We deeply appreciate the confidence you have in us. Rest assured, we will never sell, share, or exchange our donors' personal details or names with any other party, nor will we send mailings to our supporters on behalf of other entities.
This commitment extends to all data collected by Africa Oasis Foundation, regardless of whether it is gathered through digital means, in-person interactions, or any form of communication, be it electronic, written, or verbal.
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WEBSITE PRIVACY
Privacy Policy africaoasis.org
This Website collects some Personal Data from its Users.
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POLICY SUMMARY, PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES AND USING THE FOLLOWING SERVICES:
Analytics Google Analytics
· Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data
Contacting the User Phone contact
· Personal Data: phone number
Content commenting Disqus
· Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service
Displaying content from external platforms Google Fonts
· Personal Data: Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service
Google Maps widget, Instagram widget and YouTube video widget
· Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data
Gravatar
· Personal Data: email address; Usage Data
Handling payments Stripe
· Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service
Infrastructure monitoring Uptime Robot
· Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service
Interaction with external social networks and platforms, Facebook Like button and social widgets, Google+ +1 button and social widgets, LinkedIn button and social widgets, Pinterest “Pin it” button and social widgets and Twitter Tweet button and social widgets
· Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data
Managing contacts and sending messages Mailchimp
· Personal Data: email address
Platform services and hosting Shopify
· Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service
SPAM protection Google reCAPTCHA
· Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data
Tag Management Google Tag Manager
· Personal Data: Usage Data
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
Selling goods and services online
· The Personal Data collected are used to provide the User with services or to sell goods, including payment and possible delivery. The Personal Data collected to complete the payment may include the credit card, the bank account used for the transfer, or any other means of payment envisaged. The kind of Data collected by this Website depends on the payment system used.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Owner and Data Controller
· Africa Oasis Foundation Owner contact email: [email protected]
FULL POLICY
OWNER AND DATA CONTROLLER
Africa Oasis Foundation Owner contact email: [email protected]
TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED
Among the types of Personal Data that this Website collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Cookies; Usage Data; email address; phone number; first name; last name.
Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.
Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this Website.
Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this Website is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Website to provide its services. In cases where this Website specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service.
Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.
Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools — by this Website or by the owners of third-party services used by this Website serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document.
Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this Website.
MODE AND PLACE OF PROCESSING THE DATA
Methods Of Processing
The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this Website (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.
Place
The Data is processed at the Owner's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located.
Depending on the User's location, data transfers may involve transferring the User's Data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred Data, Users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data.
Retention time
Unless specified otherwise in this document, Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for and may be retained for longer due to applicable legal obligation or based on the Users’ consent.
THE PURPOSES OF PROCESSING
The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: Content commenting, Interaction with external social networks and platforms, Analytics, Displaying content from external platforms, SPAM protection, Managing contacts and sending messages, Contacting the User, Infrastructure monitoring, Platform services and hosting, Handling payments and Tag Management.
For specific information about the Personal Data used for each purpose, the User may refer to the section “Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data”
DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
1. Analytics
· The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior. Google Analytics (Google Inc.)
· Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
· Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
· Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
· Place of processing: US - Privacy Policy - Opt out
2. Contacting the User
· Phone contact (This Website)
· Users that provided their phone number might be contacted for commercial or promotional purposes related to this Website, as well as for fulfilling support requests.
· Personal Data processed: phone number.
· Contact form (This Website)
· By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes this Website to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.
· Personal Data processed: email address; first name; last name.
Content commenting
· Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of this Website.
· Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments.
· If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when Users do not use the content commenting service.
· Disqus (Disqus)
· Disqus is a content commenting service provided by Big Heads Labs Inc.
· Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
· Place of processing: US - Privacy Policy - Opt out
Displaying content from external platforms
· This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Website and interact with them.
· This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
· Google Fonts (Google Inc.)
· Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
· Personal Data processed: Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
· Place of processing: US - Privacy Policy - Opt out
· Google Maps widget (Google Inc.)
· Google Maps is a maps visualization service provided by Google Inc. that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
· Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
· Place of processing: US - Privacy Policy - Opt out
· Gravatar (Automattic Inc.)
· Gravatar is an image visualization service provided by Automattic Inc. that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
· Please note that if Gravatar images are used for comment forms, the commenter's email address or parts of it may be sent to Gravatar - even if the commenter has not signed up for that service.
· Personal Data processed: email address; Usage Data.
· Place of processing: US - Privacy Policy - Opt out
· Instagram widget (Instagram, Inc.)
· Instagram is an image visualization service provided by Instagram, Inc. that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
· Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
· Place of processing: US - Privacy Policy - Opt out
· YouTube video widget (Google Inc.)
· YouTube is a video content visualization service provided by Google Inc. that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
· Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
· Place of processing: US - Privacy Policy - Opt out
Handling payments
· Payment processing services enable this Website to process payments by credit card, bank transfer or other means. To ensure greater security, this Website shares only the information necessary to execute the transaction with the financial intermediaries handling the transaction.
· Some of these services may also enable the sending of timed messages to the User, such as emails containing invoices or notifications concerning the payment.
· Stripe (Stripe Inc)
· Stripe is a payment service provided by Stripe Inc.
· Personal Data processed: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
· Place of processing: United States - Privacy Policy - Opt out
Infrastructure monitoring
· This type of service allows this Website to monitor the use and behavior of its components so its performance, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting can be improved.
