Future For Africa is committed to ensuring the privacy of all our users. This Privacy Policy governs all pages on the domain future4afrika.org. The Future For Africa Website (the “Website”) may be linked to the websites of such other parties, but those other sites may have their own privacy policies which apply to them.
By using the Website, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy.Future For Africa . may change the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time and, if such changes are made, we will notify you of those changes by contacting you if appropriate or publishing the updated Privacy Notice on our website. Your continued use of the Website will be on the terms of this Privacy Policy as amended from time to time.
The type and amount of information we receive and store depends on how you use the Website. You can access most of the pages on the Website without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. Our web servers collect anonymous logs during user visits to the Website. This information may be used to create aggregate statistics about how the Website is used (see our Cookies Notice below for more information about this).
We do not collect personal information (such as your name, e-mail address or country of residence) on the Website unless you choose to provide it. For example, where you express an interest in subscribing to our email updates or make a donation.
By subscribing to our email updates, you have provided us with your consent to process your personal data and send you marketing information.
When donating, we collect the following data: donor name, acknowledgement name, amount donated, address, telephone number, and email address.
Where you have provided your consent for your personal information to be processed by Future For Africa.and its service providers, it will be done in a secure environment and only used in connection with the purposes for which it is submitted. At Future For Africa . we process personal data in order to send you email updates about the work we are doing, marketing information or as necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations.
Donor information is used for internal purposes only. Future For Africa . does not sell or lease donor information. Donor information will only be used by Future For Africa .’s staff to:
To be informed of Future For Africa’s mission, of the way it intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for its intended purposes.
To be informed of the identity of those serving on Future For Africa. Board of Directors and to expect the Board to exercise prudent judgment in its stewardship responsibilities.
To be assured their gifts will be used by Future For Africa. for the purposes for which they were given.
To receive appropriate acknowledgement and recognition of all contributions to Future For Africa.
To be assured that information about their donations is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.
To be assured that their contact information will not be used if so chosen by the donor.
To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organization or hired solicitors.
To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.
If you have additional questions about Future For Africa. or its Donor Privacy Policy, please send an email to: info@future4afrika.org.
We may collect information about you directly whenever you interact with us. For example, when you contact Future For Africa regarding our activities, register as a supporter, send or receive information, engage with our social media or make a donation to us, you may provide us with your personal information.
We may also receive information about you when you interact with third parties with whom we work. For example, where you’ve made a donation to us through a third-party website (e.g., gofundme ) and given them permission to share your information with us.
We may supplement what we know about you with information that is available to the public. For example, in order to ensure that our communication with you is relevant and tailored to your background and interests, we may collect information about you from publicly-available sources either directly or through third-party subscription services or service providers. See ‘How will we combine and analyse the information we collect about you?’ for more detail. We may also carry out research using publicly available information to identify individuals who have an affinity to our cause but with whom we are not already in touch.
We may collect aggregated or anonymous information when you visit our website or interact with our content. For example, we may collect information about the services you use and how you use them, like when you watch a video on YouTube, visit our website or view and interact with our ads and content. Please see our Cookie Policy for more detail.
The information we collect from you directly or from third parties with whom we work, may include:
We may also collect and process information about your interactions with us, including details about our contacts with you through email, SMS, post, on the phone or in person (i.e., the date, time, and method of contact), details about donations you make to us, events or activities that you register for or attend and any other support you provide to us. We may also collect and record any other relevant information you share with us about yourself, including your interests or your affiliations with other charities, community groups, your employer or a Future For Africa corporate partner. If you are a minor, we may collect the name and contact details of a parent or guardian and, where appropriate, the name and location of your school.
In order to ensure that our communication with you is relevant and tailored to your background and interests, we may supplement what we know about you with information that is available to the public. This allows us to better understand your interests, preferences, and level of potential engagement and/or donation, so that we can contact you in the most appropriate way and to ensure that we do not send you unwanted communications. The information we collect and process about you from publicly-available sources may include demographic information associated with your postcode or your address and an estimate of your age. We may collect this information ourselves or through third-party service providers. For more information on how we work with service providers, please see ‘How will we disclose the information we have collected to outside parties?’.
