1. Introduction

At Illuminating Lives Foundation, we are committed to maintaining the accuracy, confidentiality and security of your personal information. Illuminating Lives Foundation has adopted this Privacy Policy in order to address the specific privacy concerns of users of our websites or donors to projects listed on our website. This Privacy Policy applies to how we collect, use and disclose the personal information of those individuals who visit our website.

2. Review/Modification of This Privacy Policy

This Policy is current as of the effective date set forth above. However, Illuminating Lives Foundation may update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary. We solely advise you to continually check and review any updated terms and policy on our site. Your continual use and access to the site and/or our services indicates an acceptance to the new policy.

If you do not agree with our policies, or our terms and conditions of website use, please stop using this website as your continuous use of this website will constitute acceptance by you of both our cookie policy, our privacy policy and of our website terms and conditions of use.

We take our obligations and responsibilities seriously and our policies are compliant with the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). For the purposes of the DPA, Illuminating Lives Foundation is the ‘data controller’.

3. Your Consent is Important to Us

You may change or withdraw your consent to receipt of ministry services at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice, by contacting us at info@illuminatinglivesfoundation.org. Or info@alumbrandovidas.org All communications with respect to such withdrawal or variation of consent must be in writing, and it may take us up to 30 days to process your withdrawal of consent. Please note that in some circumstances.

4. Information About Us

Illuminating Lives Foundation is a Christian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) registered in the United States (******). Our registered office address is at P.O. Box 2624 New York, NY 10108.

5. What Information Do We Collect?

Automatic information collection

You can visit our website without telling us who you are or revealing personal information about yourself, including your e-mail address. Our web server may collect information related to your visit to our website, such as IP address and domain used to access our website; browser type, the website you came from to access our website, the page you entered and exited at, any website page within our website that is viewed by that IP address and the country where you are located. We use this information to monitor our website’s performance (such as number of visits, average time spent, page views, etc.) and for our operational purposes, such as working to continually upgrade our website.  See our ‘Cookies Policy’ to further understand automatic collection of non-personal information described above.

Personal Information

In addition, we collect the personal information that you submit to our website, which we operate or have access to, such as your name, address and any other contact or other information that you choose to provide. Collection may occur, for example, when you:

Use the “contact” portion of our website to:

• Create a personal account;
• Make a donation, resulting in an appropriate receipt or acknowledgement;
• Receive and review online information about our Organization and projects;
• Apply to volunteer through our website;
• Contact a representative of Illuminating Lives Foundation.

Where you request information from us, we may use the e-mail address that you provide to send you information about our Organization and resources that may be of interest to you. If you have agreed to receive communications from us, such as by e-mail, you may ask us to remove you from the list at any time (using the unsubscribe instructions provided with each e-mail).

6. How We Use Your Data

We may use your data for the following purposes:

1. Identification and authentication: We use your data to verify you when you access your account.
2. Operating our services: We use your data to provide our services, provide customer support, and to otherwise comply with our contractual obligations to you. We (and/or our third-party vendors) use your financial information to process payment made by you.
3. Communicating with you: We use your data when we communicate with you (e.g., when we respond to a customer support or other inquiry).
4. Improving our services: We use your data to understand how our services are being used and how we can improve them. In general, we analyze aggregated data, rather than specific user data. We may, however, need to analyze a specific case to address a specific problem.
5. Exercising our rights: Where reasonably necessary, we use your data to exercise our legal rights and prevent abuse of our service. For example, we may use your data to detect and prevent fraud, spam, or content that violates our Terms and Conditions.
6. Legal compliance: We use your data where we are legally required to do so. For example, we may need to gather your data to respond to a subpoena or court order.
7. How We Share Your Data

We share data with third parties as follows:

1. With your consent: We may share your data with third parties where we have obtained your express consent to do so.
2. Authorized entities: We may share your data with third-party vendors that help us operate our services, and comply with your instructions and our obligations. This includes payment processors, content delivery networks (CDNs), cloud-based hosting services, monitoring services, email service providers, quality assurance and testing vendors, fraud and abuse prevention vendors, and necessary government agencies to support our humanitarian services.
3. Analytics: We may share your data with analytics providers which help us understand how customers are using our services.
4. Affiliates and advisors: We may share your data with our auditors and advisors for planning, financial reporting, accounting, auditing, tax filings, and legal compliance. We may share your data with our affiliates to the extent necessary to provide you with the services ordered.
5. Certain legal situations: We may share your data where we believe disclosure is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or in connection with a corporate transaction.
6. Aggregated or anonymized information: We may publicly disclose non-personal aggregated or anonymized information such as our number of visitors and registered users, or numbers of donors to a project.

Please note that we may collect, use or disclose your personal information without your knowledge or consent where we are permitted or required by applicable law or regulatory requirements to do so.

8. How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Information?

We retain personal information for as long as we reasonably require it for legal purposes. In determining data retention periods, Illuminating Lives Foundation takes into consideration local laws, contractual obligations, and the expectations and requirements of groupings of individuals based on the nature of their relationship with Illuminating Lives Foundation.

9. Your Privacy Choices

You are entitled to the following rights under applicable laws:

1. The right to access: you may at any time request to access your personal data. Upon request, we will provide a copy of your personal data in a commonly used electronic form.
2. The right to rectification: you are entitled to obtain rectification of inaccurate personal data and to have incomplete personal data completed.

• The right to erasure: under certain circumstances (including processing on the basis of your consent), you may request us to delete your User Data. Please note that this right is not unconditional. Therefore, an attempt to invoke the right might not lead to an action from us.

