INTRODUCTION
AmPowering (https://ampowering.org/ ) appreciates your business and trust. We are non-profit organization enabling vulnerable communities to enhance & develop their quality of life by creating opportunities encompassing educational, socio-economic and behavioral transformations. Please read this Privacy Policy, providing consent to both documents in order to have permission to use our services. The following Privacy Policy sets forth our understanding with you on the collection, use and protection of your Personal Information. Please read the entire Privacy Policy.
YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR CONSENT TO THE ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY (AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME) AND YOU SHALL BE BOUND BY THE SAME.
Collection of Information
Site Browsing: You browse the Site anonymously. We do not require you to identify yourself or reveal any Personal Information while browsing through the Site. However, you may not be able to access certain sections of the Site or interact with us without supplying us with Personal Information. For instance, you would not be able to transact at the Site or make any donations at the Site, without providing the Site with Personal Information. If you desire to register yourself at the Site, you would be required to provide your Personal Information.
While you are browsing through the Site, the Site’s operating system may automatically record some general information (“General Information”) about your visit such as:
(i) the date and time you visit the Site, along with the address of the previous website your were visiting, if you linked to us from another website
(ii) the type of browser you are using (such as Internet Explorer version ‘X’)
(iii) which ‘hit’ it is on the Site
The General Information is not Personal Information. AMPOWERING’s tracking system does not record personal information about individuals or link this information to any Personal Information collected from you.
The General Information is used by AMPOWERING for statistical analysis, for tracking overall traffic patterns on the Site and to gauge the public interest in AMPOWERING and the Site. Such General Information may be shared by AMPOWERING with any person, at AMPOWERING’s discretion.
Cookies: “Cookies” are small amounts of data that a website can send to a web browser on a visitor’s computer. The cookie is stored on a visitor’s computer. A cookie may enable the site holder to track how a visitor navigates through its site and the areas in which they show interest. This is like a traffic report: it tracks trends and behaviors but does not identify individuals. Information gathered may include date and time of visits, pages viewed, time spent at the site, and the site visited just before and just after the AMPOWERING site.
Types of Cookies
Cookies can be set to expire on a specified date after a specific period when a transaction has been completed or when a user turns off his/her browser.
A cookie that is erased from memory when a visitor’s browser closes is called a “session” cookie. Cookies that expire based on a time set by the Web server are called “persistent” cookies.
Persistent cookies may be used in some cases, for example, to recognize when a visitor returns to a website. The web browser will send the cookie information from the initial visit back to the website. This is useful to the visitor if he or she has established a password at a particular website and wants to be identified by that site to perform a function or transaction.
To browse anonymously, you may set your browser to disable cookies or delete cookies. Please note that disabling cookies for some services will impact ability to use that service.
Refusing Cookies on AMPOWERING’s Website
Customers may choose not to accept cookies. Your web browser may alert and permit you to refuse cookies. When you receive an alert, you may choose at that time to refuse that cookie. If the use of cookies is a concern to you, then please make sure your browser has this capability, and that you set your browser to alert you accordingly.
Newer browser versions allow you to be alerted or to automatically refuse cookies. You may need to download a more current version of your web browser from your service provider to obtain this option.
Note: Some product features and services provided by AMPOWERING require you to accept a cookie to be able to use the functionality or service. These cookies are used to establish a link between the user and the application server. The cookies contain unique session IDs, and no customer data is stored on the cookies.
Usage of Information
Personal information will be used by AMPOWERING for internal purposes including the following:
(i) sending you inter alia emails, features, promotional material, surveys, brochures, catalogues, AMPOWERING Annual Report, AMPOWERING-in -Action, reminders for donations, regular updates on the utilization of donations by AMPOWERING and other updates.
(ii) processing your donations to AMPOWERING and purchases of AMPOWERING products on the Site. (iii) delivering the AMPOWERING products you have purchased on the Site /Receipt for donations made by you to AMPOWERING.
