Introduction
The Flying Doctors Society of Africa (FDSA) is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. We use the information we collect about you to help us understand more about how our site is used and to be able to send you communications about FDSA that may be of interest to you, either electronically or otherwise. The ‘personally identifiable information’ is information that enables us to identify you, such as your email address, name, title, and address. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically. Like many websites, FDSA uses cookies in order to provide you with a more personalised web service. A cookie is a text-only string of information that we pass to your computer’s hard disk through your web-browser so that the website can remember who you are. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. For more information about cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org.
Use of Personal Information
FDSA uses the information we collect about you to help us with understanding more about how our site is used and to be able to send you communications that may be of interest to you, either electronically or otherwise. Ownership of Information When you are on the FDSA website and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with FDSA alone unless stated otherwise. For example, when you are using our secure online donation pages you are going through to a partner company.
Use of Information
As a general rule, FDSA will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information, except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it. When you are using our secure online donation pages you are going through to a partner company and the information you give such as your credit card number and contact information is provided so that the transaction can take place. If you indicated that you are interested in receiving regular information about FDSA’s campaign work or emergencies appeals we will send you communications regarding FDSA’s work and activities, either electronically or otherwise. In addition, we may send you direct mail that we feel may be of interest to you. We comply with all laws to which we are subject. With respect to personally identifiable information you provide to us, we will only disclose it to the extent that we, in good faith, believe that applicable law requires it.
Opt Out Policy
Sometimes FDSA rents or exchanges our mailing list with other worthy organizations. If you would prefer that your name and address not be included, please click here to email us and type “OPT OUT” in the subject line.
Online Payments and Transactions
When you are using our secure online purchase and donation pages you are going through to a partner company and the information you give such as your credit card number and contact information is provided so that the transaction can take place. Otherwise, your credit card information will not be disclosed to others.
Updating Information
The accuracy of your individual identifying information is important to FDSA. We are working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that FDSA maintains about you. In the meantime, if you change email address or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please contact us.
Protection of Information
FDSA is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect the individual identifying information that you provide to us. FDSA makes every effort to ensure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive user information, including credit card information, by using high grade encryption and https security protocol to communicate with your browser software. This method reflects industry standard security protocol and makes it extremely difficult for anyone else to intercept your credit card information, whilst protecting your privacy.
