What information is collected by spursbasefoundation.org?

We collect personal information when you voluntarily submit it to us. For example, donors and sponsors may provide us with personal information such as name, address, email address, telephone numbers and/or payment information. If a donor, sponsor, volunteer, or website visitor contacts us by email or through our online forms, they may provide us with their name, email address, telephone number, and any other information they choose to include. Providing data is required in these contexts in order for us to process your donations, sponsorships, registrations, requests, or respond to inquiries.

In addition to the personal information that you submit to us, we may collect personal information about you from reputable third parties, or automatically collect information using the following technologies:

Web Server Logs. Our web servers may collect certain information such as IP address, pages visited, time of visits, and referring website.

Cookies. Cookies are simple text files stored by your web browser that provide a method of distinguishing among donors, sponsors, and visitors to the website. Spursbase Foundation uses cookies to identify your browser as you visit pages on the Spursbase website and to provide more relevant, targeted content as appropriate.

Where do we transfer and store information?

Spursbase Foundation is based in Ghana. However, our websites and data may be hosted within secure third‑party hosting facilities and cloud services, which may be located in other countries. As such, any information transmitted to us may be stored, accessed, or processed outside your home country. The laws of those countries may not offer the same level of protection as the laws of your home country.

How do we use information?

We collect information primarily to accept donations and sponsorships, complete our charitable projects and programmes, and provide you with information concerning our work, campaigns, and activities. We also use information for analytical purposes, to improve our website, our donor and sponsor base, our outreach, or to respond to requests for information or merchandise.

We may inform you of other purposes at the time that we collect some forms of information. For example, if you apply for a job, internship, or volunteer role we may collect information in order to process your application.

With whom do we share information?

We do not trade, share, or sell information that you provide to us with other organizations that intend to use it only to market their products or services to you.

There may be instances in which we share your information with others. We may share your information, for example, in connection with your sponsorship of a certain child or project, as required by law, with law enforcement, to comply with legal process, to protect our legal rights, to protect the safety or security of a person, or to protect against fraud, criminal acts, or misconduct.

We may also share your information with companies that provide us with services such as website hosting, payment processing, email services, or analytics, or with a successor legal entity in the event of a significant organizational change.

In order to complete transactions for donations or sponsorship payments, your information may be transmitted to third parties such as our payment gateway providers and any mobile money or card‑processing partners we use. These organizations process your payment information in accordance with their own security and privacy practices.

Our commitment to data security

To help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we and our authorized third parties have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information collected.

For example, we seek to secure our systems with appropriate access controls and encryption protocols, and we use industry‑accepted tools and techniques such as HTTPS/SSL, strong passwords and, where appropriate, two‑factor authentication. Sensitive information is stored in secure repositories both in‑house and in secure, reputable cloud‑based applications.

Your access to data, and your choices

If you would like to access the data that we received from you, or make corrections to it, you may contact us at the email or mailing addresses provided at the end of this policy.

If you registered to receive communications from us and later change your mind, you may ask that your name and contact information be removed from our distribution list. You can send such a request to the email or mailing addresses at the end of this policy, or use any unsubscribe link provided in our email communications where available.

Some web browsers and devices permit you to broadcast a preference that you not be “tracked” online. At this time we do not modify your experience based upon whether such a signal is broadcast.

Additional information

Behavioral Advertising. We may participate in behavioral‑based advertising. This means that a third party may use technology (for example, a cookie) to collect information about your use of our website so that they can provide advertising about products and services tailored to your interest. That advertising may appear either on our website, or on other websites.

Links. Our website may contain links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another site that is governed by that site’s privacy policy.

We may implement security tools such as Google reCAPTCHA to protect some of our websites and forms from spam and abuse. Use of these services is subject to the privacy policy and terms of the respective providers.

Changes to this privacy statement

We may modify this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected on this website. If we make a material change to this policy, and need to apply it to personal information that you provided to us before the change was made, we will attempt to contact you and obtain your consent to the change where required by law.

Communicating with us

If we need, or are required to, contact you about the privacy or security of your information we may do so by telephone, email, or mail.

If you have any questions, concerns, requests, or comments about privacy, you can contact us by email, telephone, or mail at:

Spursbase Foundation
P.O. Box 1647,
East Legon, La Bawaleshie,
Accra, Ghana
Email: info@spursbasefoundation.org
Phone: +233 20 376 9832