We Respect Your Privacy!

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Kabissa. Last updated 2 February 2008.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This policy covers how Kabissa treats personal information that Kabissa collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Kabissa products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
• This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Kabissa does not own or control, or to people that Kabissa does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

• Kabissa collects personal information when you apply for membership with Kabissa and when you visit Kabissa pages.
• When you register we ask for information such as your name, e-mail address, address, and organization focus. For some surveys, we may also ask for your role in the organization and gender. Once you register with Kabissa and sign up for membership, you are not anonymous to us.
• Kabissa collects information about your transactions with us, including the use of services and updating of your records (Organization Profile).
• Kabissa automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Kabissa cookie information, and the Web pages you request.
• Kabissa uses information for the following general purposes: to fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external use.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Kabissa does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except under the following circumstances:

• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Kabissa's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
• We transfer information about you if Kabissa is acquired by or merged with another organization. In this event, Kabissa will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• From time to time, Kabissa may also download the entire Kabissa site, including the Kabissa African Civil Society Directory, in which your details are posted, and member Web sites. By agreeing to make this information available on the Kabissa site, you have also agreed to let us share that information with other organizations in print or electronic form. This information will only be shared in pursuit of Kabissa's mission, not for financial gain. Some information in your Organization Profile, such as e-mail addresses, is not publicly available on the Kabissa site and will not be shared.

Cookies

Kabissa uses cookies on some sections of our site. No personally identifiable information (e-mail address, name, etc.) is collected with the cookies that we set, and accepting cookies while on the Kabissa site will not put you at risk for marketing to other sites.

• Different browsers have different cookie-settings. With Netscape you can ask the browser to allow, warn you, or completely disable cookies. Internet Explorer has an additional feature where you can specify different settings for different security zones. You can choose to allow Web sites to create cookies for you in your "trusted sites" (like Kabissa), to warn you before you create them in your local Intranet zone, and to give you an option to never allow them in a "restricted zone." See the "Help" section of your particular browser for more information on working with cookies.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

• You can edit your Kabissa Organization Profile at any time by going to http://www.kabissa.org
• We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Kabissa service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Kabissa Member Newsletter, that are considered part of your Kabissa account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
• You can delete your Kabissa account by visiting our Membership Cancellation page at http://www.kabissa.org/members/cancel-membership.php

Confidentiality and Security

• We limit access to personal information about you to employees and volunteers who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
• We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
• Your Kabissa Organization Profile and Account is password-protected.
• In certain areas Kabissa uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Kabissa may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary e-mail address specified in your Organization Profile or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions, please complete our feedback form at http://www.kabissa.org/contact or write to us at: