Giving to Heal Africa
Heal Africa is committed to protecting your privacy. The following will provide you with a thorough understanding of our privacy policy.
- When you visit our website we collect some non-identifying basic information. This includes number of visitors to our site, total pages viewed, and other non-identifying information. We use this nonidentifying information to improve our communications with you.
- When you make a donation to HEAL Africa by check, ACH, or mail communication we record the available information such as name, address, phone number, email address, date of birth, program interests to provide a receipt for your gift and keep you informed about our program. This information becomes part of our secure third- party donor data base.
- When you make a donation on-line through third party entities they obtain certain information. Some of that information is transferred to HEAL Africa and to our secure third-party donor data base (This may include for example, your name, address, daytime phone, e-mail address).We use your information to process your donation(s), to provide a receipt(s), and to keep you informed about our program.
- HEAL Africa will discontinue contacting any person upon that personâs oral or written request received by HEAL Africa.
- We do not knowingly collect any personal information from a child without the consent of the childâs parent(s). Children under the age of 13 should obtain parental consent before ordering from or donating through our site.
- When you visit our website we collect some non-identifying basic information. This includes number of visitors to our site, total pages viewed, and other non-identifying information. We use this nonidentifying information to improve our communications with you.
- When you make a donation to HEAL Africa by check, ACH, or mail communication we record the available information such as name, address, phone number, email address, date of birth, program interests to provide a receipt for your gift and keep you informed about our program. This information becomes part of our secure third- party donor data base.
- When you make a donation on-line through third party entities they obtain certain information. Some of that information is transferred to HEAL Africa and to our secure third-party donor data base (This may include for example, your name, address, daytime phone, e-mail address).We use your information to process your donation(s), to provide a receipt(s), and to keep you informed about our program.
- HEAL Africa will discontinue contacting any person upon that personâs oral or written request received by HEAL Africa.
- We do not knowingly collect any personal information from a child without the consent of the childâs parent(s). Children under the age of 13 should obtain parental consent before ordering from or donating through our site.
- It is our policy not to sell, trade, or rent your personal information to anyone. We reserve the right to change our policy at any time. If we choose to change our policy, you will be given the option to remove your name from our database.
- Our site has public forums such as message boards. We may use the information posted on the message board in HEAL Africaâs marketing efforts. Please remember that any information disclosed on these areas becomes public information that may be used by outside parties who do not need our consent. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information.
- We use a third-party financial institution to process our credit card transactions. They receive the credit card number and other personal information of our donors only to verify credit card numbers and to process credit card transactions in a secure environment.
- The HEAL Africa website has a link to PayPal which uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) online technology, which encrypts the data you provide. This means that sensitive information, such as your credit card number, becomes unreadable to anyone who wrongly intercepts the information. SSL is supported by all major Web browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Netscape Navigator. When you are in a secure area, the address bar at the top of your window will indicate âhttpsâ as opposed to âhttp.â PayPal collects your name, address, phone, credit card number and expiration date in order to process your transaction. Their encryption technology offers the highest level of security. They have state-of-the-art firewalls and other security technology in place to insure the confidentiality of your transactions.
Questions
Please contact us here with any questions you may have about our privacy policy or use of your personal information. You also contact us by writing or calling:
HEAL Africa - USA
P.O. Box 545
Caledonia, MI 49316