Thank you for visiting our website and reviewing our online privacy policy. This online privacy policy (“Policy”) describes Global WaSH’s privacy practices for visitors to our website located at www.globalwash.org (“Site”), including what types of information we gather and track, how we use the information, and with whom we share the information. This Policy covers only privacy practices with respect to information and data we collect online and does not apply to any of our practices conducted offline. Global WaSH website is a non-profit organization site. By using the Global WaSH website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
If you choose to register with us, make a donation, or use certain features and functions of our Site, we ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information. Whether or not you elect to provide personally identifiable information is completely your own choice. However, if you choose not to provide the information requested, you may be unable to access certain services and content on our Site.
For instance, to make donations or if your register for a Site feature (newsletter or events) Global WaSH may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
– First and Last Name
– Mailing Address
– E-mail Address
– Phone Number
If you make a donation through Global WaSH’s website, we will also collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the donation transaction.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for our newsletter; (b) entering a contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when sending a donation or ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. We will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of your Personal Information
Global WaSH may use your personally identifiable information for our own business and administrative purposes, such as responding to your questions or comments, identifying areas of user interest, and coordinating volunteer opportunities.
The non-personally identifiable information we collect is used to monitor use of and improve our Site as well as for internal analysis. In particular, IP addresses are used to diagnose problems with the server on which this information is stored, analyze trends and statistics, administer our Site, track visitors’ movement, gather information to improve visitors’ online experience, and to facilitate their visit within the Site.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Global WaSH will not rent or sell your personally identifiable information.
Global WaSH may share data with trusted partners to provide certain services for our Site for administrative support, such as credit card transactions, volunteer registration, and tracking traffic on our Site. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Global WaSH, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Global WaSH only shares your personally identifiable information with organizations that work on Global WaSH’s behalf. For instance, we may disclose your name and address to Global WaSH committees of the grant makers or organizations that operate to promote our mission and conduct fundraising efforts on our behalf. These committees will have access to such information solely for activities approved in advance by us.
Global WaSH may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Global WaSH or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Global WaSH; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Global WaSH, or the public.
Automatically Collected Information
You can visit many of our Web pages without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. When you visit our Site, we log general data, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the name of the Web page from which you entered our Site, which pages you visit on our Site, the actions you take during your visit to a particular page (for example, any links you click), and how much time you spend on each page. Your IP address is not linked to your personally identifiable information, and you will remain anonymous unless you voluntarily tell us who you are.
Privacy of Children
Our Site is directed towards adults. Global WaSH does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, Global WaSH may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, surveys, invitations to one of our events, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Global WaSH or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Global WaSH, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.
Changes to this Statement
Global WaSH reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information
Global WaSH welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Global WaSH has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Global WaSH at:
Global WaSH
2950 Unity Drive. Unit 37465. Houston, Texas 77057
Email Address: info@globalwash.org
Updated as of May, 14 2021