IIMPACT Security & Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 1 Jun 2025

1. Introduction

IIMPACT is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of any personal information you provide while interacting with our website or services.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect the following information:

  • Full name, contact details (email, phone)
  • Donation/payment details
  • Communication preferences
  • Website usage data via cookies or analytics tools

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your data to:

  • Process donations and issue receipts
  • Respond to inquiries or requests
  • Send updates, newsletters, or appeals (where consented)
  • Improve our website and outreach

Purposes for which we may exchange personal information with third parties include to verify your identity, to process a payment and to confirm receipt of payment.

We may also use your personal information:

  • for purposes related to our research, planning, program development and management;
  • for purposes connected with the operation, administration, development or enhancement of our services and the IIMPACT Website; and
  • where we suspect fraud or unlawful activity.

We may provide personal information about you to our service providers who assist us in providing our services and the IIMPACT Website. We will only disclose your personal information to those third-party service providers on a confidential basis so that the service provider can effectively provide those services.

In particular, when processing credit card transactions, we will utilise systems that assist in minimising the risk of credit card fraud. Personal information that we collect about you, including your credit card details, demographic information, such as your address and information about the purchases you have conducted through this website, is required to provide a basis for credit card fraud risk analysis.

We use third-party advertising companies (such as Google AdWords) to serve ads on our web site and other web sites. These companies may use cookies to collect information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other web sites. They use this information to measure advertising effectiveness and to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

We may use third party service providers to distribute email communications.

4. Consent and User Rights

By providing your information, you consent to its use as outlined. You have the right to:

  • Access and correct your data
  • Withdraw consent at any time
  • Request deletion of your data
  • Contact us at privacy@iimpact.org for any data requests.

5. Sharing of Information

We do not sell or rent your personal information. It may be shared with trusted third parties (e.g., payment gateways, analytics providers) solely to perform services on our behalf, under confidentiality agreements.

We may also collect personal information from you if you knowingly provide it to us, for example by sending us an e-mail or providing feedback.

6. Security Measures

We use SSL encryption and secure servers to protect your data. Payment details are processed using PCI-DSS compliant gateways. Data is retained only as long as necessary for our operations or as required by law.

7. Cookies and Tracking

We use cookies to improve user experience and monitor site traffic. You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings.

8. Links to External Sites

The IIMPACT Website may contain links to web sites operated by third parties and other websites may contain links to the IIMPACT Website (“Linked Websites”). If the operators of those Linked Websites collect information about you, we may have access to that information as part of our arrangements with those third parties. Linked Websites should contain their own privacy statements, and the operators of Linked Websites are responsible for informing you about their own privacy practices.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy periodically. Any changes will be posted on this page with the effective date.

10. Contact

If you have questions about this policy or your data, please contact:

IIMPACT

B-200, Ground Floor, Sector 52,

M 2/3 DLF Phase II Gurugram 122002

Email: privacy@iimpact.org | Phone: +91 124 4276865 – 67

Who we are

Suggested text: Our website address is: https://iimpact.org.

Comments

Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.