Privacy Policy
We care about your privacy.
Opportunity Circle Foundation (“known as The Circle”) is committed to providing privacy for our website visitors as well as recipients of our email messages. Opportunity Circle Foundation promotes the tenets of opt-in email and privacy among our partners and employees. We maintain a strict privacy policy to protect the integrity and privacy of the personal information gathered from our supporters and visitors through all of our communication channels.
The following notice is designed to help you better understand the information we gather from donors and from those who visit our website. It also describes how we handle the information once we gather it, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of the information. This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. By sharing information with Opportunity Circle Foundation or by visiting this Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
By accessing and using the website, you agree that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy and that you accept and consent to the privacy practices and uses or disclosures of information about you that are described herein.
Information Tracked
We may collect information used primarily to provide an enhanced online experience, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs, and other communication data, including your IP address, the date and time you accessed or left the Website and which pages you viewed, the type of operating system in use, the domain name, and the type of web browser being used. We do so in a way that makes your personal information non-personally identifiable by aggregating data and removing identifiable characteristics.
Use of Your Information
Opportunity Circle Foundation may use the information we collect for the following purposes:
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To share with partners who may want to reach out with opportunities
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To comply with applicable law, regulation, or governmental request; to protect the safety of Opportunity Circle Foundation, website users, or others; to comply with contractual obligations of Opportunity Circle Foundation, and other instances when Opportunity Circle Foundation Is legally required to disclose your information.
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To share information that is public or does not include Personal Data, such as aggregated data or a publicly posted comment.
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To provide you with information relating to our services.
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To provide third parties with statistical information about the users of our website.
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To third parties if you use certain third-party features to share information about user activity through our Website. For example, the “share” button allows users to share posts on social networks. If you use these features, Opportunity Circle Foundation will share this information with the third-party website or service, along with additional information you provide to use the feature (e.g., a Twitter username). By accessing these third-party websites, you are consenting to the terms and privacy policies of those websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies whatsoever, as we have no control over them.
There are registration and application sections of our website where input forms require your name, email address and other information. By submitting such forms, you give us permission to send email messages to you containing information relating to your interest in Opportunity Circle Foundation. Each email we send will also contain instructions on how to opt-out of receiving future emails of any sort from Opportunity Circle Foundation.
Information Collected
Security and Privacy
You should be aware that no transmission of data over the Internet is 100% secure, and that unauthorized third parties may unlawfully intercept or access private data. You provide us with this information at your own risk.
We retain your Personal Data:
-For as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
- For as long as necessary for the purpose for which we collect it
Cookies
Client-side cookies may be used to verify the login status of visitors and registered users of our web site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. If visitors reject a cookie, they may still use our site; however, they may not be able to log in, or access all areas of our site. (Cookies are text files our website places in your computer’s browser to store your preferences.). By continuing to use our sites without changing settings, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
Our website has links to other websites that may collect information about you. Opportunity Circle Foundation cannot ensure the privacy practices of such sites and is not responsible for any damages due to them. The inclusion of a link in our website to those other sites does not imply endorsement by us of the linked site or of those sites’ privacy policies.
Links to other websites
Choice/Opt-out
Our e-newsletter subscribers and website visitors are given the opportunity to opt-out of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information. Users of our site will always be notified if their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this to ensure our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.
Notification of changes
We may, from time to time, make changes to this Privacy Policy, The most current version of this Privacy Statement will be available at http://thecircleindia.org/privacy-policy. Any modifications will become effective immediately upon posting. By continuing to use the Website, you accept such modifications.
If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your Personal Data, we will notify all users by posting a prominent announcement on our Website.
This site works with third party services that collect anonymous traffic data at this site and Opportunity Circle Foundation will not be responsible for such usage by the third party.