Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 1, 2024

Divine Heart Foundation (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://www.divineheartfound.org, use our services, or interact with us. Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following data about you:

1.1 Personal Identification Information

• Name
• Email address
• Phone number
• Postal address

1.2 Non-Personal Identification Information

• Browser type and version
• Time zone setting
• Browser plug-in types and versions
• Operating system and platform
• Other technology on the devices you use to access this website

1.3 Usage Data

• Information about how you use our website, products, and services

1.4 Marketing and Communications Data

• Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences

2. How We Collect Information

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:

2.1 Direct Interactions

• You may provide data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.

2.2 Automated Technologies or Interactions

• As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns.

2.3 Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources

• We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in the following ways:

3.1 To Provide and Manage Our Services

• To process donations
• To send you receipts and acknowledgment letters
• To manage our relationship with you

3.2 To Improve Our Website

• To administer our website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, and statistical and survey purposes.

3.3 To Communicate with You

• To provide you with information about our activities or services you request from us
• To send you marketing communications if you have consented to receive them

3.4 To Comply with Legal Obligations

• To comply with any applicable laws and regulations

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your personal data with third parties under the following circumstances:

4.1 Service Providers

• We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our website (“Service Providers”), to provide the website on our behalf, to perform website-related services, or to assist us in analyzing how our website is used.

4.2 Legal Requirements

• We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of Divine Heart Foundation, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the website, protect the personal safety of users of the website, or protect against legal liability.

5. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

7. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

7.1 Right to Access

• You have the right to request copies of your personal data.

7.2 Right to Rectification

• You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.

7.3 Right to Erasure

• You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

7.4 Right to Restrict Processing

• You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

7.5 Right to Object to Processing

• You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

7.6 Right to Data Portability

• You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our contact information provided below.

8. Children’s Privacy

Our website does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without appropriate verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.