Privacy

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E-mail: info@shineonafrica.org
Facebook: shineoninternationaltrust
Phone +263 772 434590
Skype: taffynyamz

Website: shineonafrica.org

Scope of application

According to the Federal Data Protection Act as well as the Telemedia Act, this data privacy statement shall inform the user of this website on the nature, extent and purpose of the recording and use of personal data through the website owner Shine on Africa. The website owner takes data protection very seriously and your personal data will be handled with highest confidence and in accordance with the legal regulations. Please note that the transmission of data in the internet (e.g. by communicating via e-mail) generally be subject to security vulnerabilities. A complete data protection against access of third parties is not possible.

Access data

The website owner respectively the provider of the website records data about visits to the website and saves them as „server-log files“. In doing so, the following data is loged:

  • Visited website
  • Timing of access
  • Size of transmitted data in byte
  • Source/ path to the website
  • Used browser
  • Used operating system
  • Used IP address

This information will be used for statistical purposes only as well as for the improvement of the website. However the operator reserves the right to check the server log-files subsequently if he has specific reason to believe in an unlawful use.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your terminal device. Your browser accesses to these files. This enhances user friendliness as well as the security of the website. Common browsers provide the setting option to reject cookies. Note: There is no guarantee that you may have access to all functions of this website without any limitation in case you make these settings accordingly.

Handling of personal data

The website owner will not record, use or share your personal data except where permitted by law or provided that you have consented to the collection of data. Personal information means any information that may be used to have a person assigned and which could be traced back to you (e.g. your name, your e-mail address and telephone number).

Handling with contact information

While getting in contact with the operator through the provided point of contact your data will be saved in order to process and answer your inquiry. This information will not be forwarded to a third party.

Google Analytics

This website uses the service „Google Analytics“, provided by the Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) which enables the website usage through users to be analysed. The service uses „cookies-text files, that are stored on your terminal device. As a rule the information, collected by using cookies, is transferred to and stored on a server operated by Google in the USA.

On this website the IP-anonymization takes effect. The IP address of the users will be shortened within the EU member countries as well as in the European Economic Community. Through this reduction the personal reference of your IP address does not apply. Under the agreement of data processing which the owners of the websites have concluded with the Google Inc., Google creates, with the help of collected data, an evaluation of the website usage as well as website activity and provides services which are connected with the usage of internet. You have the possibility to prevent the storage of cookies on your device, while making certain settings in your browser. There is no guarantee that you have full access to this website without any limitation if your browser does not accept any cookies.

Weiterhin können Sie durch ein Browser-Plugin verhindern, dass die durch Cookies gesammelten Informationen (inklusive Ihrer IP-Adresse) an die Google Inc. gesendet und von der Google Inc. genutzt werden. Folgender Link führt Sie zum entsprechenden Plugin: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Here you will find some more information on the data use through Google Inc.: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

Use of social media plugins

This website uses Facebook Social Plugins, which is operated by Facebook Inc. (1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA). Recognizable are the bindings to the Facebook logo or the terms “Like”, “Like”, “Share” in the colors Facebook (blue and white). Information on all Facebook plug-ins can be found in the following link: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

The plugin creates a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook servers. The website operator has no influence whatsoever on the nature and extent of the data transmitted by the plugin to the Facebook Inc. servers. Information can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/help/186325668085084

The plugin informs Facebook Inc. that users have visited this website. There is the possibility that your IP address will be saved. If you are logged into your Facebook account while visiting this website, the information will be linked to it.

If you use the functions of the plugin – for example by sharing or liking a post – the corresponding information will also be transmitted to Facebook Inc.

If you want to prevent the Facebook. Inc. associates from accessing this information with your Facebook account, please log out of Facebook before visiting this website.

Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps to display maps and create directions. Google Maps is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, 25 USA.

By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use by Google, one of its agents or third parties of the data collected and entered by you.
Google Maps terms of service can be found here: http://www.google.com/intl/en_en/help/terms_maps.html

You can view the privacy policy of Google Maps here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Google Webfonts

We use fonts provided by Google Inc. The address of Google Inc., is in the USA, CA 94043, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. The purpose of the central filing of fonts on the Internet is to save traffic and to minimize duplicate fetches of the same data sets. These typically have addresses such as: Fonts.googleapis.com googleusercontent.com, fonts.gstatic.com.

We use the fonts from an external source to make our site faster and visually appealing. What Google says about privacy is in the original in English: https://developers.google.com/fonts/

We assume that Google uses the data obtained through the retrieval of the font in order to analyze general visitor behavior and visitor flows, but not to identify registered visitors on other, non-Google Internet sites. What the company says is:
“Website visitors do not send cookies to the Google Fonts API. Queries to the Google Fonts API are made to resource-specific domains such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com, so your font requirements are separate from credentials that you send to google.com and do not contain Credentials that you send to Google or use other Google services that are authenticated, such as Gmail. ” The general privacy Statement of the company Google can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de. We use the Google fonts on the basis of § 15 para. 3 TMG or art. 6 para. 1 under point F of the DSGVO.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on this website. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to check whether data entry on this website (e.g. in a contact form) is performed by a person or by an automated programme. To do so, reCAPTCHA analyses the website visitor’s behaviour based on various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, the website visitor’s length of stay on the website or mouse movements made by the user). The data recorded during the analysis are forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses run completely in the background. Website visitors are not informed that an analysis is taking place.

The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web services against improper automated spying and against SPAM.

Further information on Google reCAPTCHA can be gathered from Google’s Data Privacy Policy and Google’s Terms of Use at the following links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en