SPROUT FOUNDATION AFRICA PRIVACY POLICY.
AT SPROUT, WE’RE COMMITTED TO PROTECTING AND RESPECTING YOUR PRIVACY
This Privacy Policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our
website, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it
secure. We may change this Policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure
that you’re happy with any changes. By using our website, you’re agreeing to be bound by this Policy.
Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email
to contact@sproutfoundationafrica.org or call us +233 (0)553538416. Also you can write to Sprout
Foundation Africa, Box CT 6865 Cantonments, Accra-Ghana.
WHY DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM YOU?
We use personal information to improve our products and services; send notifications,
offers, newsletters and event invites.
WHAT TYPE OF INFORMATION IS COLLECTED FROM YOU?
The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address, IP address, and
information regarding what pages are accessed and when. If you make a donation online, your card
information is not held by us, it is collected by our third party payment processors, who specialize in the
secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions, as explained below.
WHY DO WE COLLECT THIS INFORMATION?
We use the personal information we collect for communication purposes, including:
– To send you newsletters, surveys as well as annual and impact reports
– To send you invitations to events, projects and reach out campaigns.
– To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and us
– To send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you
– To process a grant or job application
– To process a donation that you have made
– To maintain our list of contacts
WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION?
We do not sell, hire out, distribute or otherwise make your personal data available to any third party.
However, we may share information with third party service providers for the purposes of completing
tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (as listed below), as a way of improving our products
and services. For example, to help us manage our relations at Sprout Foundation Africa This helps us to
organize our contacts and only reach out when we have relevant information. We may also use non-
personal data to build anonymous data profiles and provide segmented marketing and generate
aggregate statistical information.
When we use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary
to deliver the service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information
secure and not to use it for their own direct marketing purposes. Please be reassured that we will not
release your information to third parties for them to use for their own direct marketing purposes, unless
you have requested us to do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for
the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime.
You can be assured that we protect the information we collect. By using our products or services, you
agree to the collection, use and sharing of your data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unless the
specific product states otherwise, all Sprout Foundation Africa products and services are included under
this Privacy Policy.
HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
When you provide it to us directly, use our products or website, by signing in as an applicant on our
application system, and through cookies. We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to
us, for example when you communicate with us via email or other channels, when you visit our website,
when you sign up for or ask us to send you newsletters, when you apply to join one of our programs or
sign up for an event, alerts, or other materials. The data we collect might include your name, phone
number, postal address, email address, job title and business affiliations.
USE OF COOKIES
Like many other websites, the Sprout Foundation Africa website uses cookies. "Cookies" are
small pieces of information sent by an organization to your computer and stored on your hard drive
to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing
actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual. For example, we use cookies to store your
country preference.
Using cookies helps us to improve our website and deliver a better more personalized service. You have
the option to either accept or refuse these cookies through your browser preferences, and know when a
cookie is being sent to your computer. Turning cookies off may result in a loss of functionality when
using our website.
All browsers enable you to delete individual or all cookies at once. The procedure for how to delete
varies from browser to browser. Remember to delete cookies in all the browsers that you are using.
USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS
Sprout Foundation Africa uses Google Analytics to gather and assess information about how visitors use
the web site. Google Analytics uses cookies. Google Analytics only receive general web statistics, like for
example type of browser, language and which web site the user came from.
PROFILING
We may analyse your personal information to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that
we can contact you with information relevant to you. We may make use of additional information about
you when it is available from external sources to help us do this effectively. We may also use your
personal information to detect and reduce fraud and credit risk.
WHAT RIGHTS DO YOU HAVE OVER YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
You may ask us how we process your information, to correct or delete your personal information, and
may opt out of email messaging and certain data collection and use. We welcome your inquiries and
comments. You have the right to know what personal information we process about you and may
request a copy. You are also entitled to have incorrect personal data about you corrected and you may
in some cases ask us to delete your personal data. You can also object to certain personal data about
you being processed and request that processing of your personal data be limited. Please note that the
limitation or deletion of your personal data may mean we will be unable to provide the communications
and invitations described above. You also have the right to receive your personal data in a machine-
readable format and have the data transferred to another party responsible for data processing.
In accordance with GDPR you're entitled to request access to the personal data that we process. We will
process your request within 30 days of receiving the Data Subject Access Request fee. A reasonable
service fee for handling your Data Subject Access Request may be applied to the extent the request is
manifestly unfounded or excessive.
HOW YOU CAN ACCESS AND UPDATE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The accuracy of your information is important to us. We’re working on ways to make it easier for you to
review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you change email
address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please email us
at contact@sproutfoundationafrica.org or call us +233 (0)553538416. Also you can write to us at Sprout
Foundation Africa, Box CT 6865 Cantonments, Accra-Ghana.
SECURITY
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially
acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or
method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our website may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that
site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review
the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the
content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
We are concerned to protect the privacy of children aged 13 or under. We do not knowingly collect
personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13
has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers.
If you are aged 13 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you
provide us with personal information. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child
has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able take the necessary
actions.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sprout Foundation Africa reserves the right to use any photograph/video taken at any event hosted
by Sprout Foundation Africa at our registered offices, without the expressed written permission of
those included within the photograph/video. Sprout Foundation Africa may use the photograph/video
in publications or other media material produced or used by Sprout Foundation Africa including but
not limited to: brochures, invitations, promotions, newspapers, magazines, television, websites, etc.
A person attending a Sprout Foundation Africa event who does not wish to have their image
recorded for distribution should make their wishes known to the photographer, and/or the
event organizers, and/or contact admin@sproutfoundationafrica.org, in writing of his/her intentions
and include a photograph.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page
periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this
page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about how we process your personal data, please feel free to contact us at admin@sproutfoundationafrica.org
Telephone:
+233 (0)544923698
+233 (0)553538416
Email: sproutfoundationafrica@gmail.com
Postal Address:
P.O.Box CT 6865 Cantonments, Accra
Street: 95 Boundary Street; East Legon
Stanbic Bank Account Name:
Sprout Foundation Africa
USA Account Number:
9040006703326
GH Account Number:
9040006703369
Swift code: SBICGHAC
Branch: East Legon
Account name:
Sprout Foundation Africa
Account Number: +233(0)248545195
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