Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 31st, 2023

The Task Force for Global Health program Safety Platform for Emergency Vaccines – SPEAC (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the speacsafety.net website (the “Service”).

This policy explains when and why we collect personal information about you, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, how we keep it safe and secure and your rights and choices in relation to your information.

Any questions regarding this policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to  info@taskforce.org.

How do we collect information from you?

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this type of information. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages, and to see their journey through the website. These third party service providers have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information.

We collect and use your personal information by using cookies on our website – more information on cookies can be found under the ‘Cookies’ section below.

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and transferred to your device. We use cookies to collect information in order to improve our services for you.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help feature on most browsers provide information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies or to notify you when receiving a new cookie.

If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Service and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Do Not Track disclosure

We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

When you email us

Should you choose to contact us using an email link, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us.

Public information

We supplement information on our supporters with information from publicly available sources or purchased lists in order to create a fuller understanding of someone’s interests and support. For more information, please see the section on ‘Building Profiles’ below.

 What type of information is collected from you?

 The personal information we collect, store and use might include:

 

• • Information about your activities on our website and about the device used to access it, for instance your IP address and geographical location.

We collect this information for the purpose of providing the Service, identifying and communicating with you, responding to your requests/inquiries and improving our services.

Further you will see the “closed” lock symbol in the web site address bar when you are on our secure donation page. You will also notice in your web site(s) address bar that the domain name starts with an “https” on the donation page. This means that information entered on this page is encrypted for your security.

Data protection laws recognize certain categories of personal information as sensitive and therefore requiring greater protection, for example information about your health, ethnicity and religion.We do not collect sensitive data about you.

How and why is your information used?

 We may use your information for a number of different purposes, which may include:

 

• • Providing you with the services or information you asked for.

 

• • Processing requests you have submitted.

 

• • Conducting analysis and market research so we can understand how we can improve our service.

 

• • Analyzing your personal information to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can tailor and target our communications in a way that is timely and relevant to you. We may make use of additional information about you when it is available from external sources to help us do this effectively. This allows us to be more focused, efficient and cost effective with our resources and also reduces the risk of someone receiving information they may find inappropriate or irrelevant.

How long is your information kept for?

We keep your information for no longer than is necessary for the purposes it was collected for. The length of time we retain your personal information for is determined by operational and legal considerations. For example, we are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfill our statutory and regulatory obligations (e.g. tax/accounting purposes).

We review our retention periods on a regular basis.

Who has access to your information?

We do not sell or rent your information to third parties.

International transfer

Your information, including personal information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Links to other sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Compliance with laws

We will disclose your personal information where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or to protect the security or integrity of our Service.

Data protection law requires us to rely on one or more lawful grounds to process your personal information and this includes:

Legitimate interests

We consider our legitimate interests to:

 

• • Conduct research to better understand who our supporters are to better target our fundraising.

• • Monitor who we deal with to protect the charity against fraud, money laundering, and other risks.

• • Enhance, modify, personalize, or otherwise improve our services /communications for the benefit of our customers.

• • Understand better how people interact with our website.

Children’s privacy

Only persons age 18 or older have permission to access our Service. Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you learn that your children have provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Privacy Policy changes

This Privacy Policy will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at  info@taskforce.org.