Privacy & Cookies Policy How we collect, store and use your personal data. We couldn’t do any of our essential work without supporters like you. Whether it’s signing up for our monthly email newsletters, buying tickets to our fundraising events, generously giving financial donations, getting behind our campaigns and volunteering your time, or being bold advocates of our work – your support means everything. The information you provide helps us to carry out this work, and allows us to let you know about the difference your support and generosity makes to the lives of the young women in our care. This is why we’d love you to opt-in to hear from us. OMID promises to protect and respect your privacy. This is our Privacy Policy, relating to our website, use of emails and other online communications, for marketing purposes, and any other ways we collect information. It covers how we process any personal information you provide to us, as well as how we’re committed to keeping it safe and managing it in line with data protection laws. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as it contains important information about how we protect, use and process any personal information you give to us. We aim to be clear when we collect your data and not do anything with the data you wouldn’t reasonably expect. How And When We Will Collect Your Personal Data There are a number of occasions when we might reasonably collect information from you. These include: If you let us know you’re interested in supporting OMID. If you give us any information on our website, in writing, face-to-face, by chatting to us on social media or over the phone. If you register an interest in, or apply for, a job vacancy or volunteering opportunity. If you ask for information or assistance from us or raise a query. If you give us your details when you make a financial donation. If you use any other new and exciting features on our website that might sometimes require you to provide more information. From our website when you sign-up to our newsletter, make a donation, buy from our shop or complete the contact us form here is the core information we collect: First Name Last name Email Address Zip code / Postal Code Country If you donate online, buy from our shop or support our special appeals, you will also be providing payment details, which are processed via a secure third party transactional website. We do have a Secure Server Licence (SSL Certificate). We do not store your payment details on our own website. Children’s Information Our website is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 14 without the agreement or involvement of a parent or guardian as it sometimes contains some graphic stories that some may find upsetting. Cookies Like most websites, we use ‘cookies’ to help us improve how we create, and how you use, our website. Cookies are small text files this site can use to recognize and record trends and repeat visitors, and allow us to compile aggregate data to help us improve this site for you and our other visitors. Cookies mean that a website will remember you, and can obtain an overall view of visitor habits and volumes to our website. They can make interacting with a website faster and easier. Other site activity may be monitored through the use of cookies. Cookies do not record your personal data. We do not use advertising or profiling cookies on our website. The omidfoundation.com site currently uses cookies to collect visitor information for Google Analytics, cookies to determine whether or not items are in a visitor’s shopping cart, and cookies to select the appropriate currency based on a visitor’s location. Our website contains article links to other websites that we believe may be of interest to you. This Privacy Policy only applies to our own website, so if you link to another website, we recommend you read the privacy policy of that website before sharing any personal or financial data. How We Will Communicate With You We will contact you so we can update you on news about our innovative programs, about campaigns to get involved with, ways to financially support our unique work, stories from the young women in our care, and other news we think you’d be interested in. You can unsubscribe from these communications at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link provided in every email we send you or by contacting us at info@omidfoundation.com. We may, however, still contact you in relation to your status as a potential donor, including to verify and update your details, or about any other information you may have specifically requested from us. We will never pass on your information to other companies or charities for their own marketing purposes. How We Retain Your Personal Information Any personal information you provide to us will be retained by us in accordance with applicable laws. We will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify personal information we hold if it’s no longer needed for the purposes set out above. However, if you do choose to share your information with us publicly (for example, photos or footage on social media), then it’s possible that other people may have copied this information during the time that it was live, and therefore use of it is beyond our control. Your data is securely stored. Our systems are Swiss Shield secure and Can-Spam and GDPR compliant. We also rely on some third party transactional websites like PayPal, CAF Donate, Virgin Giving and Crowdrise, to process your payments. You may also wish to consult their own privacy and data policies, to find out how they will use and store your personal data. Your Rights Of Access To Your Personal Data (for EU citizens) We want to make sure you’re in control of how we use and keep your information. You can request copies of your personal information that we hold, and details of how we use it, at any time. If you think anything is inaccurate, then you can ask for it to be corrected or erased. You can request an electronic copy of your personal information to be sent to you, or another organization. You also have the right to stop us processing your personal information, and/or withdraw your agreement to us processing it based on ‘consent’, unless we have a legal justification for doing so. You can request copies of your personal information that we hold at any time. Questions If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or if you’d like to request of copy of the information we hold about you, you can contact our Data Protection Officer at the address below, or email info@omidfoundation.com Address: 5817 Edson Lane, Unit T3 North Bethesda, MD 20852-2906, USA. Complaints If you have any concerns or complaints as to how we have handled your personal information, please don’t hesitate to get in touch or consult the Data Protection advisory body relevant to your country or write to info@omifoundation.com Updating this policy This Privacy Policy was last updated on 1 January 2019. We will keep it under review and make updates from time to time. If we make any significant changes to the way we treat your personal information, we will make this clear on the Omidfoundation.com website or by contacting you directly.