· Which Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and mode of implementation of these services, whose function is to filter the activities of this Website.
· Uptime Robot (Buzpark Bilisim Tarim Urunleri Sanayi Tic. Ltd. Sti.)
· Uptime Robot is a monitoring service provided by Buzpark Bilisim Tarim Urunleri Sanayi Tic. Ltd. Sti.
· Personal Data processed: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
· Place of processing: Turkey - Privacy Policy
Interaction with external social networks and platforms
· This type of service allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this Website.
· The interaction and information obtained through this Website are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network.
· This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
· It is recommended to log out from the respective services in order to make sure that the processed data on this Website isn’t being connected back to the User’s profile.
· Facebook Like button and social widgets (Facebook, Inc.)
· The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook, Inc.
· Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
· Place of processing: US - Privacy Policy
· Google+ +1 button and social widgets (Google Inc.)
· The Google+ +1 button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Google+ social network provided by Google Inc.
· Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
· Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
· LinkedIn button and social widgets (LinkedIn Corporation)
· The LinkedIn button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the LinkedIn social network provided by LinkedIn Corporation.
· Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
· Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
· Pinterest “Pin it” button and social widgets (Pinterest)
· The Pinterest “Pin it” button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Pinterest platform provided by Pinterest Inc.
· Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
· Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
· Twitter Tweet button and social widgets (X Corp.)
· The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by Twitter, Inc.
· Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
· Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Managing contacts and sending messages
· This type of service makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the User.
· These services may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.
· Mailchimp (The Rocket Science Group, LLC.)
· Mailchimp is an email address management and message sending service provided by Intuit Inc.
· Personal Data processed: email address.
· Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
Platform services and hosting
· These services have the purpose of hosting and running key components of this Website, therefore allowing the provision of this Website from within a unified platform.
· Such platforms provide a wide range of tools to the Owner – e.g. analytics, user registration, commenting, database management, e-commerce, payment processing – that imply the collection and handling of Personal Data.
· Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored.
· Shopify (Shopify Inc.)
· Shopify is a platform provided by Shopify Inc. that allows the Owner to build, run and host an e-commerce website.
· Personal Data processed: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
· Place of processing: Canada – Privacy Policy.
SPAM protection
· This type of service analyzes the traffic of this Website, potentially containing Users' Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as SPAM.
· Google reCAPTCHA (Google Inc.)
· Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection service provided by Google Inc.
· The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google privacy policy and terms of use.
· Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
· Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
Tag Management
· This type of service helps the Owner to manage the tags or scripts needed on this Website in a centralized fashion.
· This results in the Users' Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data.
· Google Tag Manager (Google LLC)
· Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC.
· Personal Data processed: Usage Data.
· Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
Selling goods and services online
· The Personal Data collected are used to provide the User with services or to sell goods, including payment and possible delivery.
· The Personal Data collected to complete the payment may include the credit card, the bank account used for the transfer, or any other means of payment envisaged. The kind of Data collected by this Website depends on the payment system used.
FURTHER INFORMATION FOR USERS
Legal basis of processingThe Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies: Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes.
provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;
processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject; processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner;
processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.
In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Further information about retention time
Unless specified otherwise in this document, Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for and may be retained for longer due to applicable legal obligation or based on the Users’ consent.
Therefore:
Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the Owner.
The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to fulfil a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.
Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right of access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.
The rights of Users based on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by the Owner.
In particular, Users have the right to do the following, to the extent permitted by law:
Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data.
Object to processing of their Data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent.
Access their Data. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Owner, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing.
Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it.
Receive their Data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance.
Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.
Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis for Data transfers abroad including to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the Owner to safeguard their Data.
Details about the right to object to processing
Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection. Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time, free of charge and without providing any justification. Where the User objects to processing for direct marketing purposes, the Personal Data will no longer be processed for such purposes. To learn whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.
How to exercise these rights
Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. Such requests are free of charge and will be answered by the Owner as early as possible and always within one month, providing Users with the information required by law. Any rectification or erasure of Personal Data or restriction of processing will be communicated by the Owner to each recipient, if any, to whom the Personal Data has been disclosed unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. At the Users’ request, the Owner will inform them about those recipients.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING
Legal action
The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Owner in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Website or the related Services.
The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.
Additional information about User's Personal Data
In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Website may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.
System logs and maintenance
For operation and maintenance purposes, this Website and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this Website (System logs) or use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose.
Information not contained in this policy
More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.
Changes to this privacy policy
The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by notifying its Users on this page and possibly within this Website and/or - as far as technically and legally feasible - sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.
Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the User’s consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required.
Definitions and legal references
Personal Data (or Data)
Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
Usage Data
Information collected automatically through this Website (or third-party services employed in this Website), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this Website, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.
User
The individual using this Website who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.
Data Subject
The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.
Data Processor (or Processor)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.
Data Controller (or Owner)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Website. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this Website.
This Website (or this Application)
The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.
Service
The service provided by this Website as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.
European Union (or EU)
Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.
Cookie
Cookies are Trackers consisting of small sets of data stored in the User's browser.
Tracker
Tracker indicates any technology - e.g Cookies, unique identifiers, web beacons, embedded scripts, e-tags and fingerprinting - that enables the tracking of Users, for example by accessing or storing information on the User’s device.
Legal information
This privacy policy relates solely to this Website, if not stated otherwise within this document.