Privacy Policy
This policy is effective as of 23 July 2022 and was last updated on 23 July 2022.
Your privacy is important to us. It is STAR Foundation Limited's policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you through our website, https://www.projectstarja.com, and other sites we own and operate. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your personal information.
Information We Collect
Information we collect includes both information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services and promotions, and any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products and services. We only collect information which you have published or consented to, except where required by law, to protect the interests of our organization or to discharge our public duty.
Log Data
When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, other details about your visit, and technical details that occur in conjunction with any errors you may encounter.
Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons. We will not correlate this information with personal information about you without your permission.
Personal Information
We may ask for personal information which may include one or more of the following:
- Name;
- Email; and
- Phone/ mobile number.
Legitimate Reasons for Processing Personal Information
We only collect and use your personal information when we have a legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.
Source of Collection and Use of Information
We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website:
- Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels;
- Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content;
- Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies; or
- Mention us on social media.
We may collect, hold, use, and disclose personal information collected for the following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:
- to contact and communicate with you about our organization, projects, products and services
- to enhance user experience on our website
Please be aware that we may combine information we collect about you with general information or research data obtained from other trusted sources.
Security of Your Personal Information
Personal information collected, processed or retained by us is protected using appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorised or unlawful processing of the personal information and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal information.
Additionally, we take reasonable steps to ensure our agents and employees who have access to personal information are aware of, and comply with, the relevant security measures.
Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. Where there is a breach of security measures, we will comply with our duty to report, and/or notify you of, any such incident without undue delay.
We do not collect or store passwords - You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, as well as, ensuring the security of your information within the bounds of our services.
How Long We Keep Your Personal Information
We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This period may depend on what we are using your information for, per this privacy policy. If your personal information is no longer required, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.
However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information to comply with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes as permitted by law.
Children’s Privacy
We do not aim any of our products or services directly at individuals under the age of 18 (minors) or who do not have the capacity to consent to the use of our products or services. Additionally, we do not knowingly collect personal information about minors who are unable to consent.
Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
We may disclose personal information to:
- A parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of our company, or third-party service providers to enable them to provide their services to us; examples of third-party service providers include Data Processors, IT service providers, data storage providers, hosting and server providers, advertisers, or analytics platforms, etc.
- Our employees, agents, contractors, and/or related personnel who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you
- Our existing or potential agents or business partners
- Sponsors or promoters of any competition, sweepstakes, or promotion we conduct
- courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights
Your personal information is only disclosed in keeping with, and the facilitation of, the use stated herein in. We require our affiliated and non-affiliated third parties to use the information provided responsibly and restrict their ability to share this information with other parties.
International Transfers of Personal Information
The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed in territories where we or our partners, affiliates and third-party providers maintain facilities. Please be aware that the locations where we store, process, or transfer your personal information may, be outside the territory in which you initially provided the information and, may not have the same data protection laws. If we transfer your personal information to other countries:
(i) we will perform those transfers within the confinement of applicable law; and
(ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.
Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information
Personal information collected by us is processed in accordance with your legal rights. You always retain the right to withhold personal information from us, with the understanding that your experience of our website may be affected. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. If you do provide us with personal information you understand that we will collect, hold, use and disclose it in accordance with this privacy policy. You retain the right to request details of any personal information we hold about you.
If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time. We will provide you with the ability to unsubscribe from our email database or opt-out of communications. Please be aware we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.
If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.
You may at any time request from us in writing the following:
- what information we have collected about you;
- a description of that information;
- the purpose for which that information is processed, or is to be processed;
- the recipient or class of recipient to whom that information may be disclosed;
- as far as available, information on the source of that information; and
- copy of such information or access to such information in accordance with the applicable law.
If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.
Limits of Our Policy
Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.
Changes to This Policy
We reserve the right to amend or modify our privacy policy to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy.
If required by law, we will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in to or opt-out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information.
Contact Us
For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us using the following details:
The Project STAR Team
Social Transformation and Renewal Foundation
39 Hope Road
Kingston 10