INTRODUCTION

Mrida Education & Welfare Society (“Mrida”) is an 80(g) tax‐exempt organization registered as a nonprofit organization in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. Our mission is to build and scale impactful education and nutrition practices along with career pathways for children in an environment of love and care.

At Mrida, we value the importance of our supporters’ privacy and are committed to protecting it. We will do our best to protect the security of your data and will never sell or share your data with any other organization for marketing purposes.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose and protect your personal data.

Why does Mrida collect personal data?

Mrida collects and uses personal data to support the interest of its nonprofit work, in furthering our charitable mission. We may collect and store data on individuals who have interacted with or given to Mrida in the past, who are employed by organizations that support Mrida, or who have a strong alignment with Mrida’s mission, among others because we believe these activities to be in line with our goal of building a global community of support for Mrida. We may store information collected in alignment with these goals for as long as we deem it beneficial to our organization.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

What is personal data?

“Personal Data” includes any and all information that allows Mrida to identify you as an individual.

Personal data that Mrida collects may include your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, donation history, employer, and other information about your identity. We may also collect information related to your relationship with Mrida.

How does Mrida collect my personal data?

• Donations and correspondence: When you donate to Mrida, we will store the information you provided to us during the donation. For example, we may store the mailing address listed on a personal check or the email address given during an online donation.
• Events: Mrida may store any personal information you provide to us while attending a Mrida-sponsored event or responding to an invitation. We frequently take photos and recordings at Mrida events; If you participate in a Mrida event as a panelist, presenter, or attendee, you may be captured in these materials, and your likeness stored in our records or used for promotional materials.
• Third parties: We may receive personal data about you from other sources, including your company/organization, professional references, publicly available sources, and other third parties. For example, if you provide it to a donation platform such as Give India while donating to us, or if it is provided to us by one of our employees or other stakeholders.
• Cookies and log data: Mrida uses cookies to gather website user data through Google Analytics, such as age, gender, and interests, and to determine the number of unique visits to Mrida’s website. Users can disable cookies on their computer by indicating this in the preferences section of their browser. Log data collected on web servers supply Mrida with aggregate information about the number of visits to different pages on our website. We use log data to improve the design and content of our website. Neither cookies nor log data provide us with individualized information about you.
• Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Mrida and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
• Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Mrida does not collect personal information from visitors to our site, unless the information is specifically provided by a visitor – for example, by subscribing to our newsletter.

Your privacy is very important to us. At Mrida Education and Welfare Society we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

• We do not ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. 
• We do not share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
• We do not store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of our site.

How does Mrida use my personal data?

The purposes for which Mrida may use your personal data include:

• To process donations made to Mrida.
• To provide information to those who may be interested in learning more about Mrida’s work.
• To help us maintain our relationship with those who have assisted us and supported our work in the past.
• To personalize or otherwise improve our communications with our supporters.
• To conduct research and outreach to individuals or organizations who we reasonably believe may have an interest in Mrida’s work.
• To administer and improve our organization.
• To comply with our legal and contractual obligations.
• To solicit donations to support our charitable mission.

Will Mrida share my personal data?

Mrida will never sell or rent your personal data to parties outside our organization. Occasionally, we may share your information with service providers who provide operational support to Mrida. These partners will use your information only under our instruction, and never for their own purposes.

How does Mrida protect my data?

We maintain appropriate technical and organizational measures to prevent unauthorized disclosure of your personal data, and our site has security measures in place to protect the information under our control. Only authorized individuals at Mrida or acting on Mrida’s behalf have access to our database. 

Where will my personal data be held?

Mrida is headquartered in Mrida. If you are visiting our website from outside India, be aware that your information may be transferred to, processed, and stored in India, where our office is located. 

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Mrida may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Mrida’s sole discretion. Mrida encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

YOUR RIGHTS

• You have the right to contact us to request access to the personal data we hold on you, the purposes for which that data has been processed, the period for which we intend to store it, and the identity of any third parties to whom it has been disclosed.
• You have the right to request that we rectify outdated or incorrect personal data.
• You have the right to restrict our use of your data.
• You have the right to request that we permanently delete all of your personal data from our records.

If you have subscribed to our mailing list, you have the right to opt out of receiving materials from us at any time. Please note that an “opt‐out” of our mailing list does not constitute a request to have your personal data permanently deleted from our database.

If you have any questions about the content of this Privacy Policy, or wish to request that we cease holding or processing your personal data, contact us to communicate.