**Last Updated:** August 4, 2025
1. Information We Collect
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Site, including:
a. Personal Information You Provide to Us:
This includes information that you voluntarily provide to us when you interact with the Site, such as:
- Contact Information: Your name, email address, postal address, and phone number, which you may provide when you sign up for newsletters, register for events, make donations, or contact us through forms on the Site.
- Demographic Information: Information like your age, gender, and location, which you might provide in surveys or registration forms related to our WASH programs.
- Donation Information: If you make a donation, we may collect information necessary to process your donation, such as your payment card details (though these are typically processed by a third-party payment processor and not stored by us), billing address, and donation amount.
- Communications: Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
b. Information We Collect Automatically:
As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Usage Details: Details of your visits to our Site, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Site.
- Device Information: Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
- Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: We may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing behavior and preferences. Cookies are small data files stored on your device that help us improve our Site and your experience.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To Provide and Maintain Our Site: To present our Site and its contents to you, and to ensure its proper functioning.
- To Improve Our WASH Initiatives: To understand the needs and interests of our community, evaluate the effectiveness of our programs, and develop new WASH initiatives.
- To Communicate with You: To send you newsletters, updates, promotional materials, and other information related to our WASH activities, if you have opted in to receive such communications. To respond to your inquiries, comments, or requests.
- To Process Donations: To process and acknowledge your donations, if applicable.
- To Personalize Your Experience: To customize the content and features of the Site based on your interests.
- For Analytics and Research: To analyze trends, track user engagement, and gather demographic information to improve our Site and services.
- For Security and Fraud Prevention: To protect the security and integrity of our Site and to prevent fraudulent or illegal activities.
- To Comply with Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes.
3. Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
- To Our Affiliates: To our subsidiaries and affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
- To Service Providers: To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our WASH activities (e.g., website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, email delivery, marketing, and customer service). These third parties are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- For Legal Reasons: To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request. To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes. If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Female LAM, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
4. Your Choices and Rights
You have certain choices and rights regarding your personal information:
- Opt-Out of Marketing Communications: You can opt-out of receiving future marketing emails from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in those emails or by contacting us at support@femalelam.com. Please note that even if you opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as those about your account or our ongoing WASH initiatives.
- Cookies: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
- Access and Correction: You may send us an email at support@femalelam.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not be able to delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account, if applicable. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
- Do Not Track: We do not currently respond to "Do Not Track" signals because there is no universal technological standard for how to interpret them.
5. Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.
6. Third-Party Websites
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated by us. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of these third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
7. Children's Privacy
Our Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Site or through any of its features, make any purchases through the Site, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Site, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at support@femalelam.com.
8. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Site homepage. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Site and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
9. Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
Email: support@femalelam.com
Thank you for your trust in Female LAM.