1. The right to object: to certain processing activities conducted by us in relation to your personal data, such as our processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interest. The right to object also applies to processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

10. Communications from Us

Emails

If you create an account, you may receive commercial emails from us. This includes newsletters and offers. You may always opt out from receiving commercial messages by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the emails you receive.

Protecting Your Information

We use physical, technical, and organizational security measures to safeguard your data from unauthorized or accidental disclosure. Despite these efforts, no information system can be 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

Users also have a role to play in keeping their data safe. You should only grant access rights to people who you know and trust, and, even then, you should be careful in granting all access rights.

Encryption of Data Sent Between Us

Illuminating Lives Foundation website use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to verify our identity to your browser and to encrypt any data you give us. Whenever information is transferred between us, you can check that it is done so using SSL by looking for a closed padlock symbol or other trust mark in your browser’s URL bar or toolbar.

11. Third-Party Services

We may provide links to online services that we do not own or operate. These services fall outside of this Privacy Policy and we have no control over the data they collect. For example, if you click on an advertisement, you may be taken to the advertiser’s website. Once on a third-party site, your data may be collected by others. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of such services before using them.

You may use our service through third-party sites. For example, you may watch a video that is embedded on a third-party site. This Privacy Policy covers our ads, but does not cover any third-party site or any third-party video player.

12. International Data Transfers and Certain User Rights

1. Location of Data

Illuminating Lives Foundation is based in New York, United States. We provide services globally using computer systems, servers, and databases located in the US and other countries. When you use our services from outside of the US, your information may be transferred to, and processed in the US. Please note that US data and privacy laws may not be as comprehensive as those in your country. Residents of certain countries may be subject to additional protections as set forth in below.

1. GDPR (EEA Users)

This Section applies only to natural persons residing in the European Economic Area (for the purpose of this section only, “you” or “your” shall be limited accordingly). It is Illuminating Lives Foundation’s policy to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In accordance with the GDPR, we may transfer your personal information from your home country to the United States based upon Legitimate business interests: We could not provide our services or comply with our legal obligations without transferring your personal information to the US.

In regards to GDPR regulations ‘signing-up’ Illuminating Lives Foundation website or committing into any charity projects therein ensures:

1. Clear indication that the consent of users is unambiguous and involve an explicit affirmative action.
2. Users consent are separated from other terms and conditions.
3. According to GDPR, our Website has no pre-ticked opt-in boxes.
4. It requires granular consent for distinct processing operations.
5. Your right to withdraw consent at any time is equally guaranteed.

You have the right to: opt out of non-essential cookies; access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to our use of your personal information; be forgotten; port your data; and withdraw consents.

We allow you to exercise these rights primarily through our services (which we reserve the right to modify). For example, we allow users to change their information, and close their accounts. We also fulfil our obligations in response to direct requests. Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to the extent that they would cause us to violate any law or infringe any other person’s rights. We reserve the right to request appropriate identification. We will process requests free of charge unless they would impose an unreasonable cost on us.

If you have a request, complaint or inquiry, please contact our Data Protection Officer at the address listed in the Contact Us – Section. We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any issue. You also have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory data protection authority of your jurisdiction.

1. California Users

Under California’s “Shine the Light” law, California residents have the right to opt out of disclosing information to third parties for the purpose of allowing such third parties to directly market their products and services. At this time, we do not engage in this type of disclosure.

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California consumers have the following rights, which can be exercised directly or in certain cases, through an authorized agent:

Right to Know. You have the right to request information about the categories and sources of personal information we collect, our purposes for collecting the information, and the types of third parties that receive that information. Details about our data collection, use and third-party disclosures can be found here. In addition, you have the right to request a copy of your personal information.

Right to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete some or all of the personal information that we have about you. Deleting all data will typically require the deletion of your account, along with all content, including your videos.

Do Not Sell. You have the right to request information about whether we have sold your personal information in the past 12 months. Illuminating Lives Foundation does not sell personal information, and we have not done so ever.

Non-Discrimination. We won’t discriminate against you because you exercise any rights herein.

To exercise your rights to know and delete, we must be able to verify your identity as the owner of the Illuminating Lives Foundation account you are inquiring about. We may not be able to fulfil your request until we can do so. In general, we verify identity by confirming that you are the owner of the email address associated with the account. Although you need not have a Illuminating Lives Foundation account to submit a request, we may not be able to locate certain information to process your request if you don’t have one.

1. Email Policies

We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and we will not provide your personal information to any third party individual, government agency, or company at any time unless strictly compelled to do so by law. We will use your e-mail address solely to provide timely information about our charity operations. We will maintain the information you send via e-mail by applicable federal law.

1. Can-Spam Compliance

In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mail sent from our organization will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide precise information on how to contact the sender. Also, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from us.

1. Policy for Children

We do not knowingly accept account creation from children under the age of 18. But due to the scope of our charity operations; as a NGO for the children and adults, we might collect or display information from the public, families, or specific entities about children, only to fulfil our organizational obligation with the permission of a guardian, parent or responsible authority.

13. Interpretation of This Privacy Policy

Any interpretation associated with this Privacy Policy will be made by Illuminating Lives Foundation. This Privacy Policy does not create or confer upon any individual any rights, or impose upon Illuminating Lives Foundation any rights or obligations outside of, or in addition to, any rights or obligations imposed by the laws of the United States.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions, requests or concerns about this Privacy Statement or the practices described herein, you may contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) at:

Illuminating Lives Foundation

P.O. Box 3482 New York, NY 10008

United States.

Email:

info@illuminatinglives.org

or

info@alumbrandovidas.org