Effective Date: May 2021

This is the Privacy Policy and Term of Use Agreement of Cry Respond Foundation.
In this document, “we”, “our”, or “us” refer to Cry Respond Foundation Inc, (“Cry Respond Foundation also known as CRF”)

We are a charity with incorporation number 052018935 registered and re-accredited in Liberia.

Our registered office is at Johnson street, Monrovia, Montserrado, Liberia.

Introduction

1. This is a notice to inform you of our terms on which you may use our website and our policy about all information that we record about you. It sets out the conditions under which we may process any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us. It covers information that could identify you (personal information) and information that could not. In the context of the law and this notice, process means collect, store, transfer, use or otherwise act on information.
2. We regret that if there are one or more points / terms below with which you are not happy with, your only recourse is to leave our website immediately.
3. We take seriously the protection of your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all visitors to our website are entitled to know that their personal data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party.
4. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us, and hope that you reciprocate.
5. Our Privacy Policy and Term of Use Agreement complies with UK law accordingly implemented, including that required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and also with the law of every country or legal jurisdiction in which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your jurisdiction, we would like to hear from you.

However, ultimately it is your choice as to whether you wish to use our website.

1. The law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligations to you in regards to the processing and control of your personal data. We do this now, by requesting that you read the information provided at www.knowyourprivacyrights.org
2. Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.

When it comes to collecting or sharing information, our primary motivation is to increase our efficiency, keep our fundraising costs down, and, most importantly, improve your experience. If you have any concerns that aren’t addressed in the Privacy Policy and Term of Use Agreement below, please reach out to us by email at: [email protected]

The following Privacy Policy and Term of Use Agreement applies when you make a donation Cry Respond Foundation (CRF), or when you visit our site, https://cryrespond.org, including any sub-sites. It also applies to other situations when you choose to share your personal information with Cry Respond Foundation (CRF). By visiting our websites, you are accepting this Privacy Policy and Term of Use Agreement.

Donations

We do need all the help that we can get, but in your desire to help, partner or support us, take care that you do not give your donations or aid to any individual(s) or group(s), even if they are officials or lead volunteers of Cry Respond Foundation. All donation should be made to Cry Respond Foundation using the donation buttons on our website or on our official social media pages or by means of our official bank details as displayed on our website. Once your donation is made to Cry Respond Foundation (CRF), the donation will be processed via the payment method used at the time of donating.

NOTE: No donations will be refunded for any reason, subject to the requirements of applicable laws.

Use of your donation

Cry Respond Foundation (CRF) reserve the right to use your donation for our general purposes in accordance with our practices and rules. If you want a donation to be used for a specific purpose or for a particular cause, contact us and specify which of our causes you would like your donation to go to.

Unauthorised donations

When you make a donation, the transaction is final and not disputable unless unauthorized use of your payment card or other payment method is proved. If you become aware of fraudulent use of your card, or if it is lost or stolen, you must notify your card provider in accordance with its reporting rules. Similarly, if you experience any issues of this nature when using other payment method, for example, E-money wallets such as PayPal or VouguePay, you should contact the provider of that payment method for assistance.

Cry Respond Foundation (CRF) will never email or phone you and ask you to provide all of your payment details.

Donor information

If you make a donation, either online or otherwise, we’ll request certain personally identifiable information about you (such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card information). This information ensures that we can securely process your donation and communicate with you about it. We may also use your information to improve our promotional efforts, keep you updated about our work, analyze website usage, and improve our website’s content, layout, and services.

If you share personal information about others with us, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason it was provided. If you believe that someone has shared your personal information with us and you don’t want to be included in our database, please let us know so that we can remove you. Contact us

We do not sell or rent our mailing list to other organizations that solicit donations or sell any products.

Cry Respond Foundation (CRF) may employ companies to help us host our donor information database, send postal mail and email, model our data, and process online and mail donations as well as credit card payments. These companies need to have access to personal donor information, but we require them to keep it confidential. They are only authorized to use this information as necessary to provide their specific services to us.

We hold onto your information as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with services, comply with our legal obligations, or resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. If you’d like us to remove your contact information from our systems, please contact us by email https://cryrespond.org/contact/. (For more information, see the Security section below.)

Other information

If you shared personal information like your name, postal address, and email address for purposes other than donating (such as receiving an email newsletter or invitations to events), we collect, store, and use this information primarily for the purposes it was submitted.

We may also use this information to improve our communication with you and provide additional information about our work that we think would be of interest to you. We may share this information and material with you via online social platforms, websites, phone, text/SMS, postal mail, or email, as permitted by applicable law.

We do not share this information with any third parties except those that provide us with certain services like database hosting (as described above).

Volunteering

If you have used the Cry Respond Foundation (CRF) website to seek employment or a volunteer position with us, you may have submitted (through our sites or otherwise) personally identifiable information. This might include your name, address, telephone number, email address, and any other personally identifiable information requested in online or offline forms, as well as an electronic or paper copy of your resume/CV. Any of this information is strictly private. No information stored or submitted in such forms will be used for any purpose other than to assess your qualifications as an employee or volunteer for Cry Respond Foundation (CRF).

Other disclosures

We may be required to disclose your personal information to the government or to third parties pursuant to law enforcement inquiries, court orders, subpoenas and similar requests, or when we otherwise believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary or appropriate in connection with any activity that violates the law or may expose us to liability.

Security

We take the security of any personal information you share with us very seriously. When you send personal information to us by submitting an online form on our site, it travels by high-grade encryption to ensure that it is secure. We also require the companies we work with to process your online donation payments using high-grade encryption and security protocols. Any vendors that process check and credit card transactions on our behalf meet all industry standards, certify their compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and are audited to meet with the Statement on Auditing Standard 70 (SAS 70).

The personal information that you provide is stored in a secure location and accessible only by designated employees trained in the proper handling of donor information. We employ industry standard techniques such as firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection, and site monitoring to protect your personally identifiable information from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the organization.

We do everything we can to safeguard your personal information. That haven been said, the reality of the matter is that “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet. Third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us by email Contact us

Normal browsing

Cry Respond Foundation (CRF) does not collect any personally identifying information from you when you visit our sites unless you choose to provide it to us.

You can safely browse the Cry Respond Foundation (CRF) sites without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. As is typical for organizations with websites, the information we gather during normal browsing comes from two sources: standard server logs collect information such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address, domain name, browser type, operating system, mobile related information if you access our website using your mobile device, and information such as the site that referred you to us, the files you downloaded, the pages you visited, and the dates/times of those visits. This information is used to improve our website by making it more easily navigable and ensuring that visitors can easily find what they’re looking for.

Cookies and tracking technologies

We like to make sure our website is a valuable resource that enables visitors like you to find the information you’re seeking. To meet that goal, Cry Respond Foundation (CRF) and its partners use cookies, session replay/capture or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website/donation forms, track users’ movements around the website/donation forms, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

If you visit our site by way of a link from one of our newsletters or from a site that has requested a link to us, we will ask your browser to accept a “cookie.” A cookie is a small piece of text that stores information on your browser in your computer’s hard drive. It carries a general marketing source code with you as you explore the site. The purpose of this is simply to help us match referring sites to donations made. This cookie does not capture or hold any personally identifying information about you and is deleted when you end your session by leaving our site or closing your browser.

 We use cookies as part of campaigns in order to analyze trends, gather broad demographic information, and monitor site traffic patterns that can help us further develop and improve the design and functionality of our site.

We also use cookies for “re-targeting” in our internet advertising campaigns so that third party vendors, including Google, can show you advertising about Cry Respond Foundation as you browse the Internet. Re-targeting makes it possible for us to connect you with specific outreach messages, encourage you to revisit our website, or consider donating.

The use of cookies does not affect your anonymity. Cookies are only used to obtain non-personal information. If you prefer, you can usually set your browser to refuse cookies, or to notify you when you receive a new cookie.

Please keep in mind that if you disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features.

Our website includes social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button, and widgets, such as the “Share This” button. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policies of the companies providing them.

We may work with data providers to target advertising to you personally through online and offline methods including email, display media, and direct mail. This advertising may be directed to you because you visited or logged in to our website. When we generate this advertising, data we collect from you through online cookies and other technologies may be combined with other de-identified data (such as a hashed, non-readable email, or postal address) in order to tailor ads to you based on your preferences and other information.

Technologies other than http cookies may be used by third parties in a similar way, to recognize the email recipients’ computer or device and to keep track of which user identities match to which devices or browsers. Those technologies may not respond to browser settings that block conventional cookies.

External links

We work to ensure that our website is a reliable and useful resource that allows visitors to better understand humanitarian crises occurring around the world and the work we do to respond to them. In order to do that, our site contains links to other (external) sites. Unless we explicitly say so, Cry Respond Foundation makes no representations whatsoever concerning the content of those sites.

The fact that Cry Respond Foundation has provided a link to a site should not be interpreted as an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation with respect to the site, its owners, or its providers. There are risks associated with using any information, software, or products found on the Internet, and Cry Respond Foundation encourages you to make sure you understand these risks before retrieving, using, relying upon, or purchasing anything via the Internet.

Please be aware that Cry Respond Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites—even if they are linked to from our web pages.

Children accessing our site

Cry Respond Foundation welcomes children to learn more about our organization and the humanitarian issues presented on the Cry Respond Foundation sites. We also want to make sure we are respectful of the privacy of our young users. We encourage parents to monitor their children’s use of the Internet and to help us protect their privacy by instructing them never to provide personal information on this site or any other without permission.

We will never attempt to extract unnecessary information from our users, regardless of age. Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with this information without consent, we will use our best efforts to remove it from our files. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that a child under 13 has provided such information to us, they should contact us at [email protected]

Updating your information

We are always working to keep the information you share with us up-to-date. At any point, you can contact us to request details about whether we hold any of your personal information. If you have donated to us and would like to access, correct, update, or delete your personal data or adjust your mail preferences, please let us know. You can update that information by using our contact form. Or, email [email protected].

Opt-out preference

If you’d like to stay up-to-date on the work, we’re doing, you can sign up to receive email, newsletter, or other communications from us. If you ever want to stop receiving this information, you can easily update your email preferences by using the “Unsubscribe” link found in emails we send you or at your member profile on our website. To opt out of SMS messages, simply reply STOP to cancel. Message and data rates may apply. You can update your preferences by our contact us or, email [email protected].

SMS Messages

Cry Respond Foundation offers complimentary SMS text messaging services to help you stay informed with important account related topics that need your attention. You might receive account, updates or payment method information. Cry Respond Foundation offers this service at no extra charge. Message frequency may vary, typically once per month. Standard message and data rates may apply. Your consent to receive these marketing text messages is not required as a condition of services from Cry Respond Foundation. Texts may be sent using an automatic telephone dialing system.

To opt out of SMS messages, simply reply STOP to cancel. For help, reply HELP. Message and data rates may apply. You can update your preferences by using our contact form. Or, email [email protected].

Changes to this Privacy Policy and Term of Use Agreement

We may make occasionally changes to our Privacy Policy and Term of Use Agreement based on your comments and our need to update and accurately explain our data collection and disclosure practices. If we make any material changes in the way we use your personal information, we’ll let you know by posting a prominent announcement on our website. We also encourage you to periodically check this page to see the latest privacy information.

Questions or suggestions

Your voice is important to us. We want to hear what our site visitors and donors have to say about our work and our policies. If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints about this Privacy Policy and Term of Use Agreement, send us an email using our contact form or, email [email protected], call us at any of these numbers +231-775199458, +231886888272, +231777003914, or write to us by mail: Cry Respond Foundation, Attn: Donor Support,

Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

You agree that your use of the Website and its associated services is on an “as is” and “as available” basis and that your use of the Website and its associated services is at your sole risk. Cry Respond Foundation does not warrant or guarantee continuous uninterrupted or secure access to our services and operation of the Website and associated services may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control. Cry Respond Foundation shall undertake general maintenance and upkeep of the Website from time to time. During these periods, the Website and its associated services may not be available for use. In exceptional circumstances, the Website and associated services may also become unavailable at other times.

If found liable, Cry Respond Foundation shall only be liable under these Terms for direct losses which are reasonably foreseeable and caused by Cry Respond Foundation’s uncured material breach of these Terms or Cry Respond Foundation’s negligence. Cry Respond Foundation ‘s total liability to you arising under or in connection with these Terms, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, shall in no circumstances exceed the total sum of the donations you have made using the Website in the preceding 12-month period, ending on the date the circumstances giving rise to Cry Respond Foundation ‘s liability arose.

In no event shall Cry Respond Foundation be liable for losses relating to any business of yours or lost or corrupt data, loss of profits, loss of contracts, loss of business opportunity, loss of sales, loss of revenue, loss of goodwill, loss of any software or data, loss of bargain, loss of opportunity, loss of use of computer equipment, loss of or waste of management or other staff time, even if Cry Respond Foundation has been advised of the possibility of such damages. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE TO THE ALLOCATION OF RISK SET FORTH HEREIN.

Third party rights

A person who is not a party to these Privacy Policies and Terms of Use Agreement has no right to enforce any of these Terms.

Governing law

You agree that your use of this Privacy Policy and Term of Use Agreement and any disputes relating thereto shall be governed in all respects by the laws of Liberia. Any dispute relating to this Privacy Policy and Term of Use Agreement shall be resolved solely in Liberia.

This Privacy Policy and Term of Use Agreement was last updated in June 2021.