Privacy Policy

What this Privacy Policy covers

This Privacy Policy covers the World Life Foundation’s treatment of personal identifying information that the World Life Foundation collects when you are on the Website (www.worldlifefoundation.org) and when you use services on the Website, as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy also covers the World Life Foundation’s treatment of any personal identifying information that the World Life Foundation’s beneficiaries share with the World Life Foundation unless otherwise stated.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of any companies or legal entities that the World Life Foundation does not own or control or to any persons that the World Life Foundation does not employ or manage, including without limitation third-party beneficiaries to whom you provide information. The World Life Foundation is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other websites to which you choose to link from the Website, and the World Life Foundation encourages you to review the privacy policies of those other websites so you can understand how they collect, use, and share information.

Information collection and use

The World Life Foundation does not collect personal identifying information when you access the Website homepage and browse the Website without disclosing your personal data except as described in this Privacy Policy or the relevant part of the Website and except cookies (see below under “cookies”).

The World Life Foundation collects personal identifying information when you register on the Website, when you use certain products or services on the Website, and when you apply for support. The World Life Foundation may also receive personal identifying information from its beneficiaries.

When you register, the World Life Foundation asks for your name, email address, and some other personal information. Once you register with the World Life Foundation and/or sign in to our products or services, you are not anonymous to the World Life Foundation.

The World Life Foundation also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your Internet Protocol address (IP address), which identifies your computer, the World Life Foundation’s cookies information, and the page you requested.

The World Life Foundation uses information collected for three general purposes: for technical administration of the Website, for research and development to achieve and maintain a high service level, and for customer information (to customize the content you see, to fulfill your request for certain products and services, and to contact you about specials and new products and services).

Data retention

The World Life Foundation does not, as a matter of business practices, maintain personal identifying information longer than necessary for the purposes stated, unless otherwise agreed to by you.

Information sharing and disclosure

The World Life Foundation will not sell or rent your personal identifying information without your consent to any third parties, such as but not limited to IT service suppliers and any other third party processing personal identifying information on behalf of the World Life Foundation.

However, by approving this Privacy Policy, you expressly give your consent and agree to the disclosure of your personal data by the World Life Foundation, and your consent is deemed to be given. The World Life Foundation may send personal identifying information about you to third parties when:

The World Life Foundation has your consent to share the information;
The World Life Foundation needs to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
The World Life Foundation needs to send the information to third parties who work on behalf of the World Life Foundation to provide a product or service to you (unless otherwise stated, these third parties do not have any rights to use the personal identifying information the World Life Foundation provides to them beyond what is necessary to provide a product or service to you);
The World Life Foundation responds to courts or authorities;
The World Life Foundation finds that your actions on the Website violate the World Life Foundation Website Terms and Conditions or any other World Life Foundation guidelines or rules applicable to specific services; or
The World Life Foundation finds that it is necessary, as determined at the World Life Foundation's sole discretion, to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, emergency situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any persons, violations of the World Life Foundation Website Terms and Conditions or as otherwise required by law.

Before disclosing your personal identifying information to third parties, the World Life Foundation will ensure that sufficient security measures and adequate data protection are guaranteed by the third party and take reasonable steps to ensure compliance with those measures.

In particular, the World Life Foundation ensures that adequate protection is guaranteed for personal identifying information to be transferred abroad. In some specific cases when this level of protection is not guaranteed, the World Life Foundation will obtain your prior consent or establish with the recipient of personal identifying information a contractual framework or sufficient safeguards that ensure an adequate level of protection abroad.

As part of its internal data auditing process, the World Life Foundation may conduct regular checks on processing by third parties, especially with respect to security measures.

Cookies

The World Life Foundation may set and access the World Life Foundation’s cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website’s computer and stored on your computer’s hard drive.

The World Life Foundation uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, mainly to:

Access your information when you “sign in,” so that we can provide you with customized content;
Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using the World Life Foundation services;
Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic;
Conduct research and development to improve the Website contents and services and achieve and maintain a high service level.

The World Life Foundation may allow third parties that are presenting projects on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Third parties’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not this one.

Children’s privacy

If you are not yet legally an adult (under 18), please use this website only after obtaining permission from your parent or legal guardian. The protection of personal data of children and adolescents is of particular concern to the World Life Foundation. The World Life Foundation does not knowingly collect personal data from children unless their parents or legal guardians have authorized us to do so. The World Life Foundation will delete personal data immediately if it discovers that minors are providing the World Life Foundation with personal data without the corresponding permission or data relating to such minors being provided to the World Life Foundation by third parties.

Access to your personal identifying information

The World Life Foundation gives you the ability to access your personal identifying information by sending us an email to contact@worldlifefoundation.org, including in the title of the email the reference to personal identifying information.

The World Life Foundation allows you to challenge the data that it holds about you, and you may have such data rectified, amended, or completed.

Security

If you communicate with the World Life Foundation by email, you should note that the secrecy of email is uncertain. By sending sensitive or confidential email messages or information which are not encrypted you accept such uncertainty and possible lack of confidentiality over the Internet. In certain areas, the World Life Foundation uses industry-standard SSL encryption to protect data transmissions.

Generally, the World Life Foundation takes precautions to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

Changes in this Privacy Policy

This policy may be amended from time to time. If we amend the Privacy Policy in any way we will place an updated version on this page of the Website. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Website.

Privacy compliance

The World Life Foundation is subject to United States data protection laws when collecting and processing personal identifying information.

Questions or suggestions

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, please send an email to contact@worldlifefoundation.org.