Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Last Modified: March 2025
God's Way Foundation values your privacy. We gather information to deliver services to you, keep you informed about the effects of your support, and share updates regarding promotions or unique offerings. God's Way Foundation understands the importance of handling and utilizing your information with care and responsibility.
Privacy Policy Overview
God's Way Foundation operates several social media accounts and websites (such as https://www.godswayfoundation.org/) and offers services related to donations, both online and offline (collectively, the “Services”), along with engaging with you directly. The Privacy Policy outlined below pertains to visitors of our Services, donors, staff from our non-profit and corporate partners, vendors, and job candidates (collectively, “you”). It explains how we manage personal information linked to our Services and interactions with you. This Privacy Policy details the personal information we gather, its usage, and the options available to you.
We obtain information from you whenever you engage with our Services or take actions within them. This data helps us deliver and oversee our Services, improve your overall experience, and refine our website.
To review your information, adjust your preferences, request its removal, or withdraw your consent, please visit our 'Contact Us' section. Unless specified below, we will not exchange, distribute, or sell your personal information to others. See the Privacy Policy below for full details.
For any inquiries regarding our Privacy Policy, feel free to reach out to us at godswayfoundationinc@gmail.com.
Information We Collect
We collect the following types of information that you voluntarily share with us:
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Donation Details: When you donate, we collect the project name, donation amount, and your address (for Gift Aid purposes). You might also share a note explaining why you chose the cause, along with your name, general location, and any personal message for the recipient.
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Fundraising Data: If you start a fundraiser for a project on God's Way Foundation, we collect details about the projects you support or propose. We notify the project leader about the fundraiser but do not share your personal information with them or the project itself. Any content you post on the fundraiser page is visible to website visitors.
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Contact Information: This includes your first and last name, organization name (if relevant), physical address, email address, and phone number. If you set up a profile or launch a fundraiser on God's Way Foundation, you may optionally provide additional details like your mailing address, a photo, or your favorite projects.
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Communications: This covers any interactions we have with you, such as when you reach out with questions, feedback, or other inquiries.
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Contests, Promotions, and Surveys: From time to time, we may offer contests, special promotions, or online surveys. We collect the information you choose to submit, which may be linked to your God's Way Foundation profile if you have one.
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Marketing Preferences: We gather data on your preferences for receiving our marketing materials and how you interact with them.
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Payment Information: Credit card numbers are collected briefly and handled by a third-party payment processor compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards—we do not store them. For payments via PayPal, Apple Pay, M-PESA/M-Changa, or similar services, their respective terms of service and privacy policies apply, and we recommend reviewing them (see Third-Party Transfers section).
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Other Information: We may collect additional data not listed here, which we’ll use as outlined in this Privacy Policy or as explained when it’s collected.
If you share personal information about a third party with us, you must ensure they’re aware of this Privacy Policy and have given their consent.
Automatic Data Collection
We, along with our service providers and business partners, may automatically gather and integrate information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interactions with our Services, online resources, and communications over time. This includes:
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IP Address: We capture your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address to determine the country from which you’re accessing our Website.
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Device Information: This covers details like the operating system type and version of your computer or mobile device, its manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, device category (e.g., phone or tablet), IP address, unique identifiers (including those used for advertising), language preferences, and broad location data such as city, state, or region.
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Online Engagement Data: We track information such as the pages or screens you visit, the time spent on each, the site you came from before reaching our Services, navigation between pages or screens, actions taken on a page or screen, access times, session duration, and your interactions with our communications—like whether you open our marketing emails or click on links or files within them.
Cookies
This data is collected automatically using technologies such as cookies, pixel tags, local storage, web beacons, or similar tools (collectively called “Cookies”) on our Services. We use these for purposes like analytics and advertising. We utilize cookies on our website. By visiting Godswayfoundation.org, you’ve consented to the use of cookies as outlined in our Privacy Policy. Cookies are a common feature of interactive websites, allowing us to retrieve user information with each visit. Our site employs cookies to enhance the functionality of specific sections, improving the experience for visitors. Additionally, some of our affiliate and advertising partners may also use cookies
Third-Party Sources
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Market Data Providers: Companies that supply us with industry statistics, insights, and analytics.
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Marketing Collaborators: Businesses we’ve partnered with for joint marketing efforts.
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Social Media Platforms: Entities like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube, when you engage with our profiles on those platforms.
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Public Records: Sources such as government databases, including the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), used for due diligence on nonprofits or fraud prevention checks on donations.
If you opt not to share the information described above, certain features or Services may not be accessible to you.
How We Use Personal Information
We use your personal information for the purposes outlined below or as otherwise indicated when it’s collected:
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Delivering and Supporting Our Services: We use your personal information to manage, maintain, and provide access to our Services. This includes fulfilling our obligations under our terms of use, such as enabling you to donate, contacting you about donation-related inquiries, and ensuring Gift Aid eligibility where applicable.
