Chalo Chatu:Privacy policy

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This policy is approved by the Chalo Chatu Foundation Board of Trustees to apply to all Chalo Chatu projects . It may not be circumvented, eroded, or ignored by local policies.

This is a summary of the Privacy Policy. To read the full terms, click here

Disclaimer: This summary is not a part of the Privacy Policy and is not a legal document. It is simply a handy reference for understanding the full Privacy Policy.Think of it as the user-friendly interface to our Privacy Policy.

Because we believe that you should provide personal information to participate in the free knowledge movement, you may:

  • Read but for you edit any page on our site you will need to register an account .
  • Register for an account providing an email address and provide your real name.

Because we want to understand how our site is used so we can make them better for you, we collect some information when you:

  • Make public contributions .
  • Register an account or update your user page.
  • Use the Chalo Chatu site.
  • Send us emails or participate in a survey or give feedback .

We are committed to:

  • Describing how your information may be used or shared in this Privacy Policy.
  • Using reasonable measures to keep your information secure.
  • Never selling your information or sharing it with third parties for marketing purposes.
  • Only sharing your information in limited circumstances, such as to improve the Chalo Chatu site , to comply with the law, or to protect you and others.
  • Retaining your data for the shortest possible time that is consistent with maintaining, understanding, and improving the Chalo Chatu sites, and our obligations under law.

Be aware:

  • Any content you add or any change that you make to a Chalo Chatu site will be publicly and permanently available.
  • Our community of volunteer editors and contributors is a self-policing body. Certain administrators of the Chalo Chatu sites, who are chosen by the community, use tools that grant them limited access to nonpublic information about recent contributions so they may protect the Chalo Chatu Sites and enforce policies.
  • As part of our commitment to education and research around Zambia, we occasionally release public information and aggregated or non-personal information to the general public through data dumps and data sets.
  • For the protection of the Chalo Chatu Foundation and other users, if you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you may not use the Chalo Chatu sites.


Introduction

The Chalo Chatu Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates collaborative, free knowledge for Chalochatu website.

This Policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information.

  • We collect very little personal information about you.
  • We do not rent or sell your information to third parties.

By using the Chalo Chatu Site, you consent to this Policy.

Welcome

Welcome! The Chalo Chatu Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates collaborative, free knowledge website Chalo Chatu Commons. This Policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information. We collect very little personal information about you. We do not rent or sell your information to third parties. By using Chalo Chatu website, you consent to this Policy. The Chalo Chatu movement is founded on a simple, but powerful principle: we can do more together than any of us can do alone. We cannot work collectively without gathering, sharing, and analysing information about our users as we seek new ways to make the Chalo Chatu Sites more useable, safer, and more beneficial. We believe that information-gathering and use should go hand-in-hand with transparency. This Privacy Policy explains how the Chalo Chatu Foundation, the non-profit organization that hosts the Chalo Chatu Site, uses, and shares information we receive from you through your use of the Chalo Chatu Site. It is essential to understand that, by using the Chalo Chatu Site, you consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure, and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. That means that reading this Policy carefully is important. We believe that you shouldn't have to provide personal information to participate in the free knowledge movement. You do not have to provide things like your real name, address, or date of birth to sign up for a standard account or contribute content to the Chalo Chatu Sites. We do not sell or rent your non-public information, nor do we give it to others to sell you anything. We use it to figure out how to make the Chalo Chatu Sites more engaging and accessible, to see which ideas work, and to make learning and contributing more fun. Put simply: we use this information to make the Chalo Chatu Sites better for you. After all, its people like you, the champions of free knowledge, who make it possible for the Chalo Chatu Sites to not only exist, but also grow and thrive.


Definitions: Because everyone (not just lawyers) should be able to easily understand how and why their information is collected and used, we use common language instead of more formal terms throughout this Policy. To help ensure your understanding of some particular key terms, here is a table of translations:


When we say... ... we mean: "The Chalo Chatu Foundation" / "the Foundation" / "we" / "us" / "our" The Chalo Chatu Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates the Chalo Chatu Sites. "Chalo Chatu Sites" / "our services" Chalo Chatu websites and services (regardless of language), including our main projects, Chalo Chatu, as well as mobile applications, APIs, emails, and notifications; excluding, however, sites and services listed in the "What This Privacy Policy Doesn't Cover" section below.

"You" / "your" / "me" You, regardless of whether you are an individual, group, or organization, and regardless of whether you are using the Chalo Chatu Sites or our services on behalf of yourself or someone else.

"This Policy" / "this Privacy Policy" This document, entitled the "Chalo Chatu Foundation Privacy Policy".

"Contributions" Content you add or changes you make to any Chalo Chatu Sites.

"Personal information" Information you provide us or information we collect from you that could be used to personally identify you. To be clear, while we do not necessarily collect all of the following types of information, we consider at least the following to be “personal information” if it is otherwise non-public and can be used to identify you: (a) your real name, address, phone number, email address, password, identification number on government-issued ID, IP address, user-agent information, credit card number; (b) when associated with one of the items in subsection (a), any sensitive data such as date of birth, gender, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origins, marital or familial status, medical conditions or disabilities, political affiliation, and religion; and (c) Any of the items in subsections (a) or (b) when associated with your user account.

"Third party" / "third parties" Individuals, entities, websites, services, products, and applications that are not controlled, managed, or operated by the Chalo Chatu Foundation. This includes other Chalo Chatu users and independent organizations or groups who help promote the Chalo Chatu movement such as Chalo Chatu chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups as well as volunteers, employees, directors, officers, grant recipients, and contractors of those organizations or groups. We recognize that only a minority of you are familiar with technical terms like “tracking pixels” and “cookies” used in the Privacy Policy. Whether you are brand new to privacy terminology or you are an expert who just wants a refresher, you might find our Glossary of Key Terms helpful.

Sharing

When May We Share Your Information?

We may share your information when you give us specific permission to do so.

We may share your information when you give us specific permission to do so.

With Your Permission

We may share your information for a particular purpose, if you agree.

For Legal Reasons

We will disclose your information in response to an official legal process only if we believers it to be legally valid. We will notify you of such requests when possible.

We may access, preserve, or disclose your personal information if we reasonably believe it necessary to satisfy a valid and legally enforceable warrant, subpoena, court order, law or regulation, or other judicial or administrative order. However, if we believe that a particular request for disclosure of a user's information is legally invalid or an abuse of the legal system and the affected user does not intend to oppose the disclosure themselves, we will try our best to fight it. We are committed to notifying you via email at least ten (10) calendar days, when possible, before we disclose your personal information in response to a legal demand. However, we may only provide notice if we are not legally restrained from contacting you, there is no credible threat to life or limb that is created or increased by disclosing the request, and you have provided us with an email address.


Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal objections or defenses you may have to a third party's request (whether it be civil, criminal, or governmental) to disclose your information. We recommend seeking the advice of legal counsel immediately if such a request is made involving you.

Contact Us

If you have questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy, or the information collected under this Privacy Policy, please email us at bwanji@chalochatu.org

Thank You!

Thank you for reading our Privacy Policy. We hope you enjoy using our Sites and appreciate your participation in creating, maintaining, and constantly working to improve the largest repository of free knowledge in Zambia.

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