🔒 PRIVACY POLICY

🧾 1. Collection of information

We only collect data necessary for our humanitarian missions and the management of our services.
Information may include:

Name, first name
Email address and phone number
Mailing address (if applicable)
Payment Information for Donations
Data submitted via forms (contact, volunteering, donations, etc.)

We do not collect any sensitive data without your explicit consent.

💡 2. Use of data

Your information is only used for:

Manage your donations and send you a contribution receipt.
Respond to your requests or questions.
To inform you about our programs, activities and campaigns.
Improve our services and user experience on our site.

We do not sell, trade, or rent any personal data to third parties.

🔐 3. Protection and security

We implement technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure.
All financial transactions are secured via SSL protocol (https).

📦 4. Data retention

🍪 5. Cookies and tracking

🤝 6. Sharing data

Your personal information is retained only for the period necessary to achieve our objectives or as required by applicable legal obligations.

Having said that, a privacy policy is a statement that discloses some or all of the ways a website collects, uses, discloses, processes, and manages the data of its visitors and customers. It usually also includes a statement regarding the website's commitment to protecting its visitors' or customers' privacy, and an explanation about the different mechanisms the website is implementing in order to protect privacy.

Different jurisdictions have different legal obligations of what must be included in a Privacy Policy. You are responsible to make sure you are following the relevant legislation to your activities and location.

Generally speaking, a Privacy Policy often addresses these types of issues: the types of information the website is collecting and the manner in which it collects the data; an explanation about why is the website collecting these types of information; what are the website's practices on sharing the information with third parties; ways in which your visitors and customers can exercise their rights according to the relevant privacy legislation; the specific regarding practices minors' data collection; and much, much more.

To learn more about this, check out our article “ Creating a Privacy Policy ”.

📨 7. Your rights

In accordance with current regulations, you have rights over your data:

Right of access, rectification and deletion.
Right to object to the processing of your data.
Right to portability of your information.

📧 To exercise your rights, contact us at: [DEPV email address]

📅 8. Updates to this policy

💬 Contact

To learn more about this, check out our article “ Creating a Privacy Policy ”.