Privacy Policy

At the Association of Community Development (ACD), your privacy is of utmost importance to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, protect, and handle your personal information when you visit our website, register as a volunteer, or make a donation.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect personal identification information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, fill out a form, subscribe to our newsletter, make a donation, and in connection with other activities, services, features, or resources we make available on our site.

Volunteer Registration: Name, email address, phone number, age, city, availability, and profile photo (optional).
Donations: Name, email address, phone number, and billing details. Payment processing is securely handled by our third-party provider, Razorpay. We do not store your credit card or bank account details.
Technical Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, and pages visited (via cookies).

2. How We Use Your Information

ACD uses the collected information for the following purposes:

To process donations and issue receipts.
To manage and coordinate volunteer applications and schedules.
To send periodic emails, such as newsletters or updates regarding our ongoing projects (you can opt-out at any time).
To improve our website and user experience based on feedback and usage data.

3. How We Protect Your Information

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information, and data stored on our site. Sensitive and private data exchange between the site and its users happens over an SSL-secured communication channel.

4. Sharing Your Personal Information

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our trusted affiliates and partners for the purposes outlined above. We may also share data with trusted third-party service providers (like Razorpay) strictly for operational purposes.

5. Changes to This Privacy Policy

ACD has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the top of this page. We encourage users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect.

6. Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at: