Privacy Policy

The Aaron Opoku Foundation is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and protect your personal data in compliance with the UK GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and how we share your information when you use our website (www.aopokufoundation.org) and any related services (collectively, the "Service").

How we process your personal data

Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the personal information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:

We process your personal information based on the following legal grounds:

  • Consent: You have given us explicit consent to process your data for specific purposes.

  • Contractual Necessity: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.

  • Legal Obligation: Processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations.

  • Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party.

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed about what personal information we hold about you, and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us at Info@aopokufoundation.org.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • Right to Access: Request access to the personal information we hold about you.

  • Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.

  • Right to Erasure: Request the deletion of your personal information.

  • Right to Restriction of Processing: Request restrictions on how we process your data.

  • Right to Data Portability: Request a copy of your data in a commonly used format.

  • Right to Object: Object to processing based on legitimate interests or direct marketing.

Information we collect

Personal Information

When you use our Service, we may collect personal data that you provide voluntarily, such as your name, address, telephone or mobile number, email address and donation transaction details.

Analytics

We collect personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including: clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches and timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Forms Submissions

When you submit information on our website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We may also share this information with Google for storage and with Zapier for data porting.

Marketing Emails

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Donations

When you make a donation on our website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution provided to us by our online store service provider Squarespace.

Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third-party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:

For donations made through PayPal, you can read PayPal’s privacy policy at https://www.paypal.com/uk/legalhub/privacy-full

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

  • Providing, maintaining, and improving our mentoring programme.

  • Sending you updates, newsletters, and promotional materials.

  • Responding to your inquiries and providing further support.

  • Complying with legal requirements.

  • For fundraising and promoting the interest of our Foundation.

Third-Party Links and Services

Our Service may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties.

Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect the information we collect from unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and the date of the latest update will be indicated.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at Info@aopokufoundation.org

  

Updated: May 2024