Doctors for Nepal Privacy Policy

At Doctors For Nepal ("DFN") we understand that your privacy is important to you.
This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") explains whatinformation we collect about you and what we do with it. By using or navigating this site and its services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by this Policy or any modified Policy as posted. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use or revisit this site.
This Policy applies to all of the services offered by DFN on http://www.doctorsfornepal.org (the "Website"). Where more detail is necessary to explain our privacy practices, we have separate privacy notices.

DFN adheres to the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Act").

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us through our Website or email us at mailto:info@doctorsfor nepal.org

1. Personal Information: how we collect it

DFN uses cookies in order to provide you with a more personalised web service.
A cookie is a text-only string of information that we pass to your computers hard disk through your web-browser so the website can remember who you are. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the lifetime of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
If you do not wish to receive cookies you can easily modify your web browser to refuse cookies, or to notify you when you receive a new cookie. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled, and so in order to enjoy the DFN site to the full, we recommend that you leave them switched on.

2. Personal Information: how we use it

DFN uses the information we collect about you to help us with understanding more about how our site is used, and to be able to send you communications that may be of interest to you, either electronically or otherwise.

3. Information Sharing

When you are on the DFN website and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with DFN alone unless stated otherwise. For example, when you are using our secure online donation pages you are going through to a partner company, PayPal. and it is clear on the donation page when you are going through to the PayPal site.

4. Information Sharing

As a general rule, DFN will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information, except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it. When you are using our secure online donation pages you are going through to a partner company and the information you give such as your credit card number and contact information is provided so that the transaction can take place.

5. Collection, use and distribution of my information.

If you indicated that you are interested in receiving regular information about DFN campaign work or emergencies appeals we will send you communications regarding DFN work and activities, either electronically or otherwise. In addition, we may send you direct mail that we feel may be of interest to you.
DFN does not sell, rent or share user information with anyone. We may on occasion work with 3rd parties to contact our supporters about DFN however the 3rd party would be bound by a confidentiality agreement which would prevent them from using this information for any other purpose.

6. Accessing and Updating Personal Information

The accuracy of your individual identifying information is important to DFN. We are working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that DFN maintains about you. In the meantime, if you change email address or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please email us at doctorsfornepal.org, or write to Doctors for Nepal, c/o 6 - 9 Sillwood Mansions, Sillwood Place, Brighton, BN1 2LH United Kingdom

7. Information Security

DFN takes reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, but we depend on our users to update their personal information whenever necessary.

8. Security Precautions

When you give DFN personal information that information may be stored and processed outside of the UK and we take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, DFN cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

9. Changes to this policy

We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time and we will notify you of any material changes to the Policy by posting the new Policy here and changing the "Effective Date" at the top. We encourage you to check this page periodically for any changes.