Privacy Policy

Introduction

“We “Sofia Alauddin Foundation respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website soalfoundation.org (our “website “) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• • On this Website.
• • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
• • When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content, including advertising, that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Children Under the Age of 16

Our website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at info@soalfoundation.org

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including information:

• Personal information: By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (personal information“); That is about you but individually does not identify you.
• Payment Information: Processed securely by third-party payment processors. SAF does not store full card details.
• Volunteer or Program Data: Information submitted through forms, applications, or sponsorship records.
• Technical Data: About your internet connection (IP Adress), the equipment you use to access our Website (Device information), and usage details (browser data, and analytics).

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, posting material, subscribing to newsletters, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Information you provide while making a financial donation, though we do not store bank account or credit card numbers.

Personal Billing Information We Collect

In addition to personal contact information, we ask for billing information, such as your billing address and credit card number, when you donate. We use secure servers to gather and process your billing information. These secure servers are bound by this Privacy Policy. Your billing information is not shared with any other organizations, and your credit card number is not retained once your transaction has been authorized and processed.

All transactions use an encrypted channel, take place on secure servers and occur in real time. No financial data, such as your credit card number, is transferred via a less-secure channel, such as encrypted e-mail, for processing. Moreover, once your transaction has been completed, your credit card number is not retained.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services. Read our Cookies and Similar Technologies section below for more information on how you can disable behavioral tracking on this website through your browser or device settings, and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking. The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Mission Quest, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website.

Google Analytics Feature

We may use Google Analytics to collect information about the use of the Website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit the Website, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to the Website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve the Website... Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, or reorganization.
• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process.

Data Security

SAF uses reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal information. While no system is completely secure, we work to ensure that donor and beneficiary data is handled responsibly and confidentially.

The safety and security of your information also depend on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.