Privacy Policy

Our Commitment To Privacy

Chifundo is committed to protecting the privacy of any individual that comes into contact with us throughout the course of our fundraising and work. This privacy policy sets out how Chifundo uses and protects the personal information that we collect or that you provide whether through the website ( www.chifundo.org) or by other means email chifundofoundation@gmail.com or phone 353-1-2831772.

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We are required to uphold the following rules when it comes to data protection:

• Obtain and process information lawfully

• Fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject

• Keep it only for the lawful purpose that it was obtained for

• Only use the data that we strictly need

• Keep it safe and secure

• Ensure that the data that we possess is accurate

• Retain it for no longer than is necessary

• Give a copy of his/her data to each individual upon request

 

Data Protection

We collect and process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy legislation including but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

 

Personal Data We Collect

Chifundo may collect personal data including name, e-mail address, phone number and other personal details which you may choose to provide, transactional data for the purpose of managing donations such as purchase information and technical data such as information about cookies

 

We may also collect the information about use of our website for example the URL you come from or your browser type and the pages of our website that are viewed during your visit

 

Any credit card or debit card data you provide is securely handled by PayPal, our third party payment processor, as we use from time to time. We never share your credit or debit card details

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Purpose Of Processing Personal Data

We collect personal data for the purpose of the operation of our charitable work, collection and management of charitable donations and compliance with statutory obligations.
Purposes may include;

• If you supply personal information when using our website

• When you make a donation through a partner platform eg PayPal

• When you sign up to receive newsletters or email notifications from us

• If you order any merchandise and /or

• If you raise a query or issue with us

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Security

Chifundo has technical administrative and physically safeguards in place to help protect against unauthorized access use or disclosure of your personal information we collect or store. Access to your data personal data is restricted to those with the need to know the information to carry out the identified purpose or the specific purposes in accordance with this privacy policy. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis.

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Consent For Processing Personal Data

The privacy policy outlines the information usage practices of Chifundo. By accessing browsing or using this website or by submitting your personal information to Chifundo you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions of this policy if you do not agree to the policy please do not submit your personal information to us. We reserve the right at our discretion to change modify add or remove portions of the privacy policy at any time Chifundo processes all personal data in accordance with the provisions of GDPR.

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Third Party Platform

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We use third part platform to facilitate our operations such as donations shop purchases and our newsletter for specific lawful purposes in accordance with this privacy policy. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact way as if you the visitor had visited the other websites. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is only used by those third parties for specific lawful purposes in accordance with this privacy policy.

 

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies , embed additional third party tracking and monitor your interaction with that embedded content including tracing your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website

The following third party plugins
 

PayPal for payment processing purposes . their privacy policy is available on our web site.

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What Rights Do You Have Over your Data

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In relation to the personal data we hold about you, you are entitled to

• Be informed of what purpose we are processing your data

• Be informed of how long we will process and retain your data

• Access a copy of your data

• To have any inaccurate data rectified

• To have your data deleted 

• Restrict or object to the processing of your data

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You may contact us by email at chifundofoundation@gmail.com