Privacy Policy of Me Within Inc.
Last updated: November 1, 2021
Me Within Inc. is committed to ensuring the privacy of all our website (www.mewithin.org) users. This Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Use.
References to ‘we’,‘us’ and ‘our’ are to Me Within Inc., a registered nonprofit organization based in Oklahoma, USA.
Ways We Collect Personal Information from You?
- When you sign up to our Newsletter
- When you participate in our online campaigns
- When you register to volunteer with us
- When you register to fundraise for us
- When you contact us via our online form, e-mail, or phone
- When you register to partner with us
- When you donate through our website, social media platforms, or any other online platforms
- Our web servers use cookies and collect anonymous logs during user visits to our websites which provide valuable information for improving how you use the website
- In some circumstances your information may be shared with us by third parties, but only where you have consented. For example, if you register your interest in joining Me Within through Facebook, Facebook will share information such as your name and email address with us.
- Other interaction with us that required you to enter your name and other information about you.
Legal basis for Processing
The legal basis on which we process your personal information is that it is necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us in connection with your donation and to comply with our legal obligations.
Type of Information We May Collect from You?
- Name
- Age
- Address
- Email address
- Phone number
- Credit /debit card details
- Profession
- Any other information you freely provide us with
Usage of Information Collected?
The information we collect of you may be used for the following purposes:
- To process donations that we receive from you: we collect but do not retain credit card numbers that are processed by our third-party vendor. Our third-party vendor uses Paypal as a payment vendor subject to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards and your credit card information entered is encrypted for your security
- To send email newsletters
- To inform you about our fundraising campaigns
- To update you on our activities
- To process and communicate about your volunteering and fundraising interests or activities
- To improve our website
Legal Obligation
We will process your personal information to fulfill any legal obligations placed upon us, such as the prevention of fraud or money laundering. We will also process your personal information if lawfully required to do so by a legal authority or a court of law.
Security
We take appropriate security measures to ensure that we keep your information secure, accurate, and up to date. The information is accessible only to trusted workers.
We also ensure that we have secure systems for processing payments through our payment services provider. We use encryption during transmission, such as SSL (Secure Socket Layer). However, the transmission of information over the Internet is never completely secure, so while we do our best to protect personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to our website.
Third-Party Websites
On our website, we sometimes have links to third-party websites or applications. This policy does not apply to such pages or applications hosted or operated by other organizations. These other sites may have privacy policies that apply to them.
Sharing of your Personal Information
We will not share your information. However, we may use contractors or third-party services to communicate with you or process your personal information. Examples include the web hosting company, credit card processing apps, email list apps, and other companies that created and manage the plugins and applications we use on our website.
These third-party companies are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for disclosed purposes.
If you are on social media platforms like Facebook, we may be able to show you our ads there if you visited our website at some point.
We may also share your personal information with your permission, or if we are legally required to disclose your information in circumstances where this cannot be reasonably resisted. For example, law enforcement.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a text-only piece of information that a website transfers to your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will normally contain the name of the Internet domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
If you wish to restrict or block cookies you can set your internet browser to do so – click on the following link for more information: www.aboutcookies.org.
Period of Storage
We will retain your personal information for as long as needed to comply with our contractual, legal, or regulatory obligations. When we no longer need your personal information, we will either remove it from our systems or anonymize it so that you cannot be identified.
Right to Access your Information
The personal data we hold about you is yours. You have the following rights over your information:
- To be informed how your data is being processed
- To access your data
- To rectify any data that is inaccurate
- To instruct us to delete your data
- To restrict our processing of your data (which includes contacting you via email) at any time. All our email communications to you will contain an unsubscribe link.
- To object to your data being stored.
Information About Children
Our Website is not designed for use by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on our Website, do not make any donations through our third-party vendors, and don’t provide any information about yourself to us.
If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@mewithin.org
Changes to Our Policy
We may occasionally update this Policy. When we do, we will also revise the effective date on the top of this Policy. We encourage you to periodically review this Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect.
Contact Us
If you have any comments or questions about this policy you may email us at: info@mewithin.org