal information, request correction of inaccurate information, and exercise certain rights concerning the use or disclosure of personal information.
Organic Inquisition does not currently sell personal information or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
We do not discriminate against users for exercising privacy rights provided to them by applicable law.
California residents may submit privacy requests by contacting:
We may take reasonable steps to verify a request before providing information or completing a deletion or other request.
14. UK Privacy Rights
If you are located in the United Kingdom and UK data-protection law applies to our processing of your personal information, you may have rights including:
The right to be informed about how your personal information is used
The right to request access to your personal information
The right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
The right to request deletion of your personal information in certain circumstances
The right to request restriction of processing in certain circumstances
The right to object to certain processing
The right to request portability of certain personal information where applicable
The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
Rights relating to certain automated decision-making and profiling, where applicable
These rights are subject to the limitations and exceptions provided by applicable law.
You may exercise applicable rights by contacting:
If you are in the United Kingdom and believe your data-protection rights have not been respected, you may also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
15. Legal Bases for Processing Personal Information
Where laws such as the UK GDPR apply, we may process personal information on one or more lawful bases depending on the circumstances.
These may include:
Performance of a contract: such as creating and maintaining an account, providing access to the digital workbook, and administering a paid subscription.
Legitimate interests: such as maintaining and improving the Website, reviewing workbook feedback, identifying errors, maintaining security, and preventing misuse.
Legal obligations: when we need to retain or disclose information to comply with applicable law.
Consent: where consent is required and you have provided it.
The applicable legal basis may depend on the particular information and purpose for which it is processed.
16. Children’s Privacy
Organic Inquisition is intended primarily for college students, professors, and other adults involved in higher education.
The Website is not directed toward children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe that a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, please contact us at organicinqusition@gmail.com so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.
17. Data Security
We take reasonable measures designed to protect information maintained through Organic Inquisition from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, online service, or method of electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Users are responsible for maintaining the security of their account credentials and should not share their password with others.
18. International Users
Organic Inquisition is operated from Texas, United States.
Because the Website may be accessed by people located in other countries, including the United Kingdom, information submitted to Organic Inquisition may be processed or stored in the United States or by service providers located in other countries.
Where applicable law requires specific safeguards for international transfers of personal information, we will seek to use appropriate safeguards.
19. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as the Website, its features, the services we use, or applicable privacy requirements change.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.
If we make material changes to how we collect or use personal information, we will provide additional notice where required by applicable law.
20. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to request access to or deletion of your information, or have another privacy-related question, please contact:
Organic Inquisition
Operated by Kevin Burgess and authorized individuals
Email: organicinqusition@gmail.com