Our Commitment to Privacy

Mavambo Orphan Care is committed to protecting our visitor’s privacy. This policy describes how Mavambo Orphan Care collect, use, maintain, protect, and disclose personal information collected on mavambotrust.org.zw and social media. Please read this Policy carefully to understand it on how Mavambo Orphan Care use and safeguard personal information. 

Your Consent

By accessing or using Mavambo Orphan Care websites, social media platforms, you agree to and understand this privacy policy.

Information Collection

Mavambo Orphan Care may collect personally identifiable information (PII), such as your name, e-mail address, postal address, or phone number when you provide it. In some instances (e.g., job applications, pay or donate online), Mavambo Orphan Care may also collect other information such as your job title, gender, username, and password. Mavambo Orphan Care may receive information about how and when you use its sites and store it in log files. This information might include, for example, your IP address, time, date, browser used, and actions you have taken within the site. Mavambo Orphan Care may receive information about how you use its success stories and other features you may subscribe to, such as whether you opened a message, what information you view.

Mavambo Orphan Care maintains one or more public blogs on its website. Any information you include in a comment on Mavambo Orphan Care blogs may be read, collected, and used by anyone. If personal information appears on our blogs and you want it removed, contact us at dpo@mavambotrust.org.zw If Mavambo Orphan Care are unable to remove your information, Mavambo Orphan Care will tell you why.

Mavambo Orphan Care website include social media features: Facebook, X, YouTube and Instagram buttons. These features may collect information about your Internet Protocol (IP) address and which page you are visiting on Mavambo Orphan Care website, and they may set a cookie to make sure the feature functions properly.

Mavambo Orphan Care also maintains presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, YouTube, X and Instagram. Your interactions with those features and platforms are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them. Any information or material you submit to Mavambo Orphan Care via these or other social media platforms is done at your own risk without any expectation of privacy.

Mavambo Orphan Care collects email addresses of people who communicate with us by email, apply for a job, pay or donate online. Email addresses are also collected when one signs up to receive its email newsletters or updates from Mavambo Orphan Care blogs. Mavambo Orphan Care never sells, trades or rents email addresses to individuals or companies.

While Mavambo Orphan Care may allow you to make a payment or a donation on any of its sites, it does not have access to your personal financial data, including credit card numbers. Credit card numbers are submitted to a credit card authorization service directly, and when you make a payment or a donation the data you submit to the authorization service is subject to their terms of use and privacy policy, which you are encouraged to review.

If you would like to view, update, or delete your personal information, please contact us at dpo@mavambotrust.org.zw

Information Use

The personal information Mavambo Orphan Care collects is used to provide the services that you would have requested, to help Mavambo Orphan Care improve its website, manage and improve communication with its users. Mavambo Orphan Care also use the information collected to respond to requests.

Information Retention

Mavambo Orphan Care will retain personal information only for as long as needed to provide its services, to manage business, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and enforce agreements.

If you would like to view, update, or delete your personal information, please contact us at mavambotrust.org.zw

Information Sharing

Personal information may be shared outside Mavambo Orphan Care with companies, organizations, or individuals if is necessary to do so for the following reasons:

• meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.
• enforce applicable Terms of Use or other potential violation of contracts or rules, including investigation of potential violations.
• detect, prevent, investigate or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
• protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of staff, users or the public as required or permitted by law.

Mavambo Orphan Care may also share your personal information with organizations or individuals that are contracted to help provide services and products. Before sharing your personal information with any organization or individual they should be assurance for its protection in a manner consistent with this policy.

Other than the cases listed above, your personal information is never shared with outside organizations or individuals. Mavambo Orphan Care staff have access to your personal information only as required to accomplish the purpose for which it was collected.

Cookies 

Mavambo Orphan Care uses cookies to collect non-identifying information about a user, such as Mavambo Orphan Care web surfing behaviour or user preferences for a specific Mavambo Orphan Care website. Cookies are small text files that are downloaded by a browser when a site is visited. Cookies are returned to an originating site and/or third-party site on subsequent visits. Cookies may serve several functions, including remembering user preferences, visited pages, time, dates and other metrics. Mavambo Orphan Care does not link information obtained through cookies to individual user’s personal information. You may disable use of cookies on this site through your browser settings, however this may adversely affect the operation of some features of our sites.

Mavambo Orphan Care uses Google Analytics a service provided by (Google; Inc), to assess the use sites. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about visits to the sites is described by the Google Analytics Terms of Use available at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and the Google Privacy Policy available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. Mavambo Orphan Care has no control over either of these Google policies, and they may change at any time.

You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to sites by disabling cookies in your browser. Google also provides an “opt-out” tool (which must be installed in your browser) which will prevent your browser from making your site activity available to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Mavambo Orphan Care is not responsible for this tool, if you choose to use it, you do so at your own risk.

Security

While the security of information transmitted over the Internet cannot be guaranteed, Mavambo Orphan Care use commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under its control. These measures include but are not limited to encrypting transmissions of personal information to or from our Mavambo Orphan Care website using Secure Socket Layer technology.

External Links

Mavambo Orphan Care website contain links to other sites which may include Instagram, X, YouTube and Facebook, but Mavambo Orphan Care are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those sites. Mavambo Orphan Care encourage you to be aware when you leave its site and to read the privacy statements of any site that you visit.

Children’s Privacy

Mavambo Orphan Care does not intentionally or knowingly collect any information from anyone under the age of 18. If one is under 18, they should not submit any personal information to its website. If Mavambo Orphan Care learnt of having collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without parental consent, it will delete that information immediately. If you believe Mavambo Orphan Care might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact dpo@mavambotrust.org.zw.

Policy Changes

If Mavambo Orphan Care updates the policy, the updated version will be posted on this site, on the homepage of other sites of the organisation and other places deemed appropriate.

Contacting Mavambo Orphan Care

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of Mavambo Orphan Care’s Mavambo Orphan Care website, or your dealings with the sites, contact us at dpo@mavambotrust.org.zw