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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

The Women’s Red Apple Foundation (WRAF) is committed to treating your personal data with security, respect, and confidentiality.

This privacy policy describes why the WRAF collects your personal data, what information is made available, how WRAF uses, stores and protects that information. You will also find information on how you can exercise your data subject’s rights. Any personal data disclosed to the WRAF will not be used in ways other than as set forth in this privacy policy.

1. What personal data do we collect, and how?

1.1 Information you give us

We obtain personal information from you when you communicate or share information with us, subscribe to newsletters, register for an event, or membership, and/or make a donation.

Depending on the specific purpose, we may ask you to provide part or all of the following information but not limited to: your full name, email and/or postal address, and phone number.

1.2 Information we collect automatically: cookies and web analytics

We automatically collect information through the WRAF website to help administer, protect, and improve our services.

This may include information regarding your device, such as your IP address, your operating system, and your browser activity, the location of the device accessing the website, traffic data (such as the pages you visited on our website, the time spent on the website, number of downloads from the website) and interactions with social media platforms (such as sharing of elements from the WRAF website to social media accounts). This information may be collected through the use of cookies and analytics.

Cookies are small data files made up of letters and numbers placed onto your computer or other mobile devices when you access the WRAF website. We use cookies to collect information about you to the extent necessary to ensure our website’s functionality and performance as well as for the purpose of targeting its audience and tailoring the content offered to the public both on our website and elsewhere.

If you do not wish to have cookies or pixels installed on your computer or mobile device, you can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies.

We also use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., to help us identify how people are using our website by processing the information mentioned above.

2. Why do we collect your personal data?

We collect your personal data for one or more of the following purposes:

  • To allow you to contact us and/or receive information from us;
  • To organize or promote events and/or WRAF activities;
  • To allow you to register as a participant for the events we organize or co-organize;
  • To process your donation to the WRAF
  • To analyze web statistics and log files, with the aim of improving the functioning of our website;
  • To assess the performance of our advertising and improve the relevance of WRAF campaign and marketing messages displayed to you after you leave our website

We will never rent or sell your personal information.

4. How long do we keep your data?

We will keep your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected them for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or archiving requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period, we take into account the nature and sensitivity of your personal data, potential risks of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, and the purposes for which we process your personal data.

When we no longer need your personal data, or when you request they be erased to stop receiving our marketing messages, we will delete your data.