ADONAI HOUSE PRIVACY POLICY

READ THIS POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE BROWSING THIS WEBSITE OR USING ANY OF OUR SERVICES. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THIS WEBSITE AND OUR
SERVICES INDICATES THAT YOU HAVE BOTH READ AND AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. YOU CANNOT USE THIS WEBSITE OR OUR SERVICES IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS POLICY. ALL SECTIONS OF THIS POLICY ARE APPLICABLE TO USERS UNLESS THE SECTION EXPRESSLY STATES OTHERWISE.

We respect and recognise the importance of protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used and shared when you visit, make a donation or make a purchase on any of our websites, including but not limited to https://adonaihouse.co.za (the “Site”).

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DEFINITIONS

The following words and phrases have these meanings in this document:

  1. “Personal Information” means information relating to an identifiable, natural, or juristic person.
  2. “POPIA” means the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013.
  3. “Process” in relation to Personal Information means to collect, organise, store, modify, retrieve, refer to, distribute, or erase, or otherwise as defined in POPIA.
  4. “Us”, “We”, or “Our” means Adonai House – Hannah’s Sanctuary for the Disabled, a registered non-profit organisation with registration number 720-300 NPO.
  5. “You” or the “user” means any person who accesses this Website for any purpose.
  6. “Website” means the Site at URL https://adonaihouse.co.za or such other URL as we may indicate from time to time (including its sub-domains).

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

When you connect with Adonai House by donating to our causes, use our services, browse our online marketing, purchase from us, or visit our Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address and time zone, through some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.

Tracking Technologies

COOKIES

We use cookies. A cookie is a small piece of information stored on your computer or smart phone by the web browser. The two types of cookies used on the Site are described below:
1. “Session cookies”: These are used to maintain a so-called ‘session state’ and only lasts for the duration of your use of the Site. A session cookie expires when you close your browser, or if you have not visited the server for a certain period of time. Session cookies are required for the Platform to function optimally, but are not used in any way to identify you personally.
2. “Permanent cookies”: These cookies permanently store a unique code on your computer or smart device hard drive in order to identify you as an individual user. No Personal Information is stored in permanent cookies. You can view permanent cookies by looking in the cookies directory of your browser installation. These permanent cookies are not required for the website to work, but may enhance your browsing experience.

WEB BEACONS

Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use the information that we collect from our forms to fulfill any donations or orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations and Section 18A tax certificates).

Additionally, we use this information :

  1. To communicate with you
  2. Provide you with information or advertising about our products and services or those of third parties, in line with your shared preferences
  3. For the detection of fraud, crime or malpractice
  4. To satisfy any legal duty or requirement
  5. For audit purposes and record-keeping

When you submit Personal Information via the Website the following principles are observed in the handling of the information:

  1. We will only collect Personal Information for a purpose consistent with the purpose for which it is required. The specific purpose for which information is collected will be apparent from the context in which it is requested
  2. We will only Process Personal Information in a manner that is adequate, relevant and not excessive in the context of the purpose for which it is Processed
  3. Personal Information will only be Processed for a purpose compatible with that for which it was collected unless you have consented to an alternative purpose in writing, or we are permitted by POPIA or in terms of national legislation of general application
  4. We will not disclose any Personal Information relating to you to any third party unless your prior written agreement is obtained, or we are required to do so by law or in order to process your donations or transactions
  5. We will destroy or delete any Personal Information that is no longer needed by us for the purpose it was initially collected, or subsequently Processed

Note that, as permitted by POPIA, we may use Personal Information collected to compile profiles for statistical purposes. No information contained in the profiles or statistics will be able to be linked to any specific user.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with selective third parties to help us apply your Personal Information appropriately and to improve your user experience, as described above.

We will never sell, trade or lease to third parties your Personal Data. Unless we have informed you otherwise and have obtained your permission, or the law forces us to, we will only use the collected Personal Data within Adonai House or with business partners that act on our behalf.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time without prior notice, in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Your use of the website will be subject to the most current version of the online Privacy Policy, published at the time of such use.

SECURITY

We will take appropriate, reasonable technical and organisational measures as required by the applicable law to protect the information submitted to or collected by Adonai House from loss, misuse, unauthorized disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We require our service providers to do the same.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Sometimes you will find links to third-party sites on our websites. Please note that this online Privacy Policy does not automatically apply to these third-party sites.

We have no control over and accept no responsibility for the privacy practices of any third-party websites to which hyperlinks may have been provided and We strongly recommend that You review the Privacy Policy of any website You visit before using it further.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at legal@adonaihouse.co.za