Youth With A Mission Foundation Privacy Policy

At Youth With A Mission Foundation (hereinafter, “we” or “us” or “our” or the “Organization”), we sincerely care about privacy, security, and transparency; these fundamental elements of privacy and security play an important part in our organization’s mission. Toward that, this Privacy Policy explains how we safeguard your personal information when you visit our website; it also clarifies your privacy privileges and how the law protects you. This Privacy Policy also applies to personal data you entrust to us when subscribing to our one of our services.

How We Collect Information

One of the purposes of this Privacy Policy is to explain how we collect and process personal data at ywamfoundation.ca, including any data provided through the website. The information may be provided through contact forms or payment forms.

Please be informed that this website is not intended for children, defined as age 12 and under; we absolutely do not knowingly collect data from children.

We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy; it has been written to ensure you understand how we collect information, how it is safeguarded, what is collected, how it is processed, where it is processed, with whom we may share it, and your rights under the law.

How We Collect Your Data

We may collect your data through direct interaction, automation, or third parties. Here’s more information about these methodologies:

Direct interactions. We may receive your information directly when you:

e-mail us
inquire about services
make a donation
provide us with your feedback

Automated technologies or interactions. When you use our website or log in to our services, we may learn technical data about your computing system.

Third parties. Your personal data may be received via third party service providers that we use, including companies such as:

Stripe.com	for the purpose of processing donations
Microsoft Office 365	to process inquiries and communicate with you via E-mail
Silent Partner Inc.	for donor management services
Google Analytics	for web site analytics

Information We May Collect About You

We may collect the following information about you that makes you identifiable in order for us to provide a service or respond to your inquiry. This may include your name, email address, home address, telephone number and your country of residence. If you are making a donation, the form requests additional details needed to process the donation, and to ensure a tax receipt is issued according to CRA requirements. Further, the service logs IP addresses of visitors on the website, browser types, plug-ins, and other technical data necessary to support the service.

Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice or other relevant information of every website you visit.

Opting Out

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time. Where you opt-out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a service experience or other transaction such as making a donation.

When We Might Change How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process or disclose your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Your Security

We have put into place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

How Long We Use Your Data

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.

What We May Need From You

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.

Changes to this Statement

We will occasionally update this Privacy Notice to reflect company and customer feedback. We encourage you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

Contact Information

Youth With A Mission Foundation welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that we have not adhered to this notice, please contact us at privacypolicy@ywamfoundation.ca. We will use reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.