Privacy policy

General information
The protection of your personal data is very important to us.
Nuru Slums – Hope for Africa treats your data confidentially and in accordance to the applicable data protection regulations in Switzerland. (Data Protection Act, DSG) and, where applicable, the European Union (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR).
This privacy policy informs you about how we collect, use, store, and protect personal data.

Data collection and use
We only collect personal data if you voluntarily provide it to us – for example:

  • a donation or sponsorship
  • by contacting us via the form or email
  • scribing to a newsletter

This data will be used exclusively for the purposes for which it was transmitted, e.g. to process donations, for communication, or to fulfil legal obligations (accounting, documentation requirements).

Disclosure to third parties
Your personal data will not be sold or passed on to third parties.
Data will only be passed on if this is necessary for the fulfilment of the association’s purpose or for contract processing (e.g., to payment service providers in the case of donations) or if there is a legal obligation to do so. All partner organisations and service providers with whom we work are contractually obliged to protect your data in accordance with the DSG/GDPR.

Data security
Our website uses SSL encryption (https), to protect the transmission of confidential content.
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data from loss, misuse, or unauthorised access.

Retention period
Personal data will only be stored for as long as is necessary to fulfil the respective purpose or as required by the legal requirements for retention periods (e.g., accounting obligations for donations).

Your rights
You always have the right to:

  • Information about your stored data,
  • Correction of inaccurate data,
  • Deletion of your data (if there is no legal obligation to retain it),
  • Restriction of processing and
  • Withdrawal of consent to data processing

Changes to the Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this privacy policy as necessary. The current version is available on our website at any time.

Disclaimer
Despite careful monitoring, we accept no liability for the content of external links. The operators of linked sites are exclusively responsible for their content.