Privacy notice and policy - Ayewa (English)

Last updated March 19, 2021

Summary of Ayewa’s privacy practices

We collect and store the names, addresses and/or telephone numbers of anyone who provides that information when they write to us or call us on the telephone.

When you send us an email, a fax, or a letter, or when you call us on the telephone, Ayewa collects and stores the name, address(es), and/or telephone number(s) you provide, if any. That’s so we can communicate with you.

If you don’t want us to have your name and/or address, you can send us comments, suggestions, or complaints without including any information about yourself on our Contact us and Suggest listings pages.

We keep copies of the emails and letters we exchange with you, and we may keep a written summary of what was said during a phone conversation (but we do not record telephone conversations).

Our web hosting service and our telephone company may collect the IP address or telephone number you use to contact us, but Ayewa does not itself collect, record or keep any such information.

Ayewa does not collect or keep any other data about our users.

PRIVACY NOTICE AND POLICY

Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at Ayewa Earth Alliance, doing business as Ayewa ("Ayewa", "we", "us", "our"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at info@ayewa.org.

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

When you visit our website ayewa.org (the "Website"), use our mobile application as the case may be (the "App") and more generally, use any of our services (the "Services", which include the Website and App), we appreciate that you are trusting us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy notice, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.

This privacy notice applies to all information collected through our Services (which as described above, includes our Website and App), as well as, any related services, sales, marketing or events. Please read this privacy notice carefully as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we collect.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

We collect and store the names, addresses and/or telephone numbers of anyone who provides that information when they write to us or call us on the telephone.

When you send us an email, a fax, or a letter, or when you call us on the telephone, Ayewa collects and stores the name, address(es), and/or telephone number(s) you provide, if any.

We keep copies of the emails, faxes and letters we exchange with you, and we may keep a written summary of what was said during a phone conversation (but we do not record telephone conversations). In so doing we will store any information you provide in the emails, faxes, and letters you send us, or in your spoken communication with us over the telephone.

Our web hosting service and our telephone company may collect the IP address or telephone number you use to contact us, but Ayewa does not itself collect, record or keep any such information.

Ayewa does not collect or keep any other data about our users.

Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

Usage Data

Usage Data might be collected automatically when using the Service. Ayewa has no programs or systems in place to collect user-specific information or to aggregate data from all users of our site. Ayewa does not store any such information. Ayewa does not collect or store information that Your browser sends when You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

However, such information may be collected by the web hosting service we use, or by other third parties whose services you may use to reach our site. Usage Data collected by other parties might include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, other parties might collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We do not track activity on Our Service and therefore do not store information about your use of Our Service, but we may use a small number of "strictly necessary" cookies. See our cookie policy here.

WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

Summary: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.

We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:

Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?

Summary: We may transfer, store, and process your information in countries other than your own. Our servers are located in the United Sates of America. If you are accessing our Services from another country or locality, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our facilities and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information (see 'WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?" above), in and other countries.

If you are a resident in the European Economic Area, then these countries may not necessarily have data protection laws or other similar laws as comprehensive as those in your country. We will however take all necessary measures to protect your personal information in accordance with this privacy notice and applicable law.

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

Summary: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than 10 years.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

Summary: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information.

WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

Summary: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.

If you are a resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/dataprotection/bodies/authorities/index en.htm.

If you are a resident in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here:

https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.

CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

We do not use tracking cookies or implement any other form of tracking of your use of our site. The following information is therefore not specifically relevant to your use of our Service.

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In short: Yes, if you are a resident of Califomia, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.

Ayewa does not implement a system of user accounts and does not disclose any information to third parties for direct marketing purposes, so the following information is of limited relevance.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with a Service, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Services. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Services, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g. backups, etc.).

DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

Summary: We will update this notice as necessary if and as our privacy policy changes, and to stay compliant with relevant laws. A history of the changes in our privacy policy will be maintained and remain accessible via our website so you can review when and how the policy has changed.

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we will notify you by posting a notice that such changes have been made in the footer of every page. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) by email at:

privacy@ayewa.org

or by post at:

Ayewa Earth Alliance
617 Veterans Blvd, Suite 116
Redwood City 94063-1404
United States of America

HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please submit a written request by email or post to the Data Protection Officer at the above addresses. We will respond to your request within 30 days.