The Bangura Foundation respects the privacy of our website visitors and service users; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect, store, and use the following kinds of personal information:
- Information you provide when registering with our website (including your name, email address, postal address, telephone numbers).
- Information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any donations, service subscriptions, or purchases you make of our goods or services.
- Information that you provide for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications, and/or newsletters.
- Information about your use of our services such as educational programs, participation in awareness campaigns, leadership workshops, community projects, and fundraising events.
- Any other information that you choose to send to us; and
- Usage data about how you use our website and services.
2. Using Your Personal Information
Personal information submitted to us will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or on relevant parts of the website. We may use your personal information to:
- Administer the website;
- Improve your browsing experience;
- Enable your use of the services available on the website;
- Send you goods purchased or deliver services purchased;
- Send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments;
- Send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications;
- Send you email notifications which you have specifically requested;
- Send you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our projects and causes which we think may be of interest to you, where you have specifically agreed to this;
- Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
- Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website;
- Keep the website secure and prevent fraud;
- Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of the website.
3. Disclosures
We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.
In addition, we may disclose your personal information:
- To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
- In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
- To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
4. Security of Your Personal Information
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information. We will store all the personal information you provide on secure servers. All electronic transactions entered into via the website will be protected by encryption technology.
5. Policy Amendments
We may update this privacy policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.
6. Your Rights
You may request us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information will be subject to:
- The payment of a fee (if legally permissible); and
- The supply of appropriate evidence of your identity.
7. Third Party Websites
The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.
8. Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
9. Contact Information
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write to us by email to +23272615952 or by post to 1 Hannah Benka-Coker Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone