Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement: This Privacy Statement applies to the website of Boys & Girls Clubs of Senegal(https://senegalbgc.org/)

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or our Data Protection policies, please contact us at info@senegalbgc.org

This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites.

Collection and use of personal information: Boys & Girls Clubs of Senegal will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your full consent. We fully respect your privacy and the information you volunteer will be treated with the highest standards of security. We refrain from processing data for a purpose that is not compatible with the purposes for which we originally obtained your data

Boys & Girls Clubs of Senegal does not share, sell, or otherwise disclose personal data of members processed via this site.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Senegal will, however, comply with lawful requests for access to data if a subpoena, order, or demand from a governmental agency or court requires disclosure. We may also release information provided by a user if Boys & Girls Clubs of Senegal, in its sole discretion, determines that release of data may assist in protecting the health, safety, or welfare of others.

Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Data protection: Boys & Girls Clubs of Senegal has implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. When users submit sensitive information via the website, Boys & Girls Clubs of Senegal uses commercially reasonable efforts to protect their information both online and offline. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

When our registration form asks users to enter sensitive information such as credit card number, that information will be encrypted and protected with encryption software called SSL. While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to protect personal user information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job such as our billing department will be granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, all employees are kept up to date on our security and privacy practices. The servers that are used to store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please reach out to Boys & Girls Clubs of Senegal (BGCSN) at info@senegalbgc.org

How long we retain your data: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

If you are concerned about how personal data are processed via this website, please do not hesitate to contact Boys & Girls Clubs of Senegal at info@senegalbgc.org.

Where we send your data: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.