Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://brightenachildslife.org.

Address: 1768 County Road 628 Roanoke, AL 36274, USA

Our organization is based in the United States of America. Our website is accessible in most countries of the world so therefore, we do our best to make sure to follow the data Privacy rules for all countries. Recently the European Union has implemented a very strict data usage policy and therefore, we are complying with it, so that we can leave our website open for people living in European countries to access.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Declaration on the duty to provide information

Brighten a Child’s Life Privacy Policy

The protection of your personal data is of particular concern to us. We, therefore, process your data exclusively on the basis of the legal regulations (EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), TKG 2003). In this data protection information, we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing on our website.

We store and process your personal data (if any) on servers located in the area of North America which are hosted and maintained by third party service providers (“Hosting Providers”). We will retain your data for only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes of this Privacy Policy, or for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations.

Contact us

If you contact us by form on the website or by e-mail, the data you provide will be stored with us for the purpose of processing your inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data except as follows:

Data retention from Donations

We do not collect your credid card data but if you make a donation to us online, we utilize a third party payment service provider (PAYPAL) that will collect your credit card or other payment information as necessary to process your payment. See PayPal’s Privacy policy here: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-prev

Newsletter and Membership registration

In addition, if you register for either membership or the newsletter the following data is also stored with us for the sole purpose of Membership and Newsletter processing: your name, email address, postal address, and phone number. We may also ask for data such as how you came to know about us, country, and preferred way of receiving information from us. If you register for the newsletter we will be sharing your email data on a strict privacy usage basis with MailChimp® for the actual mailing. Please see MailChimp®’s privacy statements here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy

Data will not be transmitted to third parties, with the exception of the transmission of credit card data to the processing bank institutes and the newsletter mailing company MailChimp® commissioned by us for the delivery of the newsletter and to our tax consultant for the fulfilment of our tax obligations.

In the event of a register for either membership or the newsletter, all data from the registration will be stored until you request that we no longer continue to hold it. You can unsubscribe to our membership or newsletter by hitting the unsubscribe button. All stored data will be deleted at your request.

Data processing is carried out on the basis of the legal provisions of § 96 Paragraph 3 TKG and Art 6 Paragraph 1 lit a (consent) and/or lit b (necessary for contract fulfilment) of the GDPR.

Your IP address is recorded but pseudonymised immediately (e.g. by deleting the last 8 bits). This means that only a rough localization is possible.

Data processing is carried out on the basis of the legal provisions of § 96 Paragraph 3 TKG and Art 6 Paragraph 1 lit a (consent) and/or f (legitimate interest) of the GDPR.

Newsletter

You have the possibility to subscribe to our newsletter via our website. For this we need your e-mail address and your declaration that you agree to receive the newsletter.

In order to provide you with our organization’s information, we also collect and process information voluntarily provided such as name, email address, postal address, and phone number.

You can cancel your subscription to the newsletter at any time. Please send your cancellation to the following e-mail address: lsominoffice@gmail.com or hit the unsubscribe button in the email newsletter. We will immediately delete your data in connection with sending the newsletter.

Your rights

In principle, you have the right to information, correction, deletion, restriction, data transferability, revocation and objection. If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or your data protection claims have otherwise been violated in any way, you can complain to the supervisory authority. In Austria, Europe this is the data protection authority.

You can reach us at the following contact details for all question about your data usage:

Brighten a Child’s Life 
Data manager: Naomi Pirraglia 
1768 County Road 
628 Roanoke, AL 36274 USA 
Email address: lsominoffice@gmail.com

How long we retain your data

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

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.

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