School a Child Initiative respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the information you share with us.
Welcome to the website of School a Child Initiative.
School a Child Initiative is a community-based organisation based and registered in Wakiso District, Uganda. Our work focuses on supporting disadvantaged children, especially girls, by helping them access education and essential resources.
This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used and protected when you visit our website, contact us, volunteer, donate, sponsor a child or otherwise interact with School a Child Initiative through our website.
The information we collect depends on how you interact with our website and organisation.
You may voluntarily provide information when you contact us, make an enquiry, express an interest in volunteering, sponsorship, donations or partnerships, or submit information through a website form.
This information may include details such as your name, email address, telephone number and other information you choose to provide.
When you visit our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by the website or by services used to operate and secure the website.
Depending on the services enabled on the website, this may include information such as your browser type, device, approximate location, pages visited and general website usage information.
Information provided to School a Child Initiative may be used for purposes such as:
We will only use personal information for appropriate purposes connected with our work and the interaction for which the information was provided.
School a Child Initiative works with disadvantaged children and young people. We recognise that information relating to children requires particular care.
Personal information about children should only be provided to us by a parent, guardian, authorised representative or another person with appropriate authority to provide that information.
We aim to handle children's information responsibly and only use it for legitimate purposes connected to our work, support programmes and communications.
Where stories, photographs or other information about children are used for communication or awareness purposes, appropriate consideration should be given to consent, dignity, safety and the child's best interests.
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
However, no method of transmitting or storing information online can be guaranteed to be completely secure. For this reason, we cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted through the internet.
We retain personal information only for as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, to maintain appropriate records, or where required for legal, administrative or organisational purposes.
The period for which information is retained may depend on the nature of the information and the reason it was collected.
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights relating to the personal information we hold about you.
These may include the right to request access to personal information, ask for inaccurate information to be corrected, request deletion where appropriate, or withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
If you would like to make a request concerning your personal information, please contact School a Child Initiative using the contact details provided below.
Our website may use third-party services to support functions such as website hosting, security, analytics, communication, donations or other website features.
Where third-party services are used, those providers may process information according to their own terms and privacy policies.
The specific third-party services used on this website should be reviewed and added to this policy as they are configured.
School a Child Initiative may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services, practices or applicable requirements.
When changes are made, the updated policy will be published on this page with the revised date.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to make a request concerning your personal information, please contact School a Child Initiative.