Where we have identified that you may have the capacity or affinity to support Future For Africa at a higher level, we may use the information we hold about you to identify connections between you and our existing circle of key supporters. We may review other information about you that is available to the public through internet searches, social networks, such as LinkedIn, subscription services, news archives or public databases (e.g., Companies House, the electoral, political and property registers), such as information about corporate directorships, shareholdings, published biographic information, employment and earnings, philanthropic interests and networks, charitable giving history and motivations and relevant media coverage, so that we can engage with you in a more personalised way.
The information you provide will not be sold. Where necessary, we will share your information with our service providers. Otherwise, we shall only share your personal information if we are required to disclose it by law.
If you choose to email us directly using the ‘Contact us’ facility, we have a legitimate interest to process your personal information for the purposes of reply or to forward to the appropriate Future For Africa. department. E-mail addresses are not otherwise retained. E-mail addresses are not passed to any third party.
We will hold your personal information for as long as you continue to subscribe to our mailing list. Any e-mail we send you will enable you to opt out of receiving further e-mails from us. If you choose to unsubscribe from receiving further emails, we will immediately stop sending you any communications and we will remove your personal information from our system within six months. You can also request that we remove you from our mailing lists by contacting info@future4afrika.org.
The collection and use of personal information on this site is in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
You have rights of access to personal information that we hold about you, to correct or delete that information or, in some circumstances, to object to our processing of your information, under data privacy law. If you wish to exercise any of these rights or have any questions about this policy, please contact info@future4afrika.org
A cookie is a text-only piece of information that a website transfers to your web browser so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will normally contain the name of the Internet domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
Future For Africa uses cookies and analysis software for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. For example, measuring how many people are using each page of the website and for how long so that we can try to improve the quality of our website.
This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you.
By using our Website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. To prevent the download of cookies, or otherwise control how cookies are used on your computer, please read the help information supplied with your Internet browser software, go to www.allaboutcookies.org, or read further instructions below.
The Website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site. This analytical tool uses ‘cookies’, which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the Website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Future For Africa.
Future For Africawill not (and will not allow any third party) to use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool.
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither Future For Africa nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.
By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. See Google’s Analytics overview for further information.
Future For Africa uses first party Google Analytics cookies to collect anonymous information about visitors’ behaviour on the website. This information is used to create remarketing audiences based on specific behaviour, demographic, and interest data. These lists are shared with Google Ads.
These audiences can then be targeted by online advertising through Google Ads when visitors are browsing Google or its partner websites.
Future For Africa will not (and will not allow any third party) to use Google Analytics or Google Ads to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our website.
Find out how to opt out of personalised online advertising.
This Website uses a Facebook cookie which creates a link between your visit to this Website and Facebook. This helps us to show users relevant content on Facebook and to learn how users are interacting with our content on Facebook. Facebook will collect data to enable this. Information on how Facebook handles its users’ data can be found here. See below for information on how to disable this cookie.
To enrich our content, we sometimes embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube or Twitter. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Twitter, these sites may set a cookie.
This Website also has ‘share’ buttons to enable users of the site to easily share articles with their friends through social networks, for example, Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service.
Future For Africa does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third-party website for more information about these.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings on your browser.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of this Website.
To disable cookies if you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer: Click on ‘Tools’ in the top menu, then on Internet Options, then on the tab marked ‘Privacy’; Move the slider to the position corresponding to the level of cookie acceptance/denial acceptable to you.
To remove existing cookies if you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer: Click on ‘Tools’ in the top menu, then on Internet Options; In the section marked ‘Browsing History’, click on ‘Delete…’; In the section marked ‘Cookies’ click on ‘Delete cookies’; Click on ‘Yes’ or hit the ‘Enter’ key.
To disable cookies in other browsers see the links below:
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Other browsers have similar cookie management abilities in their settings, please refer to your browser’s ‘Help’ facility.
Find more detailed information on disabling cookies here: www.aboutcookies.org
