At CARITAS AFRICA, accessible from https://caritas-africa.org, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This privacy policy document contains the types of information that are collected and stored by CARITAS AFRICA and how we use it.
If you have any additional questions or would like more information about our privacy policy, please contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with respect to information they have shared and/or collected on CARITAS AFRICA. This policy does not apply to information collected offline or through channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.
Information we collect
The personal information you are asked to provide and the reasons why you are asked to provide it will be made clear to you at the time we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, e-mail address, telephone number, the content of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you create an account, we may ask for your contact information, including such things as name, company name, address, email address, and phone number.
How we use your information.
We use the information we collect in a variety of ways, including to:
- To provide, operate and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize and develop our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features and functionality
- To communicate with you, directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information about the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Finding and preventing fraud
Log files
CARITAS AFRICA follows a standard procedure for using log files. These files record visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and are part of the hosting services analysis. The information collected by the log files includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any personally identifiable information. The purpose of the information is to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movements around the website and gather demographic information.
Web Cookies
Like any other website, CARITAS AFRICA uses “cookies”. These cookies are used to store information, including visitors’ preferences, and the pages of the website that the visitor has accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the user experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
Google DoubleClick DART cookie
Google is one of the third-party providers on our site. It also uses cookies, called DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based on their visit to www.google.com and other sites on the Internet. However, visitors may opt out of the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google Advertising and Content Network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Our advertising partners
Some advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has its own privacy policy for its user data policies. For easy access, we have created a hyperlink to their privacy policies below.
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Privacy policies of advertising partners
You can consult this list to find the Privacy Policy of each of CARITAS AFRICA’s advertising partners.
Third party ad servers or ad networks use technologies such as cookies, JavaScript or web beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on CARITAS AFRICA, which are sent directly to the users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content you see on the websites you visit.
Please note that CARITAS AFRICA has no access to or control over these cookies which are used by third party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
CARITAS AFRICA’s privacy policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. As such, we advise you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions on how to opt out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies via your browser options. To learn more about cookie handling with specific web browsers, you can find them on the browsers’ respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Requiring a business that collects a consumer’s personal data to disclose the specific categories and elements of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a company delete all consumer personal data that a company has collected.
Require a company that sells a consumer’s personal data not to sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Data protection rights GDPR
We want to make sure that you are fully aware of all your data protection rights. Each user is entitled to the following items:
Right of access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We can charge you a small fee for this service.
The Right of Correction – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe to be inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information that you feel is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Information on children
Another part of our priority is to add protection for children when they use the Internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
CARITAS AFRICA does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that your child has provided this type of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best to promptly delete this information from our records.