Privacy Policy
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This Privacy Policy describes how Hope Beyond Initiative (HBI) ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit and use our website: www.hbikenya.com (the "Site"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your data.
We collect different types of information to support our mission and improve your experience with HBI.
- Contact Information: When you sign up for our newsletter, make a donation, fill out a contact form, or volunteer, we may collect your name, email address, phone number, and postal address.
- Donation Information: If you donate, we collect information necessary to process your transaction, which may include your name, contact details, and payment information (though secure third-party payment processors typically handle actual payment processing, and we do not store sensitive credit card details).
- Application Information: If you apply for a program or volunteer opportunity, we may collect information relevant to your application, such as your resume, qualifications, and personal statements.
- Correspondence: Records of any communications you have with us, including emails, inquiries, and feedback.
When you visit our Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity. This may include:
- Your Internet Protocol (IP) address
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- Referring to website addresses
- Pages you visit on our Site, time spent on those pages, and the date and time of your visit
- Clickstream data and other statistics related to your interaction with the Site.
We use the collected information for various purposes, including:
- To Operate and Maintain the Site: Ensuring our website functions correctly and provides you with the content you seek.
- To Process Donations and Transactions: Managing and acknowledging your contributions and fulfilling any related requests.
- To Communicate With You: Responding to your inquiries, sending
- newsletters, updates, and information about our programs, events, and impact.
- To Improve Our Services: Analyzing usage data to understand how our Site is used, identify areas for improvement, and enhance user experience.
- To Recruit Volunteers and Staff: Processing applications for volunteer positions or employment opportunities.
- For Internal Reporting and Analysis: Understanding our audience and the effectiveness of our outreach efforts.
- To Comply with Legal Obligations: Meeting any applicable legal or regulatory requirements.
- For Security Purposes: Protecting our Site and users from fraud or malicious activity.
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your information in the following limited circumstances:
- With Service Providers: We may share information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or providing services to you (e.g., payment processors, email service providers, analytics providers). These service providers are obligated to keep your information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).
- With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when we have your explicit consent to do so.
- Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized data (which cannot be used to identify you personally) with partners, donors, or for research and reporting purposes.
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your data, we cannot
guarantee its absolute security.
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Depending on your location and applicable laws, you may have the following rights regarding your data:
- Right to Access: Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
- Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
- Right to Erasure: Request the deletion of your personal information, subject to legal limitations.
- Right to Object: Object to the processing of your personal information for certain purposes.
- Right to Restrict Processing: Request restriction of the processing of your personal information.
- Right to Data Portability: Request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
Our Site may use "cookies" and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience. Cookies are small data files placed on your device to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology. We use cookies to:
- Understand how you use our Site.
- Improve website functionality and content.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.
Our Site may contain links to other websites that we do not operate. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Our Site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- By email: info@hbikenya.com
- By visiting this page on our website: www.hbikenya.com/contactus