Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: projectsforngo.com
This is a blog about NGOs, specifically targeted towards Indian NGOs. However, most content here will be applicable and useful for NGOs in general.

For more information, visit About Us.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Contact form data may be used to send you emails and updates about blog posts and activities on the website. You may choose to opt out of this any time.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

For more information on cookies, read our Cookie Policy.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

This site makes use of various analytics services, some of which can track information about users such as location, age groups, gender, interests, etc. This data is obtained from third party services to have better insights. It enables us to create more appropriate content.

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data with any third parties. The user data is utilized to have better insights about the demographics of the users visiting the website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Additional information

How we protect your data and What data breach procedures we have in place

We do not deal with any third parties interested in the collected user data, the communications regarding the data, for the most part, are controlled to remain between the users and us. That being said, due to the limitations of the current internet trends and practices, we don’t have control over third-party cookies. The various cookies used for advertisement and social media targeting are used by their respective issuers.

What third parties we receive data from

We mainly receive data available from Search Engines and Social Media sites. In particular, the demographics data from sites such as Google, Facebook, Linked in, Instagram, etc.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

User data may be used to plan future decisions regarding the content and usage of the site. This includes, but is not limited to, blog posts on various trending topics, additional features and services etc.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

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