What information about you do we collect? How do we use it?
Visitors to our website – Non-personally identifiable information
As you browse www.indusaction.org, we collect general user information on an aggregate basis that does not contain personally identifiable information. We use this information to understand how the site is used and how we can improve it. Similar to various other sites, Indus Action site uses standard technology called “cookies” and web server logs to collect information. Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognise the computer used to access a site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s web browser on the user’s hard drive. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the sites visited just before and just after our site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual. You can disable cookies on your computer by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your browser. However, it is possible that some parts of our site will not operate correctly if you disable cookies.We may use services hosted by third parties, such as Google Analytics, to assist in providing our services and to help us understand how the site is used. These services may collect information sent by a browser as part of a web page request, including IP addresses or cookies. If these third party services collect information, they do so anonymously and in the aggregate to provide information helpful to us such as website trends, without identifying individual visitors. Please read the paragraph above for information on how you can control the use of cookies on your computer.
Subscribers of our newsletter – Personally identifiable information
Visitors to our site may also choose to knowingly disclose personally identifiable information (e.g. name, organisation, email address), which is collected on an individual basis as visitors sign up for our email newsletter or apply for funding. We respect your privacy and do not sell or rent email addresses. We use your personally identifiable information for specific, limited purposes – to send newsletters, and reply to your communications. If you are no longer interested in receiving Indus Action communications, simply opt out by clicking the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of our email newsletters.
Donations to Indus Action.
On our website, you may be interested to donate through the services of a third-party payment gateway provider. You understand, agree, and acknowledge that our website never receives your personal data that you provide to the third-party payment gateway. Your personal data will be dealt with by a third-party payment gateway provider in accordance with their respective privacy policies and other terms and conditions; and we shall not be liable, accountable or responsible for your personal data that you provide to the third-party payment gateway provider.
Data Security
We take reasonable steps to maintain the security of the personally identifiable information that we collect. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us, so you do so at your own risk. If you have any questions, comments, rights request, or complaints, please contact us at technology@indusaction.org