Privacy Notice

Meridian website and early-access applications

Last updated: 10 October 2026

Who we are

This notice explains how Atmosphere Industries LLC, a California limited liability company ("we", "us"), handles personal information collected through www.meridian.giving, including our early-access application form. We operate Meridian and we are the controller of this information.

Privacy contact: hello@meridian.giving

This notice does not cover the Meridian giving platform, donor giving pages or customer agreements. They have their own terms and notices.

What we collect

When you apply for early access, the form asks for your first and last name, email address, your organization's name, type and country, the number of entities or locations you have, your current giving provider, your accounting system, your goals, the currency you use, and your estimated annual bank and card giving volumes. Fields marked optional on the form are your choice.

Our hosting provider may also record your IP address and technical request logs when you visit the site. Your browser attaches a random reference number to each form submission so that the same application is not received twice.

The form does not collect payment details. Please do not send us card numbers, bank account details or government ID numbers by email.

How we use it and why

We use your information to:

• assess early-access applications, contact applicants, and plan onboarding and migration if we go ahead. For people in the UK and EU, our legal basis is taking steps at your request before a contract, and our legitimate interest in replying to people who contact us on behalf of organizations;
• protect the website and the form from abuse and spam. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in keeping our systems secure; and
• meet legal obligations and handle legal claims, where the law requires or allows it.

We do not use your information for advertising or unrelated marketing. We do not sell it, and we do not share it for advertising.

Who receives it

• Netlify, Inc. hosts our website, receives and stores form submissions, and records IP addresses and request logs. Form submissions are also checked for spam by Akismet, a service run by Automattic Inc. in the United States.
• Zoho provides the email and correspondence tools we use to reply to you.
• Professional advisers and public authorities, where the law requires or allows it, and a buyer or successor if our business is sold, on the same terms as this notice.

These providers process your information to provide their services to us.

International transfers

We are based in the United States, and our website and systems are run from there. If you are in the UK, the EU or elsewhere, your information will be processed in the United States. Zoho stores our data in data centers in the United States, and Zoho group companies in India and other countries may access it to provide the service. Data protection laws in these countries may differ from yours.

Netlify participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and offers standard contractual clauses, including the UK addendum. Zoho transfers data between its group companies under standard contractual clauses. For other transfers we use the safeguards the law requires. You can ask us for more information at hello@meridian.giving.

How long we keep it

We keep applications that do not lead to a customer relationship for no more than 12 months after we receive them. We then delete them from our Netlify form submissions and our Zoho mailboxes, unless you have become a customer or asked us to continue our discussions. If you become a customer, we keep your information under our customer agreement.

Netlify keeps server logs for a limited period under its own settings. Netlify and Zoho may keep backup copies for a limited time after we delete data, and overwrite them in their normal backup cycles. We use backup copies only to restore our systems, never to reuse deleted applications.

Cookies and similar technologies

Our website does not set cookies, and we do not use advertising trackers or analytics tools. Netlify may show a small "Powered by Netlify" badge on the site. If you choose "Hide this badge", your browser saves that choice in its local storage. It stays on your device and is not sent to us. You can remove it in your browser settings. Because we do not track visitors across websites, our site does not change its behavior in response to Do Not Track signals.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask us for access to your information, to correct or delete it, to restrict our use of it, to receive a copy in a portable format, and to object to uses based on our legitimate interests. California residents may also have the right to know what we hold, to ask us to delete or correct it, and not to be treated differently for using these rights. We do not sell or share personal information for advertising.

To use any of these rights, email hello@meridian.giving. We may need to confirm who you are. We will reply within one month, or within the time the law allows for your location.

Complaints

Please contact us first at hello@meridian.giving. If you are in the UK, we will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days and respond without undue delay. You can also complain to your data protection authority: in the UK, the Information Commission (formerly the Information Commissioner's Office, ico.org.uk); in Germany, your state authority or the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information; in Italy, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali; elsewhere in the EU, your national authority; and in the United States, your state attorney general.

Children, security and changes

Our website is for organizations, not children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16. We take reasonable steps to protect your information, but no system is completely secure. If we change this notice, we will update the date above and, for material changes, say so on the site.