Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 2025
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://www.nonprofittoolkits.com.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, store, and protect your data in compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) in South Africa and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union.
Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following types of personal information:
- Comments:
When you leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. - Media:
If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from images on the website. - Cookies:
- If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for your convenience so you don’t have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies last for one year.
- If you log in to our site, we may set cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks.
- Embedded Content:
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited the other website directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.
How We Use Your Data
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To manage and respond to your comments.
- To detect and prevent spam.
- To improve your user experience on our website.
- To comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
Who We Share Your Data With
We do not share your personal data with third parties except in the following circumstances:
- If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email.
- Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How Long We Retain Your Data
- Comments: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
- User Accounts: For users who register on our website (if applicable), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit this information.
Your Rights Over Your Data
Under POPI and GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Rectification: You can request that we correct or update your personal data.
- Erasure: You can request that we delete your personal data, subject to legal and administrative obligations.
- Restriction: You can request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
- Objection: You can object to the processing of your personal data.
- Data Portability: You can request an export of your personal data in a machine-readable format.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at hello@nonprofittoolkits.com.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. If you are located outside South Africa, your data may be transferred to and processed in countries with different data protection laws. We will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your data.
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact us at:
Email: hello@nonprofittoolkits.com
Address: Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa, 7135.