PRIVACY POLICY

The Non-Profit Organization DHS Foundation operates the Site www.dhsfdn.com This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use & disclosure of personal information we receive from users from the site.

We use personal information only for providing & improving the site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection & use of information in accordance with the policy.

 

Information Collection & Use:

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include but this is not limited to your name. (“Personal Information”)

Log Data:

Like many other Site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”).This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time & date of your visit, the time sent on those pages, & other statistics.

Cookies

A “cookie” is a small piece of information stored by a web server on a web browser so it can be later read back from that browser. Cookies are useful for enabling the browser to remember information specific to a given user. We place both permanent and temporary cookies in your computer’s hard drive. The cookies do not contain any of your personally identifiable information.

Forms

Forms could be Contact Form, Registration Form, Nomination Form. These forms may collect  certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include but this is not limited to your name. (“Personal Information”)

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

 
Information sharing:

We do not share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of DHS Foundation, unless one of the following circumstances applies:

With your consent

We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of DHS Foundation. When we have your consent to do so. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.

With domain administrators

If your DHS Foundation Account is managed for you by a domain administrator then your domain administrator and resellers who provide user support to your organization will have access to your DHS Foundation Account information (including your email and other data). Your domain administrator may be able to:

  • view statistics regarding your
  • change your account
  • suspend or terminate your account
  • access or retain information stored as part of your
  • receive your account information in order to satisfy applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental
  • restrict your ability to delete or edit information or privacy
 
For external processing

We provide personal information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

For legal reasons

We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of DHS Foundation account, if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:

  • meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental
  • enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential
  • detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical
  • protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Google, our users or the public as required or permitted by

We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners – like publishers, advertisers or connected sites. For example, we may share information publicly to show trends about the general use of our services.

If DHS Foundation is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of any personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

 
Users rights over data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

 

Information security

We work hard to protect Google and our users from unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of information we hold. In particular:

1. We encrypt many of our services using SSL.

2. We use two step verification when you/we access DHS Foundation web resources. We review our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorized access to systems.

We restrict access to personal information to DHS Foundation employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.

 

When this Privacy Policy applies

Our Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered by DHS Foundation and its affiliates. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites that may be displayed to you in search results, sites that may include Google services, or other sites linked from our services. Our Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of other companies and organizations who advertise our services, and who may use cookies, pixel tags and other technologies to serve and offer relevant ads..

 

Compliance and cooperation with regulatory authorities

We regularly review our compliance with our Privacy Policy. We also adhere to several self regulatory frameworks, including the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework. When we receive formal written complaints, we will contact the person who made the complaint to follow up. We work with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that we cannot resolve with our users directly.

 

Changes

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of privacy policy changes). We will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.

 

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