Your domain, your site
Habitat sites live on your organization's own domain. Search authority, traffic, and brand equity accrue to you — not to a platform you'd lose if you left.
Accessibility & trust
Accessible by design, secure by default, and yours to keep.
A nonprofit website has to work for everyone, protect your supporters, and never hold your organization hostage. Here's how Habitat approaches accessibility, security, and data ownership.
Accessibility
Websites that work for every supporter.
Accessibility isn't a nice-to-have for nonprofits — for many it's an expectation, and often a legal one. Habitat is built to support WCAG 2.1 AA so that donors using screen readers, keyboards, or assistive tech can navigate, read, and give without barriers.
Accessibility is a shared responsibility: Habitat ships an accessible foundation, and we help your team keep content accessible as you publish — alt text, headings, link text, and media captions.
- Built toward WCAG 2.1 AA — the standard most nonprofits are expected to meet
- Semantic, standards-based HTML from Webflow's rendering engine
- Full keyboard navigation and visible focus states
- Screen-reader-friendly structure, labels, and landmarks
- Color contrast and type sizing reviewed against AA thresholds
- Accessible donation forms — labeled fields, clear errors, no traps
Data ownership
Your domain. Your donors. Your data.
One of the biggest risks with a hosted fundraising platform is that your most valuable asset — your supporter relationships — lives somewhere you don't control. Habitat is built the opposite way.
Your donor data
Donor records, gift history, and campaign data belong to your organization. Export it or sync it to your CRM at any time. No lock-in, no hostage data.
Clean exit
If you ever move on, you keep your content and your data. We'll help you export rather than holding your organization's information for ransom.
Security & compliance
Built to protect donations and donors.
Every gift passes through infrastructure designed for security and reliability, so your supporters can give with confidence.
PCI-compliant payments
Donations are processed through PCI-DSS-compliant providers (Stripe, PayPal). Habitat never stores raw card numbers on your site.
Encryption in transit
Every Habitat site is served over HTTPS with TLS encryption by default, including all donation and form submissions.
Reliable hosting
Sites are hosted on Webflow's enterprise-grade infrastructure with global CDN delivery, so your donation pages stay fast and available.
Privacy-respecting analytics
Analytics and tracking are configured to support your privacy obligations, including consent and regional requirements like GDPR.
Questions about accessibility or data?
If you use assistive technology and hit a barrier on a Habitat site, or you have questions about how we handle your organization's data, we want to hear about it. We'll work with you to make it right.