Privacy Policy

Overview

UNV is committed to respecting the privacy of its Users. and to providing a safe, secure User experience. This Privacy Statement sets forth the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to the Online Volunteering site (www.onlinevolunteering.org) (the “Site”). By using this Site, you consent to the policies and practices described in this Statement.

Our Site contains links to other websites over which we have no control. UNV is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other websites to which you choose to link from this Site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other websites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information. This Privacy Statement applies solely to the information we collect on this Site.

Collection and Retention of Information

In some areas of the Site, and in order to become a registered user of Online Volunteering, UNV requests or may request that you provide personal information, including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, contact information, and any other information from which your identity is discernible. In other areas, UNV collects or may collect demographic information that is not unique to you such as your country of residence, age, gender, and employment status. Sometimes we collect or may collect a combination of the two types of information. An example of an area on the Site where we collect personal or combined personal and demographic data is the registration page.

We also gather or may gather certain information about your use of our Site, such as what areas you visit and what services you access. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that may be collected by UNV. This information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses.

We retain indefinitely all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your use of our Site more efficient, practical and relevant. Of course, you can correct or update your personal information at any time. Moreover you can withdraw from the UNV’s Online Volunteering service, in which event we will remove your account profile information except for an archival copy, which is not accessible on the Internet.

 

Use of Information by UNV

We use the information we gather on the Site, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operation and improving the Site, fostering a positive User experience and facilitating the connection of Online Volunteers to Host Organizations (Groups) as set forth in this Privacy Statement.

User information, Host Organization information, and assignments are managed as follows:

All Registered Users maintain their information at the Member Profile page accessible from the OV area of the site.
The Site eliminates automatically Registered Users registered with an invalid email address.

Host Organizations as well as Host Organization assignments are published on the Site subject to their approval by the Site Administrator.
The Host Organization Owner can modify his/her assignment postings, take assignments offline/online or delete his/her assignment postings.
We have an area where you can submit feedback. Any feedback you submit in this area becomes our property, and we can use such feedback in connection with the Site or contact you for further information.

 

Disclosure of Information to Others

We do not disclose to third parties your personal information, combined personal and demographic information or information about your use of the Site (such as areas you visit or services you access), except that:

(a) In case you apply for an online assignment, certain registered Users affiliated with the organization that posted the assignment will be able to access part of your personal profile such as your name, email address, city and country of residence as well as any additional information you may submit with your application.
(b) We may disclose such information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include hosting our web servers, and analyzing data. These companies and individuals will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party.
(c) We may disclose such information if legally required to do so, subject to our privileges and immunities, if requested to do so by our internal governing and oversight bodies, including Member States, or if necessary in our sole discretion to protect UNV property or rights, prevent a crime or protect the safety of Users or the public.

 

Use of Cookies

UNV ‘s Online Volunteering service uses “cookies” to help personalize and maximize your online experience and time online. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web page server. Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize pages or register, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information (such as user name, password and preferences). Because of our use of cookies, we can deliver faster and more accurate results and a more personalized site experience.

You may have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline all cookies, if you prefer. Alternatively, you may be able to modify your browser settings to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis. If you chose to decline cookies, however, that may hinder performance and negatively impact your experience on the Site.

 

Updating Your Information

All Registered Users can correct, update or change their account profile at any time from the Member Profile page accessible from the MyOV area of the site.

 

Security

UNV ‘s Online Volunteering service has implemented reasonable technical and organization measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

We attempt to limit access to your personal information to relevant Registered Users, but we cannot guarantee that other parties will not gain access to it. For example, Users may have retained a copy of your information in their own file system or databases. We are not responsible for the retention, use or privacy of this information in these instances.

 

Changes to this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our Privacy Statement, we will post those changes here, so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it. If at any time, you have questions or concerns about the UNV Privacy Statement, please feel free to email us at info@onlinevolunteering.org.