Privacy Policy

The Kara Universal cares about our supporters and is committed to protecting the privacy and the security of your personal information. This privacy policy describes the kind of information we collect from you, how that information is used, and the security measures we employ on our website. We will not sell or rent the information you provide to us in any way.

 

If you have questions regarding this privacy policy or the Kara Universal's information practices, please e-mail us at karauniversal@icloud.org.

Information Collection and Use

The Kara Universal sometimes requests information from you on our website. You are under no obligation to enter any information on our website, however, in order to participate in some of the services we offer, such information collection is necessary.

Below is a brief summary of the information we typically collect from you and how it is used. 

• Donations: When you give a financial donation, we request that you provide us with your name, telephone number, mailing address, e-mail address and credit card information. We use a very secure data networks protected by industry standard firewalls and password protection systems.

• Volunteers: When you volunteer for the Kara Universal, we ask you to provide us certain personal information. This information is used to populate our volunteer database and to only contact you in connection with volunteer activities. 

• eNews: When you subscribe to receive our eNews, we ask you for your name and e-mail address.

• Surveys and Sign-Up Forms: We occasionally invite people to participate in a survey or to sign-up for different events and activities.

 

Use of Personal Information

We may use the information you give us to:

• Communicate with you, including to respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests;

• Provide, maintain, personalize, optimize, and improve the Site, including research and analytics regarding the use of the Site;

• Make decisions about approving and funding grants;

• Make decisions about approving job applications and conference requests;

• Provide you with more relevant content in email bulletins to which you may be subscribed;

• Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal.

 

Information Sharing

The Kara Universal does not sell or rent donor names and addresses with any third parties for any reason other than if compelled by legal action. Disclosure may also occur if we consider it necessary to protect our legal rights, or if the information relates to actual or threatened harmful conduct.

 

Access and the Ability to Correct Your Information

If your information changes (such as your e-mail address or zip code), or if you no longer desire to volunteer or receive our newsletters, please contact karauniversal@icloud.com to change your information.

 

Unsubscribing from our Mailing List

We send updates on our activities and events, including our eNews to keep our supporters informed. If you are receiving electronic communications from the Kara Universal and you decide at any time that you no longer wish to hear from us, you can use the “unsubscribe” link provided in each email to remove yourself from our mailing list or send a request to be removed to karauniversal@icloud.org

 

Notification of Changes

We will post a notice of change in the privacy policy on the privacy policy section of our website to keep you informed of what information is collected and how it is used. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner incompatible with the stated purposes at the time it was collected, we will post a prominent notification of the change in policy on our web site.

 

Security

For online donation processing, Kara Universal uses secure data networks protected by industry standard firewalls and password protection systems. Only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our donors. Any other particularly sensitive information, such as a donor’s credit card number collected for a commerce transaction, is also encrypted prior to transmission. The Kara Universal operates secure data networks and we do everything we can to protect your data, whilst you use this site. 

 

 

Additional Information

Our website may contain links to other Web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another site that is governed by that site’s privacy policy.