Last updated 25 August 2026
Short version: I collect what you send me on the enquiry form, I use it to answer your enquiry, and I do not sell it or share it with anyone who is not working on your project. Property locations get particular care, for reasons set out below.
Who is responsible
This website is owned and operated by Travel Twist Biologist LLC, an independent environmental consulting practice. Elizabeth Hingle is the data controller and the person who actually reads what you send. Questions about anything here go to elizabeth@traveltwistbiologist.com.
What is collected
When you submit the enquiry form, the following is recorded: your name, email address and optional phone number; whether you are a landowner, a firm or an agency; the service you are asking about; the county, approximate acreage and — if you choose to provide it — the location of the property; a description of your project; what prompted the enquiry; whether prior survey work has been done; and any additional notes you write. Your IP address and the time of submission are recorded alongside it.
There is no analytics package, no advertising pixel and no third-party tracking on this site. Nothing follows you here from anywhere else, and nothing follows you away.
The site loads typefaces from Google Fonts, which means Google receives a request from your browser in order to serve them. That is the only third party involved in loading these pages.
Property locations
Coordinates and parcel details are commercially and personally sensitive. They can identify a landowner, reveal a project before it is public, and in the case of protected species, indicate where sensitive habitat sits. The enquiry form therefore makes location optional, and includes an explicit option to withhold it until we have spoken.
Location information you send is used to assess your enquiry and is not published, listed, or passed to anyone outside the project. Where survey findings must be reported to a regulatory agency under the terms of a federal permit, that reporting obligation is explained to you before any fieldwork begins — it is a condition of the permit, not a discretionary disclosure.
How it is handled
Submissions are written to a log file on the web server, stored outside the public web directory so it is not reachable from the internet, and emailed to my own business address. The email is sent over an authenticated, encrypted connection.
Enquiries that do not become projects are deleted within two years. Enquiries that do become projects are retained with the project records for as long as professional and permit-related obligations require, which for federally permitted survey work can be several years.
Your information is not sold, rented, or shared for marketing. It is disclosed only where the law requires it, or where a subcontractor is working directly on your project — for example a GIS specialist preparing your maps — and only the part of it they need.
Your choices
You can ask what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted. Email the address below and I will action it, or explain plainly if a permit-related record keeping obligation prevents deletion.
Texas residents, and residents of other states with comprehensive privacy laws, may have additional statutory rights. Rather than list them selectively, the practical position is simpler: ask, and I will do it wherever I am permitted to.
You can also simply not use the form. My email address is on every page of this site and an enquiry sent directly by email is answered exactly the same way.
Changes and contact
Any material change will be reflected in the "last updated" date at the top of this page. If a change affects how existing enquiry information is used, I will contact affected people directly rather than rely on you noticing a date.
Travel Twist Biologist LLC
elizabeth@traveltwistbiologist.com