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Communicating About Our Services: Based on our legitimate business interests, we use your information to respond to your inquiries, offer support, and keep you informed about our Services. This may involve sending updates, announcements, security notices, or administrative messages.
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Enhancing, Monitoring, Personalizing, and Securing Our Services: It’s in our legitimate business interests to improve and safeguard our Services. This involves:
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Understanding your preferences and needs to tailor your experience with our Services and communications;
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Conducting troubleshooting, testing, and research to maintain security; and
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Investigating and preventing fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, or illegal activities.
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Marketing and Advertising: We, along with our service providers and third-party advertising partners, may use your personal information for marketing and advertising purposes, including:
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Direct Marketing: We may send you God’s Way Foundation-related marketing communications, such as emails, as allowed by law. You can opt out as described in the “Opt-Out of Marketing Communications” section below.
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Interest-Based Advertising: We may collaborate with third-party ad companies, like Google and Facebook, to display our ads on their platforms. We might share user data with these partners to promote our Services to you or similar audiences on other sites. For details and options, see our Cookie Policy. Unless consent is required, we base these activities on our legitimate business interests.
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Compliance and Protection: We use your information to meet legal requirements and protect our interests, including:
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Submitting relevant data to HMRC or other authorities for Gift Aid claims;
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Verifying compliance with OFAC regulations and other sanctions;
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Safeguarding our, your, or others’ rights, privacy, safety, or property, including through legal claims;
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Auditing our processes to ensure compliance with laws, contracts, and internal policies;
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Enforcing our terms and conditions;
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Preventing, detecting, and addressing fraud, cyberattacks, identity theft, or other unethical or illegal acts; and
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Responding to applicable laws, legal requests, or processes like subpoenas.
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Aggregation and Anonymization: We may aggregate or anonymize your personal information in a way that prevents individual identification, using the resulting data for statistical analysis (e.g., to study our audience) or other purposes, based on our legitimate business interests.
We rely on legitimate interests for processing only when these do not outweigh your rights or freedoms. Where we use your information for legitimate interests or direct marketing, you can object to this processing. If we process your information based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time by contacting us (see “Contact Us” below). Your updated preferences will apply moving forward, without affecting prior lawful processing.
Disclosure of Personal Information
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Affiliates: Our existing and future affiliates—entities that control, are controlled by, or share common control with God’s Way Foundation. These affiliates may use your personal information in line with this Privacy Policy.
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Donation Recipients: When you contribute to a project or fundraiser, we share your name, contact details, and donation amount with the organization or individual managing that project or fundraiser, unless you opt for anonymity. They will handle your information according to their own privacy policies.
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Your Employer: If your donation is part of an employer-sponsored campaign or eligible for an employer match, we’ll provide your name, email address, and donation amount to your employer.
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Publicly on Our Services: If you choose to post a comment or explain why you supported a cause, we’ll display and attribute your comment publicly on our site and share it with the supported cause, unless you select anonymity.
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Service Providers: Companies and individuals who assist us by providing services or supporting our operations, such as hosting, IT support, customer service, email delivery, and website analytics.
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Professional Advisors: Advisors like lawyers, auditors, bankers, and insurers, when needed for the professional services they provide to us.
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Authorities and Others: Law enforcement, government bodies, or private parties, when we deem it necessary or appropriate in good faith for the compliance and protection purposes outlined earlier.
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Business Transferees: Parties involved in business transactions—like mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, or sales—related to all or part of God’s Way Foundation’s business, assets, or equity, including in bankruptcy or similar proceedings.
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Advertising Partners: Third-party advertising companies that may collect data on our website via cookies and other automated tools, including for the interest-based advertising described previously.
Information About Children
Our Services are not intended for children, and we do not intentionally gather personal information from individuals under 16 years old. If you suspect that a child under 16 has submitted information to us, please reach out via the “Contact Us” section below, and we’ll work to remove that data from our systems.
Retention
We retain your personal information only as long as we consider necessary to achieve the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. To determine the appropriate retention period, we take into account factors such as any permissions you’ve granted regarding your information, our contractual duties and rights related to that information, legal requirements to keep data for a specified time, our legitimate business and commercial needs, the advisability of retention in light of our legal position (e.g., statutes of limitations, investigations, litigation, or potential disputes), and any guidance from relevant data protection authorities.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy at our discretion. If we make significant changes, we will notify you. Updates to this Privacy Policy take effect once they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please reach out using the "Contact Us" links in the footer of our Website or by emailing godswayfoundationinc@gmail.com. We use this information to address your inquiries or feedback directly. We may also store your comments and share them with our customer care team to enhance our services moving forward. God’s Way Foundation is committed to addressing complaints regarding how we handle your personal information.
Still Have Questions About Our Privacy Policy?
Reach out to us at godswayfoundationinc@gmail.com or send a letter to:
God's Way Foundation
53 East Merrick Road #111
Freeport, NY 11520