Privacy Policy

GfG insists you read and understand this Privacy Policy before exploring or interacting with the Website and before you donate. This Privacy Policy will help you understand how this Website uses and stores your information.

1. Definitions: In this Privacy Policy, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

  • ‘GfG’ stands for Giving for Good Foundation, a company incorporated under the provisions of section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013 having its registered office at Kalyani Nagar, Pune, Maharashtra.
  • ‘Website’ refers to www.givingforgood.org
  • ‘Personal Information’ for the purpose of this Policy includes the user’s personal information that can be used to uniquely identify or contact a single person including name, email address, residential address, phone number, photograph, donation/payment processing details and other information collected by GfG during your interaction with the Website and while donating. You have the option to not provide your Personal Information but note that this will restrain you from interacting with certain features/sections on the Website.

Fundamental Principles: This Privacy Policy is based on the following basic principles:

  • GfG is thoughtful about the Personal Information GfG requests you to provide and the Personal Information that GfG collects about you through your interactions on the Website.
  • GfG stores Personal Information as long as GfG has a reason to keep it.
  • GfG aims to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information on the Website is shared publicly (or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.
  • GfG aims for full transparency on how GfG collects, uses, and shares your Personal Information.

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2. Consent and Acceptance: By visiting the Website, you accept and agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. In particular, you consent to our collection, storage and usage of your general and Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

  • GfG is thoughtful about the Personal Information GfG requests you to provide and the Personal Information that GfG collects about you through your interactions on the Website.
  • GfG stores Personal Information as long as GfG has a reason to keep it.
  • GfG aims to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information on the Website is shared publicly (or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.
  • GfG aims for full transparency on how GfG collects, uses, and shares your Personal Information.

3. Consent and Acceptance: By visiting the Website, you accept and agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. In particular, you consent to our collection, storage and usage of your general and Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

4. Information Gathering and Use: GfG will not collect or store your Personal Information unless you provide it. GfG collects Personal Information from you in several ways when you interact with the Website, for example, when you:

  • donate through the Website;
  • sign up to stay updated on GfG activities;
  • fill and submit any form on the Website
  • contact GfG via email

5. Use of Personal Information: GfG uses the information you provide in the following ways:

  • To make sure GfG has an accurate record of all the donations GfG receives;
  • To update you via email with news, stories, and information about GfG and all related campaigns, only if you have agreed to this;
  • To make sure you are receiving the most appropriate and relevant information for you; and
  • To find out more about you and the people who visit the Website, donate, or join campaigns.

6. Privacy of email lists: Persons who join mailing lists of GfG via the Website or through campaigning engagements are added to an email database. GfG does not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease the email addresses on the said lists to any third party/company/agency.

7. Aggregated Statistics: GfG may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to the Website. For example, GfG may monitor the most popular posts on the Website and display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, GfG does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described in this Privacy Policy.

8. Cookie Policy: Cookies are pieces of electronic information sent by GfG when you use or access the Website. Cookies will be placed in the hard disk of your computer/laptop/mobile and enable GfG to recognize you as a user when you next visit the Website. You may configure your browser so that it responds to cookies the way you deem fit. This means that you can choose between accepting all cookies, rejecting all cookies, and getting notified when a cookie is sent. Please update your browser settings to modify cookie behavior as per your preference. Please note that if you disable the use of cookies on your web browser or remove or reject specific cookies from our website or linked sites, you may not be able to use the Website as intended.

9. Security & Protection of Data: GfG uses well-recognized payment technology for receipt of donation from you, including several layers of built-in security, an advanced firewall system, encryption of credit card numbers, and use of passwords thus protecting all information collected. Payment information is transferred using an SSL connection that offers the highest degree of security that your browser can support.

10. External Web Services: GfG uses several external web services to display content within web pages. For example, to display video, GfG uses YouTube. Regarding social buttons/handles, GfG has no control and cannot prevent these sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your use of the content embed on the Website. The Website contains links to other websites, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to such other websites. GfG is not expressly or impliedly responsible for or liable to any loss or damage caused to you by the collection, use and retention of Personal Information by such other websites in any manner whatsoever. You must review the privacy policies of such external websites you visit before you disclose any information to such websites.

11. Do not share your password with anyone. GfG suggests logging out of your account on the Website before exiting or switching tabs. As a safety precaution, you should also close your web browser entirely and re-open it before viewing other parts of the internet.

12. Modifications: The terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy may change from time to time without any prior notice to you. If such changes are made, GfG will notify you by a notice posted on the Website of the changes that have been made or by sharing an email to you. Those changes will be applicable from the date they were posted on our Website. If you disagree with the changes that have been made, you should not use this Website.

13. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Policy, GfG shall not be held responsible for any loss, damage, or misuse of any type of information you provide to GfG, if such loss, damage or misuse is due to or arising out of a Force Majeure Event. A &quote;Force Majeure Event&quote; refers to any event that is beyond our reasonable control and includes without limitation, fire, flood, explosion, acts of God, civil commotion, strikes, lockouts, riots, terrorist attacks, war, acts of government, power failure, short circuit, computer hacking, unauthorised access to computer data and storage device, system failure, virus, attacks, bugs, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption.

14. Contact: If you have any questions at all about our Privacy Policy, please write to us at: hello@givingforgood.org

15. Grievance officer: Uddhav Daware, grievance@givingforgood.org

16. This Privacy Policy is governed by and to be interpreted in accordance with laws of India, without regard to the choice or conflicts of law provisions of any jurisdiction. You agree, in the event of any dispute arising in relation to this Privacy Policy or any dispute arising in relation to the Website, to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located at Pune, India for the resolution of all such disputes.