Innocent Children’s Relief Fund
Website Privacy Policy
Introduction
Innocent Children’s Relief Fund (“Company” or “We“) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This privacy policy indicates how the ICRF uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website icrfoundations.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 and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications include links to this policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by ICRF or any third party (including our affiliates); or
- Any third party(including our affiliates including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Data Protection & User Privacy Guidelines
2.1 Information Collection: SYNERGIA PLUS may collect and store personal information voluntarily provided by users. This might include names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other related details users choose to provide.
2.2 Use of Information: The collected information is primarily used to enhance the Website’s offerings, respond to user inquiries, process donations, send updates about SYNERGIA PLUS’s activities, and for internal record-keeping. SYNERGIA PLUS is committed to ensuring that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.
2.3 Cookies: The Website may use cookies to enhance the user experience, track visitors, and collect statistical data for optimization purposes. Cookies do not access personal information but are instrumental in offering a personalized browsing experience.
2.4 Third Parties: SYNERGIA PLUS does not sell, rent, or lease user information to third parties. Any third-party involvement, such as payment processors, will be disclosed and will adhere to strict confidentiality terms.
2.5 Data Security: SYNERGIA PLUS implements security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information.
2.6 User’s Rights: Users have the right to request details of their stored personal information and amend or delete it if necessary.
Children Under the Age of 16
Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. 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 office@icrfoundations.org.
Slovakia residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Slovakia Privacy Rights for more information.
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:
- By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier or personal information which you voluntarily provide. We may use that information to contact you online or offline (“personal information”);
- That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
- About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
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.
- From third parties, for example, our business partners.
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, volunteering, making a donation 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.
- Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your donations. You may be required to provide financial information before making a donation through our Website.
- Your search queries on the Website.
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, 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 (behavioral tracking). Click here for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this website 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 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. Our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
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. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the Chapter and Medical Volunteer Forms). For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
- To our 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 and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of ICRF’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by ICRF about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
- To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented tot of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our terms of use
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of ICRF, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Your rights:
- You have the right to ensure your personal information is accurate. To make changes to your contact information, or to opt out of receiving marketing communications, please contact us as described above. You have the right to request that we delete your personal information. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information and/or to access your personal information.
- If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal information, you can contact us by email, phone or post (details above) and we will investigate the matter and respond to you promptly. If you are not satisfied with our response, you can complain to any applicable data privacy authority in your country of residence.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or about ICRF’s handling of your information, please contact us through communication to this email address: office@icrfoundations.org
CONSENT TO TRANSFER
THIS SITE IS OPERATED IN SLOVAKIA. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE SLOVAKIA, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANY DATA YOU PROVIDE TO US WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO SLOVAKIA. THIS LOCATION MAY PROVIDE A LOWER LEVEL OF PROTECTIONS AS THOSE IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY. BY USING THE SITE, YOU CONSENT TO THIS TRANSFER, RETENTION, AND PROCESSING OF YOUR INFORMATION IN SLOVAKIA AND WITH OUR PARTNERS AND THIRD PARTIES OUTSIDE SLOVAKIA.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
- ICRF does not currently employ a process for automatically responding to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals sent by web browsers, mobile devices, or other mechanisms. Per industry standards, third parties may be able to collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites or online services when you use this website. You may opt out of online behavioral ads at http://www.aboutads.info/choices.
- Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your information or by sending us an email stating your request to office@icrfoundations.org. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.
- This opt out does not apply to information provided to ICRF as a result of a donation.
- You can use this service to learn more about your choices: https://www.youronlinechoices.com/ and https://www.allaboutcookies.org/
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
Slovakia residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Slovakia Privacy Rights
for more information.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You may send us an email at office@icrfoundations.org to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Slovakia residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Slovakia Privacy Rights for more information.
Slovakia Privacy Rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable Slovak laws, residents of Slovakia have specific rights regarding their personal data.
Right of Access: You have the right to request details about the personal data we hold about you and how we process it.
Right to Rectification: If you believe the personal data we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request its correction.
Right to Erasure (‘Right to be Forgotten’): Under certain circumstances, you can request the deletion of your personal data from our records.
Right to Restriction of Processing: You can ask us to temporarily halt the processing of your personal data under specific conditions.
Right to Data Portability: You can ask us to provide your personal data in a structured, commonly-used, and machine-readable format or you may request its transfer to another data controller.
Right to Object: You can object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions, especially in cases where data processing is based on our legitimate interests or for direct marketing.
Right related to Automated Decision Making and Profiling: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which has a legal or similarly significant effect on you.
If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us using the information provided on our website. We will respond to your request in accordance with GDPR requirements.
Additionally, if you believe that our processing of your personal data is in violation of the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Slovak Data Protection Authority or another supervisory authority within the European Union.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: office@icrfoundations.org .
or via our toll-free number: +421-915-546501
To register a complaint or concern, please call us or email us at office@icrfoundations.org