Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 2026
Nothing Required, operated by Amanda (Mandy) Forsgren ("we," "us," or "our"), is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed by Nothing Required.
Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with Nothing Required, we may collect:
Your name
Email address
Billing and purchase information
Information you provide through contact or sign-up forms
Information associated with your member account
Information necessary to provide access to purchased offerings
Information you voluntarily provide when communicating with us
When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We provide this information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us and help us manage our relationship with you.
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information 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. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.
Payment information is processed through Stripe, please review their privacy policy here: Privacy Policy.
We do not need to receive or store your full payment card information ourselves in order to process your purchase.
Payments
When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution provided to us by our online store service provider Squarespace. Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:
Stripe - payment processing services. You can read Stripe’s privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.
Sift - fraud monitoring and detection services. You can read Sift’s privacy policy at https://sift.com/service-privacy.
Analytics
This website collects personal information 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, and timestamps.
We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect to:
Process transactions and fulfill purchases
Provide access to The Pause and The Room
Communicate with you about your purchases
Send information related to The Pause, The Room and other experiences you have joined
Respond to questions and requests
Send newsletters or other communications when you have chosen to receive them
Maintain and improve our website and offerings
Protect the security and integrity of our website and services
Comply with applicable legal obligations
We do not use your information for purposes unrelated to the reason it was collected without appropriate notice or permission.
Email Communications
If you choose to join our newsletter or another email list, we may send you occasional emails about Nothing Required, including notes, reflections, offerings, or other information we believe may be relevant to you. When you purchase The Pause, you may be sent an email notifying you of additional recordings added to the library. When you purchase The Room, we may send emails with a Zoom link and reminders for the gathering you purchased and for future openings of The Room.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the email.
Transactional or service-related communications—for example, information relating to a purchase, account, or participation in The Room—may still be sent when necessary to provide the service you purchased.
We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:
You’ve created a customer account
Your customer account password has been reset or updated
You’ve made a purchase
Your order has shipped
It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.
We provide your contact information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf and help us manage our relationship with you.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
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 Squarespace Cookie Policy: Cookie Policy — Squarespace
We use necessary and required cookies, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of portions of the website.
Third-Party Services
We use third-party service providers to help operate Nothing Required. These may include services for website hosting (Squarespace: Privacy Policy — Squarespace), payment processing (Stripe: Privacy Policy), member accounts, email communication, analytics, and other functions necessary to operate the website and provide our offerings.
These providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies and terms.
How We Protect Your Information
We take precautions to protect the security of your information. We have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard, prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use your information. However, neither people nor security systems are foolproof, including encryption systems. In addition, people can commit intentional crimes, make mistakes or fail to follow policies. Therefore, while we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If applicable law imposes any non-disclaimable duty to protect your personal information, you agree that intentional misconduct will be the standards used to measure our compliance with that duty.
How Long We Keep Information
We keep your information only so long as we need it to provide Nothing Required to you and fulfill the purposes described in this policy. This is also the case for anyone that we share your information with and who carries out services on our behalf. When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we’ll either remove it from our systems or depersonalize it so that we can't identify you.
EEA, UK & Switzerland/GDPR
If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may have additional rights under applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related privacy legislation.
Depending on applicable law, these rights may include the right to:
Request access to personal information we hold about you
Request correction of inaccurate information
Request deletion of your personal information
Request restriction of certain processing
Object to certain processing
Request portability of certain information
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority
To exercise applicable privacy rights, please contact:
Amanda (Mandy) Forsgren
hello@nothingrequired.space
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
California Residents
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires us to disclose categories of Personal Information we collect and how we use it, the categories of sources from whom we collect Personal Information, and the third parties with whom we share it, which we have explained above.
We are also required to communicate information about rights California residents have under California law. You may exercise the following rights:
Right to Know and Access. You may submit a verifiable request for information regarding the: (1) categories of Personal Information we collect, use, or share; (2) purposes for which categories of Personal Information are collected or used by us; (3) categories of sources from which we collect Personal Information; and (4) specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.
Right to Equal Service. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
Right to Delete. You may submit a verifiable request to close your account, and we will delete Personal Information about you that we have collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
We do not sell the Personal Information of our users.
For more information about these rights, please contact us.
Children's Privacy
We do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our website, offerings, or practices change.
When we make changes, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.
Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact: