Privacy policy.

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

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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.

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.

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When you submit information to this website via a form, we collect the data requested in the form in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our hosting provider, with Google, our form and storage provider, and with Zapier for data porting.

We will only keep the personal information you submit in the essay submission form for as long as it is necessary for the purposes of administering the essay contest, unless a longer retention period is required by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than 10 years.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

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If you request a book, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. Details about how this data is used are provided here.

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This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

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Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please contact info@eonessaycontest.com

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GDPR Privacy Notice

Students entering the Eon Essay Contest on The Precipice (“Contest”) will be asked for the following personal information: 

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Age

They will also be asked for the following non-identifying information: 

  • Their state and country of residence 

  • The name of the educational institution they attend

  • Essay entry

This information will be used to contact the Contest entrants and winners. The students’ personal information will be deleted within one month of the winners being announced. The students’ non-identifying information will be retained in an anonymized format that cannot be connected to any identifying information.