(iv) maintaining an internal confidential database of all the Personal Information collected from visitors to the Site
(v) evaluating and administering the Site and AMPOWERING’s activities, responding to any problems that may arise and gauging visitor trends on the Site.
Disclosure of Personal Information by AMPOWERING
Within AMPOWERING, access to Personal Information collected by AMPOWERING will be given only to those persons who are authorized by AMPOWERING and third parties hired by AMPOWERING to perform administrative services. AMPOWERING will provide access to third parties for inter alia entering and managing Personal Information in AMPOWERING’s Database, processing your orders or donations preparing address labels, sending emails, which require such third parties to have access to your Personal Information. AMPOWERING cannot guarantee that such parties will keep your Personal Information confidential and AMPOWERING will not be liable in any manner for any loss of confidentiality attributable to such third parties.
AMPOWERING may share Personal Information with any of persons who are associated with AMPOWERING, including companies and non-governmental organizations affiliated with AMPOWERING in any manner. AMPOWERING will retain ownership rights over such information and will share only such portions of the Personal Information as it deems fit.
AMPOWERING is not liable in any manner whatsoever for the loss, damage(whether direct, indirect, consequential or incidental) or harm caused to you by the misuse of your Personal Information by a third party who is not an employee of AMPOWERING.
Notwithstanding anything contained herein or any other contract between you and AMPOWERING, AMPOWERING reserves the right to disclose any Personal Information about you without notice or consent as needed to satisfy any requirement of law, regulation, legal request or legal investigation, to conduct investigations of breaches of law, to protect the Site, to protect AMPOWERING and its property, to fulfill your requests, to protect our visitors and other persons and if required by the policy of AMPOWERING.
Security
AMPOWERING endeavors to use up-to-date security measures to protect your Personal Information.
AMPOWERING however does not make any express or implied warranty with respect to the security measures that it may employ from time to time for the protection of the Personal Information.
Links to other Websites
The Site contains links to other websites for the benefit of its visitors. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such other websites. AMPOWERING is not expressly or impliedly responsible for, or liable to any loss or damage caused to you by the collection, use and retention of Personal Information by such website in any manner whatsoever. It is important that you review the privacy policies of all websites you visit before you disclose any information to such websites.
Variation of the Privacy Policy
AMPOWERING shall be absolutely entitled at its sole discretion from time to time add to, alter, delete, or modify any of the terms and conditions contained herein. Such changes, additions, alterations, deletions, or modifications shall be binding on you once you visit the Site after the Privacy Policy has been so amended.
Copyright Protection
All content on this Site including graphics, text, icons, interfaces, audio clips, logos, images and software is the property of AMPOWERING and/or its content suppliers and is protected by Indian and international copyright laws. The arrangement and compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement, and assembly) of all content on this Site is the exclusive property of AMPOWERING and protected by Indian and international copyright laws. Permission is given to use the resources of this Site only for the purposes of making enquiries, making a donation or placing an order for the purchase of AMPOWERING products. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display, or performance, of the content on this Site can only be made with the express permission of AMPOWERING. All other trademarks, brands and copyrights other than those belonging to AMPOWERING belong to their respective owners and are their property.
AMPOWERING Donation Refund Policy
AMPOWERING takes the utmost care to process donations as per the instructions given by our donors, online and offline. However, in case of an unlikely event of an erroneous donation or if the donor would like to cancel his donation, AMPOWERING will respond to the donor within 7 working days of receiving a valid request for refund from the donor. The timely refund of the donation will depend upon the type of credit card/banking instrument used during the transaction. The donor will have to send AMPOWERING a written request for a refund within 2 days of making the donation to AMPOWERING’s official address or email info@ampowering.org along with-
1. Proof of the deduction of the donation amount.
2. In cases where the donation receipt has already been issued to the donor, the donor will have to return the original receipt to us at our office addresses.
3. If the tax exemption certificate is already issued, then we are sorry, but we will not be able to refund the donation. However, in case of a valid refund request due to any error on AMPOWERING’s part, AMPOWERING will refund the donation and bear the costs of the same.
4. International donations will need minimum 10 days for the refund process.